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PrintE-mailFugitive, fiancee caught at Arizona campground

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Published: 08/20/10 - 11:51am Written by Dick Pryor

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PHOENIX (AP) - Officials say an escaped state prison inmate and his fiancee who were targets of a nationwide manhunt have been captured at an Arizona campground after an alert forest ranger spotted their stolen vehicle hidden in the trees. John McCluskey and Casslyn Welch, who also is the inmate's cousin, were taken into custody about 7 p.m. Thursday at a campsite at the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest in northeastern Arizona.

Officials say Welch at first wielded a gun when confronted, but dropped it when she saw she was outgunned by a SWAT team. McCluskey was in a nearby sleeping bag and taken into custody without incident.  U.S. marshal for Arizona, David Gonzales, said: "The nightmare that started July 30th is finally over." Arizona Corrections Department officials say Welch helped McCluskey and inmates Tracy Province and Daniel Renwick escape from a private prison facility by cutting through a security fence.Renwick was captured on Aug. 1 in Colorado. Province was captured eight days later in Wyoming.

McCluskey and Welch are suspected in the murders of two Oklahomans from Tecumseh who were vacationing in New Mexico, east of Santa Rosa.