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- ↑ "Escaped Prison on Coast". New York Times . December 21, 1968. Retrieved 2015-03-17.
The F.B.I. said tonight that Gary Steven Krist, charged in the Mackle kidnapping, escaped from a California state prison in November, 1966, while serving a term for automobile theft.
- ↑ Bureau of Prisons: Inmate Locator
- ↑ Convicted look to the state for forgiveness By Steve Visser, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, December 20, 2010. Retrieved August 3, 2011
- ↑ 06-057 - USA V. KRIST ET AL, U.S. Government Printing Office. Retrieved April 19, 2014.
