Article: Mom arrested in San Diego after 32 years on the lam

A woman who escaped from a Detroit prison 32 years ago has been arrested in San Diego, where she was married with three children and living under a false name , authorities said.

Susan LeFevre, who had been using the name Marie Walsh, was arrested April 24 by federal marshals at her home in the posh Carmel Valley neighborhood of San Diego. An anonymous caller tipped Michigan officials to her location.

Her husband said Wednesday that the wife he knew was kind and compassionate.

"We're still just getting over this but it's been a tremendous shock to us," Alan Walsh, her husband of 23 years, told The Associated Press. He said the pair met in California and have ...

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