Israel Orders Extradition of 2 in Fatal Bombing
An Israeli court Friday ordered an American couple extradited to the United States to face charges in the letter-bomb killing of a Southern California woman.
Robert Manning, 39, and his wife Rochelle, 51, who live in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Kiryat Arba, were jailed in March, seven months after the U.S. Justice Department requested their extradition.
The Mannings are suspects in the death of Patricia Wilkerson, who was killed in 1980 when she opened a letter bomb addressed to her boss at a computer firm in Manhattan Beach. Rochelle Manning stood trial in 1989 on charges stemming from the bombing, but charges against her and co-defendant, William Ross, were dropped after the jury deadlocked. At the time, prosecutors said they would re-charge Rochelle Manning and Ross if Robert Manning could be extradited from Israel.
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