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New evidence revived SLA murder case

...one-man campaign by the son of victim Myrna Opsahl to prosecute members of the violent...is the time to seek justice for Myrna Opsahl," said Sacramento County District...shotgun pellets removed from Myrna Opsahl's body were sent to the FBI Crime...

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Charges against former SLA members are gratifying for victim's son

...in a 1975 bank holdup outside Sacramento that killed Myrna Opsahl. "Our family has waited 26 years for this day...authorities have known their whereabouts for years. Myrna Opsahl, a 42-year-old mother with four children, was...

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Sheriff, FBI join forces to probe old SLA case

...investigation and make prosecution possible," Sacramento County sheriff's Sgt. James E. Lewis said Wednesday. Myrna Opsahl, a 42-year-old mother of four, was shot to death while depositing her church collection money at the Crocker National...

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Olson, other ex-SLA members plead guilty to 1975 murder

...Harris, Michael Bortin and Sara Jane Olson, of St. Paul, pleaded guilty to murder Thursday in the shotgun slaying of Myrna Opsahl on April 21, 1975, during a robbery of the Crocker National Bank in suburban Sacramento. After the guilty pleas...

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Prison sentence ends first part of Olson saga

...She was arraigned on murder and robbery charges stemming from the 1975 holdup of a suburban Sacramento bank in which Myrna Opsahl, a bystander, was killed. Olson pleaded innocent to the robbery as the woman's son, Dr. Jon Opsahl, looked on...

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Prosecutors swap suspects in alleged SLA bank slaying

...lover, Steven Soliah. Two eyewitnesses placed Soliah inside the bank when an alleged accomplice killed 42-year-old Myrna Opsahl as she entered to deposit a church collection. "I'm still certain," Kathleen P. James said Tuesday. At the time...

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FBI steps up search for last SLA fugitive

...capture. There, they began elaborately plotting the bank robbery that would result in the death of 42-year-old Myrna Opsahl, Sacramento County prosecutors alleged in court filings last week. The Harrises, Bortin, Kathleen Soliah and Kilgore...

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Judge wants to know if guilty plea was valid

...years ago, that left a woman dead. No one was ever successfully prosecuted for the 1975 bank robbery, during which Myrna Opsahl, 42, was shot and killed while depositing a church collection. A task force is reviewing evidence unearthed after...

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Last SLA bank killing suspect arrested

...for possessing a pipe bomb, before a deal was reached. "It's good news," said Dr. Trygve Opsahl, whose wife, Myrna Opsahl, was depositing a church collection when she killed by a shotgun blast during the holdup of the Crocker National Bank...

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Judge hands setback to defense in SLA case

...excused from attending the hearing Thursday. He is one of four people charged with the shotgun slaying of 42-year-old Myrna Opsahl during an April 21, 1975, SLA bank robbery at Crocker National Bank in suburban Sacramento. Others include William...

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