Author Talk with Leslie E. Barras

Leslie E. Barras will discuss her book "Fleeing Toward Scandal: the secret lives of a runaway Kentucky heiress and a Nashville aristocrat and how they were exposed in Texas"

Would you abandon your wealth and privilege to be with the person you loved? In late 1931 "Tom Palmer" stepped off the train in the border town of Brownsville, Texas. Weeks later "Elizabeth McClinton Palmer" joined him. Each deserted prominent families who suppressed the reason for their disappearances to avoid scandal. Tom's escape was an elaborate hoax that also defrauded his life insurance company. Betty simply walked away from her home. Betty and Tom then strove to build a secret identity together during the Great Depression. A forensic accountant's death-bed confession and Tom's disfiguring head injury unraveled not only the pair's lives but also those of their six unsuspecting children.

Veteran lawyer Leslie E. Barras vividly details the Palmer's 'before" and "after" identies and the decases in which they lived.

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