Randy and Evi Quaid's 'Hollywood Star Whackers:' Real Threat or Bizarre Excuse?

Oct. 26, 2010— -- Hollywood stars, watch your back: Just in time for Halloween, there's a gang of goons out to get you -- that is, if you believe Randy and Evi Quaid.

The Oscar-nominated actor and his wife fled to Canada last week, claiming they feared for their lives. The supposed clan they're dodging seems like something more appropriate for a B-level horror movie than real life -- a group called the "Hollywood star whackers," who the Quaids claim murdered actors Heath Ledger and David Carradine.

Ledger died of a drug overdose in 2008; Carradine was found dead last year, apparently from accidental asphyxiation. Randy Quaid and Ledger worked together on 2005's "Brokeback Mountain." He and Carradine appeared in the 1980 movie "The Long Riders."

"Hollywood is murdering its movie stars," Evi Quaid said in Vancouver last week. "Randy has known eight close friends murdered in odd, strange manners. ... We feel that we're next."

No one else in Hollywood appears to have ever talked about a group called the Hollywood star whackers.

But the Quaids have more tangible problems than a supposed star-killing clan. They're wanted in California for allegedly skipping out on a hefty hotel bill and vandalizing a house they once owned. They fled north of the border earlier this month, were arrested in Vancouver on outstanding warrants from California and were released on $10,000 bail.

The couple is due to appear before the Canadian Immigration and Refugee Board Thursday, according to the Vancouver Sun.

A judge last week issued two $50,000 arrest warrants for the Quaids, who were no-shows at a California court hearing related to their arrests last month on suspicion that they illegally squatted at the guest house of a Montecito home they once owned. Evi and Randy Quaid each face a felony vandalism charge.

The U.S. attorney for the Quaids declined ABCNews.com's request for comment. A Vancouver-based attorney for the couple did not immediately respond to ABCNews.com's requests for comment, nor did Randy Quaid's younger brother, actor Dennis Quaid. But in court last week, the Canadian attorney, Brian Tsuji, read a single-sentence statement from the Quaids:

"We are requesting asylum from Hollywood star whackers," he read, declining to elaborate on the mental condition of his clients.