Maybe someone wanted him dead, someone tied in with the Roberts affair. But apparently his death was just a coincidence. Although the authorities had no clue as to who’d murdered him, they predicted that sooner or later his hostile manner would get him killed. Barr had been a hothead from the start, which jived with what he did to Jerome.In the joint Barr stirred up more trouble than he could handle, pissing off some of the meanest cons. He was found lying face up in his bunk with a shank—a spoon that had been filed down—planted in his chest. The guards speculated that he must’ve been stabbed in his sleep. Mysteriously, the night he died, his cell door had been left unlocked. The prison authorities would not comment on that tidbit.It seems because of the altercation with Jerome, Barr had been drummed out of the movie business. After a long downward spiral, a couple of ill-fated marriages, and years of alcohol abuse, he ended up working as a gardener in the posh resort community of Palm Springs.
