Breast-cancer patient says she was mistaken for fugitive

POST FALLS, Idaho -- A 35-year-old breast-cancer patient said she felt humiliated when she was handcuffed and questioned after being mistaken for a Missouri teen wanted in her infant daughter's death.

The Coeur d'Alene Press newspaper reported Erin Peters says she was stopped Friday at an Idaho Wal-Mart and questioned for 45 minutes after being mistaken for 18-year-old Whitley Evenson, of Independence, Missouri, who is charged with murdering her 6-week-old baby last year.

Peters said members of the North Idaho Violent Crimes Task Force believed she was the Missouri fugitive because her hair is very short. She said she shaved her hair because of cancer treatments.

FBI spokesman Richard Collodi said he regrets Peters was inconvenienced, but the task force had to be sure.

Evenson was arrested later Friday.