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There are some debate about whether stock comes. Syndrome is a real psychological condition, and the story you're about to hear definitely feeds into that debate. In one thousand hundred and seventy four, Patty host was kidnapped from her college apartment by a group of left wing extremists.

Eventually, they told party SHE could leave, but he said no. In just a matter of weeks, party went from a clean cut media areas to a machine gun. Whether ding revolutionary party story literally has everything, ransom demands, bank heist, political intrigues, ind control. It's a story ripped straight from the headlines, and IT played out for all to sea on the front pages of the host family's newspapers.

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This episode is all about the kidnapping of Patty horse and area to the vast host publishing empire. In one thousand nine and seven four, Patty was targeted by a militant group called the symphony's liberation army, or sl. They thought that a high profile hostage situation would help them get the money and publicity they needed to advance their cause.

But the sla got a lot more than they bargained for. Had a story took the nation by storm when he pledged allegiance to the very people who kidnapped her. During her time with the sla, Patty participated in multiple bank robberies, ies, and spent months event the police.

Now, fifty years later, Patty stories, jail house, people wondering, was SHE a victim or was SHE and accomplish? Hey, everyone, it's nickle. I have a quick favor to ask you if you're enjoying many crimes.

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In the thousand nine hundred and sixties and seventies, the cultural revolution was sweeping the nation, and berkeley, california, was at the center of IT. Students from the university of california, berkeley, took to the streets to protest the ongoing warn vietnam and fight for civil rights in the us. They occupied university buildings and march through campus for days on end.

But not everyone in the area was as gone. How about fighting for change? In february of one thousand hundred and seventy four, Patricia cambell, host, was a nineteen year old art history major at U.

C. SHE lived near campus with her fiance, C, A twenty six year old grad student named Stephen weed. And neither of them were really involved in politics.

Not that party didn't care about IT, but he'd grown up a very shelter, focused more on getting a good education and setting herself up for the future. Considering who her family was, that future would certainly be very great. Say, party wasn't your run of the mill college student.

Her grandfather was William rand dog host, one of the original newspaper magnets and the guy that the iconic movie citizen cane was based on. William had died back in one nine hundred and fifty one, but he had left his descendants quite the natig. It's not clear how much they were worth at the time, but current estimates put the host family fortune at around twenty two billion dollars.

Someday, pattie and her sisters were in line to inherit a lot of that money, which came with some pretty big expectations. Patty's dad, randol s, was the publisher of the sand Francisco examiner. Her mom, Catherine, was a literal southern bell, a high society won from georgia, who had very specific plans for her daughters, namely that they would do well in school and marry well.

So Catherine probably wasn't very pleased when party decided to move in with her boyfriend without tying the, not first, but until this point, Patty hunt exactly been a rebel. And by december of one hundred and seventy three, after living together for about a year, party and Steve decided IT was time to make Catherine a happy and take the next step in their relationship. They published their engagement announcement in her father's paper.

Friends and family came out of the woodwork to congratulate party on the exciting news, but someone else was also reading the engagement announcement. A radical activist group called the simba ese liberation army, or S. L.

A, for short, along with being the home of optimistic, peaceful hippies, the city of berkeley also had a darker element. Social progress hadn't come fast enough for some people, and they didn't think peaceful protest worked. So they formed militant groups like the S.

L. I. To force the change they wanted. The organization was mostly the brainchild of one man, thirty year old Donald the freeze. But Donald wasn't a college student. He was an escaped convict who had been arrested for a lot of crimes, including robbery, assault and possession of explosives and firearms.

After breaking out of prison in thousand nine hundred and seventy three, he headed to berkeley to hide out with a couple of student activists that he had befriended while he was incarcerated. Just as Donald hoped, they were happy to help him lay low, and they turned out to be more than a convenient hiding place. The more time Donald spent with his friends, the more he realized they were kindred spirits they all wanted to create a Better society, and they would do IT by any means necessary.

They decided to create a more formal group. In july one thousand nine seventy three, which included about six people, Donald decided to call them the symbian SE liberation army, which was a play on the word simbo s. Donal had also designed the emblem, a seven headed cobra.

