BABY FACE NELSON Ep. 3 | “The Grand Haven Heist”

Infamous America

Black Barrel Media

Society & Culture, Documentary, True Crime, History

4.7 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Baby Face Nelson flees to the West Coast to avoid a manhunt in the Midwest. He works for prominent gamblers in Reno, Nevada and a bootlegger in California, but he misses his family in Chicago. He meets famous robber Alvin “Creepy” Karpis and takes Karpis’s advice to form a new crew in St. Paul, Minnesota. The crew robs a bank in Grand Haven, Michigan, but the meticulous plan falls apart almost immediately. Join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: blackbarrel.supportingcast.fm/join Apple users join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes, bingeable seasons and bonus episodes. Click the Black Barrel+ banner on Apple to get started with a 3-day free trial. On YouTube, subscribe to INFAMOUS+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons. Hit “JOIN” on the Infamous America YouTube homepage. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm4V_wVD7N1gEB045t7-V0w/featured For more details, please visit www.blackbarrelmedia.com. Our social media pages are: @blackbarrelmedia on Facebook and Instagram, and @bbarrelmedia on Twitter. To purchase an ad on this show please reach out: blackbarrelmedia@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:31.0	Their home invasion exploits which left rich men and women bound and gagged with tape,
1:36.7	had been front-page news during the city's crime wave in 1930.
1:42.1	The gang had also branched out into knocking over small town banks beyond the Chicago
1:46.9	city limits.
1:49.1	Successful heists in Itasca and Hillside had netted thousands.
1:53.4	Nelson and his family enjoyed the good life
1:55.9	in their Cicero neighborhood apartment,
1:58.3	and Nelson and his wife Helen
1:59.9	enjoy the nightlife in Chicago's clubs and dance halls.
2:04.0	But a more grim portrait of Nelson was being painted as well.
2:08.2	There was the gut-shot stockbroker in a local tavern.
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