Kidnap Suspects Arrested; Man Still Missing

April 6 -- When Arkansas police went to a ramshackle backwoods cabin to talk to two men they hoped might be able to help in their search for a missing husband and wife, they were answered with gunfire. They thought they had their kidnappers.

They surrounded the isolated log cabin deep in the Ozark Mountains and tried to drive the two men out with tear gas. When that didn't work, they drove an armored vehicle into the shack.

The men were already gone. But police found bunkers, supplies of food and water and so many weapons that they called in federal authorities. Parts of the compound were hung with camouflage netting so the structures wouldn't be visible from the air, police said.

What followed was an 11-day manhunt that involved not only the Van Buren County Sheriff's Department and the Arkansas State Police, but agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and the FBI, and rattled the quiet community of Alread, the nearest town to the cabin where the two men lived.

The two suspects are finally in custody, captured after one went with the missing woman to a home in Newton County to ask for food and water and placed a call to an acquaintance in Van Buren County, asking for a ride, police said.

But despite two days of questioning the two men, along with the missing woman, Ann Throneberry, who is also under arrest, police still don't know what happened to her husband, Theodore Throneberry, who was last seen in February when he was coming home from a pipefitting job in Illinois.

"We still have not located Ted," Arkansas State Police Sgt. Dan Short said. "We're following all leads that come in. We're not discounting anything."

Ann Throneberry disappeared on March 1. Police declined to say what role she might have played in her husband's disappearance, only pointing out that she is facing charges of aiding and abetting the two fugitives, Mark Holsombach, 49, and William Frazier, 28.

Holsombach and Frazier are both facing charges of attempted capital murder, accused in the shooting of a state trooper wounded during the standoff at their cabin.