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46. Alvin Karpis aka Creepy Karpis

Mon Oct 7, 2013, 04:31 PM

Oct 2013

of the Karpis-Barker gang. After his Federal prison release he was deported back to Canada and he spoke at our school. We were little kids, maybe grade 7, and he was supposed to tell us about the dangers of crime and the terrible ordeal it took on him.

I was fascinated by the old Public Enemies when I was a kid.

Funny thing was I don't remember him lecturing about dangers, in fact his stories didn't make it sound all bad at all. I was just really jazzed that I got to shake the hand of and talk to someone that was served longer in Alcatraz than anyone, knew Ma Barker and was hated by J. Edgar Hoover.

He died about 2 or three months after I met him.

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