Long before Mike Rossi and Frank Meza there was probably the most famous marathon cheater of all: Rosie Ruiz.
According to the Washington Post (and first posted on LetsRun), Rosie passed last month at age 66.

"Ms. Ruiz, who later went by Rosie M. Vivas, was 66 when she died July 8, according to an obituary her family placed with a funeral home in West Palm Beach, Fla. The obituary said she had been diagnosed with cancer more than 10 years ago but did not specify where she died."

As a Bostonian who grew up at the foot of Heartbreak Hill in Newton I still have vivid memories of her "victory" in 1980.