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Ma' Barker: A Doting Mother And Gangster Overlord

Behind the Bastards

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Ma Barker and Herman Barker

Herman Barker shot himself in the head after a shootout with police. His mother used some of her ill gotten gains to buy a four foot tall marble headstone for Herman. Ma Barker would not in the future be content to let her children fuck up at planning their own crimes. She had bigger plans for them, grander plans, Minnesota ear plans. And this brings us to the greatest hive of scum and villainy in the history of the U.S.

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