Episode 125: Keith Tolhurst – Grand Canyon Prison Escapee, Tracking Dogs

Retired agent Keith Tolhurst served in the FBI for 24 years. During his career, he investigated kidnappings, interstate shipment theft, civil rights, hate crimes, gangs, domestic terrorism, murder, sex crimes, bank robberies, and fugitives.

In this episode of FBI Retired Case File Review, he reviews the case of Grand Canyon prison escapee Danny Ray Horning, who led the FBI and law enforcement partners on the largest fugitive manhunt in Arizona.

The investigation lasted 54 days and used specially trained tracking dogs. The TV shows Discovery ID FBI: Criminal Pursuit and the FBI Files have featured the case and Keith Tolhurst. As the FBI Phoenix Division’s Senior SWAT team leader and SWAT Coordinator for the entire state of Arizona, Keith Tolhurst was involved in every aspect of crisis management to include: command post procedures, critical infrastructure threats, dignitary protection, special events, security assessments, and hostage situations.

Keith was nominated for the medal of bravery for operations outside of the United States.

He was a Principle Firearms and Tactical Instructor and designated as an FBI Master Police Instructor, providing firearms and tactics training around the world to thousands of students from international, military, state, local and tribal police agencies. Since his retirement from the FBI, Keith has been employed as an independent contractor for the Bureau for the past seven years, providing classified and unclassified instruction to FBI agents related to advanced human intelligence. He is the founder of Tolhurst International, LLC a licensed Private Investigations firm that also provides security consultants, customizable training courses, and guest speaker services.

Special Agent (Retired)

Keith Tolhurst

11/19/1987 – 10/16/2011

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The following links are to newspaper articles about the fugitive search for Grand Canyon prison escapee Danny Ray Horning, who led the FBI and law enforcement partners on the largest fugitive manhunt in Arizona:

UPI- 7/2/1992:  FBI says no deal to freeing convict’s brother 

New York Times – 7/5/1992:  Fugitives Kidnaps 2 and Eludes Search

Los Angeles Times – 7/6/1992:  Escapee Captured After 7-Week Chase : Manhunt: Convict who confounded authorities with his survival skills is cornered in an Arizona backyard. He says he ‘enjoyed himself.’

The FBI Files (VIDEO): Season 3 – Ep 15 “Manhunt”

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Bailey, left, and Riley worked at the Pentagon after the September 11 attack and were part of a health monitoring program sponsored by IAMS that checks them for cancer and other problems that could have been caused from the search. (The Mississippi Press/Carisa McCain)

 

Capture of Grand Canyon prison escapee Danny Ray Horning ends biggest manhunt in Arizona history. News article and photo from The Verde Independent News, file photo by Dan Engler.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jerri Williams

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Jerri Williams, a retired FBI agent, author and podcaster, jokes that she writes about the FBI to relive her glory days. After 26 years with the Bureau specializing in major economic fraud and corruption investigations, she calls on her professional encounters with scams and schemers to write police procedurals inspired by true crime FBI cases in her Philadelphia FBI Corruption Squad crime fiction series featuring flawed female FBI agent Kari Wheeler. Jerri’s FBI for Armchair Detectives nonfiction series enables readers to discover who the FBI is and what the FBI does by debunking misconceptions about the FBI in books, TV, and movies. Her books are available as ebooks, paperbacks, and audiobooks wherever books are sold. She’s also the host of FBI Retired Case File Review, a true crime podcast with more than 300 episodes available on all popular podcast apps and YouTube.

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