Teen Abducted By Teacher Is Acting Like Different Person; Family At A Loss

Things Go Very Wrong For The Hearst’s

The Hearst’s may have had good intentions in securing their daughter’s release but they didn’t have any experience managing a large scale food relief program. Their initial project in the Bay Area descended into chaos and the SLA seized on an opportunity to refuse to release Patty to her parents. Patty says of this time, “DeFreeze told me that the war council had decided or was thinking about killing me or me staying with them and that I better start thinking about that as a possibility.” Angela Atwood, another member of the SLA, says it was at this point in Patty’s captivity that William Wolfe and DeFreeze began to rape Patty.