GUILTY NM - Gary & Linda Haas, both 61, killed by escapee, Quay County, 2 Aug 2010

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Arizona escapees, companion charged with murder in New Mexico

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- Federal prosecutors in New Mexico have filed murder and carjacking charges against two escaped convicts from Arizona and a woman who accompanied them while they were at large.

A federal magistrate on Monday signed arrest warrants for 45-year-old John McCluskey, 42-year-old Tracy Province and their alleged accomplice, 44-year-old Casslyn Welch.

more at link

http://www.azfamily.com/news/Arizon...rged-with-murder-in-New-Mexico-101320804.html
 
http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Local News/AZ-escapees--companion-charged-with-murder-in-NM

"An arrest warrant says the three were tired of traveling and sleeping in a car they stole in Flagstaff, Ariz., and decided "it would be a good idea to target someone driving a camper or trailer." Prosecutors say McCluskey shot and killed the couple inside their travel trailer. The three fugitives drove the truck and trailer to a remote area of New Mexico's Guadalupe County, where they unhitched, burned and abandoned the trailer, authorities said."

Oh boy, these guys are a real piece of work...they were tired of traveling and sleeping in a car so they decided to target someone driving a camper or trailer. Then they burn the trailer and they abandon the truck 60 miles away in Albuquerque presumably on the same day. So they kill 2 innocent people (and probably their little dog Bear) and they still have to sleep in their car. :waitasec:
 
sayd said:
OMG, the actual arrest warrants for all three are at:

http://www.kob.com/article/stories/S1708749.shtml?cat=500

If you decide to read them, just a warning, they are very graphic. I am just sick...:furious:
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From the arrest warrant, Province mentions 3 dogs at some point.
As much as they were driving around, could "Bear" have gotten away even before the final stop for the trailer where it was burned? Either that, or poor Bear could have run into the trailer when it was on fire trying to get to his owners and burned to death.
It sounds like the other two dogs belonged to the daughter but poor Bear belonged to Gary and Linda?
He might have been more attached to them than the other two dogs?
It's really awful.
 
Witness says he felt safe around Arizona fugitives

ST JOHNS, AZ - Handcuffed face down on the ground, Hugh Murray quickly realized who he had been hanging out with for two days at a remote campsite as he overheard law enforcement officials say that a man detained near him was the last of the three.

His mind raced back to a week earlier, when he scanned a newspaper article about three men who escaped from a prison in northwest Arizona and the woman who helped them flee.

"I clicked on that," Murray, 67, told The Associated Press in an exclusive interview Monday. "It was unbelievable until then, but then it made sense."

more at link

http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/regio...ss-says-he-felt-safe-around-arizona-fugitives
 
Murdered couple were about to be grandparents:

http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valleyfever/2010/08/arizona_prison_escapees_couple.php

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They are having services tomorrow for Gary and Linda Haas. It looks like their only daughter (who was due the end of August) had their grandson (see end of story):

http://www.countywidenews.com/haas-services-set-p3531-100.htm

Haas Services Set
Funeral services for Gary and Linda Haas of Tecumseh, murdered August 2 in New Mexico by escaped Arizona prisoners, will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 2, at Immanuel Baptist Church in Shawnee.

Gary was born April 1, 1949 in Neosho, MO to Warren and Vivian Haas. He was raised in Southwest City, MO. Linda was born Dec, 13, 1948, and raised in Southwest City, MO to Talford Sr. and Lovie Perkins.

Gary and Linda attended, and met, at MacDonald High School in Missouri.
Gary served in the US Air Force. Following his military service, Gary worked in construction before going to work as an electrician at General Motors in Oklahoma City in 1978. He retired from General Motors in 2007. He enjoyed rebuilding tractors, trucks, boats and dune buggies. He also enjoyed fishing, watching NASCAR and dirt track racing.

Linda earned her teaching degree from Missouri Southern, and taught before she began work at General Motors in 1979 in Oklahoma City. She was a tool and die specialist and also trained and educated employees at General Motors. Linda, along with Gary, retired from there in 2007. Linda has always loved photography and the outdoors.

