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Logan McFarland, 24, of Fairview, Arrested in connection with a recent double homicide in Mt. Pleasant in Sanpete County as well as a weekend shooting and carjacking in West Wendover, Utah. Both he and Angela Marie Hill, 25, were arrested in Nevada Tuesday afternoon.
Nevada law enforcement arrested Logan McFarland, 24, and Angela Hill, 25, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2012
Angela Atwood Hill Arrested in connection with a recent double homicide
Duo wanted in Wendover shooting may have murdered Sanpete County couple, police say
Jan. 1, 2012
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/...urdered-Sanpete-County-couple-police-say.htmlMT. PLEASANT — The same man and woman who shot a Wendover woman in the head during a carjacking Saturday may have earlier shot and killed an elderly couple in their Mt. Pleasant home, investigators said Sunday.
Officers discovered the bodies of Leroy Woody Fullwood, 70, and Dorothy Ann Fullwood, 69, in their home on the east edge of Mt. Pleasant, 399 S. 600 East, about 8 p.m. Saturday, said Mt. Pleasant Police Chief Jim Wilberg. The couple died from gunshot wounds, likely sometime Thursday night or Friday morning.
He said the Fullwoods appeared to be victims of a "random robbery."
Just before 7 a.m. on Saturday, a couple forced a West Wendover woman into her car at gunpoint in the parking lot of a Wendover casino. Witnesses said a woman got into the car with the victim while her male accomplice followed in another vehicle.
Police said the victim eventually overpowered the woman and forced her out of the car at a secluded intersection. As the victim fled, she was shot in the back of her head. However, she was able to drive to the West Wendover police station for help. The 35-year-old woman remained hospitalized Sunday in a Salt Lake hospital.
The couple took off in the original stolen car, leading police on a chase on I-80 at speeds exceeding 100 mph. Nevada troopers laid out spikes at one point, but the fleeing vehicle was able to avoid them and the couple escaped. Officers believe the couple stole another vehicle in Wells, Nev.
Wilberg said the couple made a purchase with one of the Fullwoods' credit cards in West Wendover. That discovery prompted the call to Mt. Pleasant police, asking them to check on the Fullwoods' welfare.
The man and woman, who still have not been located, are also thought to be connected to a Thursday car theft in Moroni, about five miles west of Mt. Pleasant.
Police have only described the couple wanted in the carjacking and possibly the Mt. Pleasant double homicide as Caucasian. The two were in a gray Volkswagen Jetta with the Colorado license plate of 725WHX.
If the vehicle is spotted, the public is urged to call local police or dial 911.
A convenience store surveillance video of the gunman released by the West Wendover police showed a slender, young to middle-aged man wearing dark clothing and a white cap. Wilberg said his department has been working with federal marshals and the Sanpete County Sheriff's Office and have “leads on who the suspects might be.”
nvestigators are also searching for a weapon believed to have been thrown from the couple's vehicle during the high-speed chase with Nevada state troopers.
Meanwhile, neighbors of the Fullwoods were devastated Sunday by the news of their deaths.
"If this happened to the Fullwoods, it can happen to anyone," said neighbor Coleen Oltrogge.
The Fullwoods were good people," she said. “They worked in the (LDS Manti) Temple once a week. They took care of their kids and grandkids
She said the Fullwoods were the kind of people who would put up a fight if someone broke into their house. Oltrogge described Dorothy Ann Fullwood as a retired schoolteacher who worked with her in the local LDS Relief Society.
Other neighbors also described the Fullwoods as “good people.”
ltrogge says the killings have shaken up the small city.
"The hard thing is folks here trust people. They leave their doors unlocked," she said. "It's important that we look out for each other."
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Police responding to a welfare check in Mt. Pleasant, Sanpete County, Saturday discovered the bodies of Leroy and Dorothy Fullwood. Investigators believe may have been killed by the same couple who shot a woman during an unrelated carjacking in West Wendover on Saturday
Son of slain Mt. Pleasant couple a West Jordan police officer
JAN 2 2012
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/...sant-couple-a-West-Jordan-police-officer.htmlWEST JORDAN —The children of a Mt. Pleasant couple discovered shot to death in their home late last week described their parents as caring and faith-focused Monday as former neighbors and co-workers expressed sadness and reflected on the impact Ann and Woody Fullwood had on their lives.
"They were kind and loving people who cared deeply for everyone — family, friends and strangers alike," a statement provided by the Fullwood family reads. "They raised us with faith in Christ, and they demonstrated this faith through service for their country, community, and family. We know that our parents are now focused, not on the events that led to their death, but on the next chapter of their eternal lives."
The couple's son is a detective for the West Jordan Police Department. Michael Fullwood has also served on the Salt Lake Area Gang Task Force and as a school resource office during his career as police officer, according to West Jordan City Council minutes.
West Jordan police would not comment on the length of Fullwood's tenure with the suburban police department nor whether his role as police officer was connected to the slaying of his parents. Questions were referred to Mt. Pleasant authorities, who were not available for comment Monday.
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Woody and Ann Fullwood
Couple wanted in double killing arrested in Nevada
jAN 3 2012
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/...n-double-killing-arrested-in-Nevada.html?pg=3MT. PLEASANT, Sanpete County — U.S. marshals have arrested a Utah couple in connection with a two-state crime spree including a double homicide in Mt. Pleasant and a carjacking in West Wendover.
