Columnist Teri Sforza writes about his unsolved murder in Santa Ana after protesters labeled a building ‘Alex Odeh Hall.’
Helena Odeh with a 1985 family photo showing her father, Alex Odeh, with his daughters, taken just before his death. She is next to her father’s statue at the Santa Ana Public Library in 2015. Before police tore it down on Wednesday, a banner fluttered from the second floor balcony of UCI’s Physical Sciences Lecture Hall: “Alex Odeh Hall,” it said.
Odeh has very nearly been dead as long as he was alive. One might see his murder as foreshadowing the bloody conflict gripping the Middle East, andA 6-foot statue of Odeh outside Santa Ana’s main library celebrates his legacy, but has been defaced over the years by vandals wielding blood-red paint.A 1985 family photo shows Alex Odeh with his three young daughters. It was taken months before was assassinated on Oct. 11, 1985 by a pipe bomb in Santa Ana.
Santa Ana’s ADC office was not the first to be bombed. An explosion in Boston just two months before injured two people. Whoever was responsible for the Santa Ana attack must have been planning for some time, so it couldn’t have been vengeance over Odeh’s on-air comments that sparked it, some have speculated.
Later, the U.S. asked for the couple to be extradited. They fought. The husband was ultimately convicted of a bombing — not Odeh’s — but his wife died in an Israeli prison in 1994, awaiting extradition to the U.S.
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