[stlnative]

Tell me how this sniper can call into this special 1-800 number that HE had the police set up for him without his calls coming into it being traced? Does he really think they don't have a trace on the 1-800 line? - How would this work for him? Would he have throw away cellphones he would use and dump after each call he makes to the 1-800 from different locations so that he could not be found?

[OReilly]

Tell me how this sniper can call into this special 1-800 number that HE had the police set up for him without his calls coming into it being traced?

He must know that routinely, every 800 call that you or I make, automatically records your number, and not by the caller ID, system that we have available in our houses. He knows that, let's assume, because he is using tape recorders (they are saying) and that is probably what they were searching for in a nearby gas station to the Exxon in Richmond.

The 800 call comes in to their call center, but by the time they realize that it is him and that it is a recording, he is gone, and the recording is still playing. I think the police are trying to plant the idea of a private 800 number, which would make their job easier. He is too smart to fall for it.