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Kelly Miller, 36, was arrested in Thailand this week after six years on the run to avoid prison in a 2004 fatal DUI crash.

(Hoover Police and Phuketwan.com)

An Alabama woman who fled the state five years ago to avoid going to prison for a DUI fatality has been captured in Thailand.

Kelly Lynn Miller, now 36, was taken into custody Tuesday by Phuket Tourist Police, who had been watching her for a month, according to Thailand publication Phuketwan.com. She had a two-month-old son with her at the time of her arrest.

The publication said Miller, of Bessemer, applied lipstick during a press conference announcing her time on the run. She was forced to sit in front of police during the presser.

She reportedly spent years island hopping to avoid detection, and gave birth to her son in a small clinic where the birth apparently went unregistered. The publication said Miller, and her infant, will be sent back to the U.S.

Miller, then 26, was charged with drunken driving in the death of a tractor-trailer driver on Interstate 459 in Hoover in 2004. Florida truck driver Donald Goodwin, 57, had parked his truck in the right emergency lane near Parkwood Road bridge and was checking his tires when he was struck and killed.

Hoover and Bessemer police responded to the scene, which happened about 12:15 a.m. that Tuesday. Police believe Miller sideswiped the truck with her car and then hit Goodwin. She paid a $1,000 bond and was released later that day.

A Jefferson County grand jury in 2006 indicted Miller on vehicular homicide, according to Alabama court records. She was arrested again, and then released on $10,000 bond. The case was set for a jury trial on Jan. 22, 2007 but Miller pleaded guilty.

She was sentenced to five years in prison. She fled the state before reporting to prison, and was officially declared a fugitive in 2010.