Discussion for article #228152
I’m kind of surprised that he hasn’t been tracked down yet, and it makes me wonder if he’s really still in that 5 square mile area, and if so whether he’s actually still alive.
We’ve had two large manhunts out here in Northwestern California in the last couple of years. Aaron Bassler managed to elude a massive manhunt in for more than a month, but that was a 400 square mile perimeter on much rougher terrain in a much more remote area. Then there was a huge manhunt for Shane Miller in similar terrain, but later it was found that he had been dead the whole time, less than 1/4 mile from his truck.
My initial reaction was that I was surprised that a dead person could be so much harder to find, given that the dead are generally stuck in one place, unless someone or something moves them. But it was pointed out that the advantage of being dead (if you can call it that) is that you can lie very, very still. In this case in PA I gather that they have had some evidence that this fugitive is still alive, or at least was not long ago. But the longer it goes that they don’t have any new evidence of fresh activity on his part, the more likely it becomes that either he’s slipped past their perimeter, or he’s dead.
Five square miles is a pretty big piece of woods, but the Pennsylvania state boys are serious professionals and I don’t think this guy will be running loose for long. Between the dogs and the infrared I’d say he’s pretty much trapped. He’s killed one cop and injured another from ambush; any resource the search team wants from any LEO agency around, they won’t have to ask twice for.
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Plus which you can literally be cool—no more body heat to show up on infrared. As you point out being dead has drawbacks as well.
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Hell hath no fury like cops hunting a cop-killer. They’ll probably find his remains after he does the math on his end-game.
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It’s nearly October. When do the leaves fall in that neck of the woods?
Good point about body heat, and lack thereof. Either way, I hope they find him soon.
Projected height of leaf color for the Canadensis area (it’s a big tourist thing) is mid-October, and it’s been dry so the leaves are falling fast. More information than anyone but confirmed leaf-peepers would want here.
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where do I get my I am Eric Frein bracelet?
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So strange.
It used to be that law-and-order conservatives would have been up in arms about this. How come he hadn’t been caught? What’s taking so long?
Now, conservatives are the hunted.
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However, if he is dead, it should be fairly easy for the dogs to pick up his new scent. We had rain in the area a couple of days ago and today was surprisingly warm. He’d start stinking pretty good by now.
“I expect that he’ll be hiding and try to take a shot from some distance from a place of concealment, as he has done in the past.”
He did this once and already they see a pattern developing. Have you noticed that cops aren’t very smart? Watching the news in Ferguson was like a new reality show “Stupid Cops”.
Have they checked his parents’ basement?
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What if he had a place to hide underground? It’s getting colder. Wouldn’t that make the body heat thing less reliable? He did choose this time of year to carry out his “plan.”
Waiting for Fox to make this psychopath into a hero, because BENGHAZI!
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“…near his parents home”. Classic.
Why don’t they just go in there with a bunch of their tanks and take him out with grenade launchers?
Living people say that a lot, but you never hear complaints from the dead.
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Pretty simple really.
Amplified loudspeakers.
Blaring the new Sarah Palin Channel on-a-loop.
He’ll be found cooing in the fetal position
with a thumb stuck in his mouth
and his genitals clenched vice-like
in the other hand.
Like catnip for RWNJs.
12-to-18 hours tops.
jw1
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Hmm, interesting—it would make tons of sense to have a cave or something as a hideout, but if you only had one, I’d think the dogs would find it, because every trail would lead back to it eventually. (And caves would be well-known, now that I think about it. Spelunking is popular in PA, a long-occupied state with zero regions not well mapped.) He’d have to find new hideouts regularly, and do tricks like wading through streams, to throw the dogs off. Frankly I’m dubious about the skills of self-taught “survivalists.” The fact that people are lost for days and weeks, people who want to be found, suggests it’s hard to find people in open country like this. The cooler air temps would probably help with infrared, no? No idea myself, and I’m not sure it matters—I’ve seen infrared of attack helicopters shooting at men on the ground in the Iraqi deserts, where it’s at or above body temperatures, and they show up like they were painted with day-glo white. It would be fascinating to hear from someone who’s knowledgeable about all this, but I imagine that’s pretty rare.