there's a way to make an entrance my destiny it was now a conspiracy of witches download today in California detectives investigated a gruesome murder the suspect fled and was eventually caught in Arizona [Music] refinement didn't last long he escaped and disappeared into the grand robbing and kidnapping tourists as he went to stop the elusive killer FBI agents and local officers joined forces on a dangerous Manhunt [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] a killer was on the loose in one of America's most popular tourist destinations armed and desperate he evaded law enforcement at every turn as the Fourth of July weekend quickly approached thousands of people became potential targets I'm Jim calstrin former head of the FBI's New York office agents would use any means necessary to track a killer before he could strike again [Music] in the early morning hours of September 20th 1990 a fisherman cast the line into the burns cut river near Stockton California felt a tug and reeled in something heavy it was a large plastic bag [Music] inside he found a human leg [Music] the fisherman called the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office find anything else out there deputies responded to the scene immediately [Music] they confirmed the report of human remains and could find no clue as to the victim's identity the deputies called in homicide detective Sergeant Armando mayoya who would run the investigation the search of the river for any other items of evidence and body parts continued through the night and then into the next morning we were able to get a boat unit out to the river along with a search of the banks by Detectives I first light the deputies were dragging the river [Music] while they checked the deeper water detectives walked the riverbank [Music] it wasn't long before they discovered another plastic bag [Music] inside were two arms the wrists were bound together with masking tape [Music] nearby the boat unit Deputy soon pulled up another object [Music] it was a human torso wrapped in a sheet [Music] later they would find a right leg the victim's head and some clothing all in separate plastic bags [Music] after several hours of searching investigators had recovered an entire male body foreign [Music] pretty brutal murder case for someone to take the time to dismember a person and to um you know transport that person in different bags and dispose of the body um without caring you know it just it's very callous and cold the morgue a coroner examined the remains he determined that the victim had been dismembered with a serrated knife it would take more time to determine the actual cause of death or if the man was alive when he was dismembered detectives searched the clothing and found a wallet containing a California driver's license it belonged a 40 year old Sam Lee McCullough of Stockton police records showed McCullough had a minor arrest record the fingerprint check confirmed his identity after informing McCullough's family of his death detectives got permission to check his house for evidence once the victim was identified and we had a name and a location where he lived we responded to the victim's address he lived in the 5200 block of East Mariposa Road in South Stockton she had reported McCullough missing earlier that day since he hadn't called her in several days she checked McCullough's house and saw that the place was in disarray many items were missing including his white Jeep Cherokee also missing were two shotguns a revolver and a nine millimeter semi-automatic pistol thank you detectives and deputies examined McCullough's house noting footprints on the floor they conducted an electrostatic search to reveal details of the prints which appeared to be made by boots investigators also recovered latent fingerprints but none were foreign to the house if the murder occurred in the house the killer had removed any obvious evidence [Music] the homicide of this nature you would expect to find blood just all over the place stains um the person that was involved in this this case took a lot of time to clean and hide his uh hide his tracks in this case in the bathroom the deputy made an important discovery we were just about ready to leave when we ran a flashlight through the the tub area and we saw a reflection uh come from the from the drain area it looked like the Sparkle from a sequin the investigators knew it was collagen a substance in bones that has a particularly reflective quality looking a little deeper into the drain we found blood tissue and Bone and the large amount of hair and based on that um there was a great probability at that point that the victim had been dismembered in the bathtub of the residence laboratory tests would later match the blood and hair to Sam McCullough eventually the coroner determined McCullough had been dead before he was dismembered cause of death was a gunshot wound to the forehead what kind of what do you think it is powder Burns indicated he had been shot at point-blank range the coroner removed the bullet fragments and sent them to the state ballistics lab examiners there studied the size weight and composition of the fragments determining that the murder weapon was a 22 caliber rifle comparing the fragments to slugs test-fired from sample weapons can identify specific models California Department of Justice examiners believed the weapon used was probably a Western Field brand rifle detectives found documents listing the serial numbers of McCullough's Jeep and his guns the numbers into the National Crime information center the ncic is a nationwide database used by law enforcement agencies to track criminals missing persons in stolen property if the items turned up anywhere San Joaquin detectives would be notified within days a Stockton Police Officer discovered the victim's