Ruth Eisemann-Schier (born November 8, 1942)
the story of

Gary Steven Krist Gary Steven Krist (born April 29, 1945) is an American convicted of kidnapping and the trafficking of illegal aliens. Early life He was born in Aberdeen, Washington, on April 29, 1945, and grew up in Pelican, Alaska. He lived part of his childh ...

from a truTV website is a Honduran criminal who was the first woman to appear on the FBI's

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Schier was born in

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, the daughter of Austrian- Jewish refugees living there after escaping Nazi persecution. She was a graduate of

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and was a graduate student at the University of Miami's Institute of Marine Science when she met

. Schier was added to the list in 1968, for participating in the

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-for-ransom of land heiress

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in a plan concocted by her boyfriend, Krist. He was arrested two days later, but Schier eluded police for 79 days before being apprehended in Norman, Oklahoma on March 5, 1969. Schier was extradited from Oklahoma to Georgia to face trial where she pleaded guilty and was sentenced to seven years in prison. While Schier was in prison, Gene Miller, in collaboration with Mackle, wrote about the crime in ''83 Hours Till Dawn''. Schier served four years of her sentence and was paroled in 1973 on condition of deportation to her native

. Schier's case was one of many covered in the 2002 book ''Mistresses of Mayhem: The Book of Women Criminals''.Catalog record for ''Mistresses of Mayhem'' from the Library of Congress (, )

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