The hunt for the killers from the siege of Cananea is beginning to fall apart, I'm told. Frankly, it's all starting to look a little suspicious. More than 300 Federal Preventative Police, soldiers and state police are hunting down the remaining killers in the mountains of Arizpe and Bacoachi.

But according to sources within the Drug Enforcement Administration, the American government was told that the vast majority of the surviving killers managed to escape.

At last count, there were more than 35 left.

I'd sure like to know a couple of things: how did they manage to escape and how did they determine a number of surviving gunmen?

These were the gunmen who were killed thus far and I'm posting their names because sometimes that has a funny way of kicking things loose on the Web.

They are:

1) Efraí­n Noé Cuevas, 2) Julio César Pérez González, alias "El Marro," "El Carrozas" and "EL Carrocero"; 3) Jorge Granados Villegas aka Jaime Granados Villegas, alias "El Macarena;" 4) Bernardo Misael García Rodríguez; 5) Miguel Angel Balderas Martínez; 6) Mario Autor Contreras Ontiveros; 7) Luis Damién Hernández Martínez; 8 ) Juvencio Dorantes Luna; 9) Jesús René Espinoza Soto, alias "El Peluza" and "El Comanche;" Arturo Flores Avila; 10) Luis De León Torres, alias "El Guacho León; 11) Juan Pedro Sánchez Valdez., alias "El Cholo," "El Semilla" and "El Tripas de Sinaloa;" 12) Filiberto Ayala Salcedo; 13) Avedici Noé Flores Armenta, alias "El Camboyano;" 14) José Manuel Haros Zavala aka Gonzalo Israel Noriega Rodríguez, alias "El Chalo," and 15) Manuel de Jesús Aceves. The Cananea residents who died were: César Vizcarra GarcÃía; MartÃín Raymundo Bernal Villarreal and Sergio Alberto Bernal Villarreal; all dead from gunshot wounds. An arsenal was picked up during the ensuing arrests, including 25 AR-15s; an H&K .223, a 12-gauge shotgun, and 21 pistols, from 9-mm to .45, .357 and .38 caliber. Nearly 7,000 rounds were seized as well. Fourteen trucks and SUVs were seized, including: three 2005 Jeep Grand Cherokees, two 2005 Chevrolet pickups, two Ford F250s, a Jeep Liberty; a Dodge Ram pickup, two Jeep Commanders, a Lincoln Navigator, a Ford Triton and a Chevrolet Silverado.