It is a story more than four decades in the making. Marion County deputies helped to apprehend an accused Vietnam War deserter on Tuesday morning. As per the Marion County Sheriff's Office, 75 years old Linley Benson Lemburg lived in The Falls retirement community in Ocala under the false name of William Michael Robertson for years. We knew that he was married, but when we just knocked on his door, we discovered a wife who appeared to be shattered and also in shock. She said that, while fighting through tears, she had no idea that her beloved husband had kept this from her all these years. Neighbor Shirley Strickland said that, "I'm just stunned. I really am. He was the first to console people!"

Marion County deputies said that they apprehended Lemburg with no resistance and also took him to the Sheriff's Office where latent fingerprint technicians confirmed his identity by matching his fingerprints to the prints that Air Force had from his enlistment.

Deputies then transported him to the Mac Dill AirForce Base in Tampa for questioning.  According to the MacDill AirForce Base Spokesman Terry Montrose, Lemburg will be court-martialed on the formal charges of desertion from a post in the United States in 1972.

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According to the Marion County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Lauren Lettelier, "Whether he has defrauded the government in any way shape or form will have to be investigated.  We'll have to see what happened."

Strickland said, "He must have lived a horrible life knowing he did that -- he must have been sorry."

We learned from the U.S. Air Force that, Lemburg's position when he was reported as AWOL was that of an agent whose job was to track down the deserters.

Mrudula Duddempudi.