Creepy Karpis: The Last Public Enemy | Deadly Truths: Morally Bankrupt

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Creepy Karpis: The Last Public Enemy | Deadly Truths: Morally Bankrupt

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Creepy Karpis: The Last Public Enemy | Deadly Truths: Morally Bankrupt

He was the last man standing — calm, brilliant, and impossible to catch.
Alvin “Creepy” Karpis wasn’t the romantic outlaw Hoover’s FBI wanted you to believe in.
He was the strategist — the man who made the Bureau look foolish, survived Alcatraz, and taught a young Charles Manson how to play guitar.

This episode of Deadly Truths: Morally Bankrupt exposes the truth behind Hoover’s staged arrest, the propaganda that buried Karpis’s legacy, and the irony of America’s final Public Enemy — a man who never killed for pleasure, but who understood power better than anyone chasing him.

“Everyone wants control,” Karpis wrote. “The difference between a gangster and a government is who gets to call it justice.”

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This episode contains historical descriptions of organized crime, violence, and federal law enforcement corruption.
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Public Enemy Number One by Alvin Karpis
On the Rock by Alvin Karpis & Robert Livesey
FBI and U.S. Department of Justice declassified case archives
Newspaper archives: St. Paul Pioneer Press, Chicago Tribune, New Orleans Times-Picayune