The Last of the Outlaws — The Forgotten Names of the Public Enemy Era

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Deadly Truths

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Season 5: Kansas City’s Darkest Crimes — Heartland Homicide Deadly Truths exposes the violence, corruption, and hidden history shaping America’s cities. This season we return to Kansas City—the place I lived the longest and still consider home. From Jesse James to the Union Station Massacre, the KC Mob, and modern mysteries, we uncover the stories behind the Heartland’s darkest crimes. No myths. No filters. Step inside the Murder Factory.

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The Last of the Outlaws — The Forgotten Names of the Public Enemy Era

Deadly Truths

23 minutes 54 seconds

1 week ago

The Last of the Outlaws — The Forgotten Names of the Public Enemy Era

They weren’t the legends — they were the wreckage left behind.
In this Morally Bankrupt season finale, we go beyond Dillinger, Nelson, and Bonnie & Clyde to uncover the men who died forgotten: John Paul Chase, Homer Van Meter, Adam Richetti, Doc Barker, Red Hamilton, Eddie Green, and others erased by J. Edgar Hoover’s myth-making machine.

They bled out in cornfields, cheap hotels, and back alleys while the FBI built its empire and Hollywood wrote its heroes.
This episode strips away the headlines to show what really happened when the spotlight moved on — the loyalty, betrayal, and quiet deaths of America’s last bandits.

You’ll hear:
• The Kansas City Massacre’s forgotten fallout
• The bloody trail from Little Bohemia to Chicago
• The death of Doc Barker and the prison system that broke him
• How Hoover turned corpses into propaganda

🎧 Listen now — and remember the ones history buried.

This podcast is for educational and historical analysis. It contains descriptions of real violence and archival material from the 1930s gangster era. Listener discretion is advised.

FBI case files (1933–1935)
National Archives – Public Enemies Collection
The Dillinger Days by John Toland (1963)
St. Paul Police Historical Society – Public Enemy Era Records
Newspaper archives: Chicago Tribune, Kansas City Star, St. Paul Pioneer Press

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