"Ma Baker" by Boney M (1976) The True Story of Ma Baker
Posted on 08/23/2012 3:02:41 PM PDT by lowbridge
The Florida hideout where Depression-era gangster Ma Barker was killed in a hail of FBI bullets has hit the market for $1 million.
The lakefront Ocklawaha home was the site of one of the biggest shootouts in FBI history - and still has the bullet holes to prove it.
On Jan. 16, 1935, G-men took out Kate "Ma" Barker and one of her thug sons in a bloody, four-hour raid.
Barker, 61, branded America's Public Enemy No. 1, ran the notorious Barker-Karpis gang, wanted for a four-year string of murders, robberies, kidnapping and other crimes across the South and Midwest.
Agents found her dead in a second-floor bedroom, still clutching her Thompson machine gun, according to local lore.
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
Ghost Hunters needs to check it out before anyone buys it.
;-)
I remember when Ma Barker was killed. Same year that Will Rogers and Wiley Post died.
Is the Thompson submachine gun for sale?
She sorta looks like Julia Childs. Wonder if she can cook as well?
I bet its haunted up the Yazoo. Great place for a Haunted BXB a lot of folks would pay big bucks to spend a weekend there and get frightened big time. I wonder if there is a lost treasure there? Might take a little fixing but the history alone is worth saving!
"Ma Baker" by Boney M (1976) The True Story of Ma Baker
Great minds - I thought the exact same thing.
Yup, that’s way back when she had her *Looks*, LOL.
I saw an ad for a night at the Trans-Allegheny Asylum in W. Virginia (not a long drive from my house). I was all excited until I saw the price tag—almost $200. I settled for a book by the woman who is leading the tour instead (plus she is speaking at the library next month, and that’s free).
Going on a ghost hunt is on my bucket list.
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