In the midst of the Great Depression in December 1932, a 29-year-old man named Oscar Erickson was filled with hope, having finally secured a job selling Christmas wreaths door-to-door in Saint Paul, Minnesota, after months of unemployment. On the afternoon of December 16th, accompanied by his friend Arthur Zachman, Erickson was making his rounds in the neighborhood west of Como Park. Their paths, however, were fated to cross with the notorious Barker-Karpis Gang, who were fleeing the scene of a
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