INTERPOL has issued an international alert for a dangerous escaped convict and his fiancee linked to a jailbreak in Arizona and the subsequent murder of a couple in New Mexico.
The alert was issued at the request of the US for the prisoner and the woman, who is suspected of aiding the July 30 jailbreak of her boyfriend and two other convicts, Interpol said.
Two fugitives were arrested on August 1 and 9 in Colorado and Wyoming, but the couple, 45-year-old John McCluskey, and his fiancee Casslyn Welch, 44, were still at large, after sightings in New Mexico and Montana, near the Canadian border.
The jailbreak has been linked to the murder of an elderly couple at a campground fire in Santa Rosa, New Mexico in early August, the US Marshals Service said.
“McCluskey and Welch are considered armed and extremely dangerous,” the service said in a statement, adding that investigators “are concentrating their search in Western Montana and Southwest Canada”,
A CNN reported that the couple’s last sighting was in Gentry, Arkansas, where they may have robbed a beauty store.
The US Marshals Service said the couple may have changed their looks, with McCluskey now sporting dark hair and a beard and Welch dyed blond hair.
McCluskey was serving a 15-year sentence for attempted murder, while the two captured fugitives had been convicted of murder and second-degree murder.
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