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Soliah and Olson: Dual lives driven by passion // From political radical to devoted mother and neighbor, many roles are revealed in an intimate look at the life and times of a St. Paul woman accused of being a fugitive.

She was a church clerk and one of a group of women that would count the weekend offerings and take them into the bank every monday morning. >> crocker national bank. they had a perfect setup. so it was ideal. and we strig belled -- if anything, we struggled on who was going to go in. everybody wants to go in, maybe, know what i mean? everyone wants to be the one in on this. so we had a discussion. no, we have to have them when were doing it. we have to make a statement and all that. [ bleep ] th...

Uninformed human being not to know of the trauma she had been through by just looking at her. >> have you met bailey? whats he like? >> ive only met him like twice. >> whats he like? does he seem a nice guy? >> he was okay, he was real patronizing. >> really? yeah. well, hes not here the whole time like johnson is. >> als real nice. >> is he? >> bailey, i dont know him, you know. he just kind of drifts in and -- you know, says, you know, blah, blah, blah. then i just go, oh, okay. >> she writes ...

First time i met mike, he talked about wanting to do an operation while on lsd. >> i had nothing to do with patty hearst being kidnapped, although it may be one of the few things i wouldnt mind taking credit for. i didnt meet patty hearst until the three of them came back from hiding out in the country. she had a pretty vivacious personality. she used to call bill little hitler. that tells you a lot right there. >> mike and i butted heads. we never got -- i think we had -- i think we had a good ...

Younger brother. >> steven wasnt radical, per se, he was a progressive-minded person. pretty low-key, easygoing guy. >> patty hearst and steve soliah develop a relationship. and they wind up living together for quite some time. they fall in love. and its just an illustration of how she has become part of the group. >> we took this lawyer up to meet them, because hopefully we were going to try to get them to cuba. so right in the middle of it, patty says, "ill see you guys later, im going to go g...

As september 21st, 1975. subsequently, very soon, they charged steve soliah with the bank robbery in federal district court in sacramento. there were witnesses to the robbery who claim that they saw him in the bank and put him among the robbers. when she ends up debriefing, she tells the fbi the real story of what happened and reveals to them that steven was not in the bank. the prosecutors, they wanted to stick with their eyewitness identification principally because they knew she was a horribl...

Book, and drove off without ever seeing miss hearst in the van. >> jack scott drives patty hearst to las vegas. and he leaves her in a motel there. and for two days she is on her own. she could surrender. she could leave. but instead she waits for one of the team. in this case, jim kilgore takes her from las vegas to sacramento. >> emily and i took a train all the way across going to sacramento. the comrades who were going to help us get set up, they decided sacramento was a reasonable location,...

In this case, jim kilgore takes her from las vegas to sacramento. >> emily and i took a train all the way across going to sacramento. the comrades who were going to help us get set up, they decided sacramento was a reasonable location, that they probably wouldnt look for us there. >> in sacramento, theres a new cast of characters. wendy yoshimura, kathy soliah, steve soliah, josephine soliah, jim kilgore, and mike bortin, the very excitable member of the group. >> mike bortin, a little bit of a ...

The three of them came back from hiding out in the country. she had a pretty vivacious personality. she used to call bill little hitler. that tells you a lot right there. >> mike and i butted heads. we never got -- i think we had -- i think we had a good shoving match one time. when i think about it. >> we were just hiding them out. we didnt agree with their philosophy. but they were being hunted like animals. kathy, she got jim kilgore and steve involved. >> steve soliahs kathy soliahs younger ...

And then she said ill wet my pants. under supervision, she was able to change. we had two five-shot revolvers in their purses, an m-1 carbine, and a 12-gauge shotgun. so we were clearly outgunned. >> evidently, steven rolled up to morse street. he shows up right after they hit the house. he wanted to make sure hearst was all right. >> steve soliah is arrested by the agents who were inside the house. from that moment, we could not find jim kilgore, michael bortin, kathleen soliah and josephine so...