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te am ie re eS ie tonic aad SsegEPE 4, ise: isarested me. $ checked it out | wit ov coroner and found: out if lwo |... ve taken at feast 35 such bul- jet: «. - eliver enough cyanide to kill Fo. inal's why Blackburn, who was hit: . i. : same cyanide, recovered from his - .:d8. $ went on our Newsroom shi . .. i the story, but everyone else ke, s #iNg a big thing out of the " eyanide-bullet ning.” ‘dg @: vecame totally involved with ie of: 4 alter) «police = inefficiency ) of : up im the arrest on Jan. 10 of Sl ' .abers Josepa Remiro and Rus- sc. : 2, who have been charged wits o.. fers murder. “R was 1:30 in ft: os. ning. Marilya says, “and a a. =: Sheriff's caf made a routine fs a van driven by Iwo guys. i we . tha suburban residential town of: xd across the Bay, and a van in _. grea at that time of night $c suspicious. The driver of the We. he was ‘looking fer the DeVoto h: . Suthertand Onve.” Then, when " began lo check his diiver's Kir which was a fake, he pulled a There was a shool-oul, and ey y doth Remiro and Lutle were ci :, There was a tot of SLA iit- . the van, but no one thought s -the DeVoto auduse, just iwo € r "way. If they had, they would etter Nt re 4 3 : $ Zeneial Fietd Marshal Cingue’— ‘efreeze at Hiherma banr. "Tin ewe we ee ts have caught at feast three members of the SLA—and maybe there wouldn't have even deen @ Hearst kidnaping. “As it was, as soon as the news of the arrest was broadcast, ‘Mrs. DeVolo’ was seen fleeing the house after setting it on fire. The fire depanmenl gol there in a hurty and put ovt the fire, and then the sherilis got there and found weapons and ail kinds of SLA stuff." The next day, Mazilyn got there. in- credibly, the house was unsealed and unguarded—neighborhood kids carling olf such souvenirs es bayoneis and @ target pistol. Entering the untocked back door, Marilyn found a store of evidence Not even touched by the police—drugs, professional make-up equipment, clos- els full of nonhippie, middle-class cloth- ing, maps and a manuscript about ihe SLA’s aims in which, each time the words “men and women" were used, someone had crossed them out and: written in “women and men.” “Erom alt this,’ Marilyn said, “t deduced that whoever these people ‘were, lhey used middle-class disguises and were living among us, Aof as hip- pies. The make-up, ail dark, indicaled thal they wanied their whites to appeac {0 be blacks, and the manuscript changes told me this outtit was run by women-—heavy-women's-ib-type wom- en.“ +e s * Ae wu . te rues é Patty Hearst as timed by surveiiance,cam- “ta durnag ihe Dank robbery ene ee ee ee er rt ee ee ete ten liner reneerretintnteemtterentanteareie <hr SiR fy pyar ivyRA Tet RS Sa UT aN Marilyn turned the evidence over to the Oakiand police. went on the air with her hypotheses, and then set out to identify the “Mrs. DeVoto” who had rented the house. From reterences given to the reat-esiale agent, she tracked down an authentic Mrs. DeVato ia the East; when Marityn described to her the 4-foot-tt-inch. dark-haired wornan who had tied the burning house, she said, “That sounds like Nancy Ling. 1 went te schoc!l with her, She must have used my name." From her street-people contacts tn near-by Berkeley, Marilyn then learned that a Nancy Ling. a former uftracon- stsvative, Barry Goldwater supparier in 1964, had been tiving with a biack musician named Gilbert Perry. She found Ferry, jearned that he and Miss Ling had been married. taped an in- terview wath him about her background, and went on the air with it, Marilyn thus identitied the lirst of the strange women within the SLA. A few days taier, on Jan. t7, Nancy Ling Perry admitied her SLA involvement ia a fengihy “Letter to the People” de- hvered to radio station KPFA. The com- munique set forih the SLA's “deaih to the fascist insect’ plulosophy and aiso cirectiy answered two points made by Manilym in her news broadcasts. As a sardonic joke, the envelope in which the communique was detivered bore Matilya’s name and Station KQED as Ine return address. Then, oh Feb. 4, Patty Hearst was adducied trom her Berkeley apartment. Three days later, a communique from the SLA, accompanied by one ct Patty's credit catds, announced that she had been taken as a “prisoner of war.” Manlyn spent the weekend contacting at of fer hundreds of sources in the San Francisco slums. in the streets around the University of Calornia in Berkeicy, and in atl tne area's jaw-en- forcement agencies—asking for any information about the kidnaping, TV CARDE SUNT 6, 1976 - a 47 I Ne On Monday, Fed. 41, the informa- tion came to her. Her. phone rang at}. 6:10 A.M. and an unidentified vaice said, “There are two diack escaped convicls in the SLA.’ The caller mentioned two names—Wheeler, and what sounded tike “Diftuse"—and then hung up. Atl that day, Marilyn checked Cali- fornia’s prisons. Finally, at Soledad, the warden told her that the preceding March a black man named Donald DeFreeze had been taken outside the main compound of Soledad 10 repair a boler—and had simply waixed away. She asked him if DeFreeze had had 8 nickname in prison. The warden sa'd, “Yes. He catied himself Cinque. At Vacaville Prison Marilyn teamed of the similar’ escape of 3 convict {s¢cre narhed Thero Wheeler in Auoust 1973. tn Berkeley she learned trom her street- people about “a black dude, cals him- self Cinque (Sin-cue} and brags about being an escaped convict, trying to hook uo with tadical groups, Sui he was talking about such viglence that we thought he was an agent of the potice trying to St things up.” in ihe rext SLA communique, the voice of ‘‘Genetat Field Marshal Cin- que” was heard for the first time. Marilyn already knew that he was De- Freeze, and that Wheeler had probably aided him in the kidnaping. She phoned Randolph Hears: and totd him that she was going to identity DeFreeze and Wheeler an the air. He begged her not to, and asked her instead to tell what she knew ta an FSI agent stationed with him. She did: Hearst then gave her @ speciat unusted number so she could keep in touch-~the only reporter to be $0 favored duftin ine entre ordeal. Two days Jaiew Hester” shoned her anc icid her 10 go ahead with her Sidry. “You've got it straight,” he said. She broadcast! her findings on KQED's evening news of Feb. 14, and “before i fusned,” she says, ‘our switchboard was swamped with calls. The story -—> 7