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Police: Blood on Pocono porches not Frein's

After a potential sighting and fresh tips caused the manhunt for Eric Frein to shift this weekend, police confirmed Monday that some of those tips didn't pan out.

Eric Frein is seen in a still shot from a video documentary about the Vietnam War.
Eric Frein is seen in a still shot from a video documentary about the Vietnam War.Read more

After a potential sighting and fresh tips caused the manhunt for Eric Frein to shift this weekend, police confirmed Monday that some of those tips didn't pan out.

Residents in two homes around Cresco, Pa., reported finding blood on their porches last week. But DNA tests found that the blood droplets did not belong to Frein, who has eluded capture for nearly six weeks in the woods of Pike and Monroe counties, the state police said.

Blood found on one resident's porch was human blood, police said, but not Frein's. And a stain on the second porch "proved not to be blood at all," police said.

The search for Frein shifted over the weekend after a resident reported seeing the fugitive just near Pocono Mountain East High School in Swiftwater. The high school, which Frein attended, is about a 12-mile drive from Frein's parent's home in Canadensis. Until that sighting, the manhunt had focused on a five-square mile area near the family's home.

Frein, 31, described by police as a survivalist who planned his attack and retreat for years, is charged with killing Cpl. Bryon Dickson and wounding Trooper Alex Douglass on Sept. 12 at the state police barracks in Blooming Grove.

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