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He Dared a Judge to Lock Him Up. Then He Vanished for 54 Days. · FBI Files

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  Speaker 1: In California, detectives investigated a gruesome murder. The suspect fled
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  Speaker 1: and was eventually caught in Arizona. His confinement didn't last long.
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  Speaker 1: He escaped and disappeared into the Grand Canyon, robbing and
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  Speaker 1: kidnapping tourists as he went. To stop the elusive killer,
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  Speaker 1: FBI agents and local officers joined forces on a dangerous man.
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  Speaker 2: A killer was on the loose in one of America's
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  Speaker 2: most popular tourist destinations. Armed and desperate, he evaded law
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  Speaker 2: enforcement at every turn. As the Fourth of July weekend
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  Speaker 2: quickly approached, thousands of people became potential targets. I'm Jim Kallstrom,
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  Speaker 2: former head of the FBI's New York office. Agents would
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  Speaker 2: use any means necessary to track a killer before he
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  Speaker 2: could strike again.
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  Speaker 1: In the early morning hours of September 20th, 1990, a
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  Speaker 1: fisherman cast a line into the Burns Cut River near Stockton, California.
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  Speaker 1: He felt a tug and reeled in something heavy. It
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  Speaker 1: was a large plastic bag. Inside, he found a human leg.
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  Speaker 1: The fishermen called the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office. Deputies
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  Speaker 1: responded to the scene immediately. They confirmed the report of
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  Speaker 1: human remains and could find no clue as to the
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  Speaker 1: victim's identity. The deputies called in Homicide Detective Sergeant Armando Mayoya,
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  Speaker 1: who would run the investigation.
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  Speaker 3: The search of the river for any other items of
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  Speaker 3: evidence and body parts continued through the night and then
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  Speaker 3: into the next morning. We were able to get a
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  Speaker 3: boat unit out to the river along with the search
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  Speaker 3: of the banks by detectives.
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  Speaker 1: By first light, the deputies were dragging the river. While
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  Speaker 1: they checked the deeper water, detectives walked the riverbank. It
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  Speaker 1: wasn't long before they discovered another plastic bag. Inside were
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  Speaker 1: two arms. The wrists were bound together with masking tape.
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  Speaker 3: Hold it.
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  Speaker 4: Hold it.
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  Speaker 1: Nearby, the boat unit deputy soon pulled up another object.
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  Speaker 5: Hold it.
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  Speaker 1: It was a human torso wrapped in a sheet. Later,
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  Speaker 1: they would find a right leg, the victim's head, and
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  Speaker 1: some clothing all in separate plastic bags. After several hours
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  Speaker 1: of searching, investigators had recovered an entire male body. They
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  Speaker 1: didn't know who the man was.
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  Speaker 3: It was a pretty brutal murder case. For someone to
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  Speaker 3: take the time to dismember a person and to transport
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  Speaker 3: that person in different bags and dispose of the body
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  Speaker 3: without caring, you know, it just It's very callous and cold.
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  Speaker 1: At the morgue, a coroner examined the remains. He determined
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  Speaker 1: that the victim had been dismembered with a serrated knife.
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  Speaker 1: It would take more time to determine the actual cause
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  Speaker 1: of death or if the man was alive when he
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  Speaker 1: was dismembered. Detectives searched the clothing and found a wallet
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  Speaker 1: containing a California driver's license. It belonged to 40 year
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  Speaker 1: old Sam Lee McCullough of Stockton. Police records showed McCullough
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  Speaker 1: had a minor arrest record. A fingerprint check confirmed his identity.
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  Speaker 1: After informing McCullough's family of his death, detectives got permission
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  Speaker 1: to check his house for evidence.
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  Speaker 3: Once the victim was identified and we had a name
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  Speaker 3: and a location where he lived, we responded to the
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  Speaker 3: victim's address. He lived in the 5200 block of East
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  Speaker 3: Mariposa Road in South Stockton.
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  Speaker 1: He arranged to meet Sam McCullough's girlfriend at his home.
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  Speaker 1: She had reported McCullough missing earlier that day. Since he
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  Speaker 1: hadn't called her in several days, she checked McCullough's house
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  Speaker 1: and saw that the place was in disarray. Many items
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  Speaker 1: were missing, including his white Jeep Cherokee. Also missing were
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  Speaker 1: two shotguns, a revolver, and a nine millimeter semi-automatic pistol.
