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Snohomish County sheriff's spokeswoman Jan Jorgensen said Wednesday investigators are still looking for the gun. On Tuesday, she said escapee Harold McCord wounded an officer in the shootout in which McCord died.

Meanwhile, a woman accused of helping McCord was jailed on $100,000 bond.

Eliza "Maggie" Kruse, 51, was arrested late Tuesday after the shooting at her apartment, Jorgensen said. On Wednesday a Snohomish County Superior Court judge determined there was probable cause to keep her in custody for investigation of rendering criminal assistance.

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Pierce County sheriff's Detective Ed Troyer said she was linked to the case through James Malone Mathis, whom she married April 10 and whose brother, Walter O. Mathis, is McCord's stepfather.

Both Mathises are serving prison terms in Monroe as members of the "Parkland Seven," a gang that made off with $45,000 from a Parkland bank on Oct. 6, 1977, and fatally shot Pierce County sheriff's Deputy Kenneth Moran. Only $2,500 of the money was recovered.

"One of things we are investigating is whether help came out of that prison," Troyer said.

Kruze reportedly met McCord in Seattle and drove him to Monroe, he said.

"How she found out he was out running around is what we're looking at," Troyer said. "The strong probability is that it was one of the two people in the prison.

"One of the things we're checking to see is if Maggie visited that prison any time this week. It's just too big a coincidence, her knowing somebody in prison and her driving him up there."

McCord 36, who had faced life imprisonment under the state's "three strikes" law for repeat violent offenders, died Tuesday at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.

Monroe police Sgt. Eduardo "Ed" Jany, 39, was released Wednesday after being treated at the same hospital for gunshot wounds to the shoulder and forearm, Jorgensen said.

Investigators found no gun outside the Morning Run Apartments where Kruse lived, and the search continued inside, Jorgensen said.

She said four police officers from Monroe, about 50 miles northeast of Tacoma, and four from nearby Bothell went to Kruse's apartment with a search warrant, forced their way inside and opened fire after McCord refused to surrender.

McCord was convicted in May of first-degree kidnapping, felony harassment and resisting arrest. He was convicted of two counts of second-degree robbery in 1988 and five counts of first-degree robbery in 1991.

On June 13, he was sentenced to life in prison under Washington's "three strikes" law for repeat violent offenders.

He fled Monday after his handcuffs and shackles were removed for a pretrial hearing in Pierce County Superior Court on three counts of second-degree assault and unlawful possession of a firearm.

Tackled by a guard outside the courtroom, he pulled a fake gun that was so realistic two other guards lowered their weapons, enabling him to run from the building and escape in a hijacked vehicle.