Each had represented one of the seven principles of quaranta, the african american and pan african holiday. The principles included unity, self determination and collective work and responsibility. Those were also the guiding values of the S, L.

A. When IT came to the S. A S. Goals, they were determined to fight fascism, racism and capitalism in the united states.

They believed that wealth should be evenly distributed and that the nations elite were the ultimate enemy. They thought the only way to achieve the equal society they so desperately wanted was through armed resistance. Their first target was markas faster, the superintendent of oakland schools.

At one point, Foster was trying to implement Mandatory I D cards on all campuses in the district. He argued that that would help keep the grants and drug dealers away from school. The S.

L. A, on the other hand, thought the policy made a Foster a fascist, and they were prepared to stop him by any means necessary. On november sixth, one thousand and seventy three, they shot and killed superintendent Foster as he walked to his car.

After his death, the S, L. A sent a message to the press taking responsibility for the killing. But the publicity they got for IT was a double aged sd.

Although people knew who they were, that also meant the police knew who they were too. Now that the S. L, A was wanted for murder, they had to go underground.

They didn't do a good job of hiding. So on january tenth, nineteen seventy four, two of their members got arrested during a traffic stop. Both were charged for their involvement in the murder of Marcus Foster.

Donal and the other members of the Sally want to get revenge for their friends. The S. L.

A didn't have the juice to break them out of jail, but they could still send a message to show the establishment that no one was safe, especially not the rich and powerful. And that's when they saw paddy horst engagement announcement in the newspaper. As the areas to a media empire, Patty represented everything.

The issue hated privilege, wealth and exclusivity. And as a Young and nineteen year old woman, they figured that hai wouldn't fight back too much. The S, L, A drag down her home address and on the night of february fourth thousand nine hundred seventy four, Donald to freeze and two other members of the S L.

A, bill Harris and Angela outwood approach the front door of Patty's street facing apartment. Bill and Donald waited in the shadows while Angela knocked when patties, Fiona, Steve answered, they pushed in with their guns drawn. Steve assumed they were being robed.

He told the intruders to take whatever they wanted and go. He had no idea what they were really looking for. Angela found party in the kitchen, then tied up with some rope and covered her eyes with a blind fold. Before Steve knew what was happening, bill had dragged Patty out to the getaway car. Within a few hours, the news was everywhere Hardy host had been kidnap.

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After Patty host was kidnapped on february fourth, one thousand nine hundred, and seventy four reporters flocked to the host mansion just south of san Francesco, hoping to speak with her parents and off and Catherine the horse told a few press conferences, but there wasn't much to say yet. They didn't know who was responsible or what they wanted.

Two days later, they found out on february six thousand nine hundred and seventy four the S, L, center letter to the berkeley radio station K, P, F, A. To start the S, L. I wanted all of their messages to the public, published in fall, in every newspaper and read aloud on T, V.

And radio. IT was a pretty simple demand. But then things got trick.

Or six days later, on february twelve, K, P, F, A. Received two messages from the S. L, A. The first was from Patty speaking directly to her parents.

SHE told them that he was being taken care of and he hoped they would CoOperate with the sales demands. In the second message to K, P, F, A, the s. OLAY announced that they wanted panny s.

Father Randolph's to give seventy dollars worth of food to every person in need in california. If rand off did what they asked, IT would cost him somewhere between two hundred million to four hundred million dollars. The north end of that would be approximately two point six billion dollars today.

Essentially, they were asking for a massive wrens m payment, just not directly to them. So what kind of options did random h have here? If he asked to the U.

S. Government, they probably would tell him not to pay IT. The current guidance says that paying ransom fees only encourages bad actors to keep doing IT, which makes sense.

If you got what you wanted, why would you stop? Thankfully, being in a physical ransom situation isn't all that common in the united states. But for high worth, individuals like the host family is something that could still happen, and IT clearly did.

IT could also be a threat for more regular, everyday people, especially those traveling in countries with unstable governments or disrupted territory. It's estimated that there are between twelve thousand, five hundred and twenty five thousand kidnappings every year around the world. For anyone concerned about finding themselves in a hostage situation.

There are companies out there that offer kidnapping insurance on top of accessing the services of a professional negotiator. These policies also cover the costs of any ransome payments that do end up going through. They also have a high success rate.

