How Cops Caught Roanokes TV Murderer - Daily Beast
On Wednesday afternoon, state trooper Pamela Neff described what happened to a crowd of reporters gathered at a nearby abandoned rest stop across the interstate from where Flaganan’s car had crashed. At 11:18 a. m. , Neff spotted Flanagan’s car but didn’t know yet that it belonged to him. Neff’s patrol car has a license-plate reader that scans every vehicle that passes it and stores the data for 24 hours. Once she entered Flanagan’s number, she got a hit—Flanagan was in that Chevy that had passed her three minutes earlier. Neff took off after Flanagan and radioed for backup. Chasing the suspect brought a host of concerns: Neff said she didn’t want to pull him over close to one of the construction crews dotting that part of Interstate 66. When she did stop him, Neff wanted to have backup, given that he was presumed to... When Neff caught up with Flanagan, he was driving at the speed limit but straddling the center line of the road instead of staying in his lane. In the space of a few minutes, Flanagan’s car became the only civilian vehicle on the road—a half dozen cop cars closed were approaching from ahead and behind Flanagan. When backup arrived, Neff fired up her lights and sirens, but Flanagan didn’t stop. Source: www.thedailybeast.com
