Arthur "Doc" Barker remains in Colma, California. Olivet placed him, per Federal Bureau of Prisons request, in their unendowed Cosmos plot. His death certificate (#89-005901) includes information from his autopsy: Barker was tested for alcohol (the test came back negative). A pathologist found that he'd died of "Gunshot wound of the head with contusion of the brain and brain hemorrhage, traumatic". His January 13, 1939 death was listed as a "homicide". Barker died while trying to escape from Alcatraz Penitentiary.

The other Barker boys and Ma are buried in a family plot located in Welch, Oklahoma.

See a clinical picture of contusions to the brain
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