Susan Edith Saxe (born January 18, 1949) is an American who is one of only eleven women ever to make the FBI's

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, and one of three women from

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to do so. She was placed on the list on October 17, 1970, and remained on it until March 27, 1975. Saxe describes herself as a "lifelong

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activist,

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in outlook since back in the day when we just expressed it as the idea that “everything is connected.”"

Background

A student at

Brandeis University , mottoeng = "Truth even unto its innermost parts" , established = , type = Private research university , accreditation = NECHE , president = Ronald D. Liebowitz , pro ...

, Saxe was one of several young radicals who were placed on the FBI's Most Wanted list in the early 1970s. Along with Katherine Ann Power,

Stanley Ray Bond Stanley Ray Bond (October 30, 1944 – May 24, 1972) was a former convict who enrolled at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. He was arrested for a bank robbery conducted to obtain funds for anti-Vietnam War efforts. Previously, he ...

, and ex-convicts William Gilday and Robert Valeri, she escaped from a

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, in which accomplice Gilday shot and killed

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officer Walter Schroeder. She and her four accomplices broke into a

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, on Sept. 20, 1970, and stole a pickup truck, blasting caps and 400 rounds of .30-caliber ammunition. Saxe was on the run until 1975 when she was arrested in

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, after a police officer recognized her from a photo distributed by the FBI the same day. She served seven years in prison. Her trial was one of the early cases for

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, who later became a federal judge. Gertner describes the trial as her "first big case".

Personal life

Saxe is a

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. She is the sister-in-law of Hollywood screenwriter

Josh Olson Joshua R. Olson is an American screenwriter and podcaster, known for writing the 2005 film ''A History of Violence''. Career Olson wrote and directed the low budget horror film ''Infested'' in 2002. He wrote the screenplay for the 2005 film ' ...

, and has appeared on his

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series ''

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''.

References

External links

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