Message #21394

[goldenearring]

I don't know who's been following this case but, for some reason unknown to me, it is of high interest to me.  I was glad that her case was taken seriously, because it sends the right message.  I was shocked, though, at the severity of the sentence.  I agree, wholeheartedly with one analysis of this case that it really was better than the best possible out come she could have hoped for, all circumstances considered.  She did end up being free for 2-3 more years than she would have if things had gone the way that they should have right from the beginning.   It would appear, that her troubles are far from over yet, though, thanks to her indictment for alleged involvement in the murder of Myrna Opdahl during the bank heist.  It is troubling to know that there is one more suspect at large, and they don't know whether they'll ever find him.  Think his name is John Walker, but I could be getting him confused with the American  taliban dude.  It is scary to think that it was so easy to commit a felony, and then disappear.  Even the stories in Patty Heart's book don't seem to have been checked out with too much vigor.  Just makes me wonder . . . and it makes me grateful that somehow I managed to escape getting *too* crazy in the 70s!  These people are not all that much older than I am.  Yikes!