> All he had to do was continue to fly under the radar for a few more weeks until everyone forgot about it. That is seriously underestimating the attention spa

> All he had to do was continue to fly under the radar for a few more weeks until everyone forgot about it. That is seriously underestimating the attention span of law enforcement. I’m not saying that they would have caught him for sure, but they have motivation and means to keep looking far longer than a few weeks. > Being on the lam implies they knew his identity; they did not. At the minimum they had a picture of his face. That stuff will stay in databases indefinietly and face recognition is only getting better. They might have had his DNA from objects he interacted with or things he discarded. They could have traced his burner phone to locations he previously frequented, or where he bought it from. They could have traced him via video surveilance further along his escape and tied him to a location or a car. None of this is guaranteed to work. There is a certain amount of luck involved. But just because after a few days they didn’t know who he is, doesn’t mean they could not have found him months or years down the road.