Oloffson rose to global notoriety in 1973 after a kidnapping and bank robbery in Norrmalmstorg, central Stockholm.

Heiress Patty Hearst poses for a San Mateo Sheriff mugshot after her arrest for bank robbery on September 19, 1975 in San Francisco, California.

Olofsson claimed in a later interview with Sweden’s Aftonbladet newspaper that authorities had asked him to protect the ...

The startling news 50 years ago Sunday that Patty Hearst, granddaughter of media magnate William Randolph Hearst, had been kidnapped by a far-left terrorist organization was eclipsed only by the ...

Patty Hearst one year before her kidnapping. Bettmann Archive/Getty. In April, the SLA released an audiotape where Hearst publicly stated that she had joined their cause.

Patty Hearst turns 70 on Tuesday. That name might not mean a great deal to some of you. But it might bring back vivid memories of a rifle-toting young woman in news reports.

On March 20, 1976, newspaper heiress Patty Hearst was convicted of bank robbery, a crime she committed after being abducted by, and subsequently becoming one of, the Symbionese Liberation Army. On ...

Combining her love for Jimi Hendrix with her fascination with the Patty Heart case, Patti Smith dedicated her debut single to ...

Accompanied by deputy U.S. Marshal John Brophy, Patricia "Patty" Hearst, center, leaves the Federal building on April 12, 1976, in San Francisco, hours after her sentencing on a bank robbery ...

Patty Hearst turns 70 on Tuesday. That might not mean a great deal to some of you. But to a generation very much alive, that name should bring back some vivid memories, some images of a rifle ...

On June 16, 1999, police arrested Sara Jane Olson, formerly known as Kathleen Ann Soliah, a member of the terrorist ...

LOS ANGELES — Newspaper heiress Patricia “Patty” Hearst was kidnapped at gunpoint 50 years ago Sunday by the Symbionese Liberation Army, a little-known armed revolutionary group. The 19-year ...