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jlb2012
06-19-2003, 08:18
From The Morning Report for June 19, 2003:

Appalachian National Scenic Trail (CT,GA,MA,MD,ME,NC,NH,NJ,NY,PA,TN,VA,VT,WV)
Murderer of Police Officer Captured on Trail


A Vermont state trooper was killed while attempting to apprehend a fleeing driver on June 15th. Sgt. Michael Johnson, 39, was struck and killed by Eric Daley, 23, of Lebanon, New Hampshire. Daley abandoned his car after hitting Johnson, leaving him lying in the median with fatal injuries. He caught a ride down the Connecticut River with an unsuspecting canoeists, then headed south with the assistance of friends. Investigators developed information that Daley had been dropped off in Delaware Water Gap NRA, where he was going to pick up the Appalachian Trail in an effort to elude police. Delaware Water Gap rangers joined the search for Daley on June 17th. Daley was found and captured by Pennsylvania state troopers on the Appalachian Trail near Wind Gap that day. He had backpacking equipment and fishing gear with him and had shaved off his goatee in an apparent attempt to change his appearance. Daley did not resist arrest. He’s being extradited back to Vermont to face state charges. Johnson is the fourth Vermont trooper to die in the line of duty and the first to be killed by the actions of another person.
[Submitted by Robert Gray, Chief Ranger]

Link to The Morning Report (http://data2.itc.nps.gov/morningreport/morningreportold.cfm?date=06%2F19%2F2003)

tlbj6142
06-19-2003, 10:32
Check out Skeemer's journal (http://www.trailjournals.com/entry.cfm?id=37856), he passed the jerk on the trail.

jlb2012
06-20-2003, 12:20
Appalachian National Scenic Trail (CT,GA,MA,MD,ME,NC,NH,NJ,NY,PA,TN,VA,VT,WV)
Double Drowning



Two brothers drowned at the base of Billings Falls in a particularly remote and rugged area along the trail on Tuesday, June 17th. Despite a high flow due to recent rains, one brother entered the water at the base of the falls and was caught up in a hydraulic. His brother attempted to rescue him, but both drowned. The Maine Warden Service provides search and rescue services for federal lands under a cooperative agreement with the NPS and recovered both bodies, one on Tuesday and the other on Wednesday.
[Submitted by Robert Gray, Chief Ranger]