FBI offers reward for 1970 bomber.

[former9thward]

More than 50 years after a Vietnam War-era bombing on the University of Wisconsin campus that killed a researcher, the FBI on Thursday released age-processed photographs of a suspect who has thus far evaded law enforcement and been referred to as “Wisconsin's state ghost.”

Leo Burt was placed on the FBI's most wanted list immediately after the 1970 bombing of Sterling Hall and remains the last fugitive sought by the FBI in connection with radical anti-Vietnam War activities.

The bombers parked a stolen van packed with fertilizer and fuel outside the university’s Army Math Research Center in Sterling Hall and lit the fuse in the early morning hours of Aug. 24, 1970. The bomb attack, which was the nation’s most powerful until the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, killed 33-year-old graduate student Robert Fassnacht, who was doing research in the middle of the night. It also injured other people and caused millions of dollars in damage. The bombers fled to Canada.

Three of the four wanted men were captured in the 1970s after trying to live underground. They were convicted, served short prison terms and resumed their lives.

https://www.wbaltv.com/article/fbi-university-of-wisconsin-bomber-wanted-new-photo/44978726

I interviewed one of the three that were caught for a history book I wrote. That person ended up as a law aide in Oregon. I doubt they will ever find Burt until he dies.

[Archae]

1. If he isn't dead already.

I think he'd be about 70 or so by now.

[OAITW r.2.0]

3. Probably 75-80, IMHO.

[LeftInTX]

4. He's 73. His BD is on the Wanted Poster

[Tetrachloride]

2. I have been in nearly every one of the surrounding buildings at least once

so I take a personal interest

one of my dogs was affiliated with a nearby building a few years after

[Think. Again.]

5. OR...

...the FBI could start seriously looking for the January 6 bomber.

[brooklynite]

6. And you know that they'e not, because.....

It took 18 years to find the Unabomber. Maybe they weren't searching seriously?

[Think. Again.]

7. welllll....

...with all the cameras that are in that neighborhood, I find it ...improbable... that she's not on tape for 98 percent of the time she spent walking around planting bombs and stuff, including getting out of and into whatever vehicle she might have used, or even whatever hotel or, more likely, whatever apartment building, townhouse, or office building she came from and ended up in.

It's very unlikely anyone could get away with being invisible while walking around that high security area, and I'd guess that the modern FBI has some fairly useful tools for identifying people, even from video.