Kidnap victims who have this coverage typically make IT back alive ninety seven point five percent of the time. IT doesn't seem like the host had kidnapping insurance, and they were looking at a huge ransom demand here. But Randolph was still willing to give something.

He put together a two million dollar food distribution effort. The sa. Said IT wasn't enough. They wanted another four million, which put round off in a very tRicky situation, because what the S L, A didn't know and randol h wasn't about to admit, was that he didn't have direct access to the host fortune to keep the family's money safe.

Williams random host had installed a firewall of professional managers to manage their wealth, so even though pony's dad had a lot of money, he couldn't just tap into the entire fortune at will. And the people in charge of IT, namely the board of the horse corporation and the horse foundation warrant, willing to negotiate with the S. L.

So on february twenty second, rudolf was forced to give a statement to the press. He had done the best he could, but the situation was out of his hands. He just didn't have that kind of cash.

But when Patty heard that he called B. S, at some point, the isolate had given her A T, V under radio so that he could follow IT, along with the media coverage of her kidnapping. And when SHE found out what her father said, IT seems like one big excuse.

Just like everyone else, IT seems like he had no idea that random h didn't have full access to his fortune and that his hands really were tired by this point. Panny had been with the Sally for almost three weeks. Now that may not seem like all that long, but the entire time her capture had been telling her that the FBI, the government and even her parents didn't care about her and he seemed like he was starting to believe in.

On march nth one thousand nine hundred seventy four, after about a month of captivity, paddy released another sage. In this one, SHE accused her dad of giving up too easily and called her mom out for not pushing him to do more. IT was a turning point for party.

During her time with the S. L. A, SHE had slowly formed a bond with them. SHE listened as they told her about their views on politics and their dreams of revolution.

And while paddy had never been exposed to this kind of thinking before, he started to believe they had a point. Penny was compliant and curious, not the historical dams. Zl, in distress, like the S.

L. A. Thought he would be. IT seemed like party in the group had developed a feeling of mutual respect and maybe even a little trust in one another.

Some might even call IT stock comes in drom, whatever IT was. Penny decided that he wanted to join at the sa. They weren't so sure IT was a good idea, though even if party willingly join the group, they'd still kidnapped her.

And the longer party was with them, the more anxious ly authorities would get about finding her. Not that the FBI was hot on their trail exactly despite using every resource available to them, the authorities were all fully low on leads. Nothing was turning up evidence that might take them to party.

But IT turns out he was much closer than they ever could have imagined. At first, the group had been hiding out in a house in the bay area suburbs, but by April of one thousand hundred and seventy four, about two months after kidnapping party, they downsized to an apartment on golden gate avenue and sand. Frances co.

Patty's. Parents had no idea that SHE and the s were just a few miles away, and they didn't know the group was getting answer. The S, L, A had nine to feed, including patties.

But instead of freaking out, they decided to get proactive. The sla needed money, and paddy needed to prove herself. So they came up with a plan to kill two birds with one stone. They were going to rob a bank and Patty was going to help them.

At first, IT was just, my life was gone and then I became, you know, your mom was taken by a bad man. They found video of killing women.

If you ever watched any s of breaking battle, that's exactly. See you buried these eleven women and kept going out there.

He made a road to point out, you got this guy, him, bring your family these pictures and like he's secretly taping her, the cops don't care. We're nothing to them. I don't see anything that brings. There's two people doing this. I never thought anything was going to come of this case.

Ever listen to the minds of magna series who killed Jennifer, whether you get your podcasts. On April third, one thousand and seventy four, two months after patti horse was kids up from her home by the sl, SHE sent another tape recorded message to her parents party, who was now twenty, told them that he was given a choice to be released in a safe location of her choosing or join the sa to fight quote for the freedom of all oppressed sed people in her message party told her parents SHE was going with the second option.

Like all the other messages SHE had sent, the tape was played in full on the news when people first heard that they couldn't believe IT was true. Party host of the host media empire was citing with a radical extremist group that the U. S.

Government had labelled as terrorists. IT didn't make any sense. People wondered if Patty had been brainwashed, or if the sa had forced her to make that recording. Whatever the truth was, the S L.

