The police would have put out a BOLO (Be On the LookOut) and TSA watchlist at least. As well as the authorities in any traffic stop among other ways. Or likely Amtrak, Greyhound, all airlines, local police, the name would have been all over the media. Why would they withhold that? How do you know it wouldn’t have produced a lead or someone who knew him coming forward?
I admit, he had been out of touch with family and presumably friends since a bad back surgery. But the authorities wouldn’t have known that until they released his name and got some responses. They wouldn’t know if it would help catch him until they did it.
Plus, what outlets reported the authorities had a name?
Considering that it took the cops three days to find a backpack that was within walking distance of the crime and which he clearly wanted them to find, I doubt they had a name.
You seriously don’t think that someone that recognizable wasn’t reported by many people who worked or went to school with him? And then a quick glance at any of his social media accounts would have made it a near certainty.
Do we know that the McDonald’s worker who reported him did it because his face looked like a close match, or because “Hey, here’s some guy with vaguely similar features to all those blurry images, sitting here indoors in a hooded jacket and with a face mask on, who seems to be acting really suspicious. Maybe I’ll just roll the dice and call it in?”
And yet none of them did, because it was a McDonald’s employee who turned him in. I wouldn’t consider any of those grainy surveillance photos to be “that recognizable”, either. I’ve got coworkers who fit the description the NYPD had.
I’m talking about people who knew him, not internet sleuths. No one “came forward”? You know that none of his acquaintences called the police or FBI on him?
You’re clearly not getting what I’m saying. Did his acquaintences know he was at that McDonald’s? Of course not. Yet someone who didn’t even know him recognized him from those pictures.
I imagine a lot of his acquaintances would not have believed Luigi would have done this, and there are half a zillion guys in the country who look similar to that, no way it could be him.
Yep. Because of that he could have evaded capture if he had a better escape plan and got out of the NE at a minimum. This was sheer luck the employee recognized him.
The pictures showed his face to some degree but the curly hair was not what I expected.
Altoona McDs is being pounded with negative reviews after being the place where the Insurance Adjuster was ratted out. G***le is striving mightly to clean up the attacks.
Maybe we could stop talking about a low-income employee of a fast food mega-chain calling in a tip on a murderer in terms of “ratting” or “snitching”?
Besides, now that we have reason to believe the murderer himself comes from a privileged background with mounds of generational wealth to insulate him from the reality most of the rest of us experience as a matter of course, it’s actually kind of fitting that the proletariat (or what have you) should turn on him.
Revolution isn’t always kind to the bourgeoisie, either, you know?
The negative reviews are still up on Yelp. Here are some of the choice quotes.
Very unsettling place. I saw Pussy Bonpensiero staring at me while I waited patiently for my fries next to a handsome young man in a face mask.
Major rat problem. I’ve seen a lot of things in my day, but this McDonald’s takes the cake–and not in a good way. I walked in craving a simple Big Mac and fries, but instead, I stumbled into what felt like a rodent convention. Yes, you read that right–rats. They were scurrying around like they were paying rent to live there. One even darted near the counter while I was waiting for my order.
Turns out it was a bunch of rats in people suits working at this location. I didn’t get cheese and I had pellets all over my tray. The police arrested Peter Parker to question them, despite them being on a field trip from New York. I had to stay there because not only did the police block my car, but I’m pretty sure one of the rats bit my tire!