Court records show LeFevre was living with Richard A. Anderson, who was two years older than her, at the time of her arrest. He also faced multiple drug charges over the years.
A man and wife out for a walk along Banner, near East (M-13), found Anderson’s murdered body in a water-filled ditch in September 1981.
Anderson, a Vietnam veteran, was a paroled heroin dealer and burglar, records show. Detectives said someone shot him several times in the head, “execution” style. Police have yet to catch his killer.
Anderson served two years of a 10- to 20-year sentence for selling heroin, and the parole board let him out in 1977.
LeFevre and Anderson received the same sentence the same day, and was a fugitive almost five years when Anderson’s killer shot him.
She was 19 when she was arrested with a friend during an undercover drug operation at a pizza parlor outside Saginaw, Mich., in 1974. Apparently, LeFevre was making several thousand dollars a week at that time from selling heroin and she had connections with top drug dealers in the area. She pleaded guilty and completed just one year from her 10 to 20 years sentence before escaping with the help of her grandfather, in February 1976.
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Lefevre, known to her neighbors as Marie Walsh, says she was arrested as a teen for selling $200 worth of drugs to an undercover cop; authorities counter that she was a major trafficker working for a $2,000-per-week heroin operation. “I really wanted to keep this secret,” said Lefevre, a mainstay of the Michigan Department of Corrections most-wanted list.