PHOENIX—Two men who escaped from an Arizona prison and a woman who helped them have been linked to the investigation of a couple’s killing in New Mexico.
New Mexico State Police spokesman Peter Olson said Saturday that Tracy Province, John McCluskey and Casslyn Welch were linked through forensics but declined to provide specifics.
He declined to say whether police believe the three were responsible for the killings, adding that “we don’t know how involved they are.”
Province, McCluskey and Daniel Renwick escaped from the medium-security Arizona State Prison near Kingman on July 31 after authorities say 44-year-old Casslyn Welch of Mesa through wire cutters over the perimeter fence. Renwick was arrested in Colorado on Aug. 1.
The badly burned skeletal remains of Linda and Gary Haas of Oklahoma were found in a charred camper on Wednesday in eastern New Mexico.
