This is an accepted version of this page Geraldine Elizabeth Carmichael (born 1927 as Jerry Dean Michael) was briefly an American automobile executive and was a convicted fraudster.

With Clifft, she left the USMI to form the Twentieth Century Motor Car Corporation, whose goal was to market the unique, low-fuel-consumption vehicle.

The company's main product, the Dale car, was widely covered in the press, with its claim of 70 miles per gallon coming at the time of the Arab oil embargo.

[15][full citation needed] She went into hiding, and was featured in a 1989 episode of Unsolved Mysteries,[16] which detailed the fraud behind the Dale, for which she was a wanted fugitive.

[17] Roughly two weeks after the episode aired, a tip from a viewer led police to Dale, Texas, where Carmichael was eventually found working at a flower shop under the alias Katherine Elizabeth Johnson.

The documentary has been described as "... a lot of stories—about fraud, flight, FBI manhunts, transgender politics, selective prosecution, bias in the media, and corruption in the courts.