manhunt for these two. and i may joke about Bonnie and Clyde, but i hope no cops or civilians get killed. they are already proven murdering pricks.
(CNN) -- Authorities have "pulled out all the stops" to find the last of three escaped Arizona convicts and his suspected accomplice after the second was captured in Wyoming, the federal agent leading the search said Monday.
David Gonzales, the U.S. marshal for Arizona, warned John McCluskey and Casslyn Mae Welch "have nothing to lose" and may not surrender without a battle.
"It changes by the minute, but we are convinced that they are not going to go down lightly," Gonzales said.
Gonzales told CNN's "Rick's List" that investigators believe McCluskey and Welch were in central Wyoming. But Rod Ostermiller, the acting U.S. Marshal in Montana, said the service is also investigating whether the pair might have traveled as far as Montana's Glacier National Park, close to the Canadian border.
A witness reported seeing Welch in the area.
On Monday night, Ostermiller said his office is coordinating its efforts with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. "We are working leads and interviewing people right now," he said.
Ostermiller expressed urgency in the hunt for the escapees.
"When they move quick, we have to move quick," he said. "That's what we're doing in this case."
McCluskey, 45, was serving a 15-year sentence for attempted second-degree murder and other charges when he and fellow convicts Tracy Province and Daniel Renwick broke out of prison July 30. Authorities have identified Welch as McCluskey's cousin and fiancee.
Welch helped the convicts escape by throwing cutting tools over a prison fence, according to Charles Ryan, director of Arizona's Department of Corrections. And McCluskey's mother and ex-wife have been arrested on charges of helping the fugitives, prosecutors said Monday night.
Renwick, 35, arrested on July 31 in Rifle, Colorado, after a shootout with police, and Province and McCluskey are suspected in the killings of a couple whose bodies were found Wednesday in New Mexico, Gonzales said.
"There was evidence that ties them, our suspects who escaped from prison, directly to their murders," Gonzales said.
Province was captured without incident Monday in Meeteetse, Wyoming, near Yellowstone National Park. Gonzales said authorities were notified by a Meeteetse citizen who sat and talked with Province on Sunday on the steps of a church in town.
When the woman returned home and saw the news reports, she immediately recognized Province and called police. Marshals arrested Province early Monday morning, Gonzales said.
When arrested, Province was carrying a 9mm pistol and a hitchhiking sign with "Casper" written on it, marshals said.
"He was relieved this manhunt was over for him," Gonzales said.
A $40,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the remaining escapee's arrest. Authorities urged people to call (602) 542-1212 if they have any information about the case.
Before the escape, the 42-year-old Province was serving a life sentence for murder and armed robbery. Renwick was serving a 22-year term for second-degree murder.
McCluskey and Welch are believed to be driving a gray Nissan Sentra, Gonzales said. And Arizona Department of Public Safety Director Robert Halliday said the manhunt will continue with full force.
"We are going to be on McCluskey like a cheap suit. We are not going to pull this thing down," Halliday said.
Sunday, the search turned to the area around Yellowstone National Park, at the northwest corner of Wyoming. Marshals said McClusky and Province had belonged to a white supremacist prison gang and may have been trying to reach fellow believers in the Northwest. But Gonzales' chief deputy, Fidencio Rivera, said Monday that possibility appeared less likely Monday night.
Saturday, authorities arrested McCluskey's mother and charged her with aiding the escape. Claudia Washburn, 68, was arrested in Jakes Corner, Arizona, and faces charges of conspiracy to facilitate escape and hindering prosecution, Deputy U.S. Marshal Thomas Henman said.
Washburn allegedly provided "financial and other aid" to McCluskey, Province and Welch. A search warrant was executed, and Washburn was being held on $250,000 bond at the Gila County Jail in Globe, Arizona, the U.S. Marshals said.
In addition, state charges have been brought against Washburn and McCluskey's ex-wife, Diana Joy Glattfelder, the state attorney general's office announced late Monday. Both are charged with hindering prosecution and conspiring to commit escape by providing the fugitives with "money, supplies and/or transportation," prosecutors said in a statement announcing the arrests.
