As a once avid listener to this program in my youth, I find your episode guide to be invaluable.  However, I think your description blew it in this case.  I just listened to this episode and it was not at all what I had expected from your description.  There is absolutely no indication from the show itself that the now woman politician had ever been a “hippie radical.â€  At most she appears to have spent a year as a hippy=like drifter trying to “find herself.â€  There is absolutely no indication she was even involved in political action, radical or otherwise.  I had expected some political bent to the episode regarding the killing or at least a tie-in.  