Episode Details

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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