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  Speaker 1: Detectives and deputies examined McCullough's house Noting footprints on the floor,
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  Speaker 1: they conducted an electrostatic search to reveal details of the prints,
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  Speaker 1: which appeared to be made by boots. Investigators also recovered
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  Speaker 1: latent fingerprints, but none were foreign to the house. If
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  Speaker 1: the murder occurred in the house, the killer had removed
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  Speaker 1: any obvious evidence.
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  Speaker 3: A homicide of this nature, you would expect to find
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  Speaker 3: blood just all over the place, stains. The person that
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  Speaker 3: was involved in this case took a lot of time
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  Speaker 3: to clean and hide his tracks in this case.
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  Speaker 1: In the bathroom, the deputy made an important discovery.
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  Speaker 3: We were just about ready to leave when we ran
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  Speaker 3: a flashlight through the the tub area, and we saw
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  Speaker 3: a reflection come from the drain area.
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  Speaker 1: It looked like the sparkle from a sequin. The investigators
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  Speaker 1: knew it was collagen, a substance in bones that has
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  Speaker 1: a particularly reflective quality.
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  Speaker 3: Looking a little deeper into the drain, we found blood, tissue,
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  Speaker 3: and bones. and a large amount of hair. And based
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  Speaker 3: on that, there was a great probability at that point
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  Speaker 3: that the victim had been dismembered in the bathtub of
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  Speaker 3: the residence.
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  Speaker 1: Laboratory tests would later match the blood and hair to
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  Speaker 1: Sam McCullough. Eventually, the coroner determined McCullough had been dead
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  Speaker 1: before he was dismembered. Cause of death was a gunshot
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  Speaker 1: wound to the forehead. Powder burns indicated he had been
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  Speaker 1: shot at point-blank range. The coroner removed the bullet fragments
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  Speaker 1: and sent them to the state ballistics lab. Examiners there
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  Speaker 1: studied the size, weight, and composition of the fragments, determining
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  Speaker 1: that the murder weapon was a 22 caliber rifle. Comparing
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  Speaker 1: the fragments to slugs test fired from sample weapons can
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  Speaker 1: identify specific models. California Department of Justice examiners believe the
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  Speaker 1: weapon used was probably a Western Field brand rifle. Detectives
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  Speaker 1: found documents listing the serial numbers of McCullough's Jeep and
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  Speaker 1: his guns. They entered the numbers into the National Crime
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  Speaker 1: Information Center. The NCIC is a nationwide database used by
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  Speaker 1: law enforcement agencies to track criminals, missing persons, and stolen property.
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  Speaker 1: If the items turned up anywhere, San Joaquin detectives would
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  Speaker 1: be notified.
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  Speaker 6: Hello?
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  Speaker 1: Within days, a Stockton police officer discovered the victim's Jeep
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  Speaker 1: abandoned several miles from McCullough's house. Yet an examination yielded
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  Speaker 1: no additional clues. Investigators still had no leads on the killer.
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  Speaker 1: They canvassed McCullough's neighborhood, hoping to find a witness. No
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  Speaker 1: one reported seeing or hearing anything unusual. But one neighbor
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  Speaker 1: recalled that McCullough had been robbed two years earlier. Police
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  Speaker 1: records confirmed the story.
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  Speaker 3: In doing a name search, we uncovered a report listing
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  Speaker 3: the suspect as being a Stephen Horning. In that case,
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  Speaker 3: Stephen had apparently, according to the victim, robbed the victim
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  Speaker 3: at gunpoint.
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  Speaker 1: It was the first solid lead. Stephen Horning wasn't at
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  Speaker 1: his last known address, so detectives tracked down his older brother,
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  Speaker 1: who was a campus police officer at a nearby college.
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  Speaker 1: He told detectives that Stephen was one of five brothers
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  Speaker 1: and was especially close to one brother, Danny Ray Horning.
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  Speaker 1: Stephen and Danny spent a lot of time together. They
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  Speaker 1: often hunted and fished along the Burns Cut River, the
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  Speaker 1: same river where McCullough's body had been dumped. He told
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  Speaker 1: the detectives about one particular hunting trip Stephen and Danny
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  Speaker 1: had taken.
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  Speaker 3: They had shot a deer, brought it home, and butchered
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  Speaker 3: the deer in the bathtub of the residence. And that
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  Speaker 3: was significant to us as the victim had been dismembered
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  Speaker 3: in the same way.
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  Speaker 1: The eldest horning brother added another detail familiar to detectives.
