Former self-styled revolutionary Symbionese Liberation Army member Sara Jane Olson, who was imprisoned for trying to kill Los Angeles police officers with pipe bombs and the killing Myrna Opsahl during a 1975 bank robbery, was released from a California prison on parole Tuesday.
Opsahl was at the bank when the SLA tried to rob it. She was shot and killed by Olson's co-defendant Emily Montague Harris, who served eight years for her crime and was released on parole in 2007.
Olson, the 62-year-old former 1970s radical turned house-wife reportedly plans to return to Minnesota with her husband to serve a one year parole.
Police unions and the governor of Minnesota have objected to the plan.
Olson, who is best known for her role in holding kidnapped heiress Patty Hearst captive, was indicted in 1976 for the attempted bombings as Kathleen Anne Soliah, but was not apprehended until 1999. She was found in Minnesota married and living as a house-wife under her current name.
By the time she was finally apprehended, Olson was reportedly known in her community for her philanthropy and people were shocked to learn of her past.
She will be subject to parole conditions for both California and Minnesota.
















