By John Solomon
How the government's punishing of the exposure of official wrongdoing can linger for years
Marie Walsh was in her upscale Southern California home with her youngest daughter when officers arrived and sent her secret past crashing into the present. Not even her husband knew she'd escaped from a Michigan prison three decades earlier, changed her name and was a wanted fugitive.
Marie Walsh says she was in prison for a drug crime she didn't commit, facing regular taunts and threats from inmates and guards, when her grandfather came to visit her and told her she had to get out.
Marie Walsh was in her upscale Southern California home with her youngest daughter when officers arrived and sent her secret past crashing into the present. Not even her husband knew she'd escaped from a Michigan prison three decades earlier, changed her name and was a wanted fugitive.
Walsh was known as Susan LeFevre when she says her grandfather showed up at the Detroit House of Corrections and told her, "Susan, you need to get out of here."
Her mother gave her a few hundred dollars, she said her goodbyes to family members and caught a ride with a friend to the West Coast.