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  Speaker 1: After butchering the deer, Danny had placed the animal's limbs
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  Speaker 1: in black plastic garbage bags. Detectives thought the story had
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  Speaker 1: an eerie resemblance to the homicide of Sam McCullough. They
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  Speaker 1: asked the brother to identify some clothing found in a
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  Speaker 1: bag containing body parts in the Burns Cut River. He
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  Speaker 1: said that the black shorts and T-shirt looked like those
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  Speaker 1: his brother Danny often wore. Police noted that no one
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  Speaker 1: in the Horning family had seen Stephen or Danny since
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  Speaker 1: September 19th, the day Sam McCullough was probably killed.
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  Speaker 3: The investigation progressed to the point where there was enough
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  Speaker 3: probable cause to present the case to a judge and
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  Speaker 3: a search warrant was issued for Stephen and Danny, along
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  Speaker 3: with an arrest warrant.
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  Speaker 1: On November 20th, 1990, two months after the murder, San
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  Speaker 1: Joaquin Sheriff's officers returned to the brothers' trailer located behind
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  Speaker 1: their parents' house. No one was inside, so detectives searched
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  Speaker 1: the surrounding area.
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  Speaker 3: We'll go that way.
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  Speaker 5: We'll go that way.
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  Speaker 1: Behind the trailer, they found important evidence. A cut stock
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  Speaker 1: and a sawed-off barrel from a rifle. Lab examiners had
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  Speaker 1: reported that the weapon used to kill McCullough was probably
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  Speaker 1: a Western Field brand. 22 caliber rifle.
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  Speaker 3: The barrel found in the field next to the suspect's
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  Speaker 3: house was a Western Field. 22 caliber barrel.
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  Speaker 1: The next day, deputies went back to the trail. One
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  Speaker 1: of the brothers, Stephen Horning, was there. He was arrested
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  Speaker 1: and charged with murder. The second suspect, Stephen's brother, Danny
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  Speaker 1: Ray Horning, was nowhere to be found.
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  Speaker 3: Sit down here, watch your head.
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  Speaker 1: At the San Joaquin, California County Jail in December of 1990,
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  Speaker 1: detectives held one suspect in the murder and dismemberment of
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  Speaker 1: Sam McCullough. Stephen Horning had been arrested after a month-long investigation,
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  Speaker 1: but detectives needed more evidence to hold him. His brother,
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  Speaker 1: Danny Ray Horning, was also wanted, but had fled the area.
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  Speaker 1: Stephen swore he had nothing to do with the murder
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  Speaker 1: and said he didn't know where Danny was. Since Stephen
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't help them locate Danny, the investigators turned to the
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  Speaker 1: Hornings' father for answers.
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  Speaker 6: Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Horning offered valuable information regarding the possible murder weapon to
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  Speaker 1: Detective Sergeant Armando Mayoya.
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  Speaker 3: After speaking with the suspect Danny's father, I learned that
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  Speaker 3: Danny had been seen with a sawed-off.
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  Speaker 1: 22 rifle Their father said Danny and Stephen had been
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  Speaker 1: behind the trailer when Danny shot a dog with a. 22.
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  Speaker 1: Then Stephen fired at it with a crossbow.
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  Speaker 3: Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Horning believed his sons had buried the dog in the
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  Speaker 1: field behind the trailer. Investigators searched the Horning's yard. they
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  Speaker 1: noticed one area seemed to be covered with freshly dug
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  Speaker 1: earth and began to excavate.
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  Speaker 3: The dog was found and a search of the dog
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  Speaker 3: by another detective found a bullet in the brain.
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  Speaker 1: The bullet was processed at the state ballistics lab. Examiners
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  Speaker 1: determined that the dog was killed with a Western Field.
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  Speaker 1: 22 caliber rifle. The same model had been used to
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  Speaker 1: murder Sam McCullough. The technician compared the bullet from the
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  Speaker 1: dog to the one that had killed McCullough. The tests
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  Speaker 1: indicated it was likely that both bullets were fired from
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  Speaker 1: the same weapon. Detectives returned to the county jail and
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  Speaker 1: confronted Stephen Horning. They described the damaging ballistics evidence, explaining
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  Speaker 1: that the bullet from the dog was consistent with the
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  Speaker 1: bullet that killed Sam McCullough, and that his brother Danny
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  Speaker 1: had been seen with a Western Field. 22. Realizing the
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  Speaker 1: case against them was strong, Stephen decided to cooperate. He
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  Speaker 1: claimed Danny had been in on the first robbery of
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  Speaker 1: McCullough two years earlier. Danny had vowed to kill McCullough
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  Speaker 1: for pressing charges. But then he went to prison for
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  Speaker 1: child molestation. When he got out a few months before
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  Speaker 1: McCullough's death, Danny had mentioned going back to rob McCullough again.
