Biography
White anti-imperialist activist indicted as a co-defendant in the Resistance Conspiracy case tied to the 1983 US Capitol bombing and related actions by the May 19 Communist Organization. Skipped bail in 1985 and lived underground for over two decades; the federal charges were dismissed in 2009. Documented in PFOC Breakthrough magazine.
Elizabeth Ann Duke was a member of the May 19th Communist Organization who in 1985 was indicted in Doylestown, Pennsylvania for storing explosives and weapons. She was originally one of the six Resistance Conspiracy Case defendants but was severed from that case. While awaiting trial in October 1985 she jumped bail and went underground; she was a fugitive for the next 24 years. The U.S. Marshals Service formally dropped pursuit of her in October 2009. Her whereabouts were never publicly determined; she is presumed to have died in exile under an assumed identity in the United States or abroad. The federal grand-jury subpoena of attorney Linda Backiel about her departure produced one of the foundational federal attorney-client-privilege contempt cases of the 1990s.
