'Bonnie and Clyde' couple hunted by US police after link to double murder | World news | guardian.co.uk

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Police in the US are searching for a couple who have compared themselves to the legendary outlaws Bonnie and Clyde, after they were linked to a double murder in New Mexico. John McCluskey, 45, has been on the run since his cousin and fiancee, Casslyn Welch, 44, allegedly helped him and two others escape from Arizona state prison on 30 July. The other two escapees are back behind bars but police are desperate to track down the couple and have placed a $40,000 (£25,000) reward on their heads. "We have learned that McCluskey and his partner who helped break them out of jail consider themselves Bonnie and Clyde," said US Marshal David Gonzales. "They joke about it and I think they've taken the persona that this is some type of a movie and some kind of a joke that they are living but it is not – this is a very, very serious business." Authorities said Welch threw wirecutters over the fence of the medium-security Arizona prison, allowing McCluskey, serving a 15-year sentence for attempted second-degree murder, aggravated assault and discharge of a firearm, to flee along with Tracy Province and Daniel Renwick, both convicted murderers. The three later kidnapped two lorry drivers at gunpoint and used the vehicle to get away, leaving the drivers unharmed, authorities said. Renwick, 38, was captured in Colorado on 1 August, while Province, 42, was arrested in Meeteetse, Wyoming, yesterday, the day after walking into the town's church. New Mexico state police say forensic evidence has linked McCluskey, Welch and Province to the killings of an Oklahoma couple after the badly burned skeletal remains of Linda and Gary Haas, both 61, were found in a charred camper last Wednesday morning on a remote ranch. Their pickup truck was found later 100 miles west in Albuquerque. Authorities believe McCluskey, Welch and Province went to Wyoming, where Province separated from the couple on Wednesday morning, at the southern entrance to Yellowstone national park. Police were focusing their search for Welch and McCluskey on the sprawling 8,987 sq km (3,472 sq mile) park, that straddles Wyoming and Montana, but authorities now believe they are no longer within its boundaries. The US marshals service said it has received tips from the area east of Montana's Glacier national park. "There has been a lot of activity in the area," said Fidencio Rivera, chief deputy US marshal for the district of Arizona. "That is one of a few places we are looking at." Two women, including McCluskey's 68-year-old mother, Claudia Washburn, were yesterday charged by the Arizona attorney general's office with helping the inmates after they escaped. Province, serving a life sentence for murder and robbery, was carrying a 9mm handgun and a hitchhiking sign that said "Casper", a city about 160 miles to the south-east, when he was arrested. A woman in Meeteetse, about 60 miles outside Yellowstone, tipped off police after recognising him from television.

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Hunt for 'Bonnie and Clyde' fugitives shifts to Canadian border - Telegraph

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Escaped prisoner John McCluskey, 45, and his fiancée cousin Casslyn Welch, 44, are suspected of murdering two holidaymakers after he broke out of jail in Arizona 12 days ago. Since then, the pair have eluded capture and crossed six states on a rampage resembling the plot of the film Natural Born Killers. Authorities are now trying to close the net on the couple as they believe they have reached the border between west Montana and southwest Canada. US marshals said there have been reports that Welch was spotted at a restaurant in St. Mary, Montana, near Glacier National Park on Sunday. Meanwhile, Mounties on the other side of the border said they were investigating claims that the pair had already been spotted in Canada. It is feared that the couple, who have a $40,000 reward on their heads, could have sneaked across the border unnoticed on one of several small roads. "If you are really dedicated to getting across without being detected, you can do it," said Glacier County Undersheriff Jeff Fauque. It has also emerged that the search has also been extended to Indiana and Pennsylvania, where the pair are thought to have ties. The couple have been on the run since July 30 when Welch is alleged to have helped McCluskey and his fellow inmates Tracy Province and Daniel Renwick escape Arizona State Prison by hurling a set of wire cutters over the fence. Province, McCluskey and Welch then made their escape by kidnapping a lorry driver at gunpoint in the desert and forcing him to drive them 135 miles to Flagstaff. Renwick, 37, was captured two days after the jailbreak, having fled in the group’s getaway car to Colorado shortly after their escape. On Monday, police captured convicted killer Province, 42, in Meeteetse, Wyoming, where he appeared to be hitchhiking after becoming separated from the couple. It is alleged that Province, Welch and McCluskey, who is serving a 15-year prison term for attempted second degree murder, killed two holidaymakers last week in New Mexico. The charred skeletal remains of Linda and Gary Haas — both 61 and from Tecumseh, Oklahoma — were found in their burnt-out caravan on Wednesday morning on a remote ranch in Santa Rosa. Their pickup truck was later found in Albuquerque – 100 miles away from the scene. The search, which began in Arizona and has continued over the last 12 days across New Mexico, Texas, Colorado and Wyoming, is now focused on Montana and Canada. Montana's acting marshal, Rod Ostermiller, said there have been numerous sightings of the fugitives by locals the Glacier area. A US Border Patrol helicopter joined the search on Tuesday, but authorities on both sides of the rambling border acknowledged it was impossible to completely secure it. Sergeant Patrick Webb, a spokesman for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Calgary, Alberta, said Mounties have been investigating reports that the pair had been spotted, but none of these have been substantiated. "We've got zero. We've got nothing that says they're here," Sgt Webb said. Fidencio Rivera, chief deputy US marshal for the Arizona district, said the last confirmed sighting of McCluskey and Welch together was on Friday in Billings, Montana. Rivera said the couple have connections in Montana, and marshals are also pursuing leads in Indiana and Pennsylvania, where the fugitives also have ties. "We have learned that McCluskey and his partner who helped break them out of jail consider themselves Bonnie and Clyde," said US Marshal David Gonzales. "They joke about it and I think they’ve taken the persona that this is some type of a movie and some kind of a joke that they are living but it is not – this is a very very serious business.” McCluskey's mother Claudia Washburn, 68, from Payson, Arizona, was arrested on Saturday amid suspicions she helped the fugitives. This week she was charged with hindering prosecution and conspiracy to commit escape. Diana Joy Glattfelder, McCluskey's ex-wife, was charged with the same two crimes on Monday for her alleged role in aiding the escape. Province appeared in court in Cody on Tuesday, where he waived the right to fight extradition to Arizona.