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  Speaker 1: Since no physical evidence implicated Stephen and Sam McCullough's death,
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  Speaker 1: investigators dropped the murder charge against him. They needed to
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  Speaker 1: find his brother, but Danny Ray Horning had disappeared. For
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  Speaker 1: six months, Detective Sergeant Armando Maoya worked the case, but
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  Speaker 1: found no new leads. Then, on March 22nd, 1991, He
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  Speaker 1: was contacted by authorities in Winslow, Arizona, about Hornet.
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  Speaker 3: I received a phone call from Winslow Police Department, and
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  Speaker 3: they informed me that he had been arrested in a
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  Speaker 3: bank robbery.
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  Speaker 1: That day, Horning had walked into the Valley National Bank
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  Speaker 1: in Winslow, more than 800 miles east of Stockton, California.
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  Speaker 1: He trained his 9mm pistol on the bank manager while
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  Speaker 1: a teller filled a bag with $ 25, 000. When she was
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  Speaker 1: in the other room, the teller had tripped a silent alarm.
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  Speaker 1: A block away at the Winslow Police Department, Detective Elmer
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  Speaker 1: Hasse took the call.
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  Speaker 7: Under the concealment of the unmarked car, I had plenty
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  Speaker 7: of cover. I positioned myself to where I could try
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  Speaker 7: to see what was going on in the bank.
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  Speaker 1: He couldn't see from the vehicle. so he went for
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  Speaker 1: a closer look. When the detective checked through the window,
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  Speaker 1: he saw a single gunman backing toward the door with
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  Speaker 1: a hostage.
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  Speaker 7: Came through the door, I stuck the gun up to
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  Speaker 7: his ribcage and pulled him towards the wall and took
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  Speaker 7: the bank bag out of his hand.
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  Speaker 1: The suspect was carrying a 9mm pistol Detective Hasse determined
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  Speaker 1: the suspect's name was Danny Ray Horning. An NCIC check
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  Speaker 1: revealed the murder warrant in California. Hasse described the weapon
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  Speaker 1: recovered to Detective Maoya.
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  Speaker 3: They informed me that they had in their possession a
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  Speaker 3: 9mm semi-automatic pistol. They gave me the serial number and
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  Speaker 3: I confirmed that.
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  Speaker 3: As being the weapon that was taken from the victim,
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  Speaker 3: McCullough's residence.
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  Speaker 1: In Arizona, Horning was convicted of armed robbery, kidnapping, and assault.
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  Speaker 1: At trial, he dared a judge to give him the
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  Speaker 1: stiffest sentence possible, vowing to escape within a year. The
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  Speaker 1: judge accepted the challenge. and gave Horning four life sentences.
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  Speaker 1: California authorities decided not to extradite Horning, who would serve
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  Speaker 1: his time at the Arizona State Prison in Florence. On
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  Speaker 1: May 12, 1992, prison officers doing the 4 o'clock headcount
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  Speaker 1: found that prisoner number 85897 was not in his cell.
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  Speaker 1: The prison was locked down and thoroughly searched. But Danny
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  Speaker 1: Ray Horning was nowhere to be found. The convicted felon
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  Speaker 1: and suspected killer was on the run. On May 12th, 1992,
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  Speaker 1: outside the Arizona State Prison in Florence, a massive manhunt
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  Speaker 1: began for escapee Danny Ray Horning, who had been serving
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  Speaker 1: four life sentences. Horning was also a suspect in a
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  Speaker 1: gruesome dismemberment in California. Arizona Department of Corrections fugitive investigator
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  Speaker 1: Doug Schuster helped organize the search.
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  Speaker 4: We have a lot of expert trackers, dogs, vehicles, equipment.
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  Speaker 4: The plan was to track him and apprehend him. We
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  Speaker 4: were planning to sight him, pick up a trail, follow
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  Speaker 4: him with dogs, horses, men, and locate him.
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  Speaker 1: Law enforcement teams from local, state, and federal agencies responded
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  Speaker 1: outside the prison. But Horning had disappeared from the immediate area.