Jeep abandoned several miles from McCullough's house yet an examination yielded no additional Clues foreign still had no leads on the Killer the canvas McCullough's neighborhood hoping to find a witness no one reported seeing or hearing anything unusual but one neighbor recalled that McCullough had been robbed two years earlier police records confirmed the story and doing a name search we uncovered a report listing the suspect as being a Stephen horning in that case Stephen had apparently according to the victim robbed the victim at gunpoint it was the first solid lead the horning wasn't last known address so detectives tracked down his older brother who was a campus police officer at a nearby College [Music] he told detectives that Stephen was one of five brothers and was especially close to one brother Danny Ray Horning Stephen and Danny spent a lot of time together [Music] they often hunted and fished along the burns cut River the same river where McCullough's body had been dumped he told the detectives about one particular hunting trip Steven and Danny had taken they had shot a deer brought it home and and butchered the deer in the bathtub of the residence and that was significant to us as the victim had been dismembered in the same way okay toning brother added another detail familiar to Detectives [Music] after butchering the deer Danny had placed the animal's limbs in black plastic garbage bags detectives thought the story had an eerie resemblance to the homicide of Sam McCullough to identify some clothing found in a bag containing body parts in the burns cut River [Music] he said that the black shorts and t-shirt looked like those his brother Danny often wore police noted that no one in the horning family had seen Stephen or Danny since September 19th the day Sam McCullough was probably killed the investigation progressed to the point where there was enough probable cause to to present the case to a judge and a search warrant was issued for Stephen and Danny along with an arrest warrant on November 20th 1990 San Joaquin Sheriff's officers returned to the brothers trailer located behind their parents house no one was inside so detectives searched the surrounding area go that way [Music] yeah behind the trailer they found important evidence a cut stock and a sawed-off Barrel from a rifle lab examiners had reported that the weapon used to kill McCullough was probably a Western Field brand 22 caliber rifle the barrel found in the field next to the suspect's house was a Western Field 22 caliber Barrel [Music] next day deputy [Music] Deputy one of the brothers Stephen horning was there he was arrested and charged with murder the second suspect Steven's brother Danny Ray horning was nowhere to be found foreign [Music] at the San Joaquin California county jail in December of 1990 detectives held one suspect in the murder and dismemberment of Sam McCullough Stephen horning had been arrested after a month-long investigation but detectives needed more evidence to hold him his brother Danny Ray horning was also wanted but had fled the area Stephen swore he had nothing to do with the murder and said he didn't know where Dany was Stephen wouldn't help them locate Danny the investigators turned to the Horning's father for answers [Music] Mr horning offered valuable information regarding the possible murder weapon to detective Sergeant Armando mayoya after speaking with the suspect Danny's father I learned that uh that Danny had been seen with a sawed-off 22 rifle their father said Danny and Stephen had been behind the trailer when Danny shot a dog with the 22. then Stephen fired at it with a crossbow [Music] Mr horning believed his sons had buried the dog in the field behind the trailer investigators searched the Horning's yard they noticed one area seemed to be covered with freshly dug Earth and began to excavate the dog was found and um a search of the dog by another detective found a Bullet in the Brain the bullet was processed at the state ballistics lab examiners determined that the dog was killed with a Western Field 22 caliber rifle the same model had been used to murder Sam McCullough the technician compared the bullet from the dog to the one that had killed McCullough the tests indicated it was likely that both bullets were fired from the same weapon detectives returned to the county jail and confronted Stephen Horning they described the damaging ballistics evidence explaining that the bullet from the dog was consistent with a bullet that killed Sam McCullough and that his brother Danny had been seen with a Western Field 22. realizing the case against him was strong Stephen decided to cooperate claimed Danny had been in on the first robbery of McCullough two years earlier [Music] Danny had vowed to kill McCullough for pressing charges but then he went to prison for child molestation when he got out a few months before McCullough's death Danny had mentioned going back to Rob McCullough again [Music] since no physical evidence implicated Stephen and Sam McCullough's death investigators dropped the murder charge against him they needed to find his brother but Danny Ray horning had disappeared for six months detective Sergeant Armando mayoya worked the case but found no new leads then on March 22 1991 he was contacted by authorities in Winslow Arizona about Horning I received a phone call from Winslow police department and uh they informed me that he had been arrested in a bank robbery that day horning had walked into the Valley National Bank in Winslow more than 800 miles east of Stockton California he trained his nine millimeter pistol on the bank manager while a teller filled a bag with 25 thousand dollars when she was in the other room the teller had tripped a silent alarm [Music] detective Elmer Hassey took the call under the concealment of the