Word: abbott
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Norman Mailer, I got more insight, and Abbott began to take shape. Abbott had called him at 6 o'clock in the morning up in Provincetown, and Mailer wasn't happy about being pulled out of bed that early. Abbott said he'd call back later. He never did. He mistook Mailer's response for rejection. He didn't tell him anything about being in trouble. From that, I was sure that Abbott was already beginning to think that he should turn to the people he had known in prison. They were his people...
Because the N.Y.P.D. doesn't have the budget to send detectives around the country on a chase, Majeski had to track Abbott by telephone. He set up a command post in the basement of his Staten Island home. Using a nationwide network of law-enforcement contacts, he plotted Abbott's moves on a map of the U.S. Majeski's reading runs from works on psychology to Sherlock Holmes, and it served him well in his remote-control manhunt. So did In the Belly of the Beast. "All the clues to what he is, how he thinks, what...
...Majeski felt, was to keep the pressure on. "Abbott believed he would outsmart us all, find a place to hide and live out his life without a worry. But if he knew someone was on his trail and not giving up, then he would begin to worry." Majeski believed that Abbott would stay away from the airlines. "He'd never flown, and he wouldn't trust a plane. Besides, he's infatuated with buses. To him, they represent adventure and his dream of escape to somewhere else." Because Abbott had served a long sentence in Illinois...
Within the first week, Majeski had pinpointed Abbott traveling by bus from New York to Pennsylvania, then to Washington, D.C., and finally on to Chicago. At that point he was two days behind his quarry. Majeski assumed that Abbott would visit his sister in Salt Lake City, but he turned up instead in El Paso, Texas, then in Mexico City. By now the hunter was only one day behind the hunted. But then Majeski lost the trail and did not pick it up for another week, when Abbott was sighted in Vera Cruz...
Assigned to other cases in the busy Ninth Precinct, Majeski doggedly tracked Abbott in his free time. He amassed scores of details, hoping to detect a pattern and to anticipate Abbott's moves. When the fugitive left New York City, he had $200 in his pocket. He took odd jobs to earn more money, hitchhiked when he could not afford a bus, and sometimes lived off old friends or people he met along the way, to whom he introduced himself as Jack Eastman...