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  Speaker 1: While the teams widened their circle, Schuster returned to the
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  Speaker 1: prison to try to figure out how the accused killer
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  Speaker 1: managed to escape. Prison officials contacted the FBI to assist
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  Speaker 1: in the investigation. Authorities first checked Horning's records. The convicted
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  Speaker 1: felon had been housed in Central Unit, the prison's most
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  Speaker 1: secure area. There was no evidence that he had tunneled
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  Speaker 1: out or otherwise breached the walls of Central. They interviewed
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  Speaker 1: corrections officers and inmates to determine Horning's last actions inside.
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  Speaker 1: Doug Schuster first determined why Horning wasn't in his locked cell.
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  Speaker 4: At any given time, not all inmates are locked in
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  Speaker 4: a cell. Some are out at work sites, some are
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  Speaker 4: working in the kitchen, some are working here or there,
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  Speaker 4: so you have A portion of your inmates that are
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  Speaker 4: supposed to be in their cells, another portion would be
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  Speaker 4: accounted for via an out-count sheet. Staff would visually see
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  Speaker 4: someone and say, these four inmates are in the kitchen working.
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  Speaker 4: So they wouldn't be in their cell during the count.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators learned that Horning had been assigned a janitorial job,
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  Speaker 1: which included cleaning the infirmary. This gave him access to
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  Speaker 1: medical uniforms.
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  Speaker 4: Well, he was able to obtain the white lab coat
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  Speaker 4: from the medical unit located inside the prison here. He
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  Speaker 4: was able to get a pair of white pants from
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  Speaker 4: the workers in the kitchen.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators believed Horning exchanged his prison uniform for the lab coat,
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  Speaker 1: white pants, and a forged employee ID. They believed that
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  Speaker 1: he simply walked out of the prison and just a
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  Speaker 1: few miles into the town of Florence. Investigators looked over
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  Speaker 1: Horning's record to try and determine where he might go.
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  Speaker 1: One possible destination was California, where Horning had family and connections.
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  Speaker 1: The other was Winslow, Arizona, where Horning had vowed to
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  Speaker 1: get even with the cops and FBI agents who had
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  Speaker 1: sent him to prison. Special Agent Keith Tolhurst of the
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  Speaker 1: FBI's Phoenix field office joined the investigation. Are you going
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  Speaker 1: up there with him?
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  Speaker 8: Are you going to take dog teams up there?
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  Speaker 1: He would work closely with the Department of Corrections to
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  Speaker 1: stop Horning before he struck again.
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  Speaker 6: The information from the prison told us that They believed
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  Speaker 6: he was going to rob some more banks and then
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  Speaker 6: go to Winslow and try to kill either the Valley
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  Speaker 6: National Bank people that he robbed the bank from or
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  Speaker 6: kill the agents. So we believed he was going to
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  Speaker 6: head that direction.
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  Speaker 1: The agent examined the items left in Horning's cell. They
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  Speaker 1: would be sent to profilers at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia.
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  Speaker 6: We started getting involved with our behavioral science unit as well.
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  Speaker 6: to see if they could profile this guy to find
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  Speaker 6: out whether he's the type of individual that would carry
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  Speaker 6: out his threats. And basically it came back later that
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  Speaker 6: it looked like he would be able or at least
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  Speaker 6: capable of carrying out those kind of threats.
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  Speaker 1: If Horning was willing to kill FBI agents, no one
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  Speaker 1: was safe. The first solid lead in the hunt for
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  Speaker 1: Horning came three days after his escape. On May 15th,
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  Speaker 1: Penalty County Sheriff's deputies responded to a ranch house 15
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  Speaker 1: miles west of the prison. The owner said the house
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  Speaker 1: had been burglarized. He said clothes, a pair of binoculars,
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  Speaker 1: and food were taken from his house. Also missing, were
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  Speaker 1: several loaded guns. The FBI and local deputies believed it
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  Speaker 1: was Horning stocking up for his bid to seek revenge.
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  Speaker 1: They were right.
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  Speaker 6: And they found a fingerprint of his at the house
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  Speaker 6: to confirm that it was him that had done that.
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  Speaker 6: So now we're a little more concerned even that He
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  Speaker 6: was headed in the direction that he had said because
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  Speaker 6: he was starting to try to carry out his plan.
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  Speaker 1: The fugitive was now armed. The FBI turned to the
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  Speaker 1: media to warn the public and to solicit their help.
