Susan Edith Saxe
{{short description|American bank robber}}
{{Infobox FBI Ten Most Wanted
| name = Susan Edith Saxe
| image =File:Susan Edith Saxe portrait photograph.jpg
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1949|1|18}}
| birth_place = Hartford, Connecticut
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| nationality = American
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| added_date = October 17, 1970
| caught_date = March 27, 1975
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| number = 316
| status = Captured
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Susan Edith Saxe (born January 18, 1949){{cite book |date=1975 |title=Terroristic Activity: Hearings Before the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws, of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-fourth Congress, First Session |url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011342567 |location=Washington, D.C. |publisher=United States Government Printing Office |accessdate=8 December 2014 }} is an American who is one of only eleven women ever to make the FBI's most wanted list, and one of three women from Brandeis University to do so. She was placed on the list on October 17, 1970,{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-lists/fbi-adds-10th-woman-to-most-wanted-list-meet-them-all-18075/|title=FBI Adds 10th Woman to 'Most Wanted' List: Meet Them All|last1=Weiser|first1=Sonia|last2=Stone|first2=Rolling|date=2016-06-30|magazine=Rolling Stone|language=en-US|access-date=2020-02-04}} and remained on it until March 27, 1975.
Saxe describes herself as a "lifelong radical activist, intersectional in outlook since back in the day when we just expressed it as the idea that “everything is connected.”"{{Cite web|url=https://medium.com/@susansaxe|title=Susan Saxe|website=Medium}}
Background
A student at Brandeis University, Saxe was one of several young radicals who were placed on the FBI's Most Wanted list in the early 1970s.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1975/03/28/archives/radical-fugitive-is-apprehended-susan-saxe-was-sought-in-boston.html|title=Radical Fugitive Is Apprehended|date=1975-03-28|work=The New York Times|access-date=2020-02-04|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}} Along with Katherine Ann Power, Stanley Ray Bond, and ex-convicts William Gilday and Robert Valeri, she escaped from a bank robbery in Brighton, Boston, in which accomplice Gilday shot and killed Boston Police Department officer Walter Schroeder. She and her four accomplices broke into a National Guard Armory in Newburyport, Massachusetts, on Sept. 20, 1970, and stole a pickup truck, blasting caps and 400 rounds of .30-caliber ammunition. Saxe was on the run until 1975 when she was arrested in Philadelphia,{{Cite web|url=https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/topten-history/hires_images/FBI-316-SusanEdithSaxe.jpg/view|title=316. Susan Edith Saxe|website=Federal Bureau of Investigation|language=en-us|access-date=2020-02-04}} after a police officer recognized her from a photo distributed by the FBI the same day. She served seven years in prison. Her trial was one of the early cases for Nancy Gertner, who later became a federal judge. Gertner describes the trial as her "first big case".{{Citation|title=Nancy Gertner talks about her first big case as a lawyer| date=20 May 2011 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuwbO5eeb14 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211215/IuwbO5eeb14 |archive-date=2021-12-15 |url-status=live|language=en|access-date=2020-02-04}}{{cbignore}}
Personal life
Saxe is a lesbian.{{Cite web|url=https://fromwickedtowedded.com/tag/susan-saxe/|title=Susan Saxe|first=Kaymarion|last=Raymond|website=From Wicked To Wedded|date=12 September 2017 }} She is the sister-in-law of Hollywood screenwriter Josh Olson, and has appeared on his podcast series The West Wing Thing.{{Cite web|url=https://allthingscomedy.com/podcasts/11-b---our-season-wrap-w-susan-saxe|title=11 B - Our Season Wrap w/ Susan Saxe|first=All Things|last=Comedy|date=June 27, 2020|website=All Things Comedy}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/brainiac/ Brainiac]
- {{Medium.com|susansaxe|Susan Saxe}}
- [http://www.trivia-library.com/a/fbi-most-wanted-fugitives-list-the-worst-criminals-of-1970.htm Trivia Library]
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Category:American bank robbers
Category:American female criminals
Category:Brandeis University alumni