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this is "nightline." tonight, captured. after a massive manhunt, one of the fbi's most wanted men is now in custody. eric frein. accused of ambushing and killing a state trooper. he then vanished into the wilderness, with feerms he might strike again, entire communities were on lockdown. how police finally got him. plus, the catcall backlash. women fighting back against street harassment by going undercover. but this video gone viral is now provoking a controversy of its own. and, eye of the beholder. like zoe's eyes or maybe zach's? now, you can buy them. in a controversial surgical procedure that lets you choose the color of the windows to your
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pennsylvania state trooper, then vanished into the woods, touching off a frustrating and dangerous game of cat and mouse with police. an exhaustive manhunt lasting more than a month. entire communities advised to stay indoors. schools shut down. and tonight, abc's linzie janis items us how police finally got their man. >> reporter: tonight, a 48-day manhunt over at last. accused cop killer eric frein finally taken alive. shown here in the first photos of him in custody. bloody nosed and somehow clean-shaven. >> we have stated early on that we would not rest until this capture was made and i am so pleased to be able to say that tonight, we have made that major step that has to be taken down the path of justice. >> reporter: the desperate search for the fugitive came to an end tonight when frein was discovered hiding near an airport hangar at birchwood-pocono air park.
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captured would a shot fired. >> they saw an individual that they thought was eric frein and they ordered him to surrender, to get down on his knees and raise his hands, which is what he did. >> reporter: it is a hard-won victory for pennsylvania police. >> you never know where you're going to find someone like this or how. many were thinking they were going to find him deep in the woods. and there he is, right near an airport, clean-shaven. maybe that was the disguise. >> reporter: eric frein is a self-described survivalist and a war re-enactor. >> it's not vietnam. it's not a place to really try and re-enact a battle. >> reporter: he has terrorized northeastern pennsylvania for over a month. alluding capture somewhere in these dense woods. communities across the poconos have been in lockdown. schools closed for days. some towns even canceling halloween trick or treating. for fear that the fugitive
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considered armed and dangerous would surface. >> do not leave your vehicle. take cover and stay by your vehicle. >> reporter: it all began september 12th. police believe that using a sniper rifle, frein shot and killed 38-year-old pennsylvania state trooper byron dixon and critically injured alex douglass. just outside their barracks during a shift change. all from the cover of dense woods. >> this attack was an ambush. >> reporter: frein became one of the fbi's most wanted fugitives. with a $175,000 bounty on his head. >> in the event you are listening to this broadcast on the radio, on a portable radio, while cowering in some cool, damp hiding place, i want you to know one thing. eric, we are coming for you. it is only a matter of time until we bring you to justice for committing this cowardly act. >> reporter: in the early day us, authorities were clear, they were going to track him down. but finding eric frein proved extremely difficult.
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a search full of twists and turns. and false leads. the first clues -- frein's abandoned jeep found only two miles from where the shooting occurred. inside, his driver's license, shell casings that matched the murder weapon and camouflage face paint. >> we believe that frein has prepared and planned extensively for months or maybe years for this attack and his efforts to avoid apprehension. >> reporter: as heavily armed s.w.a.t. teams swarmed the woods, schools were closed across the search area. just to give you an idea what the searchers are up against, that police officer is roughly 75 yards away from me. i can hardly see him. and getting to him quickly through these trees would be even harder. more and more clues about frein's location began to surface in the woods. guns, pipe bomb and then, most chilling -- his journal, describing in hand-written detail the moment he allegedly fired those shots. >> got a shot around 11:00 p.m.
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and took it. he dropped. i was surprised at how quick. i took a followup shot on his head/neck area. he was still and quiet after that. >> reporter: thousands of residents like jane whitecell were told to lock windows and doors and keep porch lights on throughout the night. >> every day i come out and make sure, was it picked? and i check this and i shake it. >> reporter: you can tell if somebody has broken in? while jane's daughter logged on to listen to police scanners. >> right now, there's 905 listeners on this one so far. last night, there was about 6,000 listening. >> reporter: then, on october 17th, a woman out for a walk says she came within 15 feet of the armed man as he emerged from the woods near his old high school. she spoke with wnep, but too afraid to show her face. >> yeah, he was holding the gun
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down and facing away from me. >> the individual's description was consistent with frein and he was observed carrying a rifle. >> reporter: others thinking of how they would protect themselves. have you thought about what you'd do if you see him in your backyard? >> i don't think he stands a chance if he comes in my backyard. >> reporter: at last tonight, weeks of terror and, in a capture pulled off without a shot fired. >> he was turned over to the pennsylvania state police. corporal dixon's hand cup cus w placed on him. >> reporter: and end that raises questions. what happened between the 20 miles of the scene of the crime. >> my guess is that he's been indoors. was he outside? desperateness sets in. >> with the accused cop killer in custody tonight, the residents of this area can breathe a sigh of relief.
