A Murder in Tulsa: The Sherrill Murder Case & The Rise of the Barker-Karpis Gang

This book begins with a murder in Tulsa of a construction site guard during the summer of 1921. Police found no leads to this murder mystery. Soon the victim s family hired two local detectives. Their efforts secured several arrests of small-time crooks. Their chief suspects were Arthur Doc Barker and Volney Davis. Both were apprehended, convicted and sent to prison. But they were released well before their sentences were completed through underhanded means. By the early 1930s America was in the clutches of a Great Depression and several infamous criminals emerged to the fascination of the public sector who read of their crimes reported in all the big cities by local newspaper reporters. One such group of bandits was the Barker-Karpis Gang, which terrorized many states. This book explores their rise and fall, and tells of their many murders, robberies and kidnappings.