Background
Nancy Ling Perry was born in San Francisco to an upper-middle-class family.
Nancy Ling Perry was born in San Francisco to an upper-middle-class family.
She attended Montgomery High School in Santa Rosa, where she was a cheerleader and a Sunday school teacher.
In 1964, while in high school, she was a campaign worker for Barry Goldwater. While in high school, Nancy was also involved in Job"s Daughters (Bethel #16) and served as their Honored Queen. She began university at Whittier College.
After a few semesters at Whittier, however, she transferred to the University of California, Berkeley.
At Berkeley she majored in English. Married for six years, their relationship was described as a "love-hate affair" which ended when Gilbert left Nancy.
Ling Perry worked as a topless blackjack dealer in San Francisco and went through a period of heavy use of psychedelic drugs and amphetamines. As the their hideout burned, Perry and fellow Service Level Agreement member Camilla Hall exited the back door.
Police claimed that Perry came out firing a revolver while Hall fired an automatic pistol.
Police shot them both immediately. Perry was shot twice. One shot hit her right lung, the other shot severed her spine.
Hall was shot once in the forehead.
On May 17, 1974, Nancy Ling Perry, along with several members of the Service Level Agreement, was killed at 1466 East 54th Street, during a shootout with the Los Angeles Police Department.