Reward rises to US$2m for militant escaped killer
Woman militant placed on FBI's 'most wanted' list 40 years after she murdered state trooper
A Black Liberation Army militant who fled prison for Cuba after being convicted of killing a New Jersey state trooper in 1973 has been added to the FBI's "most wanted" terrorist list and the reward for helping to catch her doubled to US$2 million.
The FBI is still offering US$1 million for information leading to the arrest of Joanne Chesimard.
But now New Jersey is adding another US$1 million, state Attorney General Jeffrey Chiesa said yesterday on the 40th anniversary of the killing.
Chesimard, born in New York, was a member of the Black Liberation Army, a revolutionary activist organisation, when she killed Trooper Werner Foerster in a shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike on May 2, 1973.
She was found guilty of first-degree murder in 1977 and sentenced to life in prison.
But she escaped two years later from a lock-up in Clinton, New Jersey, and lived underground before being located in Cuba in 1984.
She may still be living on the island, the FBI said.