Where's Leo?

My (very long, by Daily News standards) piece on Monsignor Bonner grad turned Vietnam-era radical bomber Leo Frederick Burt -- who next month will mark 40 years underground and on the run from the FBI, assuming he's still alive (he'd be 62) -- ran today.  Here's an excerpt:

The news last month that one of Burt's three 1970 co-conspirators, Dwight Armstrong, had died from lung cancer only increased the sense among the handful of people still following the case that the mystery of what happened to Burt may never be solved. That would leave so many other questions unanswered.

How does a studious, bespectacled athlete from Philadelphia's middle-class suburbs, who took part in Marine ROTC training, end up behind America's worst car bombing until the World Trade Center attack in 1993?

All these years later, Burt's family and friends still grapple to explain it.

Was the Bonner grad really a campus radical? Or was he something completely different — a counter-revolutionary or even an agent provocateur working undercover for the government?

But one question looms over all the others.

Where's Leo?

My own value-added two cents for Attytood readers? I hope the FBI finds Leo Burt, and I hope he spends time behind bars. In their naivity and stupidity, Burt and his three radical friends murdered an innocent man named Robert Fassnacht with the most powerful car-bomb in the U.S. until the World Trade Center was attacked in 1993. The fact that they clearly didn't intend to injure anyone -- the bomb went off at about 3:40 a.m., with a warning phoned to police -- is no excuse. Make no mistake, people in the 1960s and early 1970s who protested our country's illogical and ultimately immoral war in Vietnam are heroes to me -- but only those who did so non-violently. Protesting a war with that kind of violence was both criminal and insane.