Hello everyone. I'm Maria Tremarki. And I'm Holly Fry. And we want to tell you that we have heard

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Welcome to Criminalia, a production of Shondaland Audio in partnership with IHeartRadio.

Mickey Cohen, Bugsy Siegel, Babyface Nelson, John Dillinger, The Barkers.

There were a lot of, still, well-known gangsters in the 1920s and 1930s, all of them

criminals known as public enemies to the government and highly sought after by authorities,

as you might imagine. By the mid-1930s, many had been killed or captured, often in shootouts

with the authorities who were tracking them.

But lesser known are the hideouts these criminals used and the people who ran those illegal

safe houses. This is a story of a husband and wife, Herb and Esther Farmer, who ran such an

establishment. Welcome to criminalia. I'm Maria Tremarki.

And I'm Holly Fry.

This was a time when the United States was experiencing a rising tide of professional

criminals, all of whom became richer and bolder because of prohibition,

laws that had turned the nation dry in 1920.

In response to those laws, Chicago, for example, saw an estimated new 1,300 gangs that spread across the country in the mid-1920s.

These professional criminals were able to operate basically with impunity because they paid politicians

and police for that privilege. While many of these gangs sprang up as or were offshoot of

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