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| 2 Murderers, 2 Others On the Loose In Texas |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 01/30/2002 |
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Two convicted murderers and two others awaiting trial on murder charges escaped from a county jail by overpowering a female officer and fleeing in her sport utility vehicle. Two of the escapees were serving life sentences for the 1996 murder of a 16-year-old Oklahoma cheerleader. The other two were arrested in November and charged with killing an elderly Montague County couple on whose land they had been living. Dan Jordan, a spokesman for the Montague County Sheriff's Department, said the escape occurred at 10:52 p.m. Monday, about 90 miles north of Dallas. 'We're looking for them everywhere,' Jordan said. District Attorney Tim Cole said the escapees used a homemade knife to overpower the officer. He said they fled in a silver Chevrolet Tracker with a black top, with a Texas license plate of 5MB D88. Cole identified the escapees as Curtis Gambill of Terral, Okla.; Joshua Bagwell of Waurika, Okla.; Crystal Soto, 22, of Bowie, Texas; and Charles Jordan, 30, of Bowie. He said they should be considered armed and extremely dangerous. Dee Hazle, a dispatcher with the Jefferson County sheriff's office in Waurika, which is 45 miles northwest of Montague, said officers were patrolling near the Red River early today. 'We have just about everybody out just in case they slip through,' she said. She said the office had received a vehicle description and had been told that the escapees were possibly headed north toward Oklahoma. Gambill and Bagwell were convicted in the Oct. 2, 1996, murder of Heather Rose Rich, 16, of Waurika, Okla. Soto and Jordan were arrested on Nov. 28, in Mason County, Wash., two days after the bodies of James Christmas, 76, and his wife, Ullain Christmas, 79, were found in a shallow grave on land they owned near Bowie, 11 miles southeast of Montague. The couple had been reported missing on Nov. 26, the same day their bodies were found. On Jan. 16, Gambill received a second life prison term after a judge found him guilty of conspiracy to commit murder in the cheerleader killing. Gambill waived his right to a jury trial last summer. Gambill's first life sentence was handed down in 1997 after he pleaded guilty to killing the cheerleader. Two years after Gambill pleaded guilty to murder, Cole re-filed the conspiracy charges, saying Gambill reneged on the plea deal by testifying at Bagwell's trial that another man was the killer. Bagwell was in the jail as a possible witness against Gambill, but was never called. Bagwell and Gambill were awaiting transfer back to the state prison system, officials said. |
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