15. Ruth Eisemann-Schier & Gary Steven Krist, Part 2

This episode (also) has everything! Prison escape! Actual aliases! Love on a boat! More underground things! Drug running! Narcissism! There's so much going on here! In this second (longer) episode of our two-parter, we hear the origin stories of Ruth Eisemann-Schier and Gary Steven Krist, how they managed to pull off the wild kidnapping of Barbara Mackle, and what their lives were like afterward.


Sources:

  • 83 Hours Till Dawn by Gene Miller and Barbara Mackle

  • Corrections 1: “Notorious Georgia kidnapper out of prison again” by Arielle Kass

  • United Press International: “Mackle kidnapper says he is now a ‘good guy.’” (from the archives, no byline)

  • ABC News: “Man Who Buried Girl Alive Becomes Doctor” (no byline)

  • Coastal Breeze News: “The Daring Kidnapping of Barbara Mackle” - 3 part series by Craig Woodward

  • TrueTV.com: “Gary Krist: The Einstein of Crime” by David Krajicek

  • Let’s Go to Court Podcast, Episode 127: “Patreon Bonus Episode: The Candyman & Buried Alive”

  • Our True Crime Podcast, Episode 35: “Buried Alive: The Kidnapping of Barbara Mackle”

  • The Darker Side of Life Podcast: “The Kidnapping of Barbara Mackle”

  • Krist v. State of Georgia

  • Murderpedia entry for Gary Steven Krist

  • Wikipedia


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