A Tale of Two Lives

As a wife, mother, and community activist, Susan LeFevre stood to lose everything €“ her life, her family, and her reputation. As a falsely accused drug lord, escaped convict, and hunted felon from the Michigan Department of Correction, incarceration was never far from her consciousness. Sent to prison at age 19 on a minor drug offense€”a 10-to-20-year sentence after she€™d been promised probation€”Susan Marie LeFevre chose to escape the life she€™d been dealt and begin a new one. She married, raised three children, volunteered for charity events and played tennis and bridge with her many friends and neighbors€”all the while carrying the secret of her past. Not even her husband knew who she really was. The explosive story of her capture played out in the news, usually with the headline starting "Fugitive Mom..." as she became a voiceless pawn shuttling across country on a prison-bound bus back to the confines of Michigan€™s notoriously cruel penitentiary sys