[TheHag]

FLAGSTAFF — A convicted killer who escaped from an Arizona prison had planned to overdose on heroin at Yellowstone National Park and let bears eat him, according to a sheriff’s report.

Tracy Province told a sheriff’s detective after his capture that he had wanted to go up on a mountain, shoot up a gram of heroin and “be bear food.” As he was preparing the drug, a voice told him not to go through with the plan, and he changed course in favor of trying to hitchhike to Indiana to see family.

“He called it divine intervention,” Mohave County sheriff’s Detective Larry Matthews wrote in the August report.

The Las Vegas Review-Journal first reported Province’s interview Thursday.

Authorities say Province asked fellow convict John McCluskey and their alleged accomplice, Casslyn Mae Welch, to take him to Yellowstone, so they drove him to the Wyoming park from New Mexico. Province doesn’t name anyone else in the interview with Matthews, but it’s clear whom he’s with.

The trio faces capital murder and carjacking charges in New Mexico.

Province has pleaded guilty to Arizona charges of escape, kidnapping, aggravated assault and armed robbery and is scheduled to be sentenced Friday. He then will be sent to New Mexico to face charges there.

Province, McCluskey and a third inmate, Daniel Renwick, escaped from a minimum-security prison near Kingman on July 30. Authorities say Welch helped them flee by throwing cutting tools over the perimeter fence.

Province told Matthews about his plan to commit suicide after he was returned to Arizona from Wyoming, where he was captured Aug. 9 in the sleepy town of Meeteetse, steps from a church where he sat in the pews and sang “Your Grace is Enough.” A woman he talked to after church recognized him from a photograph on television.

Al Nash, a spokesman at Yellowstone National Park, said it’s certainly possible that Province’s plan to let bears eat him would work, but it struck him as improbable.

“We have a fair number of bears in the ecosystem,” Nash said. “They eat about anything. A bear would rather get an easy meal than a difficult meal, but human bear encounters are very infrequent.”

[AmericanIllusions]

HAHAHA I pictured some douce sitting on a hill in the woods sprinkling heroin on his hand then suddenly looking to the sky after an epiphany. Should of went through with it.

[Black Knight]

The bear would have saved taxpayers a lot of money.

[Steve]

A bear would probably rather eat shit than dine on that fucking animal.

[Ambersweet]

hmm overdose on heroin let bears eat me. Bears get high from ingesting human stuffed with drugs. The idea is semi amusing as i can only imagine the reaction if that did happen.

Probably similar to this scene maybe from the movie The Bear.

However in all seriousness that wouldnt be cool atleast for the animals sake, cause some one not knowing the situation could mis interpret and then kill the bear.

Next guy to be Grizzly man? no he failed.

[dooshman]

This guy is not only stupid, he's nuts. Even if he had succeeded in killing himself, there are a multitude of scavengers in Yellowstone Park that would've loved to have dine on his remains, long before any bear would've notice him. Moreover, there's the chance of discovery by hikers. What he should've done, instead of killing himself with a lethal dose of smack, was to look for a mother bear with her cubs. Then try and attack one of the litter. She would've had a nice dinner for her and her family. Better yet, it would've saved taxpayers money, and benefited the creatures of nature.