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Ma' Barker: A Doting Mother And Gangster Overlord

Behind the Bastards

CHAPTER

The Biggest Crime in the World

In June, 1923, Alvin and Ma attended the Chicago World's Fair. It is there reportedly that mob barker first told Alvin that she and her boys would be the vanguard of a new era of crime bank robberies beneath our dignity. Now that bigger game was kidnapping and ransoming the children of wealthy families. In 1932, the baby of Charles Lindbergh famed American aviator and fascist piece of shit had been kidnapped by persons unknown. An innocent man named Bruno Hauptman was arrested for the crime in 1934. The guilty parties were never caught and almost certainly made off with tens of thousands of dollars and a baby murder free.

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