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June 17, 1999
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LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- With Wednesday's capture of alleged Symbionese Liberation Army member Kathleen Ann Soliah, the attention of law enforcement is now turning full force on the only member of the 1970s leftist radical group still at large -- James Kilgore.

Last month, Soliah and Kilgore were both featured on the television program "America's Most Wanted." Tips generated by that show helped lead to Soliah's arrest in St. Paul, Minnesota.

All the FBI will say about its investigation of Kilgore is that agents have some "hot leads."

Neither Kilgore nor Soliah were being sought in connection with the SLA's most notorious crime -- the February 1974 kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patty Hearst.

The investigation into Hearst's disappearance eventually led Los Angeles police to an SLA hideout in May 1974. As people across the nation watched on live TV, police riddled the house with bullets. Six SLA members died, including the group's leader, an ex-convict who called himself Cinque.

A year later, bombs were found beneath two Los Angeles police cars, in what authorities suspect was retaliation for the bloody SLA shoot-out. The devices were discovered before they exploded.

The investigation into who planted those bombs led to Soliah and her then-boyfriend, Kilgore. She was indicted on state murder conspiracy and explosives charges, while he was slapped with federal weapons charges.

When captured, she was living in an upscale St. Paul neighborhood in an ivy-covered house with her doctor husband and three daughters. In contrast to her radical roots, she was driving a mini-van when police caught up with her.

Just where Kilgore has been hiding, and how he has been living, are questions the FBI is hoping to answer with all the newfound attention on the SLA.

Correspondent Anne McDermott and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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