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Katherine Ann Power

Released
Date of birth:25. 04. 1949
Age:77
Gender:Female
Race:White
Era:1990s
Inmate Number:#19724-038
State:Massachusetts
Time Imprisoned:
5 Years 3 Months 17 Days
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Katherine Ann Power

Biography

Katherine Ann Power was a 21-year-old Brandeis University student and Susan Saxes co-defendant in the September 1970 Brighton MA bank robbery and the September 1970 Newburyport armory raid. She went underground immediately after the robbery and lived as Alice Louise Metzinger in Lebanon, Oregon for the next 23 years — building a life as a restaurant owner, mother, and activist before she negotiated a surrender on September 15, 1993. She pleaded guilty to manslaughter and armed robbery and was sentenced to 8 to 12 years in Massachusetts state prison; she was paroled on October 6, 1999 after 6 years.

Case

Charges: Armed robbery and murder.
Arrested: Sep 14, 1993
Incarcerated: Sep 15, 1993
Released: 1999
Sentence: Eight to twelve years; paroled/released in 1999 after serving about six years. Charges as recorded: Armed robbery and murder — for her part in the September 23, 1970 Brighton bank robbery (State Street Bank and Trust, Boston) in which Officer Walter Schroeder was killed.
Convicted: A fugitive for 23 years, living under the alias Alice Metzinger in Oregon; she surrendered on September 15, 1993 and pleaded guilty to manslaughter and armed robbery.