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Arthur Barker

Arthur R. Barker (June 4, 1899 – January 13, 1939) was an American criminal, the son of Ma Barker and a member of the Barker-Karpis gang along with Alvin Karpis.

Fred Goetz

He later participated in several bank robberies with Alvin Karpis, Fred and Doc Barker, as well as the 1934 kidnapping of St. Paul, Minnesota banking millionaire Edward G. Bremer.

McNeil Island

The federal penitentiary's most famous inmates were probably Robert Stroud, the "Birdman of Alcatraz," who was held there from 1909 to 1912; Charles Manson, who was an inmate from 1961 to 1966 for trying to cash a forged government check; and Alvin Karpis, who was an inmate until 1971 for operating as point man for Ma Barker's gang in the 1930s.


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