A woman who managed to escape from a Detroit prison 32 years ago has been arrested in San Diego, where she was living under a false identity, officials said, the Associated Press reports.

It appears that 53-year-old Susan Lefevre was taken into custody Thursday in the Carmel Valley area. According to law enforcement authorities, the woman was sentenced in Saginaw County to 10-20 years in prison on February 27, 1975, for conspiracy to violate drug laws and violation of drug laws. In 1976, she walked out the Detroit House of Corrections after serving just one year of the sentence.

Lefevre lived in San Diego for nearly 10 years. She used the name Marie Walsh, got married and raised three children. “It seemed like she was living a typical suburban mom life,” Chief U. S. Marshal Mark Owen of the Southern District of California office in San Diego said, quoted by the Detroit Free Press.

In March, authorities received an anonymous tip saying Lefevre might be living in California as Marie Walsh. The Michigan agency investigated, with the aid of the Marshal's Service. They managed to obtain a copy of Marie Walsh's thumbprint from the California Department of Motor Vehicles and discovered it matched Lefevre's thumbprint on record.

The woman initially denied being Lefevre, but recognized it when confronted with the fingerprint and some photographs. When she was arrested, she told investigators that her family had no idea she was a fugitive.

Lefevre is currently awaiting extradition to Michigan in order to serve the rest of her sentence.