[4] On January 12, the body of 42-year-old Henry A. Weber, a Global Van Lines truck driver who had been shot in the head, was found at a highway rest area in Mississippi County, Arkansas.

[4] Initially, nobody could be connected to the crime until four days later, when police officers in Tempe, Arizona detained brothers Randy and James Greenawalt, 25 and 23, respectively, for the January 15 murder of 33-year-old Stanley Edward Sandage at a rest area near Flagstaff.

[5] A third man, 33-year-old George Sanders, an apparent acquaintance of the brothers, was also arrested for federal firearms violations and credit card fraud in relation to the case.

[7] During the trial, it was made apparent that in the Sandage murder, Randy had pre-emptively painted an "X" on the window of the truck before proceeding to open fire and kill his victim.

[9] In the meantime, Randy was extradited to face charges in Arkansas, but despite his willing confession to both this and another murder committed in Colorado, the case fell through and he was returned to serve his sentence in Arizona.

[10] Another inmate placed in the trustee unit with him was 43-year-old Gary Gene Tison, who was serving a life term for stabbing a prison guard, and had a history of escape attempts from the facility.

[2] After locking the remaining guards, visitors, and prisoners into a supply closet, all five men escaped in the Tisons' 1969 Ford Galaxie, with their planned final destination being a small ranch across the border in Sáric, Mexico, where Gary allegedly had connections with a drug smuggling network.

Shortly after, Gary arranged for a plane to fly them out of the United States from Clovis, New Mexico, but authorities had caught wind of their scheme and set up an ambush.

[2] Gary Tison remained on the run for 11 days, until his body was discovered by chemical worker Ray Thomas under a mesquite tree near his workplace.

[14] Justice Douglas Keddie later stated that he had no reason to be lenient with the convict, as he found no mitigating circumstances in the case and determined the killings to be cruel and unnecessary.

[10] After spending two decades on Arizona's death row with unsuccessful attempts to have his sentence commuted, Greenawalt was executed via lethal injection at the Florence State Prison on January 23, 1997.

[3] His last meal consisted of two cheeseburgers, French fries, coffee, and milk from the prison cafeteria, and his final statement was the following: "I have prayed for you many times and the Lord is using you well.