married and despite claiming that he would divorce his wife, soon decided to stay with her. Webb received work from UPI in Pittsburgh staying there into early 1970. In early May, she covered the Kent State shootings for UPI. Two weeks later, she was appointed to be deputy bureau chief in the newly established UPI bureau in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. She moved into the Hotel Le Royal. Following the killing of Phnom Penh bureau chief Frank Frosch on 28 October 1970, while covering Operation Chenla I, Webb was selected to fill his position; she later claimed it was because she spoke French. In early 1971, she broke the story that Cambodian premier Lon Nol had suffered a stroke and was partially paralyzed, a story that was being kept secret by the Khmer Republic government. On 7 April 1971, she made news herself when she, a Japanese photojournalist Toshiichi Suzuki and Cambodian journalists Tea Kim Heang, Chhim Sarath, Vorn and Charoon were captured by People's Army of Vietnam troops fighting Khmer National Armed Forces in an operation on Highway 4. On 20 April, official reports claimed that a body discovered was Webb's, and The New York Times and other newspapers published obituaries for her. On 1 May Webb and the others were released by the PAVN near where they had been captured, after having endured forced marches, interrogations, and malaria. She described her experiences in a book called On the Other Side published in 1972. After her release from captivity, she flew to Hong Kong to be treated for malaria and wrote a series of stories about her captivity. After 20 days in Hong Kong, she then flew back to Australia to recuperate but was met by a media frenzy. Given her sudden fame, UPI sent her to Washington DC as their show piece. On her arrival in New York, colleagues became concerned about her health and she was diagnosed with cerebral malaria and put into a medically induced coma. Following her recovery, she insisted on returning to Cambodia arriving in mid-1971; however, her nerves were shattered and UPI posted her to Hong Kong in early 1972. Soon thereafter, she threatened to resign if she did not get a "real job". She was reassigned to the Philippines as the UPI bureau chief in Manila. She briefly returned to Phnom Penh in July 1973, reporting on the effects of continued U.S. bombing