The Irish O\u2019Malley Gang represented the final installment of America\u2019s great 1930s depression-era \u201cSuper Gangs\u201d following in the footsteps of both the John Dillinger and \u201cMa\u201d Barker\/Karpis Gangs. The final version of the outlaw band was the result of the merging of two separate and unique criminal enterprises, one deriving from a rural environment, the second urban in nature. Their story involved a small cadre of hard-nosed underworld hoodlums joined by an army of thrill-starved gangster molls and criminal associates, which eventually evolved into a loosely-knit organization. It\u2019s members drifted across the Midwest committing a national headline grabbing kidnapping and several brutal murders as well as looting a dozen banks. Law enforcement dubbed the lawless band the most highly disciplined and efficient of the day. Their bank raids were well-planned and conducted in precise clockwork fashion. Not until the final months of the group\u2019s existence did investigators, including J. Edger Hoover\u2019s vaunted G-Men, connect the dots and conclude a single group initially dubbed \u201cThe Midwest Bank Robbers\u201d was behind the epidemic of bank heists. On realizing this fact, Hoover\u2019s boys began tracking the group like the hound and the hare. But, track them they did and with deadly efficiency.<\/p>\n