A Dublin woman who has spent the last 29 years behind bars in the U.S, was released on Wednesday, August 8 and deported back to Ireland.

Elizabeth Mahon, from Churchtown in south Dublin, won a reprieve from a life sentence she received 29 years ago for being an accessory to the murder of a friend’s husband.

Mahon, 68, landed in Dublin on Friday morning with nowhere to go. She left the Irish capital in 1958, at the young age of 19 with high hopes of making a life for herself in New York. Mahon told the Sunday Independent in Ireland, “I wanted to make a million.”

After working in a number of jobs, Mahon got caught up in a murder and was sentenced to life behind bars.

Officials met Mahon at Dublin Airport on Friday morning and escorted her to a women’s hostel in the city where she will remain until she finds her bearings on the city she left nearly 50 years ago.

Mahon has no immediate family left in Ireland.