The pursuit of Donald Stenger lasted more than a year and ranged across the West, from California to Utah to Arizona, with Stenger eluding investigators in a high-speed chase by driving into Mexico, where he reportedly owned several gold mines. Along the way, agents seized cash, planes, and a helicopter that inaugurated the San Diego Police Department’s air unit. Clem finally arrested Stenger in 1986 in Colorado. He died in 1988 at thirty-two, in custody in San Diego County, when a packet of meth he’d inserted in his rectum broke open.
