Teacher:In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: The suspected gunman who eluded police for 48 days after the fatal ambush shooting of a Pennsylvania state trooper in 2014 seemed surprised the manhunt, and his survival skill, lasted as long as it did, according to journals he purportedly kept while in hiding. 
  
 "30 Days. A lot longer than I expected to last," Eric Frein purportedly wrote in an Oct. 10, 2014 entry, weeks after he allegedly opened fire on Cpl. Bryon Dickson with a high-powered rifle, killing him, and wounding another trooper who came to his aid. 
  
 The journal entries were read aloud to a Pennsylvania jury in Frein's murder trial on Wednesday, which began last Tuesday, according to NBC affiliate WBRE of Wilkes-Barre. 
  
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 Frein has pleaded not guilty. He could face the death penalty if convicted. 
  
 The notes are believed to detail nearly every single day of Frein’s movements and thought processes, according to the prosecution. The journal was found in an abandoned airplane hangar after Frein was captured on Oct. 30, 2014. 
  
 In the beginning, the writing takes a lighter note of the situation — even responding to the media attention provided to its author. 
  
 "They called me a survivalist! HA!" the journal's owner wrote on Sept. 20, 2014. "Catchy phrase I guess." 
  
 But soon the entries carry a tone of weariness and even surprise at the length of manhunt — at one point noting that the author "slept like a human first time in two weeks." 
  
 Eric Frein is taken to prison after a preliminary hearing in 2014. Michael J. Mullen / The Scranton Times-Tribune via AP 
  
 That entry is dated almost exactly two weeks after the shooting. 
  
 "This massive search cannot last forever," the journal then adds on Oct. 4, 2014, nearly three weeks after Sept. 12 sniper attack outside the Blooming Grove barracks. 
  
 The manhunt would go on to last 48 days, and involve around 1,000 law enforcement officers and cost approximately $11 million. The search put the Poconos, including Pike and Monroe Counties, on edge with schools closed and hunting curtailed. 
  
 According to WBRE, the prosecution has not linked the notes and handwriting directly to Frein yet, but they believe that it is his work. 
  
 The journal first came into play during the prosecution’s opening statement. Twice they read from its pages. 
  
 "Our nation is far from what it should be ... so much wrong on so many levels," the prosecutor said, reciting Frein's alleged words. "What I have done has not been done before, and it felt like it was worth a try." 
  
 Frein faces charges of first-degree murder, terrorism and other charges. Defense attorneys have said he will not take the stand. If he is convicted, the jury will have to decide between the death penalty and a life sentence. 
  
 On Tuesday, jurors heard a videotaped alleged confession in which Frein told police "I did this. No one else did." 
  
 In the video he described shooting the troopers, but didn't give a clear reason for why he targeted the them. 
  
 Frein finally agreed with the investigators' statements that he did it to "wake people up" and that he wanted to make a change in government, according to the video. He said he planned the attack using Google Earth. 
  
 Defense attorneys had tried to suppress the nearly 3 1/2 hour video, arguing police had violated his right to remain silent, but a judge overruled them and said the jurors could see it. His lawyers are appealing that ruling to a higher court. ||||| A survivalist who eluded capture for 48 days after allegedly killing a trooper in a 2014 ambush says police were about a football field away from him at one point during the manhunt, according to a journal purportedly kept by the suspect. 
  
 Authorities say they found Eric Frein's journal at the abandoned airplane hangar where he was hiding out until his arrest. A trooper testified about the journal at Frein's capital murder trial on Wednesday. 
  
 The handwritten notes purport to detail Frein's movements and daily life as one of America's most wanted men, showing that he was keenly aware of the intensive police dragnet that spanned more than 300 square miles of the Pocono Mountains. 
  
 "This massive search cannot last forever," the author wrote on Oct. 4, 2014, about three weeks after the sniper attack that killed Cpl. Bryon Dickson II and critically wounded Trooper Alex Douglass. 
  
 The journal writer asked Jesus Christ for mercy; took note of the progress of the manhunt; described breaking into a nearby home and stealing food; and poked fun at the media's characterization of Frein as a survivalist, writing, "Ha! Catchy phrase, I guess." 
  
 Frein, 33, faces a potential death sentence if he's convicted in Dickson's death. 
  
 On Tuesday, prosecutors showed the jury Frein's videotaped statement to police in which the accused sniper details how he planned and carried out the attack. Prosecutors say Frein also wrote a letter to his parents while on the run and spoke of a revolution. ||||| MILFORD - More video-recorded statements Eric Frein made to the police were played at trial Tuesday afternoon as Pike County prosecutors built the case that Frein incriminated himself in that interview. 
  
