John McClusky and Casslyn Welch have been captured in Arizona after 20 days on the run. They were found 300 miles from the prison they escaped from, at a campsite in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest in eastern Arizona. A forest ranger was suspicious of the fidgety couple and reported them to the police.
Some call them the modern-day Bonnie and Clyde, as they were two of the most wanted fugitives in America for a three-week period. They are suspected of many crimes, including the brutal killing an Oklahoma couple who was traveling through Mexico. The Oklahoma couple's charred remains were found in a camper trailor a few days after the fugitives escaped. The Oklahoma couple's pickup truck was found later with forensic evidence that could link directly to McClusky.
John McClusky and Casslyn Welch are not only fiances -- they are cousins.
Welch — who is also his cousin and fiancee — is believed to have helped engineer McCluskey’s escape from jail. The pair have been linked to the double murder of a married couple in New Mexico.
McCluskey escaped the medium-security Arizona State Prison near Kingman on July 30 with Daniel Renwick and Tracy Province.
Renwick was captured and returned to custody on Aug. 1 after a car chase and shootout with police in Rifle, Colo. Province was apprehended without incident Aug. 9 outside a church in Meeteetse, Wyo., in the state’s northwest Park County.
Authorities had been focusing their search efforts for McCluskey and Welch in the northern United States, near the Canada border, but the pair was caught just 300-some miles from where McCluskey had been incarcerated.
Earlier Thursday, the state’s director of prisons said faulty alarms and negligent staff response allowed the three convicted murderers to break out.
Director of the Arizona Department of Corrections Chuck Ryan said an alarm system that had not been properly maintained in two years resulted in a “de-sensitization” of staff, which meant they failed to respond to alarms.
Two alarms were set off as the trio broke free but neither alarm resulted in an officer response.
Ryan called the incident the “worst escape tragedy” since 1978.
source : http://www.realestateradiousa.com/2010/08/20/arizona-prison-escapee-john-mccluskey-and-casslyn-welch-caught/ and http://www.modernmom.com/hottopic/2010/aug/20/john-mcclusky-and-casslyn-welch-captured/
Some call them the modern-day Bonnie and Clyde, as they were two of the most wanted fugitives in America for a three-week period. They are suspected of many crimes, including the brutal killing an Oklahoma couple who was traveling through Mexico. The Oklahoma couple's charred remains were found in a camper trailor a few days after the fugitives escaped. The Oklahoma couple's pickup truck was found later with forensic evidence that could link directly to McClusky.
John McClusky and Casslyn Welch are not only fiances -- they are cousins.
Welch — who is also his cousin and fiancee — is believed to have helped engineer McCluskey’s escape from jail. The pair have been linked to the double murder of a married couple in New Mexico.
McCluskey escaped the medium-security Arizona State Prison near Kingman on July 30 with Daniel Renwick and Tracy Province.
Renwick was captured and returned to custody on Aug. 1 after a car chase and shootout with police in Rifle, Colo. Province was apprehended without incident Aug. 9 outside a church in Meeteetse, Wyo., in the state’s northwest Park County.
Authorities had been focusing their search efforts for McCluskey and Welch in the northern United States, near the Canada border, but the pair was caught just 300-some miles from where McCluskey had been incarcerated.
Earlier Thursday, the state’s director of prisons said faulty alarms and negligent staff response allowed the three convicted murderers to break out.
Director of the Arizona Department of Corrections Chuck Ryan said an alarm system that had not been properly maintained in two years resulted in a “de-sensitization” of staff, which meant they failed to respond to alarms.
Two alarms were set off as the trio broke free but neither alarm resulted in an officer response.
Ryan called the incident the “worst escape tragedy” since 1978.
source : http://www.realestateradiousa.com/2010/08/20/arizona-prison-escapee-john-mccluskey-and-casslyn-welch-caught/ and http://www.modernmom.com/hottopic/2010/aug/20/john-mcclusky-and-casslyn-welch-captured/
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