Jarek Ambrozuk
(a.k.a. Jerry, a.k.a. Michael Lee Smith, a.k.a. Lewis Gomez)
It was the year 1982, when Dianne and I concocted a plan to elope using a Cessna C150 aircraft. We were two star-crossed high school sweethearts, young and in love, and simply wanted to disappear quietly without causing anyone unnecessary anguish. But when Dianne tragically died, my world was turned up-side-down and I would spend the next 24 years in Texas, living under an alias and trying to piece my life back together, before I was finally turned over to the authorities.

Read more and find out how Dianne and I met, how we fell in love, how we planned our utopian fantasy fairy tale, what happened the night of the accident, what my emotional state was like in the days that followed, what the U.S. and Canadian investigations turned up, how I finally ended up in Dallas, Texas, what my life was like for the next 24 years, how I was eventually apprehended, how each of my State, Federal and Immigration cases turned out and how I finally returned home to my family and friends in Canada, despite the odds of spending the next 30 years in prison.