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Mercenary for Justice

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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