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 and 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