"Manhunt for couple moves to Arkansas" by Matt Volz and Justin Juozapavicius, Associated Press | August 12, 2010
GENTRY, Ark. — They fancy themselves a modern-day Bonnie and Clyde who pulled off a brazen prison escape in Arizona and allegedly went on a bloody, multistate crime spree. They dyed their hair and stuck to out-of-the-way places to avoid drawing attention.
John McCluskey and Casslyn Welch have become two of the most-wanted fugitives in America over the past two weeks as they traversed far-off towns across the West and eluded capture at every turn.
Yesterday, the manhunt shifted from the wild, open lands of northern Montana near the Canadian border to a tiny town in the Arkansas Ozarks where McCluskey and Welch are suspected of robbing a beauty salon.
Investigators had thought they may have boxed in the escaped Arizona inmate and his fiancee — who is also his cousin — near Glacier National Park in recent days. Federal, state, and local authorities began checking vehicles at the border and patrolling tiny towns near the park on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police were notified.
But the leads in Montana have been getting stale, with the last possible sighting on Sunday.
Could soon be an unsolved mystery, huh?
Then a beauty store owner hundreds of miles away in Gentry, Ark., got robbed at gunpoint and tied up by two people matching the couple’s description....
They did not KILL THEM like the OTHERS?
WTF?
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Also see: Around AmeriKa: Saying Aaah in Arkansas
I guess some places are attractive to terrorists.
