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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.
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- ↑ Krist, Gary Steven (1972). Life: the man who kidnapped Barbara Mackle. New York: Olympia Press. ISBN 0-7004-0100-8.
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