Myrna Opsahl was a church worker, a mother of four, and a murder

Murder

Murder is the unlawful killing, with malice aforethought, of another human being, and generally this state of mind distinguishes murder from other forms of unlawful homicide...

 victim of the Symbionese Liberation Army

Symbionese Liberation Army

The Symbionese Liberation Army was an American self-styled left-wing urban militant group active between 1973 and 1975 that considered itself a revolutionary vanguard army...

. She died in April 1975 during a Carmichael, California

Carmichael, California

Carmichael is a census-designated place in Sacramento County, California, United States. It is part of the Sacramento–Arden-Arcade–Roseville Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 61,762 at the 2010 census, up from 49,742 at the 2000 census.-Geography and geology:Carmichael...

, bank robbery. Newspaper heiress and kidnapping/brainwashing victim Patty Hearst

Patty Hearst

Patricia Campbell Hearst , now known as Patricia Campbell Hearst Shaw, is an American newspaper heiress, socialite, actress, kidnap victim, and convicted bank robber....

 was a driver of one of the getaway cars, along with Wendy Yoshimura

Wendy Yoshimura

Wendy Masako Yoshimura is an American still life watercolor painter better known for her involvement with the Symbionese Liberation Army. She was born in a World War II-era California internment camp, and raised in Japan and the Central Valley...

, during this robbery.

Her death led to a lengthy campaign for justice, which finally in 2002 led to murder charges against Emily Harris

Emily Harris (SLA)

Emily Harris was, along with her husband William Harris , a founding member of the Symbionese Liberation Army , a leftist United States group involved in bank robberies, kidnapping and murder. In the 1970s, she was convicted of kidnapping Patty Hearst...

, William Harris, Kathleen Soliah (a.k.a. Sara Jane Olson), Michael Bortin, and James Kilgore for the murder. Emily Harris admitted to firing the fatal shotgun

Shotgun

A shotgun is a firearm that is usually designed to be fired from the shoulder, which uses the energy of a fixed shell to fire a number of small spherical pellets called shot, or a solid projectile called a slug...

blast, but claimed it was an accident.