They must have every law enforcement person, feds and local, looking for the suspect in the three states there. I guess it’s understandable they haven’t found him yet though the suspect photos are right there.
I have not see anymore about that which isn’t unusual. When it comes to someone’s military background reporters usually stop when they get enough to make it sound scary. I could give examples of how someone described as that is a tactical genius and also it could be someone with minimal tactical experience. It doesn’t take much training to attack unarmed civilians with a long arm. Now he’s up against tactical teams from the state and federal units. The problem is finding him in a rural area.
We visited Maine and stayed in a cabin for a week when I was a kid. There is virtually nothing north of Bangor until you reach Caribou on the Canadian border. It’s thousands of square miles of forested wilderness for the most part.
I’ve searched for people on just a few acres. It’s not easy. I don’t know Card’s background. He may be a hunter with a lot of backwoods experience. Eric Rudolph was able to evade and survive for years.
Police search helicopters should be equipped with FLIR or some other type of thermal camera. That does help a lot. You still have to be methodical and it’s a slow process. If you are blindly searching without at least an idea where to look it’s damn near impossible.
This is all true, but he’s not headed north. Bangor itself is an hour drive from Lewiston and Caribou is another three hours north of there. That said, the woods in Southern Maine isn’t exactly a treat either. It is a very rural/wooded state. You could take a five minute drive from the largest city in the state and end up being lost in the woods for a week.
We don’t know where he’s headed. He headed south, but that doesn’t mean he continued heading south.
If he went to a remote area and killed himself, it could take a long time to find him.
True.
eta: just the same, I’m urging my sister to work from home today.
If he went to a remote area of NW Maine and killed himself, he may never be found.
I was thinking the same. I’ve worked with some good tracking dogs and they are very useful but you need a good start point. We don’t know if they have that yet.
There are also drones with heat sensing now, which should be quicker and easier to deploy than helicopters. Our city has such technology (on at least one drone, MAYBE two) and we’re pretty small, just 12k residents. In the short time we’ve had a drone team we’ve already used them a couple times to find lost dementia patients.
The Cuyahoga Valley National Park is partly within our fire jurisdiction, so being able to survey the large park area has been key for our drone program. I would hope that the sweeping forest areas of Maine are similarly covered by departments with drones but who knows.
The very least he could do is call in his coordinates before he pulls the trigger because, unless we found his body, we couldn’t be sure he was dead.
Time will tell, but I think given that there have been no further attacks in the last few hours that suicide is possible? It’s a frequent outcome of these sorts of rampage attacks, as opposed to the one at a time serial killers like Dahmer, Gacy, Bundy.
Agreed that if he can’t be found closure will be a nightmare for that locale.
If he cruelly wanted to remain a source of fear and uncertainty, this is what he would want – to disappear into the woods with the looming threat of reappearing and resuming the attack.
Closure is what the victims want. It’s not usually a big priority to the perpetrator.
The second he turns his phone back on they have the coordinates.
There’s another helicopter in the area doing search patterns right now. Can’t tell who owns it but it has a monstrous camera mounted to it based on the picture.
Probably the FLIR.
Eric Rudolph claimed that he survived on his own for five years, but there are plenty of people in law enforcement who suspect he had friends and/or ideological allies helping him.
I don’t think that will be a factor for someone with a serious mental illness.
Rudolph was a bomber. I don’t know what the typical mental profile for a bomber is, but it seems to be different than an in person rampage killer. Unabomber, McVeigh didn’t kill themselves either.
True, but he should still call and make his intentions clear. It’s the absolutely least he can do.