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  Speaker 1: At a news conference, agents released Horning's photo and information
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  Speaker 1: about his escape. Anyone spotting Horning was asked to call
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  Speaker 1: the FBI immediately. though they were instructed not to approach
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  Speaker 1: the suspected killer. The media coverage generated many leads. One
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  Speaker 1: came into the FBI from campers, claiming that Horning was
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  Speaker 1: stealing food, maps, and camping gear near Lake Mormon, about
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  Speaker 1: 170 miles north. of the prison. Even though Horning knew
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  Speaker 1: how to hunt and fish, the burglaries were essential to
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: his survival in the woods. Local officers followed his trail.
• 29:57
  Speaker 6: He'd break into cabins, he'd steal food, and then he'd
• 30:01
  Speaker 6: move on. And what we ended up trying to do
• 30:03
  Speaker 6: was a house-to-house search of all the cabins in the area.
• 30:09
  Speaker 6: That was something that was going to be done by
• 30:10
  Speaker 6: the local county sheriff's offices, and they were searching as
• 30:14
  Speaker 6: many houses as they could.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: Horning was getting closer to the Grand Canyon National Park.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: The summer tourist season was beginning, which meant thousands of
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: people would be in danger. They had to find him
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: before anyone got hurt. Based on Horning's Trail North, fugitive
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: response teams from the Arizona Department of Corrections and Sheriff's
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: Departments focused their search in Coconino County. It was an
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: enormous undertaking. Coconino County consists of over 18,000 acres of
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: woods and difficult terrain. Perfect cover for a fugitive.
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: We're in the mountains. It was Lake Mormon area.
• 31:09
  Speaker 8: It was.
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: Trees, mountains, rocks, hills, helicopters, massive amount of mobilization, radios, dogs, horses, trailers.
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: It was just massive.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: On June 3, 1992, a National Forest Service officer was
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: patrolling a campground in Coconino County. The officer spotted Horning
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: walking out of a wooded area. It was too dangerous
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: for a lone officer to follow the armed killer into
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: the forest. When reinforcements arrived, Danny Ray Horning had disappeared
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: once again. The deadly fugitive was still on the loose.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: In the summer of 1992, Danny Ray Horning escaped from
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: prison in Florence, Arizona after serving only nine months of
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: four life sentences. The FBI believed the suspected killer was
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: heading north towards Winslow, Arizona to seek revenge on agents
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: who had locked him away. On June 11th, agents responded
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: to a report of a cabin burglary near the town
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: of Pine, midway between the prison and Winslow. This time,
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: Horning stole a truck and tried to establish himself as
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: an outlaw celebrity, according to FBI Special Agent Keith Tolerst.
• 32:59
  Speaker 6: More guns were stolen from there, and then that's where
• 33:03
  Speaker 6: he left a note that said, you know, thank you
• 33:05
  Speaker 6: for the items, Danny Ray. And trying to make his
• 33:10
  Speaker 6: folk hero name known, I guess.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: When the story hit the news, investigators worried the public
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: might not realize how deadly Horning was. They knew he
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: had likely dismembered a man in California. Now Horning had
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: a vehicle, was armed, and was nearing the Grand Canyon
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: National Park as tens of thousands of tourists were beginning
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: their vacations. For 10 days, no new sightings came in.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: With the truck, he might have been hundreds of miles
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: away already. Then, on June 21st, a Department of Public
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: Safety officer spotted the stolen truck 50 miles north of Pine.
• 34:09
  Speaker 9: Danny Ray Horning was driving. The officer called for backup.
• 34:23
  Speaker 9: Before other officers could respond.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: Horning jumped from the truck, then fled on foot into
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: the now familiar cover of the woods. FBI agents responded immediately.
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: In the truck, they found another note signed by Horning.
• 34:48
  Speaker 6: Pine, Arizona is again up in a wooded area. in
• 34:53
  Speaker 6: northern Arizona, and it's along the path, if you're going
• 34:57
  Speaker 6: from Florence up to Pine, he's almost to Winslow. So
• 35:01
  Speaker 6: he's getting a lot closer to the area that we
• 35:04
  Speaker 6: were concerned about. And again, we knew he had weapons,
• 35:08
  Speaker 6: we knew he had the vehicle, he got up into
• 35:10
  Speaker 6: that area, and it made us believe even more that
• 35:12
  Speaker 6: he was going to try to carry out his threats.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: Authorities in Winslow weren't the only ones in danger. The
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: FBI established a field command post inside Grand Canyon National Park,
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: where Horning was a threat to thousands of tourists. They
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: tracked confirmed sightings, plotting out Horning's movements. Agents coordinated the
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: response to each sighting and relayed information between the many
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: law enforcement agencies involved. The territory being searched was vast
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: and Horning was moving quickly. On June 23rd, two tourists
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: reported to agents that Horning had carjacked them inside the
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: national park. The couple said they were in a parking
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: lot the day before when Horning commandeered their car at gunpoint.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: He demanded that they drive him to the canyon's rim.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: He checked into a hotel room there and forced his
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: captives inside. His gun prevented them from calling for help.