unmarked car I had plenty of cover I positioned myself to where I could try to see what was going on in the bank the vehicle so he went for a closer look thank you when the detective checked through the window he saw a single gunman backing toward the door with a hostage I came through the door I stuck the gun up to his rib cage and uh pulled him towards the wall and took the bank bag out of his hand the suspect was carrying a nine millimeter pistol active hassie determined the suspect's name was Danny Ray Horning an ncic check revealed the murder warrant in California has he described the weapon recovered to Detective mayoya they informed me that they had in their possession a nine millimeter semi-automatic pistol they gave me the serial number and I confirmed that number as being the weapon that was taken from the victim McCullough's residence Arizona horning was convicted of armed robbery kidnapping and assault [Music] dare to judge to give him the stiffest sentence possible vowing to escape within a year [Music] the judge accepted the challenge and gave horning four life sentences California authorities decided not to extradite horning who would serve his time at the Arizona State Prison in Florence on May 12 1992 prison officers doing the four o'clock head count found that prisoner number 85897 was not in his cell the prison was locked down and thoroughly searched but Danny Ray horning was nowhere to be found convicted felon and suspected killer was on the Run on May 12 1992 outside the Arizona State Prison in Florence a massive Manhunt began for escapee Danny Ray horning who had been serving four life sentences [Music] Corning was also a suspect in a gruesome dismemberment in California Arizona Department of Corrections fugitive investigator Doug Schuster helped organize the search we have a lot of expert trackers dogs Vehicles equipment the plan was to track him and apprehend him we were planning to cite him pick up a Trail follow him with dogs horses men and locate him law enforcement teams from local state and federal agencies responded outside the prison but horning had disappeared from the immediate area while the teams widened their Circle Schuster returned to the prison to try to figure out how the accused killer managed to escape [Music] prison officials contacted the FBI to assist in the investigation authorities first checked Horning's records the convicted felon had been housed in central unit the prison's most secure area there was no evidence that he had tunneled out or otherwise breached the walls of central Corrections Officers and inmates to determine Horning's last actions inside Doug Schuster first determined why horning wasn't in his locked cell [Music] [Applause] then given time not all inmates are locked in the cell some are out at work sites some are working in the kitchen some are working here and there so you have a portion of your inmates that are supposed to be in their cells another portion would be accounted for Via an out count sheet staff would visually see someone and say these four inmates are in a kitchen working so they wouldn't be in their cell during the count investigators learned that horning had been assigned a janitorial job cleaning the Infirmary [Music] this gave him access to medical uniforms well he was able to obtain the white lab coat from the medical unit located inside the prison here he was able to get a pair of white pants from the workers in the kitchen investigators believed horning exchanged his prison uniform for the lab coat white pants and a forged employee ID they believed that he simply walked out of the prison and just a few miles into the town of Florence investigators looked over Horning's record to try and determine where he might go one possible destination was California where horning had family and connections thank you the other was Winslow Arizona where horning had vowed to get even with the cops and FBI agents who had sent him to prison special agent Keith tolhurst of the FBI's Phoenix field office joined the investigation he would work closely with the Department of Corrections to stop horning before he struck again the information from the prison told us that they believed he was going to rob some more Banks and then go to Winslow and try to kill either the Valley National Bank people that he robbed the bank from or kill the agents so he believed he was going to head that direction foreign the agent examined the items left in Horning's cell they would be sent to profilers at the FBI Academy in Quantico Virginia he started getting involved with our Behavioral Science unit as well to see if they could profile this guy to find out whether he's the type of individual that would carry out his threats and basically it came back later that it looked like he would be able or at least capable of carrying out those kind of threats if horning was willing to kill FBI agents no one was safe the first solid lead in the hunt for horning came three days after his escape on May 15th Pinal County sheriff's deputies responded to a ranch house 15 miles west of the prison [Music] the owner said the house had been burglarized [Music] he said clothes a pair of binoculars and food were taken from his house [Music] also missing were several loaded guns [Music] and local deputies believed it was horning stocking up for his bid to seek revenge they were right and they found a fingerprint of his at the house to confirm that it was him that that uh had done that so now we uh we're a little more concerned even that he was headed in the direction that he had said because he was starting to try to carry out his plan good afternoon we're holding this press conference The Fugitive was now armed the FBI turned to the media to warn the public and to solicit their help at a news conference agents released Horning's