I knew this was the perfect moment to make their next move on April fifteen, thousand, thousand and seventy four, about two months after patties kidnapping, the s soa approached the hybernation bank incentence ago. They'd specifically chosen this bk because IT had surveilLance video, which was still pretty new at the time. If this feels counterintuitive to you, I Normally agree in any other circumstances, that type of security would have been a major deterred.

But the S. L wasn't just after money. They wanted to show that party was truly one of them.

That day, paddy and other members of the S. L, I burst into hybernation bank armed with assault rifles. Party was wearing a black wig, but her face was still fully visible.

In full view of the cameras, party yelled at everyone to keep their heads down. According to the security guard, he said that anyone who put their head up would get IT loan off. The robbery worked.

The S. L. A walked out of the bank with over ten and a half thousand dollars, and paddies face fully on camera. In the grand scheme of things, that is not a lot of money even when you you fact in inflation.

So the bank clients probably weren't afraid that their accounts had been empted, but there have been some pretty big bank heist throughout history on easter sunday of twenty twenty four, a group of thieves stole thirty million dollars from a bank volt of los Angeles. Thankfully, even if the bank where you do business is robed, your money is probably safe. In the U.

S. Every bank is required to Carry a blanket bond, which covers events like floods, fires, earthquakes and robberies and robbing. And F D, I C insured bank comes with federal robbery charges, which acts as a major deterrent.

But the S L. A wasn't really worried about any potential charges they were after the publication ity. Boy did they get IT in the afternoon.

Th, all of the witnesses interviewed said that Patty wasn't acting like a captive. SHE was fully participating and seemed ready to use her weapon against anyone who tried to stop her. Now people were really confused.

Was party still a victim, or had SHE actually been telling the truth and her message? But Patty's parents refused to believe her change of heart was real. Patty's mom Catherine even said the S.

L. A was using mind control on her daughter. Panny thought back against that idea. In her continued messages to the press, SHE called the idea that he was being brainwash, quote, ridiculous to the point of being beyond belief, SHE proudly declared herself a soldier in the people's army after that party became something of a folk hero to radical across the country.

Initially, the S, L, A, S goal had been to get as much media coverage as possible. So at this point, mission definitely accomplished. But now they were getting too much attention.

The bay area was crawling with police. By the end of April, the sa decided IT was time to high tail IT out of 3Frances go， and they got out just in time. A week after they left, the FBI got a tip that finally let them to the S, L, S.

Apartment on golden gain avenue. They geared up and busted down the door, only to find the place completely deserted. The S, L, A was long gone.

Theyd fled south to us. Angeles. But in the rush to get out, they had to leave a lot of things behind.

So on may sixteen, padding went to a sport goods store with a couple of other S, L, A members, bill and Emily Harris, even down in L. A. People were on the look out for party.

So billion. Emily went into the store, leaving paddy alone in the area, which was full of guns. The keys were in the ignition, just in case they needed to make a quick get away.

But from panny vantage point, everything seemed to be going fine. After a few minutes, he spotted Billy and Emily coming out of the store, and then one of the employees suddenly shouted, hey, bill. Bill froze.

He was sure they knew that he was in the S. L. A.

In reality, the clerk just thought bill was shop lifting, which to be fair, he was the employee was calling out for his boss, who also happen to be named bill, but the S. S. Bill didn't know that.

So when the two employees caught up to him, he tried to make a run for IT padi, saw all the commotion from across the street. Rather than laying low SHE, picked up her machine gun and opened fire at the storefront. The luckily no one was hit.

But in all the confusion, the employees let go of bill and he and Emily. We're able to get back to the van. They weren't sure where to go next, though.

If they went back to the safe house and IT turned out authorities were following them, IT would put the whole group in danger. Eventually, they went to a motor near disney land, thinking they could disappear among the tourists safely in the motel. Bill, Emily and party turned on the news and watch their worst nightmare playing out on T, V.

Thanks to panies stunt at the sporting good store, the L, A, P, D, were tipped off that the S, L, A was in the area and they had found the group's safe house. Now the RAID was being broadcast alive. Bill, Emily and party watched as the L A P D repeatedly called for the S S.

surrender. They refused, and the L A P D fired tear gas into the house. The S, L, A shotted them. In response. The shootout lasted over an hour, and around ten thousand bullets were fired.

