Wall Gas Station Killer's 41-year Life On The Lam

On a spring day in 1976, while hiding out in Paris, an American member of the Black Liberation Army panicked.

Newspapers were trumpeting the arrest of four comrades who had helped him hijack a plane. He needed to get out of France, and fast.

George Wright called together his secret network of friends — French radicals and an American sympathizer. They hatched a plan: Wright would slip quietly into Portugal by train and move on to one of its former African colonies, where Marxism and hostility to the West meant he would probably be safe.

The plan worked for decades. Then, in September, thanks to a fingerprint from his past, it all came crashing down.

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