JAKE’S CORNER, Ariz. – U.S. Marshals have arrested the mother of John McCluskey, who escaped from an Arizona prison last week.
McCluskey escaped from the Arizona State Prison near Kingman on July 30, along with Tracy Province and Daniel Renwick. Renwick was caught days later in Colorado after a police chase and a shootout with police officers.
McCluskey's step-father, Jack Washburn, says he could only watch as U.S. Marshals led his wife away in handcuffs. Investigators hauled away evidence that they say proves 68-year-old Claudia Washburn helped her son hide from authorities.
Claudia Washburn works in the general store and lives upstairs. Her niece, Casslyn Mae Welch, lived next door in a trailer. Welch is not only McCluskey's cousin, but she is also his fiancée.
More white trash. Sumbitch didn't even care enough about his own mother to leave her out of his plans.
I saw a little bit of this on the Today show this morning. It said he got a job at that church so that immediately makes him better in my eyes than those welfare bitches living off my dime. I feel a welfare tirade comin' on. Gawd, I can't stand those lazy bastards.
(CNN) -- The Rev. Ron Kingston thought Tracy Province was just a down-on-his luck soul when he welcomed him into his church in Meeteetse, Wyoming, on Sunday morning.
He would later be surprised to learn Province was a prison escapee and convicted murderer.
Province, 10 days after he and two other inmates escaped from an Arizona prison, walked into Meeteetse Community Church wearing blue jeans and a flannel shirt. He stayed for the 9:30 a.m. worship service, sang songs like "Your Grace is Enough," and shook hands with some of the 50 or so attendees, the pastor says.
filthy bastards killed this innocent couple and burned them.
The badly burned skeletal remains of Linda and Gary Haas, both 61, of Tecumseh, Okla., were found in a charred camper on Wednesday morning on a remote ranch in Santa Rosa in eastern New Mexico.
even Interpol is involved! and they robbed a beauty store and dyed hair and beard.
(CNN) -- Two fugitives who were believed to have been heading for the northwestern United States or Canada may have been spotted in Arkansas Wednesday, the U.S. Marshals Service said.
John McCluskey, who escaped from an Arizona prison late last month, and his alleged accomplice Casslyn Welch were possibly seen in Gentry, Arkansas, and may be involved in the robbery of a store there Wednesday, according to a U.S. Marshals source.
The suspects in the robbery of the beauty store got away on foot, the source said.
The two suspects have changed their appearance in recent days, according to the U.S. Marshals office.
McCluskey is now believed to have black hair and a black beard, while Welch has dyed her hair blonde, according to a bulletin from the Marshals office Wednesday.
New photo composites are being prepared to help in the search, it said.
Earlier Wednesday, marshals said the search for the couple was focused on western Montana and southwest Canada.
Officers at the Montana ports of entry, border patrol agents and their air and marine division were participating in the investigation in cooperation with other federal, state, local, tribal and Canadian authorities, said Mike Milne, spokesman for the U.S. Border Patrol division that handles Montana.
The border patrol has stepped up its efforts, and authorities are scrutinizing ports of entry to identify any convicts attempting to leave the United State to enter Canada, Milne said.
He said border patrol employees are aware that the two have likely changed their appearances.
In addition, Interpol, the world's largest international police organization, which facilitates cross-border police cooperation, is getting involved. At the request of the United States, Interpol has issued an international alert known as an "orange notice" for McCluskey and Welch.
An Interpol orange notice can be issued by its general secretariat for any act or event which poses a risk to public safety and security around the world, a press release from Interpol said Wednesday.
how terribly sad...these two people on their annual camping trip...why them? so vicious! they need to be caught! probably in Canada by now.
SANTA ROSA, N.M. -- Lost in the Bonnie and Clyde tale of Arizona fugitives on the run for two weeks is the grisly slaying of an Oklahoma couple whose bodies were found in a burned-out travel trailer on a remote ranch in eastern New Mexico.
Police have linked the deaths of Gary and Linda Haas last week to the inmates and the woman who helped them escape, but they are keeping a tight lid on what happened as the couple traveled to an annual camping trip with friends in Colorado.
