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Criminal Records - Most Wanted |
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Profile |
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Name: Aaron J. Olsen
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Race: White |
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Age Now: 42 |
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Height: 5'10" |
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Weight: 140 lbs. |
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Hair (Color, Description, Facial Hair): Brown
Cops say Olsen may have grown a goatee since escaping |
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Eyes (Color and Correction): Brown |
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Wanted for :
Escape, Lexington, OK;
Oct 16, 2005
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Location(s) |
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Last Seen : Lexington, OK
Olsen was serving a life sentence for first-degree murder at the Joseph Harp Correctional Center when he escaped. |
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Possible Location : Kay County, OK
Kansas
St. Louis, MO
Police say Olsen has family in St. Louis. The van Olsen and Johnson used to escape prison was found in Kansas. |
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Last Known : Unkown |
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Traits |
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Case Story |
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Oklahoma Woman Taken For A Ride |
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One Oklahoma woman never thought she would become part of a daring escape plan when she went to visit an inmate in the Joseph Harp Correctional Facility, in Lexington, Oklahoma. But, cops say two inmates - one a convicted rapist and the other a convicted killer - found her departure to be perfect timing. Cops say the pair managed to hijack Stacy Richards' minivan in the parking lot of the prison and take Stacy on the ride of her life.
On October 16, 2005, Stacy went to the prison to visit her fiance. As she was leaving, Stacy tells AMW two men approached her car, flashed a badge and claimed to be prison security. The two inmates told Stacy that a drug-sniffing dog had detected something in her car and that they needed to search and inspect it. Stacy obliged, but soon realized that the two men were not security.
She was forced into the back seat of her minivan as Olsen hopped in the driver's seat. Once inside the minivan, Stacy tells AMW that the two prisoners were "really nice and told [her] from the beginning that they were not going to hurt [her]." But those words were not comforting enough for Stacy.
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Tales Of Felons |
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During the four-hour ordeal, Stacy says Olsen and Johnson told her they started formulating their escape plan two years ago. Stacy says they actually started digging through the prison walls in August and used bags, cloth, duct tape and stickers to make clothing. One of the men made a jacket out of a film bag and a tie out of duct tape, Stacy says. Stacy tells AMW the pair even dyed their jail outfits to resemble street clothes before they simply walked out of jail.
As the pair drove Stacy around the Oklahoma City area, the clock was ticking. Stacy tells AMW that Olsen and Johnson knew the prisoners would be counted at 6 o'clock. That meant the duo only had a few hours to change clothing and ditch Stacy get as far away as possible. Stacy says the Johnson seemed very relaxed while Olsen was more nervous. At one point, she says they stopped at a convenience store to buy beer, a Mountain Dew and an OSU ball cap. Then, the two went to a Dollar General to buy different clothing. Stacy tells AMW it wasn't long before Olsen and Johnson started telling her about their lives of crime.
"Pharon was telling me how he used to rape the women - how he would be with them." Stacy told AMW. "They told me they wouldn't go back alive. They told me they needed a weapon. Their plan was to take down a cop." As 6 o'clock drew near, the Olsen and Johnson started looking for a place to drop Stacy and her minivan near Oklahoma City. Stacy tells AMW, "They taped me up and left me behind some bushes. They apologized and told me to get some help when I got free." |
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Making A Break For It |
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Early Tuesday morning, October 18, cops recovered the minivan by mile marker four on I-35 in Sumner County, Kansas. According to police, the car had been abandoned between 6:45 a.m. and 8:00 a.m. When police found the car, it was still running, and the lights and radio were on.
The manhunt had now moved north into Kansas and less than a day later, cops would receive yet another breadcrumb trail. 15 miles north of where the minivan was recovered, someone broke into a Kansas Transportation Authority building. Kansas Highway Patrol joined the effort and with the help of tracking dogs and a police helicopter, they felt sure they'd surrounded the escapees. When the dust settled, the facility was empty. Whoever had broken into the facility had slipped through the dragnet.
The next break in the case came from one of the escapees. After two years of planning the escape, Pharon Johnson turned himself in after just three days of freedom. But convicted killer Aaron Olsen remains at large and authorities are determined to put him back where he belongs. |
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