It was the latter incident that sparked his notoriety; Eleanor Deveny, the woman he fled with the second time, was arrested and charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
He spent time in the California Youth Authority, a state penal facility for juveniles.
In his book The Rape of the A*P*E*, Allan Sherman credits the Wisecarver scandal and resulting publicity as the official start of the American sexual revolution.
Wisecarver spent his final days in a mobile home in Yucaipa, California, in the United States.
He died of lung cancer at the age of 76, at a Veterans hospital in Loma Linda, California.