As authorities spent weeks looking for accused killer Eric Frein in eastern Pennsylvania , he apparently was using his laptop to access open wireless connections and gain access to the Internet . According to an application for a search warrant filed by the Pennsylvania State Police , Frein had a Lenovo Thinkpad and two portable storage drives with him when the 31-year-old survivalist and military buff was captured last week at an abandoned airport near Tannersville , Pennsylvania . Authorities want to know what is on the laptop and on Saturday asked a judge for permission to search the computer . Frein told authorities he used the laptop and unsecured Wi-Fi accounts during the nearly seven-week long search , the court document says . A crew from CNN affiliate WNEP drove down the road near where he was taken into custody and found a few homes that could have provided the open access . One of the websites he could have accessed provided links to listen to police radio traffic , WNEP reported . The application for the warrant also describes how authorities had already searched a computer from Frein 's home and discovered some disturbing Internet searches that went back to November 2012 . The searches included : `` how to escape a manhunt , '' `` can police track cell phone '' and `` ballistics trajectory calculator . '' Frein is charged with first-degree murder and other crimes in a September 12 ambush outside the state police barracks in Blooming Grove . He 's accused of killing Cpl . Bryon Dickson and wounding Trooper Alex T. Douglass before melting into the thick Pennsylvania woods .
On the night he was arrested , Eric Frein told cops he had a laptop he had been using . Some homes near the airport he was found at have open wireless connections . Frein avoided capture for almost seven weeks .