The fugitive is built 40 years after the dead of the identity of the dead college removed
The fugitive search for the attempt to kill his alienated wife more than 40 years ago was captured after his dead man’s identity had finally revealed the identity of the dead man for decades, the Ministry of Justice announced on Wednesday.
Stephen Craig Campbell, 76, has been able to avoid authorities under another identity for years and falsely claimed that about $ 140,000 was retired social security fees, but was arrested in New Mexico Last week during an armed deviation with the police who found almost 60 weapons at his residence, prosecutors said.
The alleged Swindler was on the run over the planting box for the hidden booby with the explosives outside the wyoming house of his alienated boyfriend boyfriend in 1982, the Doy said.
Campbell Mugshot 2025, left, 1982 Mugshot and weapons found on his estate, (Ministry of Justice)
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When she opened a container, a strong explosion rejected one of her fingers and sent shell. The explosion also lit a fire, destroying the residence and the neighboring unit, police in Sweetwater, Wyoming said.
According to Ministry of JusticeCampbell was arrested and charged with attempted first -degree murder, but was released to the bond in 1982. Immediately after he announced the bail, he disappeared.
The order was issued, but he disappeared without a trace, avoiding capture for decades, entering the identity of Walter Lee Coffman, who died in 1975 at the age of 22.
Coffman graduated from the University of Arkansas just two months before his death. University records showed that Campbell attended the same institution during this period, where he and Coffman had acquired a diplomas of the engineer, suggesting a probable connection between the two, said the Doom.
Campbell first applied for a passport under Coffman’s name in 1984 and renewed it several times, always providing a photo of himself and his current address, prosecutors claim. He also soaked the Social Insurance Replacement Card in Coffman’s name in 1995. Using Oklahoma driver’s license in Coffman’s name.
Campbell -O’s Oklahoma license under Coffman’s name. (Ministry of Justice)
In and around 2003, Campbell moved to Weed, New Mexico, where he bought a 44 -acre estate in Coffman’s name, while continuing to renew a false passport.
His scheme began to be resolved in 2019 when he went to renovate his driver’s license at New Mexico under Coffman’s name using a passport with Coffman’s name.
Agents from the prevention of a national passport fraud prevention soon discovered Coffman’s death and a suspicious decade of false use of his identity.
On February 19, the authorities descended on his property to search their property in Weed, where they said that Campbell was armed with a rifle -covered rifle, positioning themselves in an elevated, partially hidden place.
After repeated orders and arrangements of Flashbangs, Campbell got out of the wood line and was detained. When she recovered, the rifle was filled with a powerful municipality that is capable of piercing the standard body armor and ready for the fire, and the extensive lids are open, the selector lever placed on fire and round chambers.
Authorities discovered 57 firearms and large amounts of ammunition on the property. As a fugitive, Campbell is forbidden to own firearms. He was then printed with a fingerprint, which confirmed his true identity and fugitive.
Jason Mower, spokesman for Sweetwater County Sheriff He was reflected in the importance of Campbell’s capture, noting that the case had remained a constant presence in the ward for years.
“Campbell’s Wanted poster has been on the wall in our office since I started here almost 20 years ago,” Mower said. “I have done hundreds of fugitive cases, helping to find and catch fugitives throughout the country. But never Campbell – every leadership has become cold, regardless of the tools we have used. Now I finally understand why.”
Campbell’s rifle. (Ministry of Justice)
Joe Tomich, an insidious sheriff of the Sweetwater County Office, emphasized the scope of the case, from its violent origin to decades of quest and dramatic resolution.
“It is almost difficult to wrap your head around this case – the cold and calculated nature of the original crime, decades of searching, and then, after all this time, tense abolition in the mountains of Novi Mexico,” Tomich said.
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“We all turned trying to catch Campbella. I have a case of a case on it the size of a novel, filled with leads that have never left. But we never gave up, and now we finally know why it was always a step ahead.”
Campbell appeared in Federal Court on Wednesday in Novi Mexico on charges of fraud regarding the use of stolen identity.
If he is convicted, he is facing up to 10 years in federal prison before the Wyoming extradition to participate in the 1982 bombing. The Sweetwater Sheriff set up custody to ensure that he returned to Wyoming after the federal procedure was concluded.
