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4th SLA member faces murder charge in 1975 slaying
Sacramento Bee ^ | 1-16-02 | Sam Stanton

Posted on 01/16/2002 4:38:59 PM PST by randog

Edited on 04/12/2004 5:32:11 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

A fourth former member of the radical Symbionese Liberation Army, Sara Jane Olson, will be charged with first degree murder in the 27-year-old slaying of Myrna Opsahl in a Carmichael bank robbery, sources close to the investigation told The Sacramento Bee on Wednesday afternoon.


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Do you think Soliah's sitting in her cell tonight singing, "Hail, hail, the gang's all here!"?
1 posted on 01/16/2002 4:39:00 PM PST by randog
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"Emily Harris was arrested in Los Angeles, Bill Harris in Oakland and Bortin at his home near Portland, Ore., sources said. Olson is awaiting sentencing in Los Angeles in another SLA related case."

This is what I call good news!

Justice delayed is better than no justice at all.

2 posted on 01/16/2002 4:45:03 PM PST by okie01
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Do you think Soliah's sitting in her cell tonight singing, "Hail, hail, the gang's all here!"?

Soon. But I bet she's really licking her chops in hopes she gets Emmie Harris as her new roomie.

Olsen: "I was not in Los Angeles, I did not place those bombs under those cars...I am innocent."

3 posted on 01/16/2002 4:46:14 PM PST by archy
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Did I read this correctly...SJ Olsen is the shooter? When I heard today that the 3 had been arrested and I said to my self. "Self, Mzzzz Olsen has done sung the finale to this drama." And now this????
4 posted on 01/16/2002 4:48:54 PM PST by tubebender
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Sara Olsen or Kathy Soliah whichever. Her natural sister is married to the Bortin fellow. Sister and mother had to know for years where sara/kathy was. May they all rot in jail.
5 posted on 01/16/2002 4:49:54 PM PST by esmith
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BTW...could James Kilgore have perished with Sinque et al in the house fire and not identified?
6 posted on 01/16/2002 4:54:45 PM PST by tubebender
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A fourth former member of the radical Symbionese Liberation Army, Sara Jane Olson, will be charged with first degree murder in the 27-year-old slaying of Myrna Opsahl in a Carmichael bank robbery.

It's my understanding that she's scheduled to surrender and be sentenced on Friday, 1/18.

How likely is it that she'll show up?

7 posted on 01/16/2002 4:56:33 PM PST by 68skylark
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She also wrote that afterward Emily Harris told her she had shot Opsahl, a 42-year-old mother of four.

Hearst writes that Emily Harris admitted to the shooting.

8 posted on 01/16/2002 5:02:49 PM PST by SMEDLEYBUTLER
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"Did I read this correctly...SJ Olsen is the shooter?"

Nope.

"[Patti Hearst] also wrote that afterward Emily Harris told her she had shot Opsahl, a 42-year-old mother of four."

9 posted on 01/16/2002 5:06:37 PM PST by okie01
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A fourth former member of the radical Symbionese Liberation Army, Sara Jane Olson, will be charged with first degree murder in the 27-year-old slaying of Myrna Opsahl in a Carmichael bank robbery, sources close to the investigation told The Sacramento Bee on Wednesday afternoon.

This is what I was refering too. Am I reading that to narrowly ?

10 posted on 01/16/2002 5:27:43 PM PST by tubebender
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To: randog

William & Emily Harris (Corbis©)
11 posted on 01/16/2002 5:28:10 PM PST by SMEDLEYBUTLER
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Portland resident Michael Bortin was among those arrested
in connection with a 27-year-old bank robbery by the
Symbionese Liberation Army. (KGW Photo)
12 posted on 01/16/2002 5:34:51 PM PST by Jolly Rodgers
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Sara/Kathy is out on bond. Her neighbors put up their homes in order to make that bond. I bet they are all watching her home tonight and scared to death they will lose everything. They were stupid to do it in the first place.
13 posted on 01/16/2002 5:37:02 PM PST by esmith
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Open Letter to Kathleen Soliah and the other former members of the SLA Gang

You can pretend all you want. You can deceive who you will. But, I know what you did, and I know who you really are. You killed Myrna Opsahl and you have never expressed any remorse. You're not a model citizen as you profess. You are a cold-blooded killer.

You helped plan the bank robbery. You agreed to use loaded guns. You were there when Myrna Opsahl was shot. You saw her fall to the floor. You heard her moan in agony. You watched her writhe in pain. You chose to let her die in a pool of blood. Afterward, you sympathized with the shooter, Emily Harris, and you accepted your comrade's callous statement: "Her death doesn't matter! She was a bourgeois pig, a doctor's wife, an expendable member of an expendable class!"

Your brother, Steve Soliah, was acquitted on perjured testimony. But, Patricia Hearst, Michael Bortin, and Wendy Yoshimura all confessed to the crime and confirmed that you were one of the robbers in the bank. Now you've been caught and charged with the attempted murder of police officers. Do you actually expect that your acting skills and high priced lawyers will get you off? How can you ask the very people you have deceived to pay for your defense when you know you are guilty?

You can try to hide your shame and your guilt with a new name. You can hope that your family and your friends don't care about your dreadful past any more than you do. You can even marry a doctor, raise a family, and volunteer in your community, but you will never earn the status of a model citizen, because 25 years ago you helped murder a true one.

Stop trying to flee from justice. Your attempt at appearing innocent while protecting your co-conspirators is failing. It's obvious where your loyalties still lie. It's obvious that you have not reformed. You need to accept the facts: Myrna Opsahl's death does matter. She was not expendable. She was a loving wife and mother. She had the right to live, and society has the right to demand justice.

Jon Opsahl


14 posted on 01/16/2002 5:37:57 PM PST by SMEDLEYBUTLER
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She and her husband also cleaned out their childrens' college funds. May she rot forever.
15 posted on 01/16/2002 5:40:33 PM PST by SMEDLEYBUTLER
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Emily Harris admitted to doing the shooting. All of those present, however, including Sara Jane Olson, would be subject a charge of first degree murder -- as they were participating in a felony during which a murder was committed.

In Texas, all four would be eligible for the needle. In California, they can probably get off scot-free -- if they just say they're "sorry"...

16 posted on 01/16/2002 5:42:17 PM PST by okie01
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It was interesting that when Tom Brokaw did the "three arrested" story during Nightly News tonight,he didn't give the names and mentioned Olson/Soliah re:her upcoming sentencing without indicating she was charged with this also.I mentioned to my wife-why didn't he name those arrested?

Any ideas?

17 posted on 01/16/2002 5:49:22 PM PST by John W
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Patty Hearst's book said Emily Harris was the shooter...accidently discharge. Also article on Lucianne.com says Olson kicked a pregnant teller who was lying on the floor causing her to go into premature labor. Called dying woman shot by Harris a pig.
18 posted on 01/16/2002 6:19:22 PM PST by not-an-ostrich
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To: John W
It was announced separately, just after or right at press time.
19 posted on 01/16/2002 6:20:38 PM PST by not-an-ostrich
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Her neighbors put up their homes in order to make that bond.....She and her husband also cleaned out their childrens' college funds.

I read an interview with her about a month back here on FR. She is the most incredibly selfish, self-centered woman on the face of the earth (OK, it's a tie between her and Hillary!). She runs rampant through people's lives with no regard for anyone's welfare but her own. She really needs to be put down.

20 posted on 01/16/2002 6:25:48 PM PST by randog
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