The Region : 2 Flee Orange County Jail

A convicted murderer and another inmate escaped from the Orange County Jail and authorities were worried that one of them would attempt to find the ex-girlfriend he nearly killed when he murdered her husband. “Yes, we’re concerned,” Sheriff’s Lt. Richard Olson said of Ivan Von Staich, 31, of Lake Elsinore, and Robert Joseph Clark, 23, of Palm Springs. “All I can tell you is that the proper agencies (near the woman’s home) have been notified.” The two men were on the rooftop recreation area of the Santa Ana jail when they overpowered an unarmed a guard and handcuffed him with his own cuffs. They used an electrical cord and blankets to rappel to the ground four floors below. Clark was awaiting trial for murder and robbery. Staich was awaiting sentencing for second-degree murder and attempted murder in a 1983 attack on his former girlfriend and her husband in Santa Ana. The two men are believed to be driving a 1972 blue Toyota stolen from a lot at the nearby Federal Building.