On March 11, 1976, the FBI closed their investigation of the group's burglary without conclusively identifying any of the perpetrators. The members' identities remained a secret until early 2014, when all seven of the eight who could be found agreed to be interviewed by journalist Betty Medsger, who was writing a nonfiction book on the event:
The Burglary. Of these seven, five agreed to be publicly identified: Keith Forsyth, Bonnie Raines, her husband
John C. Raines (who, 10 years prior to the burglary, was a member of the
Freedom Riders), and Robert "Bob" Williamson; the mastermind and recruiter,
William C. Davidon, died in 2013 before the book was published but had planned to reveal his involvement, as well. The other two burglars who were interviewed for the hardcover edition chose to be identified by the
pseudonyms "Susan Smith" and "Ron Durst". The final burglar, Judi Feingold, had, unlike the others, fled across the country in 1971 and could not be found for 43 years. When she discovered that the other burglars were breaking their silence, she contacted Robert Williamson and eventually was interviewed by Medsger as well, which was included in the epilogue to the paperback edition of
The Burglary. On March 7, 2021, in recognition of the 50th anniversary of the burglary, Ralph Daniel of
San Rafael, California, revealed himself to be one of the burglars. The last anonymous member, Sara Shumer of Berkeley, California – in 1971 a political science professor at
Haverford College (where Davidon taught physics) – disclosed her participation for the first time in 2024 on the
Ed Helms podcast,
SNAFU. Several months after the burglary, Forsyth and Williamson were also members of
The Camden 28, a separate activist group that broke into a
draft board to destroy documents, in an effort to impede the military draft and make an anti-war statement. ==Burglary==