In the event, Sharon did make her way back to the US and was a free woman for the rest of her life. Only two months after escaping Mexico, she married a man named James Glabus in Los Angeles and they moved to Taber, Alberta, Canada, in 1973 and opened a motel and a real estate agency there; Sharon, who went by the name Diedra, also had a son with him. Although her picture was printed in local newspapers in advertisements for the couple's businesses, she was never identified. Glabus did not last very long; he was a heavy drinker and succumbed to complications of alcoholism in 1979, only 38 years old. He did not list Sharon as a beneficiary in his will, something she fought in court. She married her third husband William Ell in 1982 and he died in 2011.

Although much of Sharon's life post-1969 is still unclear, she seems to have lived out her days in Canada uneventfully and was known in Taber for her charity work and needlework and bridge-playing skills. She passed away on January 21, 2022 at age 82 of heart disease with Alzheimer's Disease as a contributing factor. Sharon's headstone and death certificate listed a 1940 DOB rather than her actual 1938 birthdate.