Fugitive Mom Captured After 32 Years
A woman who walked away from a Detroit prison 32 years ago has been arrested in San Diego where she was living with her husband of 23 years and their three children. Susan LeFevre, who was serving 10-20 years on a Michigan drug charge, was living as Marie Walsh in an upscale Carmel Valley neighborhood.
U.S. Marshals said an anonymous caller tipped Michigan authorities to LeFevre's location. Her identity was confirmed by fingerprints. Marshals matched the fingerprints of Susan LeFevre to the fingerprints on Marie Walsh's driver's license fingerprints.
LeFevre at first denied her identity until she was confronted with the fingerprint evidence.
Family Did Not Know of Her Past
Her arrest was a shock for her family, who knew nothing of her past.
"We're still just getting over this but it's been a tremendous shock to us," said Alan Walsh, the husband of Marie Walsh (shown in current family photo). "Our family is threatened to be destroyed by something that happened to her as a 19-year-old teenager 34 years ago in Michigan."
LeFevre is in custody in San Diego awaiting extradition to Michigan, he said.
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Is there no mercy? Apparently she harmed no one and led a respectable life as wife, mother, citizen. She may have been sentenced as a youth but obviously she straightened her life out. It does seem the initial judge was a bit severe with the sentencing. I would hope a current judge would take into consideration her upstanding life over the past 3 decades.
Is it not our goal to rehabilitate prisoners. She rehabilitated herself and yet we condemn her efforts. what happened to repent and forgiveness. That is what is wrong with our system we continually play the right and wrong game. What messages are we sending to our children. Put a cloth over her head of shame and whip her if that is what you believe but let her go on with her good life. Read the rules of our lives… they are all in the scriptures.
I believe this woman should be turned loose after all the red tape. Seems she has been a model citizen for many years. She is not a threat to anyone or ever was. TURN HER LOOSE JUDGE!