On the night he was “captured” there were many, well, observations that just didn’t align with the previous narrative as delivered. Frein was clean shaven, well kept, and did not appear to present post-capture in a manner consistent with media reports.
During an earlier and generally ignored FBI interview (with a few professional trackers) the quiet opinion was that Eric Frein was “playing a game” with law enforcement. To that end a few opined that his “appearances” were intentional, and he was staying inside the containment zone purposely to continue the hide-and-seek approach.
Like Eric Rudolph, who evaded capture for five years, not only did Frein know the region far better than his trackers, he was well prepared -and exceptionally well geared- to spend the winter, if he chose. Now this….
(Via CBS) The former fugitive charged with ambushing a Pennsylvania state police barracks had a laptop computer and used the Internet while evading hundreds of law enforcement officials, according to court documents released Tuesday.
State police found the laptop and two storage drives inside an abandoned airplane hangar near the spot where Eric Frein was captured Thursday night, according to a search warrant inventory. Frein told authorities he used unprotected Wi-Fi hotspots to connect to the Internet during his 48-day flight, documents said, raising the possibility he knew where police were focusing their search efforts each day. (more…)