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bonnie and clyde robbed banks, they didn't knock off innocent old people.

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They see themselves as a modern-day Bonnie and Clyde. But while for the moment they are America's most famous fugitives, even Hollywood would surely have trouble glamorising the likes of John McCluskey, who broke out from a medium-security Arizona prison on the night of 30 July, and his alleged accomplice Casslyn Welch. True, there is romance of a sort in their tale. Welch, 44, is not just the woman who threw the wire cutters over the fence to McCluskey, giving him and two jailbird buddies the means to set themselves free. She is also, we are told, his fiancée. But wait, McCluskey's brave betrothed is in addition his cousin. Smoothly would not describe how the escape unfolded. Now a band of four – McCluskey, 45, his girl and two other inmates named Tracy Province and Daniel Renwick – instantly hit trouble when they became disoriented in the dark. Only Renwick found the getaway car, a Chevy Blazer, which Welch had parked near by, packed with goodies for what was meant to be a trip for four including food, cash and drugs. He drove off alone. The remaining trio resorted to hijacking another car to get as far away from the prison as fast as they could. The violence was to continue. Soon afterwards police found the bodies of an elderly Oklahoma couple in the charred remains of a camper in eastern New Mexico. The victims, they believe, died after encountering the escapees. Luck was initially on the side of the police. Renwick was picked up in the getaway Chevy just two days after the breakout in Colorado. The cash they found amounted to almost $3,000. They also discovered a HiPoint .40 calibre model 4095 rifle, plus 141 rounds of ammunition, marijuana, drug paraphernalia, and a driver's licence belonging to a Californian man. Then, last Sunday, Province was taken into custody in Wyoming. And so they were two – and gone. This weekend, police here acknowledge that the whereabouts of McCluskey and his fiancée are simply not known. McCluskey was serving 15 years for attempted murder, and had already spent 14 years behind bars in Pennsylvania for a string of grocery shop robberies. It cheers no one that both have experience as long-distance lorry drivers. They may even have crossed the borders to Canada by now. "At this point, because they move so quickly and easily, we have no idea," remarked Fidencio Rivera, chief deputy US Marshal for Arizona. "In two and a half days they could have traversed the entire United States. They can be anywhere." The authorities believe the two are dangerous and are presumably robbing and thieving to stay alive while on the lam. Officers have warned tourists in campsites especially to be on the alert. It is also thought they may have changed their appearances with McCluskey growing a beard and Welch dying her hair blonde. So far, their run from the law has taken them through landscapes as far apart as Amarillo, Texas, and Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming. The last concrete sighting of the pair was in Billings, Montana, last weekend. There were unconfirmed reports a day later of their surfacing outside Glacier National Park, also in Montana. In the middle of last week the focus of the manhunt switched abruptly to Arkansas, where a beauty salon owner was robbed by a middle-aged couple with a desperate air. Could they really have zigzagged across the land so wildly? The police didn't see why not. But that lead fizzled when police showed the salon owner pictures of McCluskey and Welch. Even if they had altered their looks, it couldn't have been them, she insisted. "Fugitives one step ahead of the police," one tabloid newspaper in New York responded to the disappointing news. But one step, of course, may be something of an understatement. This weekend, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police is on higher alert in southern Alberta. So, too, now, is Interpol, which wants police forces in countries even beyond the US and Canada to watch out for the elusive pair. "The information included in the Interpol alert which has been sent to police around the world will significantly increase the chances that these two dangerous fugitives will be located and captured," hoped Interpol's executive director for police services, Jean-Michel Louboutin. The lovers, if that is what they are, at least now have turned their notoriety global more effectively than Bonnie and Clyde ever could.

Hunt for new 'Bonnie and Clyde' goes global - Americas, World - The Independent

I love going on the run stories.

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always run to canada, they wont ship you back with the death penalty on the table.

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Modern-day 'Bonnie and Clyde' fugitives arrested in Arizona - Telegraph

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Sgt. Richard Guinn of the Apache County Sheriff's Office said that a team of officers arrested John McCluskey and Casslyn Welch, who are also cousins, after Forest Service employees spotted the pair and reported them to authorities. The pair are now held at the county jail. McCluskey was among three prisoners who escaped from a privately operated state prison in Kingman on July 30, allegedly with the help of Welch. 'The other two inmates were recaptured in Colorado and Wyoming. Arizona Corrections Department officials said Welch helped McCluskey and inmates Tracy Province and Daniel Renwick escape by cutting through a security fence, setting off a massive multistate search. Renwick was recaptured in Colorado on Aug 1, and Province was found in Wyoming on Aug 9. The last confirmed sighting of McCluskey and Welch - two of the most wanted fugitives in America - was on Aug 6 in Montana. Renwick and Province were serving time for murder. McCluskey was serving a 15-year prison term for attempted second-degree murder, aggravated assault and discharge of a firearm. Province, McCluskey and Welch have also been linked to the murder of a couple whose burned bodies were found in a caravan on Aug 4 on a remote ranch in New Mexico. They had been travelling to Colorado on an annual camping trip.

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and it didn't even end in a shootout like the real bonnie and clyde, least they had the good grace to go out in a hail of bullets after running into a trap.

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