This is very sad. I’m not entirely sure on the timeline, but it seems to me that they announced this guy’s name before they actually caught him. I suppose it may be because he was seen at the time of the disappearance last fall of two hikers, and perhaps he had been ID’d then. Or probably he was a previously convicted sex killer, paroled to hole up in the woods and wait for more victims. I bet we’ll find out that he had a record for things like this.
You're right.
The first thing that happened was police announced they were looking for a "person of interest." They gave a description of the man, his yellow coat and black backpack based on several witnesses who had seen her between 3 and 5 p.m. on New Years' Day. At least one witness also described his dog and remembered its name.
Based on the dog and its name, and the description of the man, police received tips giving the man's name.
The "person of interest" announcements then identified him and gave the license plate numbers of his two white vans yesterday afternoon.
The police received two calls yesterday evening about 7:40 p.m., one from a Starbucks, saying that one of his vans had been spotted. The police found him by 8:00 p.m.