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===Crocker National Bank robbery and Myrna Opsahl murder=== On April 21, 1975, SLA members robbed the [[Crocker National Bank]] in [[Carmichael, California]]. In the process they killed [[Myrna Opsahl]], a mother of four depositing money for her church.<ref name="MPR3">{{cite web|url=http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/200201/17_stoltzef_olson/|title=Sara Jane Olson charged with murder|first=Frank|last=Stoltze|website=Minnesota Public Radio|date=January 17, 2002}}</ref><ref name="LAWeekly3"/> [[Patty Hearst]], who had acted as [[crime scene getaway|getaway driver]] during the crime, later provided the information that led police to implicate the SLA in the robbery and murder.<ref name="MPR3"/> She identified Soliah as one of the robbers.<ref name="MPR3"/> According to Hearst, Soliah kicked a pregnant teller in the abdomen, leading to her suffering a [[miscarriage]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.postgazette.com/columnists/20010310roddy.asp|title=Payback from a long-forgotten account|first=Dennis|last=Roddy|newspaper=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette|date=March 10, 2001}}</ref> Police later searched Soliah's room at the SLA safehouse on Precita Avenue in San Francisco. They found several rounds of 9 mm ammunition on the floor and in a 9 mm [[Browning Hi-Power]] [[semi-automatic pistol]] in Soliah's dresser drawer. Manufacturing marks appeared to match similar cartridges found in Opsahl's body during the autopsy.<ref name="MPR4"/><ref name="LAWeekly3"/> In 2002, new [[forensics]] technology allowed police to link these shells definitively to those found at Crocker Bank; they charged former members of SLA, including Soliah, with the crime.<ref name="MPR3"/> Prosecutor Michael Latin said that Soliah was tied to the crime through fingerprints, a palm print, and handwriting evidence.<ref name="LAWeekly3"/> The palm print was found on a garage door where the SLA kept a getaway car.<ref name="foxnews">{{cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/story/ex-fugitive-sara-jane-olson-gets-20-years-to-life-for-1975-bomb-plot|title=Ex-Fugitive Sara Jane Olson Gets 20 Years to Life for 1975 Bomb Plot|website=Fox News|date=January 18, 2002}}</ref>
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