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The Barker boys…
All they were or hoped to be they owed to their mother.
Kate Barker wanted the nice things of life: the lovely home, the fine clothes, and lots of money in the bank. She ended up with a police slug in her heart and $10,200 in her wallet.
According to FBI records Kate Barker was an overbearing mother who somehow lost her bearings on the path of motherly love. In attempting to guide, she misguided. In trying to spread affection, she nurtured hate. The rational sense of motherly duty was warped by her desire to get the most and fastest for her boys.
The boys got this:
Son Herman was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in 1927 after a shootout with a Kansas traffic officer.
Son Fred was riddled with eleven gunshot wounds in a police fight and died alongside his mother in 1935.
Son Arthur (called Doc) was killed in 1939 during an attempted breakout of Alcatraz.
Son Lloyd was slain by his wife in 1949 when she claimed he had threatened her and the children.
That was the legacy of Ma Barker, a woman who saw crime as a means to an end but who never counted on things ending like they did.
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Ma Barker: America’s Most Wanted Mother.
