AOL – by Michael RubinkamDELAWARE WATER GAP, Pa. (AP) — Julie Martin spots an immature hemlock tree and crawls underneath it. Though she’s only a few feet away from the trail, Martin remains motionless – and invisible.
The point of this exercise? To show how very easy it is to hide in the forest.
Ambush suspect Eric Frein has managed to elude hundreds of law enforcement officials looking for him 20 miles away in the thick woods of northeastern Pennsylvania, taking advantage of the difficult terrain to keep them at bay two weeks after the late-night shooting outside a rural barracks that killed one trooper and injured another.
Police on Friday searched a shuttered, derelict 113-year-old resort that Frein had been known to visit when it was open. The 400-room Buck Hill Inn, close to the main search area, was featured in a 2001 episode of MTV’s “Fear.” State police spokesman Trooper Tom Kelly said Frein hadn’t been spotted there and police were simply clearing it.
The 31-year-old self-styled survivalist appears to have purposely made himself visible to police at times, staying just far enough away to make it unlikely he’d be caught in the rough terrain.
Martin and Eddie Starnater, who teach wilderness survival and “traditional living” skills at their school Practical Primitive in Great Meadows, New Jersey, say a person can easily lose himself or herself in the woods.
“You can’t see 10 feet into that,” said Starnater, motioning to a patch of vegetation in this stretch of the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area. “And they have to pay attention to every foot of it. . particularly when you’ve got somebody who’s armed who wishes you ill.”
Concealed by the hemlock, Martin said she could see the trail perfectly.
But “as long as I don’t move,” she said, “you would walk right past me and never see me.”
Frein, an avid war re-enactor who police say hates law enforcement, is wearing diapers so he can remain stationary for long periods of time, according to state police. Trackers have found soiled diapers and empty packs of Serbian cigarettes that Frein is believed to have left behind.
Authorities believe they have Frein contained in a 5-square-mile perimeter around his parents’ home in Canadensis. Police dogs have picked up his scent but lost it at streams and other water crossings.
Besides having the ability to conceal himself, Frein probably has stockpiles of food and supplies, according to Martin and Starnater. Even if he doesn’t, though, there’s still a fairly ample supply of nuts, roots and other wild edibles this time of year, as well as small game and insects, they said.
“What we now call `survival,’ Martin said, “300 years ago they just called it `Wednesday.'”
Here’s another version of the same story:
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2014/09/eric_frein_search_its_easy_to.html
I’ve seen police shows that track offenders through woods, down busy streets, even if the guy got into a car the bloodhound would pick up his scent….even one week old scents! Now these mo mo’s are telling us they can’t pick up a scent of a 31 year old man crapping his brains out in diapers and smoking Serbian cigarettes. Can you say incompetent ?
If this guy is making himself visible to police, why isn’t he picking any officers off? He obviously has the tactical advantage. I can say for certain that this guy was a student in the Pocono school system, my older sister is a secretary there. This guy was in the same graduating class as my niece. Still, a lot of things about this story just don’t add up.
Eric Frein may be a black-op boogie man, planted by the Fed, and he’s following orders. I seriously doubt the whole story. Anything like this that the MSM hypes is most likely a staged event. The remaining question I have is: What is the motive of the Fed in conducting this farce?
What is the motive of the Feds? Isn’t it obvious? More police state measures and fear-mongering while blaming patriots and anyone with a gun and trying to make them afraid of the police (which they already failed on that last one at this point. What a joke).
“If this guy is making himself visible to police, why isn’t he picking any officers off?”
I’ve been wondering about that, too. He could easily pick a few off silently here and there or even setup traps. One of the traps would have eventually had to give. It just seems like a show to me. It’s like the actor isn’t supposed to appear until the next Act or something.
Speaking of Frein, has ANYONE seen ANY evidence or video footage that this incident actually happened and that he was involved other than what the police are saying?
I mean this is Dorner all over again. I still have a hard time believe there was no video footage or surveillance footage of the incident at the barracks. WTF??? I’m sorry, but the simple word of a cop doesn’t mean shit to anyone anywhere without hard proof.