Eventually, both moved back to north Texas, where McLelland set up a law practice in Kaufman County.
Kaufman County sheriff's office spokesman Justin Lewis declined to discuss the weekend developments.
The bodies of Mike McLelland and his wife, Cynthia, were found Saturday in their home in Kaufman County, east of Dallas.
The Kaufman County district attorney and his wife were found dead at their home last month weeks after the killing of assistant prosecutor Hasse.
Authorities contacted Kaufman County officials to ensure their safety Saturday, and one former prosecutor was "in hiding" Saturday night, CNN affiliate KXAS said.
The FBI joined the search Thursday afternoon, offering assistance to the Kaufman County authorities, said Katie Chaumont, a spokeswoman for the bureau's Dallas office.
KAUFMAN, Texas (AP) Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland took no chances after one of his assistant prosecutors was gunned down two months ago.
Police, FBI agents, Texas Rangers and Kaufman County sheriff's deputies were investigating the deaths of county District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife, Cynthia, sheriff's Lt.
Mark Hasse, an assistant district attorney in Kaufman County, was shot to death while getting out of his car Thursday morning, sheriff's spokeswoman Pat Laney told CNN.
His arrest came after federal and local agents investigating the March 28 deaths of Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife, Cynthia, searched Williams' home on Friday.
An e-mail circulated in the Kaufman County district attorney's office is advising prosecutors to be vigilant and careful in their own personal security, said a spokesperson for the office.
Nor are they sure whether the deaths are related to the killing of Kaufman County Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse, who was killed on his way to work in January.
Hasse died the same day as the justice department said the Kaufman County district attorney's office was pursuing a racketeering case against the white supremacist group, the Aryan Brotherhood in Texas.
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Kaufman County Judge Bruce Wood said Monday that no physical evidence links McLelland's death and Hasse's, although previously he had said he believes there is a "strong connection" between the killings.
Hasse was chief of the organized crime unit when he was an assistant prosecutor in Dallas County in the 1980s, and he handled similar cases in Kaufman County, 33 miles southeast of Dallas.
"We're going to pull you out of whatever hole you're in, we're going to bring you back and let the people of Kaufman County prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law, " he said.
McLelland, elected DA in 2010, said his office had prosecuted several cases against racist gangs, who have a strong presence around Kaufman County, a mostly rural area dotted with subdivisions, with a population of about 104, 000.
Hours after Kaufman County District Attornney Mike McLelland and his wife, Cynthia, were found dead March 30 at their Forney home, investigators met at a local Denny's restaurant with Williams, his attorney told CNN earlier this month.
Dallas (CNN) -- Federal, state and local authorities investigating the deaths of two Texas prosecutors executed a search warrant Friday afternoon at the home of a former Kaufman County justice of the peace, an FBI spokeswoman said.
Sam Rosander, who lives in the same unincorporated area of Kaufman County as the McLellands, told The Associated Press that sheriff's deputies were parked in the district attorney's driveway for about a month after Hasse was killed.
Lewis said he couldn't discuss the investigation in further detail, including how the couple died and whether authorities believe their deaths are linked to the Jan. 31 fatal shooting of Mark Hasse, an assistant Kaufman County district attorney.
In recent years, Hasse played major roles in Kaufman County's most high-profile cases, including one in which a justice of the peace was convicted on theft and burglary charges and another in which a man was convicted of killing his former girlfriend and her 10-year-old daughter.
The slayings came less than two weeks after Colorado's prison chief was shot to death at his front door, apparently by an ex-convict, and a couple of months after Kaufman County Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse was killed in a parking lot a block from his courthouse office.
KAUFMAN, Texas (AP) A North Texas county district attorney and his wife were found dead in their home Saturday, two months after one of his assistant district attorneys was shot to death in a parking lot a block from his office.
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