Hello, everyone, and welcome to the latest episode of "The Abyss". I’m Obuchi. The case we are going to talk about today is the "mutation" case of Hearst's granddaughter. The case tells the story of , a 19-year-old girl who would inherit hundreds of millions of fortunes, who became a terrorist because of a kidnapping case . This story is full of legends and is still talked about today.
The content of the case is divided into four parts, the first part is Patricia grandpa William Span17-span Hirst Randolph The second is the kidnapping process, the third is Patricia’s transformation from a victim to a terrorist, and finally how Patricia shortened his 35-year imprisonment to 22 months.
First is the history of William Randolph Hirst , born in 1-8-6-3, is the founder of Hearst International Group , also In the 20th century, the world's largest newspaper magnate, by continuously publishing " yellow news" in his newspaper "San Francisco Investigator", he was called "the Hitler of press".
The "yellow news" here is called "yellow journalism", it does not refer to vulgar and pornographic content, it refers to the use of extremely exaggerated and fabricated plot methods to render news events and achieve expansion Newspaper sales purpose.With pornographic news, Hirst is notorious in the newspaper industry, but it also has a profound impact on the history of the world's news media. His entire family has accumulated billions of fortunes.
But just as Hirst was indulging in his brilliant achievements, in January 1-9-7-4, his 19-year-old granddaughter Patricia was kidnapped by . Through the Hearst family, the SLA kidnappers demanded that the US government release the murderer who murdered the principal of the Oakland school at the time. Otherwise, Hearst would not want to see his precious granddaughter, but the government refused.
Seeing that this did not work, the kidnapper proposed a second exchange condition, demanding the Hirst family to hand over a high ransom of 4 million U.S. dollars, but the strange thing is that the kidnapper asked for the ransom to be exchanged for food, and then Distributed to the people at the bottom of California, each serving is worth $70.
As soon as the news came out, people in the lower American society greatly appreciated the kidnappers, but the upper-class society was in an uproar. Although Hirst did everything as required, the kidnappers still did not release Patricia. According to the investigation, the SLA once opposed the Vietnam War and advocated obtaining democracy through violence. . Faced with the trump card that Patricia is so good, how could the SLA easily let it go and leave Patricia secretly in the group. As for the outside world, it is believed that Patricia was brutally murdered.
However, only on April 3, two months after the kidnapping case, SLA Group announced a tape recorded by Patricia himself. Patricia claimed in the tape that his grandfather’s donation of US$4 million was an act of a hypocrite and threatened to sever ties with the Hearst family and joined the SLA group , renamed "Tania" and the English name is "Tania" "And admitted to falling in love with one of the SLA group members.
1-9-7-4 April 15, a bank located at 1450 Noriega Street, San Francisco, photographed Patricia holding an M1 carbine, but Patricia's face under surveillance The expression on Shang was very disturbed and seemed helpless. FBI agents investigated and found that during the bank robbery, SLA members had held a gun at Patricia. Then on May 16, Patricia and SLA members appeared at a sports store in Los Angeles in an attempt to rescue an SLA member who was believed to be a thief.
From a heir to a billion-dollar property to a victim, and then from a victim to a member of the SLA criminal group, was such a dramatic story that became the headline news reported by the American media at the time. The U.S. industry even used the sensational tactics that Koutes News is good at ironically to report the story of Patricia. It’s a bit like a netizen’s ridiculous title: shocked, after a 19-year-old woman was kidnapped, she actually did something like this with a member of a criminal group...
Since Patricia appeared in public with a gun, The FBI changed the tracing order into a wanted order, and listed Patricia as one of the ten most wanted criminals, and began a 19-month hunt for her. Later, in a gun battle between the police and the SLA group, the Los Angeles police shot and killed the leader of the SLA group. Patricia, who took the opportunity to escape, was captured by the FBI in California.
Facing the FBI's interrogation, Patricia said that after she was tied up, the SLA mentally brainwashed her and coerced her to participate in robbery and terrorist activities many times. Patricia’s defense lawyers believe that this is indeed the case. For example, in the San Francisco bank robbery mentioned in the previous article, Patricia was pointed at by multiple SLA members and seemed to be forcing her to participate in the crime. The defense lawyer also used Stockholm syndrome to defend her ,But the jury did not accept this opinion, and the presiding judge Carter prepared to sentence Patricia to 35 years in prison.
However, unfortunately, due to the death of Judge Carter, the new Judge William changed the time to 7 years. Later, Patricia was amnesty by the US President and was released from prison after only serving 22 months in prison. 2-0-0-1 US President Bill Clinton also revoked all her charges . From the sentence of 35 years to the removal of the crime, we can see how influential the Hearst family is.
After being released from prison, Patricia married her bodyguard Bernard Xiao. After the marriage, she took care of her two children while doing charity, attending receptions, and even entering the entertainment industry. In films in the 1990s, she was often seen playing soy sauce. I have to say that Patricia's life is legendary.
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