Starvin Larry

Today is day # 8 that hundreds of cops have not been able to find one guy in the woods in the Pocono mountains.

This means one of two things-either they guy they can’t find is a really good woodsman,or the cops suck at woodsmanship.

I am going with the cops suck at woodsmanship. There may be a few local cops who are avid hunter who are good enough to track the guy,my guess is the state police brought in their own “experts” to track the guy.

They have dogs,they have helicopters with FLIR,and they still have no clue where this guy is.

Anyone,or any animal that moves through the woods leaves a trail,the tracker just has to know what to look for. They supposedly had a starting point,I’m sure they used lasers to figure out where the guy shot from,he had to leave some tracks as he left the area. It’s not hunting season yet,so it’s not like there’s a ton of guy’s tracks in the woods. It is not all that hard to find a persons trail,no one can walk through the woods and not leave signs that they were there-no one.

I think the Pa state police are in over their heads on this one. They are going to have to find someone who knows how to track game really good,that person could find this guy’s trail by noon,if he started at daylight tomorrow. It will take whoever the tracker is a few hours to get away from all the tracks the cops have made tramping through the woods.

Once outside of the area that the cops trampled,it wouldn’t be that hard to find the tracks of one guy. Find the guy’s tracks,get an idea of the direction he’s heading in,look at a topo map,find the most likely places for him to cross into the next drainage,and then go and search those places,find where he crossed,figure out the direction he’s heading,do the same thing again,and eventually,you end up real close to the guy. That’s when they bring in their SWAT guys.

Maybe that makes too much sense,or more likely-there’s a whole lot more to this story that the state police ain’t telling us.

The number of guys and the number of dogs,plus the helicopters that they have looking for this guy is insane,all those resources tasked with finding one guy.

At this rate,if there were two or three major incidents  every cop in the 3 state area is busy.

Finding this guy’s Jeep,his ID,and the brass from shooting the 2 cops seems a bit to convenient.

Or-the guy had another ID and is long gone.

Either way,seems like the police response to this is nothing more than a big show of force,and an even bigger lack of cops with enough skills to track a person in the woods.

Maybe their “experts” are going to have to call in their own “experts”,it took law enforcement something like 7 years to track Eric Rudolph down in the NC woods,and the guy that did track him down was supposedly one of the best that U.S. law enforcement had.

If this guy is really a “survivalist”,then he has gear and food cached in the woods,and can stay ahead of the cops for years.

All he has to do is shoot a deer every once in a while,snare a few rabbits and squirrels here and there,and he stays far enough back in the woods that the cops are not very likely to find him.

As long as he picks his campsites right,no one will ever know he’s there, unless they accidentally find his trail in the winter-no way to walk through snow without leaving a clear trail anyone can follow.

He could have a place picked out that is almost impossible to find,and have enough food cached there to survive through the winter without ever leaving. There’s lots of rock outcroppings that a person could make a camp under,and have a small fire going all night and all day as long as they’re careful not to make a fire that produces a lot of smoke. There’s lot’s of hunting cabins in the area,I’m sure the cops have checked them all out now-but later in the winter,he could break into one and no one would know until spring,or a cop checking the cabins finds signs that he broke in to one.

Hard to predict what the guy’s going to do,there’s a whole lot of ways to avoid being found,as long as he’s out of the search area-it’s a remote area,lots of state game lands,national forest lands,etc.

Pa’s archery season for deer starts next Sat. No way anyone could stay in those woods and not be found once there’s hunters walking all through the area. Unless he’s far enough away from a road,in that case- he may be able to stay hidden for a long,long time.

Just a matter of who’s got better skills in the woods-the cops,or this guy.

It’s been 8 days,he could have made it to the Appalachian trail,and be out of both Pa and NY by now,heading for Maine,or heading south where it isn’t so cold in winter.

Who knows-all the cops have so far is a whole lot of guys trampling all evidence of this guy’s trail.