Fugitive anesthesiologist arrested after 21 years on yacht off New Jersey coast

A woman was sexually assaulted on Fischer's yacht in 2003, and the victim has waited over 20 years for justice and closure.

For more than two decades, a man convicted of a profound violation against another person managed to remain beyond the reach of justice — moving across waters and borders, living under a borrowed name, sustained by resources and knowledge that kept him one step ahead. This week, off the coast of New Jersey, that long evasion ended. Ronald L. Fischer, a former anesthesiologist who fled his own sexual assault trial in 2005, was taken into custody aboard a yacht called 'The Silver Lining' — a name that now carries an unintended resonance for the woman who has waited more than twenty years for acc

Fugitive anesthesiologist arrested after 21 years on yacht off New Jersey coast

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