An interview with Michelle Theer: 'On the lam'
Q. In New Orleans?
A. Yeah, and actually, to be perfectly honest, I was waiting for them to come and arrest me. . . . I wasn't looking for a job. I was just hanging out waiting for them to come and arrest me. . . . I was waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, I was waiting for months. And that's very emotionally draining.
Q. How long did you stay down there with your grandma?
A. I lived with my grandma for three months. . . .
Q. That was on your dad's side, right?
A. Yeah, and then I moved into a condo [in New Orleans]. . . .
Q. How long did you stay there?
A. Until May [of 2002]. . . .
Q. And that's when you moved to Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, Fla.?
A. Yes. . . .
Q. Why were you using different names?
A. Well, something had happened in [Vero Beach] Florida. I had met this guy in Florida in July, and had this little fling, I guess you could call it.
Q. July 2001?
A. Yeah, and this friend of his had looked up my name on the Internet and contacted the Fayetteville Police Department. . . This is Nelson King. This is a small town, he goes around telling everybody, that's the chick that killed her husband. . . he didn't want me with his friend. . . Darren Danielson, and he succeeded. It didn't last very long at all. Anyway, after that little fiasco, I decided I was gonna go back to my maiden name. So, when I moved to New Orleans, I legally changed my name back to my maiden name [Forcier]. . . It's so easy, it's so common for people to Google a name. I just didn't want to have to deal with that again.
Q. So when you, when you went back to Florida [in May 2002], is that when you started using the names like Liza Pendragon?
A. When I left New Orleans, that is when I went underground.
Q. What names did you use?
A. Well, I had this fake ID. . . under the name Elizabeth Pendragon. And, actually, a friend of mine who got another fake ID with the same last name is the one who had picked out the names.
Q. It has no signficance, Pendragon?
A. Pendragon, actually, he chose those names because those are the names from the King Arthur novels, and the prosecutor put somebody on the stand during the trial that said Pendragon was the name of some magician that makes people disappear. . . .
Q. What name did you get the Florida driver's license under?
A. Alexandra Solomon.
[She says she also prepared fake birth and baptismal certificates, using a software program.]
Q. Did you get a fake Social Security number, too?
A. I hadn't done that yet.
Q. Just a Florida driver's license?
A. Yeah.
Q. That would have been in 2002?
A. Yeah. . . June.
Q. You were living down there near the water, Lauderdale-by-the-Sea?
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