 Much of the video was presented in the morning with police working to get Frein to admit to his actions. 
  
 But in the portion of the video played in the afternoon, Cpl. Benjamin Clark dug deeper, probing at the motive for Frein, who is accused of shooting two state troopers - one of them fatally. 
  
 Frein's attorneys, Michael Weinstein and William Ruzzo, however, are saying there's a big problem with those recorded statements. 
  
 You can't hear what anyone is saying. 
  
 Beyond that, the defense attorneys have a pending appeal with the state Superior Court over whether or not that video could have been played in the first place. 
  
 Frein is on trial in Pike County, accused of killing Cpl. Bryon Dickson and critically injuring Trooper Alex Douglass in a sniper attack on the Blooming Grove state police barracks on Sept. 12, 2014. 
  
 The video statements in question were taken late at night on Oct. 30 of that year - hours after Frein was arrested following a 48-day manhunt. 
  
 Cpl. Clark got Frein to say he acted alone and to say he was sorry for his actions in the portion of the video played in the morning. In the second half played in the afternoon, the investigator dug deeper, continually asking Frein "why." 
  
 According to police, they found evidence in notes Frein had written that he was trying to spark a revolution, and in that interview, police seemed to be prodding at him, trying to get him to confirm this. 
  
 The motive had to be more than the pressures bearing down on Frein from being 31 years old, living with his parents and having few prospects, as he earlier indicated, Clark said on the video. 
  
 Did Frein have a beef with police over a prior arrest?, Clark asked. Frein said that wasn't the case. 
  
 "Was it a political statement?" Clark asked. Did the shooting of two uniformed police officers have something to do with the government or a perceived restriction of freedoms? 
  
 Frein only shrugged in a "maybe" fashion and said he would have to write it out for them. 
  
 But as the video played, many in the courtroom leaned forward in their seats as static crackled and the quieter moments were lost in the large courtroom. 
  
 And the audio issues were not just a challenge for the audience. 
  
 "We had some difficulty hearing it," defense attorney Weinstein said after trial let out for the day. "We think everybody else had the same problem." 
  
 Those issues were the crux of Weinstein's cross examination of Clark, who admitted there were some sound problems but pointed out he could make out most of it. 
  
 A transcript of the interview to help fill in the missing pieces, however, had never been prepared, Weinstein pointed out. 
  
 But whether or not that video will stand as part of the evidence is still being appealed. 
  
 The day before trial started on April 4, Pike County Judge Gregory Chelak ruled the video could be used over the defense's argument that the police violated Frein's Miranda rights. 
  
 They filed for an appeal of that ruling with the Superior Court, which is pending. 
  
 Ruzzo and Weinstein are arguing that the police ignored Frein's statement that he was exercising his right to remain silent and continued to question him in what Ruzzo called "very skillful" interrogation techniques. 
  
 "They're well trained, and they got what they were looking for," Ruzzo said. 
  
 Trial will resume on Wednesday. 
  
 Witnesses describe manhunt, Eric Frein's final days on the run |||||
Student:
"What I have done has not been done before, and it felt like it was worth a try," Eric Frein allegedly scrawled in a journal while evading capture following the shooting death of a Pennsylvania state trooper in 2014. That entry and others describing the journal writer breaking into a house to steal food or keeping tabs on the ensuing manhunt were read to a Pennsylvania jury during Frein's murder trial on Wednesday, reports the NBC News. The 33-year-old is accused of killing Cpl. Bryon Dickson II and critically injuring Trooper Alex Douglass outside the Blooming Grove barracks in Pike County on Sept. 12, 2014. The shooting spawned a 48-day manhunt before Frein was captured near an abandoned airplane hangar on Oct. 30. "This massive search cannot last forever," an Oct. 4 entry reads. Days later, Frein allegedly wrote, "30 Days. A lot longer than I expected to last." The journal also details a revolution, asks Jesus Christ for mercy, describes people being just 100 yards away at one point, and scoffs at Frein's description in the media as a survivalist, reports the Allentown Morning Call. "HA! Catchy phrase, I guess," the journal reads. The entries were read a day after jurors saw a video in which Frein allegedly told police, "I did this. No one else did." Defense lawyers are appealing a ruling allowing the video to be used at trial, arguing it violated Frein's Miranda rights, per PennLive. Frein has pleaded not guilty to murder, terrorism, and other charges; he could face the death penalty. (The manhunt for Frein cost $11 million.)