Posted on 02/23/2012 8:55:21 AM PST by JerseyanExile
He's eluded authorities for more than five years, a mountain man who roams the wilderness of southern Utah, breaking into remote cabins in winter, living in luxury off hot food, alcohol and coffee before stealing provisions and vanishing into the woods.
Investigators have clawed for clues, scouring cabins for fingerprints that match no one and chasing reports of brief encounters only to come up short, always a step behind the mysterious recluse.
They've found abandoned camps, dozens of guns, high-end outdoor gear stolen from the homes and trash strewn around the forest floor.
But the man authorities say is armed and dangerous and responsible for more than two dozen burglaries has continued to outrun the law across a swath of mountains not far from Zion National Park. He's roamed across 1,000 square miles of rugged wilderness where snow can pile 10 feet deep in winter.
And while there have been no violent confrontations, detectives say he's a time bomb. Lately he has been leaving the cabins in disarray and riddled with bullets after defacing religious icons, and a recent note left behind in one cabin warned, "Get off my mountain." "You wouldn't want to come across that guy," said Iron County Det. Jody Edwards, who has been working the case since 2007.
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“How about this theory: he’s a whacked-out a**hole.”
No kidding. This guy is a virus. He looks a little thin to me. He needs to gain about 168 grains.
Big Foot lives.
After a break in, can’t a helicopter equipped with IR scan the woods?
Doubt it,,, but so what? An encounter with an armed thief in the mountains is one thing, a trial for an armed thief is another. Context,, time and place.
In the first, he can and should be killed at the first sign of menace. In a trial, where our safety is assured, we can use imprisonment, etc .
By your logic, you cannot shoot a carjacker,, after all, you don’t get the death penalty for brandishing a knife and saying ‘give me your car’.
Georgia girl knows ,,,, and 168 lol!
Maybe we should release a honeybadger out there,,,cause you know,,,
while there have been no violent confrontations, detectives say he's a time bomb"
And thus, the cops has given themselves permission to gun the guy down on sight when they find him.
If he happens to eat some poisoned food left out for rodent control, that he should not have ever had access to unless he was in the midst of committing a crime, I certainly wouldn't lose sleep over it.
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Defacing religious symbols? Living luxury on other people’s money? Trying to control private property without buying it? Could be any of millions of Democrats.
From the update I think your premise is the correct one.
"He's scaring the daylights out of cabin owners. Now everyone's packing guns," said Jud
Well they should be anyway, so that's not news.
Same as a rabid animal and for the same reason.
Ah yes, I remember The Illinois Enema Bandit. I hear he is on the loose. They finally ID'd that guy too. His name was Frank Zappa.
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"In this undated photo provided by the Iron County Sheriff's Office in January, a man is seen walking past a cabin in the remote southern Utah wildness near Zion National Park. Authorities believe the man in the photo, captured by a motion-triggered surveillance camera sometime in December, is a suspect responsible for more than two dozen cabin burglaries over the past five years. "
Source: http://www.nwcn.com/news/idaho?fId=140060873&fPath=/home&fDomain=10227
OK, I have to admit that I am secretly wishing I had my own mountain....
I don’t think any court bases their sentencing on what I think, do you? Hopefully you’ll find the guy before the law does so we’ll be safer.
“is there “A Squatch in these woods”?”
I bet it is a ‘Sassy’ Squatch.
Jinx! You owe me a 6-pack of Alaskan Amber!
you didn’t recognize me, cause my hair was shorter back then...
btw, would one of you tell them cabin owners to buy some more beer, all I’m finding is wine and how mountain man is that?
I wonder though, is Norm Bangerters kid and his buddies still living in Springdale?
You’ll either know that reference or not...
Wow! LOL, the truth surfaces.
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