A man who eluded police for 48 days after allegedly shooting to death a state trooper and wounding another appeared in court Monday for a preliminary hearing.
Eric Frein entered the Pike County courtroom clean shaven, with glasses and short hair, to hear the evidence against him.
The first part of the morning focused on 20 minutes of the September 12th Blooming Grove Barracks surveillance tapes.
This included video of State Police Corporal Byron Dickson walking through the lobby, then collapsing right outside.
The video also showed Trooper Alex Douglass dragging himself inside and then across the floor.
Prosecutors says the two were shot by a high powered rife by 31-year-old Frein who was allegedly hiding across the street.
Dickson died and Douglass was severely wounded.
The press and public packed outside the Pike County Courthouse to hear Monday's legal details.
Frein was on the run for nearly 50 days.
A massive manhunt took over parts of Pike and Monroe counties.
Frein was found, caught and arrested Oct. 31 in an abandoned Monroe County airplane hangar.
A state district judge must decide after the hearing whether there are sufficient grounds to send the case against Frein to county court for trial.
His preliminary hearing was originally scheduled in early December, but was postponed following controversy over Frein's legal counsel.
Frein faces charges of first degree murder and criminal homicide of a police officer among other offenses.
Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.
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