After their retirement they enjoyed an abundance of traveling.
Survivors include their daughter and son-in-law, Cathy and Justin Byus of Tecumseh; their mothers, Vivian Haas of Joplin, MO, and Lovie Perkins, Tecumseh; two sisters and a brother-in-law, Linda Jean and Frank Rook, Joplin, MO, and Sandra Roden, Birmingham, AL, two brothers, Talford Perkins Jr, pf Norman and Bill Perkins of Midwest City. They were expecting their first grandchild, James DeWayne Byus.
 
Tecumseh couple's relatives seek $40 million
By Associated Press
Published: 10/28/2010 10:55 AM

OKLAHOMA CITY — Relatives of an Oklahoma couple who were killed in New Mexico — allegedly by two escapees from the Arizona State Prison and an accomplice — are asking for $40 million in damages.

Relatives of Gary and Linda Haas of Tecumseh mailed notice of claim letters Wednesday to Arizona authorities. The notices are required before a lawsuit can be filed. Arizona officials have 60 days to respond.
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more at
http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=12&articleid=20101028_12_0_OLHMIY178111
 
Update:

http://www.krqe.com/dpp/news/crime/judge-tosses-escapee-murder-confession

>>>But McCluskey's confession after his arrest cannot be used now that the judge ruled FBI agents violated his rights by continuing to interrogate McCluskey after he asked for a lawyer. Prosecutors do have other evidence, though, including DNA and fingerprints. Escapee Tracey Province and Casslyn Welch, who aided the jailbreak from the outside, were on the run with McCluskey. Both have pleaded guilty and agreed to testify against him.<<
 
Shawnee homicide victim daughter of slain Tecumseh couple (koco.com)
SHAWNEE, Okla. &#8212;Shawnee police have identified a woman whose body they discovered Thursday morning. According to officers, Cathy Byus' body was found in a home in the 20 block of Bella Vista Lane.

Dan Shoemaker with the Shawnee Police Department says Byus' husband, Justin Byus, was taken into custody.

Family members have confirmed that Cathy Byus was the daughter of Linda and Gary Haas. The Haases were found dead in their burned-out camper in New Mexico.
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video at the link
 
This was the horrific murder of the nice retired rv couple (Gary and Linda Haas from Oklahoma) killed by the 3 escaped Arizona fugitives near Santa Rosa, NM. As a refresher, the escapees got Linda at gunpoint when she went to walk her dogs at a rest stop. They made Gary drive to a remote area and shot to death Gary and Linda and stole their truck and trailer. When the escapees went to get gas, the thugs noticed Gary and Linda's blood flowing from the trailer door, so the escapees burned the trailer. Two of Gary and Linda's little dogs were found; they never found the third dog Bear.

The other two escapees took a plea deal. Today was the start of the trial against John McCluskey and I hope he rots.

http://www.koat.com/news/new-mexico...rial/-/9153728/21535260/-/aj9mnu/-/index.html

"Three years ago Monday, police arrested Arizona inmate escapee and double-murderer suspect John McCluskey.

Prosecutors say McCluskey was the mastermind behind a carjacking and crime spree after a trio’s escape from an Arizona prison. They said he never intended to let Gary and Linda Haas go. They were killed in August 2010."
 
Trial expected to last 3 months.

http://www.krqe.com/news/crime/opening-statements-begin-in-mccluskey-trial

ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - Opening statements have begun in the federal murder trial of John McCluskey, the man accused of murdering an Oklahoma couple in New Mexico after he and two others escaped from an Arizona prison.

Federal prosecutors have already started calling witnesses in the trial.

McCluskey is the last remaining defendant to face trial in the deaths of Gary and Linda Haas.

On Monday, prosecutors painted the murders as part of a crime spree that began with McCluskey's escape from prison.
 
http://krqe.com/2014/06/02/accomplices-in-high-profile-haas-murder-to-be-sentenced/

A federal judge sentenced Tracy Province, 46, and Casslyn Welch, 47, for participating in a plot to carjack and murder a retired couple from Oklahoma in Aug. 2010.

U.S. District Judge Judith C. Herrera of the District of New Mexico sentenced Province to five consecutive terms of life imprisonment without the possibility of release as required by his plea agreement. Judge Herrera imposed a 40-year prison sentence on Welch, but delayed imposing a final judgment for two weeks to allow attorneys to submit briefs on a related issue...

The mastermind of the crime, John McCluskey, is scheduled to be sentenced Tuesday, however it’s a formality. When jurors failed to unanimously vote for the death penalty, McCluskey automatically got a life sentence without the possibility of parole.
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