Mountain Man Spooks Utah…
This undated photo provided by the Iron County Sheriff’s Office shows confiscated evidence found at a remote camp littered with supplies and trash in the southern Utah wildness near Zion National Park. Authorities believe the material at the camp was left behind by a suspect in more than two dozen burglaries of mountain cabins over an area of roughly 1,000 square miles for the past five years. (AP Photo/Iron County Sheriff)
And while there have been no violent confrontations, detectives say he’s a time bomb. Lately he has been leaving the cabins in disarray and riddled with bullets after defacing religious icons, and a recent note left behind in one cabin warned, “Get off my mountain.”
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One camp found abandoned contained several firearms as shown:
note the rusty old Mosin rifle at the bottom and the stainless AR-7 22LR survival rifle. This guy is a true TEOTWAWKI guy, only it seems like he started his own personal 2012 earlier than scheduled.
Investigators have clawed for clues, scouring cabins for fingerprints that match no one and chasing reports of brief encounters only to come up short, always a step behind the mysterious recluse.