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Former fugitive drawing sympathy
By Union-Tribune
Published: 05/01/2008

CALIFORNIA - With an executive for a husband, three grown daughters and spacious home in a community of million-dollar houses, Marie Walsh has a lot in common with her Carmel Valley neighbors. It's one of the reasons so many people are on her side, in spite of the fugitive's recent arrest.

Walsh is a woman with a past – a big one – and it finally caught up with her last week. The U.S. Marshal's Service busted her 32 years after she walked away from a Michigan prison, where Walsh served one year of a 10-to-20-year sentence for selling heroin in 1974. Her arrest and pending extradition is stirring searing online debates. But more than that, it has awakened eternal questions about crime and punishment. Read more.

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