Lock me up, I want to go free!

In 1993, Alice Metzinger negotiated a surrender with authorities and ended 23 years of hiding.

Alice Metzinger, lived for years as Katherine Powers because she was a fugitive. In 1970, she had driven the get away car in a bank robbery, that had ended in the death of a policeman Walter Schroeder. Extreme depression, and the realization that she could not, would not get better without taking responsibility for her part in the heinous crime led her to surrender.

Physically she surrendered to the FBI, emotionally she surrendered to survive. The self imposed prison she had been living in, the one she personally constructed out of fear and guilt, was much worse that the physical building she would ultimately occupy.

Serenity, relief and hope etched Katherine Powers face, when the judge handed down her sentence of eight to twelve years. She was smiling the smile of someone who had been set free after years of unfathomable torture and solitary confinement.

We really are as sick as our secrets.


" Lock me up , I want to go free..."

You can read the whole story at;
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,979294-1,00.html

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