Alvin Karpis documentary, 2 of 2 ... from Discovery Channel

[leedumett444]

j edgar hoover was a cross dressing queer, and he probably fancied purvis, thats what the rumour was.

[leedumett444]

alvin didnt get to enjoy the money he made. he did earn big money from the robberies and snatch racket, but he was incarcerated for the rest of his life.

[chestnutsev7]

karpis helped charles manson learn to play the guitar when manson was serving time when he was young.

[trucuz1001]

how can i watch the history channel special 18 months of mayhem

[leedumett444]

karpis made serious money, but he never got the freedom to enjoy the dough.

[MultiPlayaaa]

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[nikirk101]

my friend met him down in spain in the 1970 s before he died

[ur124q]

Karpis' train robbery was anything but "frugal". Read his autobiography. Hutton is full of shit. What's HIS "justification"?

[ManilaSyndicate]

Nice short doc. Good explanation by the historian at the end. Karpis is one of the least appealing but no less fascinating gangsters from the Depression era.

[MafiaWars23]

@ManilaSyndicate Isnt it funny that he was the most successful and yet the least appealing

[Saffron333]

Another thing that may have ended the public's fascination with outlaws was the "New Deal" which created things like Social Security. When America wasn't as drastic a form of capitalism the underclass wasn't desperate enough to embrace as heroes thugs and killers, sociopaths like jesse james.