GOD SO LOVED A BANK ROBBER:
THE 'MIND-BOGGLING' ORIGINS AND ONGOING IMPACT OF ANGEL TREE
Mary Kay Beard prayed, “If You will do that for me ... I will give the rest of my life back to You.”
It all started with a blind date between a safecracker and a young nursing school graduate.
After one brief, unsuccessful marriage, Mary Kay Beard went on a fateful blind date with Paul, a man who convinced her to wed him within days. Too late, she found out that, in addition to being a music promoter and gambler, he was a career criminal.
She became her new husband’s student and partner in crime, and before long she had earned a reputation as “the Bonnie Parker of Alabama.” By the time federal authorities apprehended her at 27 years old, four states had issued warrants for Mary Kay’s arrest, and she had appeared on the FBI’s “Most Wanted List.” Even the mafia had put out a contract on her life for double-crossing them during a diamond heist.
Her arrest in 1972 would change the course of her life yet again.
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