Dailytakes

Justice would be apprehending this terrorist/murderer and locking him up until the day he dies in jail.

If something is stirring in the case of Leo Burt, missing for decades after he allegedly took part in a Vietnam-era bombing on the University of Wisconsin campus, federal prosecutors and the FBI weren ‘t saying on Monday.But on Friday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Grant Johnson filed a motion in Burt ’s long-dormant federal criminal case seeking somebody ’s fingerprints. The sealed motion, filed in the dusty case that has been pending against Burt since 1970, is titled “Application for Production of Fingerprints. ” Johnson said he couldn ‘t elaborate on what was contained in the motion.”If I could I wouldn ‘t have had it sealed, ” he said Monday.

Some who have followed the case, however, said it could mean that authorities want fingerprints from someone close to the case, possibly someone suspected of being Burt himself.

In 1970, Burt and three other men — Karleton and Dwight Armstrong and David Fine — were indicted for the Aug. 24, 1970, bombing of the Army Math Research Center on the University of Wisconsin campus.

The bomb, made of more than a ton of ammonium nitrate fertilizer soaked in fuel oil and delivered in a van, ripped apart the UW physics department in the basement and first floor of Sterling Hall and killed 33-year-old physics researcher Robert Fassnacht.

The Armstrongs and Fine were convicted and punished for their roles in the bombing. Burt, however, has never been found and his fate remains a topic of speculation among those who lived in Madison at the time and followed the anti-war movement.

Burt ’s age today, according to an FBI bulletin, would be either 57 or 59, depending on which date of birth listed is correct.

Imaginations reel among some who have followed the case over the years.

The slaps on the wrists that the Armstrongs and Fine received were insults not only to the murdered victim of this cowardly attack and his relatives, but to the entire peaceful antiwar movement, the UW community and the law abiding residents of this state.

Prior to the Oklahoma City bombing, this was arguably the most devastating domestic terrorist attack in US History.
Perhaps, at long last, some modicum of justice can be administered?

One can hope.