Suspect Arrested in Colorado for Utah Triple Homicide

A suspect wanted in connection with the deaths of three women in rural southern Utah was arrested Thursday in Pagosa Springs, Colorado, following a multistate manhunt that began after the bodies were discovered the previous day.

The victims, whose identities have not been released, were described by officials as women in their 30s, 60s and 80s. Two of them were found dead on a hiking trail in Wayne County late Wednesday afternoon after their husbands, who had been searching for them, located the bodies and alerted authorities, according to Lt. Cameron Roden, a spokesman for the Utah Highway Patrol. As investigators processed the scene near Torrey, a third woman was found dead inside a home in the same county. Officials have not disclosed details on how the deaths are linked or the circumstances leading to the discovery of the third victim.

Roden stated that there is no indication the suspect knew any of the women. Investigators tracked him as he fled in one of the victims' vehicles, a white Subaru Outback, from Utah through northern Arizona and into Colorado. The vehicle was located abandoned in Pagosa Springs, prompting a brief search that ended with the man's arrest without...