Family and friends say they have no idea how the Haases' paths would have crossed with escaped convicts John McCluskey and Tracy Province and their accomplice, Casslyn Welch. Blood inside the couple's pickup -- found days later in Albuquerque -- makes the family certain of one thing: The 61-year-olds put up a fight.
"So much of the story has been the bad guys this and the bad guys that," said Cathy Byus, the Haases' daughter. "That's important too. We want them out there too, but we don't want people to forget the human side of this."
Authorities say Welch helped McCluskey, Province and Daniel Renwick escape from the Arizona State Prison in Kingman on July 31 by throwing wire cutters over a fence. Renwick and Province have since been captured, but McCluskey and Welch -- who are cousins and also engaged -- are still on the run.
Renwick split off from the group before the Oklahoma couple was killed; New Mexico police say the rest of the group has been linked through forensic evidence to the deaths.
The Haases had made the trip to Pagosa Springs, Colo., for the past 11 summers, the family said. After leaving their home in Tecumseh, Okla., their first stop would always be the campground at Santa Rosa Lake State Park, where they liked to camp at the back near the lake for a night or two before heading north.
Always along for the ride were the Haases' three small dogs -- Prissy, Roxie and Bear.
If it hadn't been for Prissy, the family says, they still might not know what had happened.
A rancher found the charred travel trailer Aug. 4 behind an old barn in a remote area northwest of Santa Rosa and called Guadalupe County Sheriff Michael Lucero. Inside the trailer were the remains of two people, and nearby, the sheriff found two dogs, both sunburned and one with burns on her back and paws.
Prissy's tag listed Byus' phone number, and the sheriff called her.
The Haases' truck was tracked to Albuquerque through its Onstar vehicle communication system about 100 miles away, and a few days later the remains found in the trailer were positively identified as Gary and Linda.
"Even after hearing about the trailer and everything, I was still in denial," said Byus, who recently got married and is expecting her first child, a boy who would have been the Haases' first grandchild. "I kept thinking I was going to wake up. I was walking around like I was in a dream and that they were going to find them."
Byus and the rest of her family have been in Santa Rosa for more than a week, helping investigators and making regular trips to the site where her parents were found to search for the dog Bear, who is still missing.
Ranch hands moving cattle across the vast, dusty plain say they have seen no sign of the little black dog, but the family isn't giving up.
"I want to go home with the whole family -- mom and dad, Bear and everybody here," Byus said, holding back tears. "That's my biggest thing. I just want everybody home together."
Jesus Christ! Why did they have to kill that couple? I don't expect an answer to that. They will probably go out in a blaze of gun fire & deservedly so. I hope they are scared out of their minds.
NEW: Task force says escapee McCluskey missing a front tooth, Welch missing part of a finger.
Authorities say the pair probably are still traveling together
Two other escapees from the prison have been arrested
Authorities are concentrating search efforts in Montana and along the Canadian border
(CNN) -- Frustrated Arizona officials seeking two fugitives released new clues Wednesday, saying one of them is missing a prominent tooth, while his alleged accomplice is missing most of her right index finger.
Members of a task force spearheading the nationwide search for the last of the three escaped inmates, John McCluskey, and his alleged accomplice, Casslyn Mae Welch, hope the clues will help the public identify the fugitives.
McCluskey is missing his left incisor, next to his left front tooth, Arizona State Prison officials said in a news release Wednesday. And Welch is missing almost half of her right index finger, which is evident because she smokes cigarettes with her right hand, the statement said.
(CNN) -- A tip from an observant forest ranger led to the arrest of an Arizona prison escapee and an alleged accomplice who had been on the run since last month, authorities said late Thursday.
John McCluskey and Casslyn Mae Welch were arrested at a campground on the edge of Apache and Sitgreaves National Forests in Springerville, Arizona, according to U.S. Marshal David Gonzales.
A park ranger noticed an unattended fire at a campsite and spotted a suspicious car backed into some trees, authorities said.
A license plate check determined it matched the description of one recently stolen in New Mexico, near where a couple was murdered.
