ALBUQUERQUE — The search for two men who escaped from a private Arizona prison and their suspected accomplice has turned to the vast Yellowstone National Park area after one of the inmates was linked to a double homicide in New Mexico and efforts to find them intensified.
The U.S. Marshals Service said Sunday that information indicates Tracy Province, John McCluskey and Casslyn Welch may be hiding in portions of the park.
The hunt for the three intensified Saturday after evidence linked at least one of the inmates to the killings of an Oklahoma couple traveling through eastern New Mexico last week.
Province, McCluskey and Daniel Renwick escaped from the medium-security Arizona State Prison near Kingman on July 30 after, authorities said, the 44-year-old Welch of Mesa, Ariz., threw wire cutters over the perimeter fence. Renwick was arrested Aug. 1 in Colorado.
