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Broadcast Date: July 12, 2002 SYNOPSIS: In 1975, a notorious band of radicals known as the SLA allegedly gunned down an innocent woman during a bank heist. Finally - some 27 years later - they're being brought to trial on murder charges. All except one: Fugitive Jim Kilgore is still on the loose. On the morning of April 21st, 1975, three volunteers from a local church in Carmichael, California, a suburb of Sacramento, entered the Crocker National Bank. The women had come to deposit the collection from weekend services when suddenly, they were surrounded. Authorities contend the four armed robbers were members of the notorious Symbionese Liberation Army, or SLA - a ragtag group of power-hungry radicals who advocated the violent overthrow of the U.S. government. The shotgun-toting bank robber was especially menacing - her manner as chilling as her words. Just ten feet away, 42-year-old Myrna Opsahl, one of the women from the church, froze. Then, the unimaginable happened: She was gunned down in cold blood. The bank robbers appeared to be following a script - every word and movement precise. The driver of the getaway car was 20-year-old newspaper heiress Patty Hearst. The Symbionese Liberation Army had kidnapped her some 14 months earlier. However, within weeks of her abduction, Hearst assumed the name 'Tanya' and declared herself a revolutionary. The SLA had a marquis name - but the search for Patty Hearst also unleashed the biggest FBI manhunt since John Dillinger. The massive effort paid off. In September, 1975 the SLA's 22-month reign of terror came to an end with several arrests, including Patty Hearst. However, eyewitnesses to the Crocker Bank heist - and murder of Myrna Opsahl - could not positively ID the assailants. 24 long years would pass before a stunning twist in the case led to murder indictments. All of the suspects involved in the crime have been arrested and are awaiting trial - except one. The FBI needs your help to bring him in. His name: Jim Kilgore. A $20,000.00 reward has been offered for information leading to his arrest. UPDATE: The twenty-eight year hunt for James Kilgore finally ended when he was arrested in South Africa. Kilgore had been working at the University of Cape Town. He was married and had two children. After his extradition to the United States, he pled guilty to the second degree murder of Myrna Opsahl. Kilgore was the last of five former members of the SLA to be captured and sentenced. He will serve six years in prison. |