More on the N5VGH murder

Linda and Gary Haas pulled up at the rest stop on Interstate 40 in eastern New Mexico to walk their dogs and tidy up. It was a sunny morning, already hot, on Aug. 2, 2010. Linda was walking back to the pickup truck and camper when two men came up behind her. One stuck a handgun in her back and warned her in a low voice to keep quiet.


Gary Haas N5VGH and his wife Linda were found burned in their travel trailer in Santa Rosa, NM. Their pickup was located later in Albuquerque. The murders appear to have been committed by three escapees from an Arizona jail.

In the mean time, both the Arizona Department of Corrections and Utah-based Management & Training Corp., which manages the prison under contract, have made sweeping changes meant to prevent another escape.