Amazingly, not a single officer or bystander was injured, but at some point the house caught on fire. Even then, the S, L, A still refused to surrender. In the end, six members were killed as their bodies were pulled out from the charred structure.

The world waited on pens and needles to see if paddy was one of them. Party was safe, but probably not sound SHE. Bill and Emily had watched as their friends were killed on live T.

V, but they weren't ready to give up. As the last remaining members of the S. L. A. The three of them decided their mission had to continue. They've hold themselves together enough to make their way back to the bay area later that week. There they made new connections with people who wanted to help their cause.

With the help of their new friends, panny, bill and Emily were able to get to pennsylvania, where they spent a few months hiding out in the countryside. Once things seem to have settled LED down a bit, they return to california by April of one thousand nine hundred and seventy five. Fourteen months after patting was first kidnapped, the S.

L. A, once again was strapped for cash. So with the head of their comrades, they planned another bank robbery.

This time they chose one without cameras. The cracker bank in a town called car Michael near sacramento, california. And also this time they didn't need paddy to prove herself.

SHE actually waited in one of the getaway cars as the others went inside. The group made IT into the bank, but soon Emily Harris shotgun accidentally discharged and killed a customer. As chaos erupted, the group managed to gather around fifteen thousand dollars and make a run for IT.

They divided up that money and remained hidden for another five months. Then in september of thousand nine hundred and seventy five, the authorities finally had some luck. The group had split up and the police spotted bill and Emily Harris outside the houses conferences go. During questioning, the Harris gave up the location of a second safe house where party was hiding. After a brief stand off, paddi surrendered.

IT had been nineteen months since he was taken from her apartment, but the reunion with her family would have to wait because even though party may have been kidnapped, IT seems like he had also committed a lot of crimes, and I definitely didn't seem like he had been forced into IT. As SHE was LED to jail, party raised her first in a revolutionary salute. In her paperwork, SHE listed her occupation as urban go lap.

IT seemed like Patty host really was committed to the S. L. S. Cause, after all. But once he took the stand, that all changed on february fourth, in thousand and seventy six, two years to the day since her kidnapping, twenty one year old Patty went on trial for her role in the hybernating bank robbery.

When push came to shove, panny said he was forced to participate in the robbery, but based on the security footage, I didn't look that way, and the prosecution is certainly didn't think so. During their questioning, they painted her as a willing participant to avoid incriminating herself and possibly opening herself up to a murder charge. Patty pleaded the fifth forty two times during her cross examination.

In the end, Patty did manage to avoid a more serious charge, but SHE was found guilty of robbing the hyper nia bank and sentenced to seven years in prison. As for the shoot out at the sporting goods ore in L. A, SHE pleaded no contest and received five years of for the cracker bang kissed SHE received immunity in change for providing testimony to the FBI.

After serving only two years, president Jimmy Carter commuted Patty sentence and he was released from prison on february first thousand nine hundred and seventy nine but he wasn't granted a full pardon until president clinton s last day in office. In two thousand and one, even Emily and bill Harris walked away with pretty lenient sentences in the grand scheme of things. In one nine hundred and seventy six, they were sentenced to eleven years in prison.

Although they only served eight at the time, there wasn't enough evidence to convict Emily of shooting the customer at the crock bank. However, in two thousand and two, SHE was found guilty of second degree murder for the killing, and four of her S, L. A accomplices were also sentenced.

As for party, SHE went on to have the kind of life her family imagined for her. He wrote a memoir, SHE, modeled in family shows, and SHE even started in a few movies. These days, he is mostly out of the public eye, far removed from the kidnapping that made her a household name. There is a common saying that any press is good press, but after the S, L, A kidnapped Patty host, they realized that wasn't the case.

They went after party because they knew he came from a wealthy, influential family, and they wanted to use the host name to their benefit, whether that was through range of money or publicity for their cause. But in the end, their high stakes gamble backfired. Although the S L. Leg got some money out of kidnapping, paddy host IT put a huge target on their backs, and because of that, their dreams of revolution went up in smoke.

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