photo and information about his Escape anyone spotting horning was asked to call the FBI immediately though they were instructed not to approach the suspected killer the media coverage generated many leads one came into the FBI from campers claiming that horning was stealing Food Maps and camping gear near Lake Mormon about 170 miles north of the prison even though horning knew how to hunt and fish the burglaries were essential to his survival in the woods local officers followed his Trail he'd break into cabins he'd steal food and then he'd move on and what we ended up trying to do was a a house to house search of all the cabins in the area that was something that was going to be done by the local County Sheriff Offices and they were searching as many houses as they could Corning was getting closer to the Grand Canyon National Park the summer tourist season was beginning which meant thousands of people would be in danger [Music] they had to find him before anyone got hurt based on Horning's Trail North fugitive response teams from the Arizona Department of Corrections and Sheriff's departments focused their search in Coconino County foreign Coconino County consists of over eighteen Thousand Acres of woods in difficult Terrain perfect cover for a fugitive we're in the mountains it was a lake Mormon area it was uh trees mountains rocks Hills helicopters massive amount of mobilization radios dogs horses trailers just massive on June 3rd 1992 a national forest service officer was patrolling a campground in Coconino County officers spotted horning walking out of a wooded area it was too dangerous for a loan officer to follow the armed killer into the forest when reinforcements arrived Danny Ray horning had disappeared once again the deadly fugitive was still on the loose in the summer of 1992 hey Ray horning escaped from prison in Florence Arizona after serving only nine months of four life sentences FBI believed the suspected killer was heading north towards Winslow Arizona revenge on agents who had locked him away on June 11th agents responded to a report of a cabin burglary near the town of pine midway between the prison and Winston this time horning stole a truck and tried to establish himself as an outlaw celebrity according to FBI special agent Keith tolhurst more guns were stolen from there and then that's where he left a note that said you know thank you for the for the items Danny Ray and uh trying to make his folk hero uh name gnome I guess when the story hit the news investigators worried the public might not realize how deadly horning was they knew he had likely dismembered a man in California now horning had a vehicle was armed and was nearing the Grand Canyon National Park as tens of thousands of tourists were beginning their vacations foreign for 10 days no new sightings came in with the truck he might have been hundreds of miles away already [Music] then on June 21st a Department of Public Safety Officer spotted the stolen truck 50 miles north of pine Danny Ray horning was driving foreign jumped from the truck then fled on foot Into the Now familiar cover of the Woods agents responded immediately in the truck they found another note signed by morning Pine Arizona uh is again up in the wooded area in northern Arizona and it's along the path if you're going from Florence up to Pine he's almost to Winslow so he's getting a lot closer to the area that that we were concerned about and again we knew he had weapons we knew he had the vehicle he got up into that area and it made us believe even more that he was going to try to carry out his threats authorities in Winslow weren't the only ones in danger the FBI established a field command post inside Grand Canyon National Park where horning was a threat to thousands of tourists they tracked confirmed sightings plotting out Horning's movements coordinated the response to each sighting and information between the [Music] territory being searched was vast and horning was moving quickly [Music] on June 23rd two tourists reported to agents that horning had carjacked them inside the National Park [Music] the couple said they were in a parking lot the day before when horning commandeered their car at gunpoint [Music] he demanded that they drive him to the Canyon's rib I don't know [Music] what he checked into a hotel room there and forced his captives inside [Music] hey YouTube his gun prevented them from calling for help the couple feared he might shoot them at any moment due to release my brother horning recorded a message for authorities he demanded that the search for him be called off every day he also ordered the release of one of his brothers from prison and a million dollars ransom for the release of a family that he planned to kidnap in exchange for the childless couple the next day Corning forced the couple to drive him to a store where he purchased camping gear new clothing and food but before he found a family with children to kidnap Forest Service Officer recognized him and began following the car [Music] fired at the officer causing him to slow down [Music] forced the driver to speed up move it shut up when he'd gained some distance horning ordered the car stopped it he jumped out and fled on foot since he shot at a law officer it was clear horning was becoming desperate and more dangerous we had information involved not to be taken alive he was on this Vendetta against the FBI and Valley National Bank and and that he had already been in a shooting with the forest service so we were very cautious as far as going to the woods which we couldn't just go running after him as fast as he may have been running which is one of the ways he got some Advanced time on us the kidnap couple provided agents with information about Horning's new clothes and plan [Music] once again armed search parties scoured