The Bomber and the Assassin

(Photo: John Sotomayor/The New York Times/Redux)

1986
One of the abortion clinics that Dennis Malvasi attacked: the Eastern Women’s Center in Manhattan.

(Photo: Vic Delucia/The New York Times/Redux)

1987
Malvasi turning himself in to authorities.

(Photo: James McCoy/Corbis SYGMA)

1989
Barnett Slepian.

(Photo: Najlah Feanny/Corbis Saba)

1998
James Kopp killed Barnett Slepian in the kitchen of his home outside Buffalo.

1999
The FBI wanted poster for Kopp.

1998–2001
Kopp spent two and a half years running from police, moving from Buffalo to Mexico, London, Ireland, and France.

(Photo: Maisonneuve/SIPA)

2001
Kopp leaving a courthouse in France; he was later extradited to the United States.

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