# Alvin Karpis

Canonical: https://mobfiles.org/people/alvin-karpis/

Alcatraz register no. 325. The warden's notebook page, under the name Alvin Karpavicz, records receipt from Leavenworth on 6 August 1936 under a life sentence for conspiring to kidnap and transport, and a transfer back on 24 February 1958.

The notebook page prints the surname Karpavicz; the catalog title adds the name "CREEPY KARPIS." The series note says the 1936 first-incarceration page is not extant, and the digitized page carries a 1958 transfer stamp. The case file, about 1,800 pages, is described in the catalog but is not digitized. The role and family fields are left empty because no record cited here states either. Offenses are given as the notebook form prints them; the "Reason for Transfer" boxes are staff opinion and are not used.

## Sources

- National Archives Catalog: Alcatraz warden's notebook page, register no. 325: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/236735220
- Identification photograph on the Alcatraz warden's notebook page for Alvin Karpavicz, No. 325, National Archives at San Francisco (NAID 236735220), Records of the Bureau of Prisons. The catalog marks the item "Use Restriction: Unrestricted.": https://catalog.archives.gov/id/236735220