the area where horning was last seen but found no trace of him morning was back on foot and hiding out somewhere in the immense Grand Canyon National Park [Music] he had vowed to kidnap a family with children stop him the FBI brought in their Elite hostage Rescue Team known as the HRT [Music] HRT agents blanketed the area repelling into the canyon checking caves and conducting aerial surges [Music] they had to find the suspected killer before he had the chance to kill again the Arizona Department of Corrections and local sheriff's departments trailed fugitive Danny Ray horning through Grand Canyon National Park mobilized dozens of officers tracking dogs and helicopters in the effort to find horning before he kidnapped more hostages foreign killer could have been anywhere in the immense Park's 1.2 million Acres because of the danger horning presented to tourists the FBI decided to close the Grand Canyon National Park for the July 4th weekend it was a major undertaking holiday is the Park's busiest weekend of the year that it had been closed due to a criminal threat but horning was dangerous enough to Warrant the Extreme Action according to FBI special agent Keith tolhurst he was moving around inside the canyon we couldn't control that because there was too many people in the canyon so we were going to try to start getting everybody through the roadblocks and try to find him new visitors were turned away and those already in the park were asked to leave police set up roadblocks at entry and exit points around the Grand Canyon all right they search vehicles and inform motorists of warning they didn't stop him in time on July 4th two British tourists were preparing to leave the park when an armed man approached them they knew it was Danny Ray horny though he no longer looked like the photos in news reports as much thinner had blonde hair and was clean shape the park had been locked down the women were Horning's only way out at a roadblock a Rangers stopped the car and spoke to the three inside warning had threatened to kill the women if they tipped off anyone know each other kidnapped women had to act calm as horning sat with a gun trained on the officer didn't recognize the blonde-haired horning and let them through once they were out of the park he forced them to drive 60 miles south to Williams Arizona [Music] when they were far from the police in the Grand Canyon Corning ordered them to stop the car [Music] brandishing his gun he marched the terrified women into the cover of the Woods the women believed that horning was taking them there to execute them to their relief he left them there fleeing in their car [Music] the women managed to free themselves and ran to a store a clerk there called authorities and was told an officer was nearby Hadley shaken but unharmed [Music] ladies but you're okay they provided police with updated information about horning including his new look and his getaway vehicle we put a description of the car out that the women had stolen from them and uh DPS Officer spotted that car going from the Grand Canyon towards Phoenix thank you highway patrolman Stephen Costello works for the Arizona Department of Safety when Horning drops he began following [Music] me it wasn't long before it became more than a conscience I hear one a great big old bang you know I thought it was something wrong with the car I looked the gauges all as well at that particular time I realized I've been shot at and I notified my dispatcher at that time that had been shot at that I was all right and I was gonna follow him on fire forced the patrolman to keep it gonna be taking the rampant but he knew he couldn't lose okay fugitive tried to make a getaway by turning off near the town of Sedona he slammed on the brakes and he skids in and he has a slight accident is what he does he hits a a sign I shouted out you know you better stop the shot missed the officer had orders not to follow horning Into the Woods when backup arrived agents and officers began a grid search of the area [Music] again horning couldn't be found after Nightfall a lead was called into the command post the resident said he saw horning drinking from a garden hose in a neighborhood near Sedona a border patrol agent responded to the call [Music] this time there was no shootout after being relentlessly pursued for 54 days and over hundreds of miles an exhausted horning simply gave up [Music] no doubt in my mind that because of the efforts of the teams that had been chasing him that they had basically run him into the ground he was laying there dog tired with his tongue hanging out and uh for a man who still had his weapon on him and vowed not to be taken alive all he wanted was a glass of water Danny Ray horning earned six more years for his actions during his violent flight [Music] authorities in California decided to extradite horning and charge him with the murder of Sam McCullough his trial began on May 12 1994. Prosecuting attorneys proved that in September of 1990 Danny horning broke into Sam McCullough's house to Rob him horning was angry that McCullough had pressed charges after an earlier robbery [Music] [Applause] he bound McCullough rendering him helpless [Music] Corning was using his sawed-off 22 caliber Western Field rifle the same one Witnesses had seen him kill a dog with earlier [Music] Point Blank Range winning fired one shot my new blood spatter as well as the human tissue found in the drain indicated horning had likely dismembered the victim in his tub then he dumped the body parts into the burns cut River [Music] on July 15 1994 about four years after the death of Sam McCullough a California jury found horning guilty of murder he was sentenced to death [Music] Danny Ray horning was sent to San Quentin prison he remains locked down in the maximum security of death row [Music]