Logan Welles McFarland, 24, and Angela Marie Hill, 25, were arrested without incident about 1:20 p.m. by U.S. marshals, the Elko County Sheriff's Office and West Wendover police. "The location of the arrest was an extremely rural area of Elko County near Wells, Nev.," police said
Law enforcers responded to a report of a man and a woman seen walking in the desert near Big Springs Ranch in Nevada, between Wells and Wendover. Marshals found the couple, detained them and confirmed their identities.
The couple was expected to be transported to the Elko County Jail in Nevada.
An arrest warrant for second-degree felony burglary was issued Sunday for McFarland. The affidavit says McFarland and Hill burglarized a home in Mt. Pleasant before carjacking a woman in West Wendover and shooting her in the head as she tried to get away from them.
The arrest warrant does not directly connect McFarland or Hill to the shooting deaths of Leroy Woody Fullwood, 70, and his wife, Dorothy Ann Fullwood, 69. However, in other papers filed in 6th District Court, investigators say, "The state of Utah considers Logan Welles McFarland a person of interest in the deaths of the two ... Mt. Pleasant residents."
Likewise, Mt. Pleasant Police Chief Jim Wilberg said Tuesday the couple had "killed two people and attempted to kill someone else," and needed to be caught.
Wilberg said investigators believe Hill dropped McFarland off at the Fullwood home to commit a burglary.
"I don't think he went there to commit the homicide," Wilberg said.
But McFarland also reportedly believed the world was going to end in 2012, the chief said.
"He kind of bought into the whole 'the world was going to end in 2012' thing and didn't really care what was going to happen after that day," he said. "He thought things weren't going to exist after the new year."
Both McFarland and Hill have a history of drug use and could have been going through withdrawals, which makes them even more dangerous, Wilberg said.
At least two handguns and rifles were taken from the burglary.
Items found in a car that McFarland and Hill allegedly stole, including jewelry, were directly linked to the Fullwoods. The affidavit also revealed that a Del Taco receipt, found in another vehicle the couple was allegedly driving, showed a purchase was made using the Fullwoods' credit card.
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Hill is also known as Angela Marie Atwood. According to the arrest warrant for McFarland, in which Hill is referred to as Atwood, the couple borrowed a 1997 Plymouth Breeze from an acquaintance on Dec. 29 so he could "go to Mt. Pleasant to a 'friend's house,'" the arrest warrant states.
The couple returned the car at midnight on Dec. 30. McFarland "bragged to him about acquiring firearms and money," according to the affidavit.
But when the acquaintance got out of bed about 6 a.m., the car was gone again. McFarland later called to say the car could be found abandoned in Santaquin just off I-15. When the man retrieved the car, he found what appeared to be a jewelry box in the trunk, according to court documents. He also found an electric grill, a keyboard, a black plastic box and a metal container with "Geo Cache" written on it.
Fearing the property was stolen, the man first opted to burn some of the items, but later called police after viewing an online news story about the Mt. Pleasant killings and seeing a photo of a person he thought he could identify, according to court records.
When police searched the fire pit where some of the items were burned, they found a pair of gold earrings that the Fullwoods' daughter confirmed belonged to her mother. They also found a necklace with "firefighter's mom" engraved on it, and a lighter with the words "USS Kittyhawk" that belonged to her father.
After the car in Santaquin was abandoned, another vehicle, a Saturn Ion, was stolen near the area.
Later, outside the Red Garter Casino in Wendover, Nev., Hill allegedly forced a middle-age woman into the passenger seat of her car and took control of her vehicle. About a quarter-mile from the casino, the woman tried to fight off her carjacker by "biting her ear, neck and forcing her from the vehicle," the affidavit states. Hill fired a shot at the woman as she drove away, according to the arrest warrant.
The woman was struck in the back of the head, but she was able to drive herself to the police station. At last word, she was in critical condition at University Hospital in Salt Lake City.
The Saturn was found abandoned in Wells, Nev. The couple allegedly then stole a Volkswagen Jetta with Colorado license plate No. 725 WHX.
A search of court records indicates that McFarland's criminal history in Utah is relatively minor and spans events only in the past six months. In July, he was charged with theft by receiving stolen property, a class A misdemeanor. He pleaded guilty to that charge in October and was sentenced to the 30 days in jail he'd already served and was given two years of probation. A class B misdemeanor drug possession charge from August was dismissed in September.
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Man arrested in double homicide threatened to kill me, woman's father says
jan 3 2012
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/...threatened-to-kill-me-womans-father-says.htmlMT. PLEASANT, Sanpete County — The father of Angela Hill, the Fairview woman arrested Tuesday in a brief but violent crime spree that stretched from Sanpete County to Wells, Nev., said he was threatened last week by his daughter's alleged partner in crime.
Mike Atwood, who owns a granite installation business in Fairview, said Logan McFarland told him, “If I interfered with (their relationship), I would be looking down the (barrel) of a rifle.”
Atwood said he can’t account for his daughter’s involvement with McFarland, or her alleged participation in a double homicide in Mt. Pleasant nor a carjacking and shooting in West Wendover. Police say the day after the killings, Hill and McFarland carjacked a West Wendover woman, 35. The victim was able to overpower Hill and escape Saturday, but court documents say Hill fired a shot at the victim as she drove away.
“I don’t understand,” Atwood said of his daughter. “She is not a violent person.”
Atwood said the threat from McFarland came last week, shortly before his daughter and McFarland left Sanpete County to allegedly continue their crime spree in Utah and Nevada.
The two were apprehended Tuesday afternoon at a ranch near Wells, Nev.
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