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...months without word wore on, the Hearsts spent less time at home. They preferred to escape to Wyntoon, the Northern California retreat that belonged to William Randolph Hearst, the press baron who was Randolph's father. Not since early June of 1974, when Patty proclaimed in a tape that she would rather die than be surrounded by "pigs like the Hearsts," had there been any message from...
Early in December, Millicent Hearst, Randolph's mother, died at the age of 92. She had never been told of her granddaughter's disappearance. Catherine Hearst went on radio and TV to implore her daughter to come home for Christmas. "It breaks my heart," she read in a quavering voice, "that you cannot see that you will have no real problems if you will only come in of your own accord...
...Hearst continued her prayers, but sank into a deeper depression. Both she and her husband questioned whether Patty would ever resume her normal place in the family. William (Willie) Randolph Hearst III, Patty's cousin and Randolph Hearst's protégé on the Examiner, recalled last week: "After a certain point, I think they were resigned to the fact that she wasn't going to turn herself in." To get away from "painful memories," the Hearsts moved into an apartment on San Francisco's Nob Hill; it was Feb. 20-Patty's 21st...
Then suddenly Patty was found. Randolph Hearst was as surprised as anyone; he had not been in touch with the FBI for months. Rushing back home from New York City, he was met at the airport by his wife and two of their five daughters: Anne, 20, a college student who was just finishing up her probation after pleading guilty last spring to a charge of possessing amphetamines; and Victoria, 18, a freshman in college. (The Hearsts have two other daughters: Catherine, 35, is retarded and lives in Los Angeles; Virginia, 26, lives in London with her husband, an American...
...Hearsts went to see Patty at the San Mateo County jail. Mrs. Hearst entered the cell first, embracing her daughter. Randolph Hearst kissed Patty on the forehead. No one spoke of Patty's life underground. "We were on thin ice," said Vicki later. "We didn't want to make her defensive, so we kept changing the subject if things were getting tense...