Idaho officials identified two men whose deaths could be connected to an escaped inmate and his accomplice that led police on a 36-hour manhunt earlier this week. The bodies of James L. Mauney, 83, and Gerald “Don” Henderson, 72, were each found on Wednesday, more than a day after inmate Skylar Meade and Nicholas Umphenour allegedly ambushed police during a medical transport in Boise.
When a friend heard Umphenour’s name mentioned by police in connection with Meade’s escape from the hospital — and failed to hear back from Henderson — the friend became concerned and requested a welfare check, Fuller said. Umphenour was released from the same prison where Meade had been held — the Idaho Maximum Security Institution in Kuna, south of Boise — in January. They two were housed together at times, and both were members of the Aryan Knights prison gang.