Leaving a Cold Trail 
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Leaving a Cold Trail
Two Snohomish County, Washington sheriff's detectives noticed a suspicious truck. They ran the plates and discovered the Nissan pickup had been stolen.
Deputies pursued the vehicle with turned on sirens. The driver of the stolen truck led county deputies on a 15-minute chase, swerving and trying to hit the patrol cars. The man lost control, crashed his truck, and fled on foot into nearby woods.
ore than a dozen officers contained the fugitive in a dark and brushy area. Officers using dogs started tracking the man around 9:15 p.m. Dogs were able to follow his track for a while, but lost his scent at a creek. The driver probably had learned that dogs could not track through water. What a brilliant idea to hide in the creek leaving a cold trail. What he did not think of is that cold water robs body heat causing confused thinking and eventually death.
Two hours later deputies got the man out of the water. He was unresponsive and severely hypothermic. Emergency treatment from deputies and medics could not revive him. He left the ultimate cold trail.
A police spokesman said although the man's death was unfortunate, she doubted there would by any special review of the incident, since the man chose to flee and jumped into the creek of his own volition.
"He was driving a stolen car, he refused to stop. Then he crashed the car and got out and ran into the creek on his own," she said. "The deputies did everything they could to bring him out of it."
Source Wed sites:
Everett Herald home page -- http://www.heraldnet.com/
Published: Sunday, March 24, 2002
http://www.heraldnet.com/Stories/02/3/24/15346613.cfm
Follow on -- Published: Wednesday, March 27, 2002
http://www.heraldnet.com/Stories/02/3/27/15353831.cfm
Submitted on 03/27/2002
Submitted by:
Anonymous
Reference:
Everett Herald - 3/24 and 3/27
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