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: The couple feared he might shoot them at any moment.
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: Horning recorded a message for authorities. He demanded that the
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: search for him be called off. He also ordered the
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: release of one of his brothers from prison and a
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: million dollars ransom for the release of a family that
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: he planned to kidnap in exchange for the childless couple.
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: The next day, Horning forced the couple to drive him
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: to a store where he purchased camping gear, new clothing
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: and food. But before he found a family with children
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: to kidnap, a Forest Service officer recognized him and began
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: following the car. Morning fired at the officer, causing him
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: to slow down. He forced the driver to speed up.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: Move it!
• 37:45
  Speaker 4: Shut up!
• 37:45
  Speaker 8: Let's go!
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: When he'd gained some distance, Horning ordered the car stopped.
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: He jumped out and fled on foot. Since he shot
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: at a law officer, it was clear Horning was becoming
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: desperate and more dangerous.
• 38:11
  Speaker 6: We had information that he'd vowed not to be taken alive.
• 38:14
  Speaker 6: He was on this vendetta against the FBI and Valley
• 38:19
  Speaker 6: National Bank and that he had already been in a
• 38:22
  Speaker 6: shooting situation. with the Forest Service. So we were very
• 38:25
  Speaker 6: cautious as far as going in the woods, which we
• 38:26
  Speaker 6: couldn't just go running after him as fast as he
• 38:29
  Speaker 6: may have been running, which is one of the ways
• 38:31
  Speaker 6: he got some advance time on us.
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: The kidnapped couple provided agents with information about Horning's new
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: clothes and plan. Once again, armed search parties scoured the
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: area where Horning was last seen but found no trace
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: of him. Horning was back on foot and hiding out
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: somewhere in the immense Grand Canyon National Park. He had
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: vowed to kidnap a family with children. To stop him,
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: the FBI brought in their elite hostage rescue team, known
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: as the HRT.
• 39:24
  Speaker 6: The HRT.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: HRT agents blanketed the area, rappelling into the canyon, checking
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: caves and conducting aerial searches. They had to find the
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: suspected killer. before he had the chance to kill again.
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: Search teams from the FBI, the Arizona Department of Corrections,
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: and local sheriff's departments trailed fugitive Danny Ray Horning through
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: Grand Canyon National Park. They mobilized dozens of officers, tracking dogs,
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: and helicopters in the effort to find Horning before he
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: kidnapped more hostages. But the accused killer could have been
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: anywhere in the immense park's 1.2 million acres. Because of
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: the danger Horning presented to tourists, the FBI decided to
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: close the Grand Canyon National Park for the July 4th weekend.
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: It was a major undertaking. The holiday is the park's
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: busiest weekend of the year. It was also the first
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: time in the park's 73-year history that it had been
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: closed due to a criminal threat. But Horning was dangerous
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: enough to warrant the extreme action, according to FBI Special
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: Agent Keith Tolhurst.
• 41:10
  Speaker 6: He was moving around inside the canyon, and we couldn't
• 41:13
  Speaker 6: control that because there was too many people in the canyon.
• 41:16
  Speaker 6: So we were going to try to start getting everybody
• 41:18
  Speaker 6: through the roadblocks and try to find him.
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: New visitors were turned away, and those already in the
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: park were asked to leave. Police set up roadblocks at
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: entry and exit points around the Grand Canyon. They searched
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: vehicles and informed motorists of Hornig but they didn't stop
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: him in time. On July 4th, two British tourists were
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: preparing to leave the park when an armed man approached them.
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: They knew it was Danny Ray Horning, though he no
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: longer looked like the photos in news reports. He was
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: much thinner, had blonde hair, and was clean-shaven. Since the
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: park had been locked down, the women were Horning's only
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: way out. At a roadblock, a ranger stopped the car
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: and spoke to the three inside. Horning had threatened to
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: kill the women if they tipped off anyone. The kidnapped
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: women had to act calm as Horning sat with a
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: gun trained on.
