Blog readers who recall the Symbionese Liberation Army of the 1970s might also remember Kathleen Soliah, now Sara Jane Olson.
Soliah was one of the SLA members who fought against "the system" with pipe bombs and a 1975 bank robbery that left one bystander dead.
Soliah was born in Minnesota but went to college in California. There she fell in with people who took protest to an extreme level. She was charged in 1976 for pipe bombing police cars but fled, remaining at large for 23 years.
After a 1999 episode of the TV show America's Most Wanted, she was recognized and police were alerted. She was arrested, and in 2001, she pled guilty to possession of explosives with intent to murder. While at large, she had married a physician and had legally changed her name.
In 2002, she was sentenced to two ten-year to life terms, but that sentence was later reduced to 14 years.
She pled guilty to her part in the bank robbery murder in 2002 and got six years. A judge reduced her sentence, but on appeal in 2007, her full sentence was reinstated.
Due to a clerical error, Olson was released from prison in 2008, but when the mistake was discovered, she had to return. She was released again in 2009.
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