Kate "mA" Barker (* as Arizona Clark 1871 close Springfield, Missouri; "† 16 January 1935) is a legendary figure from the American "public enemy era", in which for instance between 1930 and 1935 the acts of criminal gangs in the middle west press and population of the USA in breath held. Today their name is usually called in last place, if someone enumerates the criminal ones of that time, often only behind Bonnie and Clyde and John Dillinger. The public enemy era led FBI to the establishment.

With 20 years she married George, which disappeared later and with its four sons Herman, Lloyd, Arthur and Fred left it.

It is not clear, as strongly Barkers was criminality real. During their children were certainly criminal and between 1931 and 1935 with their Barker Karpis gang a Orgie of armed robberies, kidnappings and other crimes organized, apparent are their picture in the public than boss and brain of the gang a myth.

Many people, Karpis enclosed, justifying stated that J. Edgar Hoover and its FBI, which were still in the child shoes promoted the myth, in order the killing of an old lady by the FBI. She was shot in January 1935 in a hut, which had rented her with its son Fred at the Lake Weir in Florida. Fred, which was shot likewise, was the actual goal FBI.

The myth of mA Barker was the collecting main for the cheap film "Bloody mummy", who 1970 were turned. Roger Corman led direction; the main role of mA played Shelley of winter. There the film places Barker as a spoiled nut/mother, who their children to crimes encouraged and it organizes. It is remarkable that young Robert de Niro (when Lloyd Barker) in the film arises.

Also Mark of L. Lester filmed the history of mA Barker 1995 under the title "Public Enemy" with Theresa Russell and Eric Robert in the main roles.

History was suggestion for the hit "mA Baker" the Popgruppe Boney M. (1977) and possibly also for the figure of "mA Dalton" in the Comic series "Lucky hatch".

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