• 42:40
  Speaker 6: Them.
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: The officer didn't recognize the blonde-haired Horning and let them through.
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: Once they were out of the park, he forced them
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: to drive 60 miles south to Williams, Arizona. When they
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: were far from the police in the Grand Canyon, Horning
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: ordered them to stop the car. Brandishing his gun, he
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: marched the terrified women into the cover of the woods.
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: The women believed that Horning was taking them there to
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: execute them. To their relief, he left them there fleeing
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: in their car. The women managed to free themselves and
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: ran to a store. A clerk there called authorities and
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: was told an officer was nearby. the women were badly
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: shaken but unharmed. They provided police with updated information about Horning,
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: including his new look and his getaway vehicle.
• 44:22
  Speaker 6: We had put a description of the car out that
• 44:23
  Speaker 6: the women had stolen from them, and a DPS officer
• 44:28
  Speaker 6: spotted that car going from the Grand Canyon towards Phoenix.
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: Highway patrolman Steven Costello works for the Arizona Department of Safety.
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: When Horning drove past, he began.
• 44:46
  Speaker 5: Following the armed fugitive.
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: It wasn't long before it became more than a car chase.
• 45:04
  Speaker 8: I hear a great big old bang, and I thought
• 45:07
  Speaker 8: it was something wrong with the car. I looked at
• 45:10
  Speaker 8: the gauges all as well. At that particular time, I
• 45:13
  Speaker 8: realized I'd been shot at. And I notified my dispatcher
• 45:18
  Speaker 8: at that time that I'd been shot at, that I
• 45:21
  Speaker 8: was all right, and I was gonna follow him.
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: The gunfire forced the patrolman to keep his distance. But
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: he knew he couldn't lose Horny. The fugitive tried to
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: make a getaway by turning off near the town of Sedona.
• 45:43
  Speaker 8: He takes the ramp, and I could see that he
• 45:46
  Speaker 8: slammed on the brakes, and he skids in, and he
• 45:50
  Speaker 8: has a slight accident is what he did. He hits
• 45:53
  Speaker 8: a sign. I shouted out, you know, you better stop.
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: The shot missed. the officer had orders not to follow
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: Horning into the woods. When backup arrived, agents and officers
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: began a grid search of the area. Again, Horning couldn't
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: be found. After nightfall, a lead was called into the
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: command post. A resident said he saw Horning drinking from
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: a garden hose in a neighborhood near Sedona. A border
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: patrol agent responded to the call. As far as anyone knew,
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: Horning was still armed.
• 46:47
  Speaker 8: This time, there was no shootout.
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: After being relentlessly pursued for 54 days and over hundreds
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: of miles, an exhausted Horning simply gave up.
• 47:13
  Speaker 6: No doubt in my mind that because of the efforts
• 47:16
  Speaker 6: of the teams that had been chasing him, that they
• 47:19
  Speaker 6: had basically run him into the ground. He was laying there, dog-tired,
• 47:25
  Speaker 6: with his tongue hanging out. And for a man who
• 47:29
  Speaker 6: still had his weapon on him and vowed not to
• 47:30
  Speaker 6: be taken alive, all he wanted was a glass of water.
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: Danny Ray Horning earned six more years for his actions
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: during his violent flight.
• 47:43
  Speaker 6: Mr.
• 47:43
  Speaker 9: Danny Horning?
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: Authorities in California decided to extradite Horning and charge him
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: with the murder of Sam McCullough. His trial began on
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: May 12, 1994. Prosecuting attorneys proved that in September of 1990,
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: Danny Horning broke into Sam McCullough's house to rob him.
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: Horning was angry that McCullough had pressed charges after an
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: earlier robbery. He bound McCullough, rendering him helpless. Horning was
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: using his sawed-off. 22 caliber Western field rifle, the same
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: one witnesses had seen him kill a dog with earlier.
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: At point-blank range, Horning fired one shot at Sam McCullough.
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: Minute blood spatter, as well as the human tissue found
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: in the drain, indicated Horning had likely dismembered the victim
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: in his tub. Then he dumped the body parts into
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: the Burns Cut River. On July 15th, 1994, about four
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: years after the death of Sam McCullough, a California jury
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: found Horning guilty of murder. He was sentenced to death.
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: Danny Ray Horning was sent to San Quentin Prison. He
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: remains locked down in the maximum security of death row.
• 49:51
  Speaker 4: Bye.
• 49:53
  Speaker 3: Bye.