THIS IS OLD news to you, but as I write, we mountain folk are still buzzing about February’s Great Manhunt and Shootout.
That burning cabin you saw on TV was about half an hour by road from us in Big Bear—fewer than six miles in a direct line over the ridge where the ski slopes are. The nut-job former cop who murdered four people (to clear his name of telling lies, he said) spent days in hiding precisely 4.7 driving miles from our home. Almost daily we take routes he had to have followed on his way out of town to his fate (and that of his final victim).
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