McCluskey and Welch are suspected in the killings of the couple whose bodies were found in their burned out camper this month, according to authorities.
A SWAT team from the Apache County Sheriff's Department was called to the campground site, where they arrested McCluskey and Welch, Gonzales said.
"Once they felt they had the opportunity, they rushed in very quickly ... so they couldn't get to their weapons," according to Gonzales.
Authorities said Welch attempted to pull out a gun, but SWAT members were able to stop her before the weapon was fired.
"We're fortunate to have these individuals in custody without further loss of life," said Lt. Col. Steve Campbell with the Arizona Department of Public Safety.
McCluskey told officers he would have killed them had he been able to get to his gun.
ST JOHNS, Ariz. - John McCluskey and Casslyn Welch, two Arizona fugitives who have been captured after nearly three weeks on the run, made their first court appearance in Apache County Superior Court Friday.
Sitting in shackles in the courtroom, McCluskey was read a long list of charges, including escape, kidnapping, and armed robbery. Welch, McCluskey's alleged accomplice and partner in the crime spree, is facing similar charges.
But there was no talk of murder charges -- although investigators say they are responsible for the murders of Gary and Linda Haas of Tecumseh, Okla., whose burned bodies were found in a travel trailer Aug. 4 on a remote ranch in New Mexico. Prosecutors need more evidence before they bring charges.
Their bonds were set at $1 million each, and now they'll be taken up to Kingman, where the prison break happened, for a second court appearance next week.
PHOENIX - John McCluskey and Casslyn Welch were on the run for three weeks, and during that time, police said they were desperate for money and help. One of the people suspected of helping them is McCluskey's mother.
Friday morning, she was still behind bars at the Maricopa County 4th Avenue jail.
Claudia Washburn, 68, has been in jail for two weeks after being arrested south of Payson.
Police said her son came to her gas station after breaking out of prison. Authorities believe she helped her son hide and gave him money to survive while on the run, but she hasn't given any of that information up to police.
Authorities are wondering if she will start talking now that her son has been caught.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A federal grand jury has indicted two Arizona prison escapees and a woman who allegedly helped them escape on capital murder and carjacking charges in the New Mexico deaths of an Oklahoma couple.
U.S. Attorney Kenneth Gonzales said Thursday that John Charles McCluskey, 45, Tracy Allen Province, 42, and Casslyn Mae Welch, 44, could face the death penalty if convicted. The three are accused in the murders of Gary and Linda Haas, of Tecumseh, Okla., whose remains were found with their burned-out recreational trailer near Santa Rosa, N.M.
McCluskey, Province and Welch face charges of conspiracy to commit carjacking, carjacking resulting in death, tampering with a witness, conspiracy and other crimes.
Prosecutors have said the three targeted the couple at an Interstate 40 rest stop because they had grown weary of traveling and sleeping in a car, and wanted to steal the couple's camping trailer. The Haases were taken to a remote ranch where they were shot, and the trailer was set on fire Aug. 2.
The Haases, both 61, were traveling to Pagosa Springs, Colo., for a camping trip. Gonzales has said they simply were "two people on vacation who happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time."
Authorities said the three defendants remain in Arizona custody and prosecutors will next seek to extradite them to New Mexico.
Investigators said Welch helped McCluskey, Province and Daniel Renwick escape from the Arizona State Prison in Kingman on July 31 by throwing wire cutters over a fence. The escape sparked a nationwide manhunt.
Renwick, who split from the group, was recaptured Aug. 1 in Colorado. The three others went on a multistate crime spree before Province was arrested in Wyoming on Aug. 8 and McCluskey and Welch were arrested in Arizona on Aug. 19.
When McCluskey was arrested with Welch near Springerville, Ariz., authorities said he expressed regret at missing a chance to kill the U.S. Forest Service ranger who led to their capture.
The three face charges in Arizona, including kidnapping, armed robbery and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Unable to locate a getaway vehicle Welch had stashed in the desert, McCluskey, Province and Welch kidnapped two tractor-trailer drivers using handguns Welch had obtained.
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