Frightened killer planned to be eaten by bears
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January 29, 2011, Saturday
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A CONVICTED killer who escaped from an Arizona prison said after his capture he had planned to overdose on heroin at Yellowstone National Park and let the bears eat him to end the fear and panic he was experiencing while on the run.
Tracy Province told Mohave County detective Larry Matthews he had wanted to go up on a mountain, inject a gram of heroin and "be bear food." But a voice told him not to go through with the plan. "He called it divine intervention," Matthews wrote in a report.
Al Nash, a Yellowstone National Park spokesman, said: "We have a fair number of bears in the ecosystem. They eat about anything. A bear would rather get an easy meal than a difficult meal, but human-bear encounters are very infrequent."
Authorities say Province asked fellow convict John McCluskey and their alleged accomplice, Casslyn Mae Welch, to take him to Yellowstone, so they drove him to the Wyoming park from New Mexico.
The trio face capital murder and carjacking charges in New Mexico, where they're accused of killing an Oklahoma couple and burning their bodies inside a camping trailer.
Province has pleaded guilty to Arizona charges of escape, kidnapping, aggravated assault and armed robbery and is awaiting sentence. He will then be sent to New Mexico to face charges there.
Province, McCluskey and a third inmate, Daniel Renwick, had escaped from a prison on July 30, last year. Authorities say Welch helped them flee by throwing cutting tools over the fence.
Province told Matthews about his plan to commit suicide after he was returned to Arizona following his capture. He was serving two life sentences for murder and robbery and told Matthews he didn't know why anyone would want to escape because "all you do is look over your shoulder the entire time."
McCluskey and Welch are set to go to trial on April 19.
Renwick split from the group after the escape and was captured days later after a shootout with police.
Tracy Province told Mohave County detective Larry Matthews he had wanted to go up on a mountain, inject a gram of heroin and "be bear food." But a voice told him not to go through with the plan. "He called it divine intervention," Matthews wrote in a report.
Al Nash, a Yellowstone National Park spokesman, said: "We have a fair number of bears in the ecosystem. They eat about anything. A bear would rather get an easy meal than a difficult meal, but human-bear encounters are very infrequent."
Authorities say Province asked fellow convict John McCluskey and their alleged accomplice, Casslyn Mae Welch, to take him to Yellowstone, so they drove him to the Wyoming park from New Mexico.
The trio face capital murder and carjacking charges in New Mexico, where they're accused of killing an Oklahoma couple and burning their bodies inside a camping trailer.
Province has pleaded guilty to Arizona charges of escape, kidnapping, aggravated assault and armed robbery and is awaiting sentence. He will then be sent to New Mexico to face charges there.
Province, McCluskey and a third inmate, Daniel Renwick, had escaped from a prison on July 30, last year. Authorities say Welch helped them flee by throwing cutting tools over the fence.
Province told Matthews about his plan to commit suicide after he was returned to Arizona following his capture. He was serving two life sentences for murder and robbery and told Matthews he didn't know why anyone would want to escape because "all you do is look over your shoulder the entire time."
McCluskey and Welch are set to go to trial on April 19.
Renwick split from the group after the escape and was captured days later after a shootout with police.
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