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Cops Fear Ariz. Fugitive Won't Be Taken Alive

David Gonzales, the U.S. Marshal for Arizona said at the news conference that the investigation is still ongoing but the "nightmare that started on July 30 is now over."

McCluskey and two other inmates, Daniel Renwick and Tracy Province, escaped from Arizona State Prison on July 30. Officials believe they had help from Welch, who is McCluskey's fiancee, in escaping from the medium security prison.

Province, a convicted murder, was arrested Aug. 9 outside a church in Meeteetse, Wyo., after being spotted with McCluskey and Welch the week before in the area around Yellowstone Park.

Convicted murderer Daniel Renwick, who also escaped with the two men, was arrested Aug. 1 in Rifle, Colo.

McCluskey was serving a 15-year sentence for attempted murder and other charges.

Welch and McCluskey were last seen in Montana near the Canadian border on Aug. 6.

The couple, believed to be white supremacists, were considered by law enforcment officials to be extremely dangerous.

They led authorities on a three-week cross-country manhunt, leaving in their wake a string of robberies and two suspected murders but few clues as to their current whereabouts.

Since they've been on the lam, the couple have become suspects in the murders of a New Mexico couple in their 60's.