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In a move that gave J. Edgar Hoover fits, the state of Oklahoma pardoned Doc, who promptly rejoined the gang and assumed, with Karpis, a leadership role. Shortly after Doc's return, Ma's paramour, Arthur Dunlop, whom the gang suspected of being an informant, was killed. A year later, in 1934, the gang gunned down one of its own members, an act that ultimately led to their destruction. In 1933 George Ziegler, World War I veteran, college graduate, engineer, and a Capone gunman, had joined the gang. Ziegler, who had connections throughout the Great Lakes region, was said to have been the first to suggest the gang try its hand at kidnapping. The gang's first target was the Minneapolis banker Edward Bremer, for whom they received a two-hundred-thousand-dollar ransom. But it would appear that the Barker-Karpis gang had already gained some previous experience in the field, having, with the assistance...
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