Talk:2010 Arizona prison escape

Misinformation and misidentification

Late in the morning after the escape, a picture of a blue car and a woman driver was published because prison staff assumed it was the escape vehicle. Actually, it was of a local woman who was lost on desert roads who had stopped at the prison watch tower that evening to ask for directions. As a result, the true getaway car was not identified and the local woman's home was traced from the photo and raided as deputies searched for the escapees. The driver was misidentified as accomplice Casslyn Welch because Welch had been involved in a smuggling incident at the prison in June. The information about the misidentification was available from Mohave Sheriff's reports but no correction was ever published. The actual intended getaway vehicle was seized following a chase and shootout in Rifle, Colorado, the day after the escape.Activist (talk) 13:40, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

The license plate found on their Arizona Nissan Sentra at the public campground where they were captured had been stolen in Moriarty, NM, not long after the fugitives passed through Albuquerque on the I-40 east. They continued on to Oklahoma, where they reversed direction, They kidnapped the Haas couple at the state of N.M. welcome station near Texas on the I-40 west. The Hass couple was killed at an I-40 exit further west which was never positively identified. When the fugitives stopped to refuel in Santa Rosa, N.M., they realized blood was pouring out of the trailer, so proceeded west to the Colonias exit, drove miles north and burned the trailer with the bodies in it. In their haste to write stories about the fast breaking events, A.P. and other reporters made mistakes of fact which were never corrected in the newspapers in which they appeared. Activist (talk) 09:35, 13 September 2014 (UTC)