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>> let me assure you, from everybody here, justice will be served. >> reporter: and perhaps some closure for the family of the slain officer. for "nightline," i'm linzie janis in new york. coming up here on "nightline," what one woman exposed when she was filmed walking through the city streets. and the debate over catcalling that it is setting off tonight. also, if emma stone's eyes have you seeing green, you can now buy a pair for yourself, but is it worth the cost and the risk? crowd this big, your everyday dishes will only go so far. literally. you had to go deep into the cupboard. embarrassingly deep. can this mismatched mess be conquered... by a little bit of dish liquid? it can if it's dawn ultra. it's more concentrated... ...just one bottle has the grease cleaning power of two bottles of this bargain brand. here's to the over-extended
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the viral video came out this week that got a lot of attention for an issue many people overlook or don't even know exists. especially those that happen to be middle aged and male. women being harassed on the street. in this video, you see a woman walking through new york, repeatedly being catcalled by men. tonight, we see if we can replicate the experiment and we ask, was the original video racist? here's abc's linsey davis. >> god bless you, mami. >> reporter: it's the video that sparked a media frenzy. in just ten hours, shoshanna roberts said she got cat called more than 100 times. >> i'm so fed up. that was a tip came day. it really was. it's an days less, some days mo. >> reporter: every day? >> yes. >> reporter: from the ladies on "the view." >> when they become weird like that one guy following her for so long, it's so scary. >> reporter: to the twitter
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sphere. this walk down the streets of new york is parking a national conversation. >> how are you doing? >> hey, champ, you like football? >> reporter: and spawning parodies, like this funny or die video. >> you're the kind of new york! you're the king! >> that bulge real? >> reporter: and a few months back, buzzfeed showed what it would be like if women catcalled. >> bet those arms could put together my ikea furniture. >> reporter: but for women who say they are subjected to catcalling, it's no latching matter. one of our staffers said she heard her first catcall when she was 11 years old. >> it makes you feel like you are street meat. >> reporter: and it hasn't stopped since. with our hidden cameras rolling, to experience what she endured first hand, our colleague took a walk, much like the one shoshann took. while some men just looked, this man couldn't help but call out. >> damn, mami. >> what did he say?
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>> damn mami. >> reporter: i was behind her. >> excuse me, guys. >> reporter: after hearing what i said, i decided to ask him why he said. what makes you actually say it? that's what makes you say damn. you didn't mean -- >> no. >> reporter: but our colleague says it doesn't feel like a compliment. >> i feel like i'm part of a circus. on display for their entertainment. >> sister, that's how you treat your brother? >> it's frustrating. should be able to walk in peace. when i'm having a bad day at work, it makings it worse. when i'm having a good day, they make my day bad. i want to be left alone. >> hey, beautiful. >> reporter: in the original video, shoshanna did not confront any of the men. but more women are fighting
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back. exposing catcallers for what they are. >> i'm just saying i love your dress. just a compliment. >> i know you mean it as a compliment, but i don't take it as one. >> women just say, well, i don't like it, but i'm not going to say anything because that's just how it is. >> reporter: 28-year-old linzie who would like to keep her last name private, created cards against harassment last fall. posting cards for people to hand out to those who comment on their appearance in public. >> tell you what. i'm going to give you a card. >> reporter: with sayings like -- >> someone simply walking, jogging, biking in your line of sight isn't an ini havation for you to comment on how they look. next time, just say hello. >> reporter: she says most of the encounters happen on her daily walk to work. >> when you dress the way you are -- >> i'm dressed for work. these are my professional clothes. >> reporter: it happened so much, she started secretly filming with her iphone. we've blurred the faces and changed the voices of the men
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who lindsay claims are guilty of street harassment. >> if you smeiled -- >> if women don't think they can have public safety, that's a problem. >> reporter: sometimes their confrontations get apologies. >> if i made you feel uncomfortable, i'm sorry. >> reporter: but others? >> if you have the freedom of speech to holler if you want to holler. it's my freedom to holler at you. >> i don't know if i'm changing hearts and minds, but if they are being annoying to me, i'm entitled to be annoying back to them. >> reporter: like lindsay, women say it's all types of men. but many criticize this video for being racist. >> white woman does this video and bringing sexual harassment to the forefront and everyone's paying attention. mostly because it's a white woman who is being sexually harassed by men of color. >> reporter: based on what we see of this video, it gives the appearance that most of the men making the comments were black or latino. >> when something bad or harmful
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or fearful happens to white women, everyone reacts. when something bad or harmful or fearful happens to black women, it's a black woman's problem. do y >> reporter: do you think the video portrays that the calls come from only black men and latino men? >> there are white men in the video. it goes quickly, but there are white member. there are latino men. there are black men. and they are asian men. there's everybody. >> reporter: you wouldn't say that your catcalled more often from black men and latino men? >> not at all. >> reporter: the filmmaker defends the final product. >> it was a broad spectrum of people that were saying different stuff. this is a small sample size. it's not going to perfectly represent what is happening in the real world. >> damn, mami. >> what did he say? >> damn, mami. >> reporter: while it may be a fine line, the women they talk to know right iowa when a friendly he local crosses the
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line into the offensivoffensive. >> they're belittling you and trying to make you feel that you are a sexual object to them and they have the right to talk to you and approach you any type of way. >> reporter: black or white, street harassment is something many women deal with. do you consider it harassment? >> i would, yeah. >> reporter: even if it's just hey, good morning. >> you don't see women calling out to men in that way. you don't see, like, hey, sexy, tight butt! i just don't think -- i'm not comfortable. >> reporter: it is -- you live in new york. >> it happens all the time. >> reporter: what surprised the women we talked to most is that shoshanna wasn't wearing revealing clothing. >> it's entering your personal space when you haven't been open to it. >> reporter: all three of you could relate to this woman? >> yes. >> it disrupts my daily rife. >> reporter: perhaps even more shocking, shoshanna says she's getting rape threats. perhaps more reason that when she hears something like this --
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>> hey, look it there! >> reporter: it's far from flattery. >> damn, girl. >> reporter: for "nightline," i'm linsey davis in new york. up next here on "nightline," think your eye color is a little blah? wish you could look like megan fox? wait until you see what you can now do about it. creeping up on you... fight back with relief so smooth...
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and finally tonight here, we live in a country where plastic surgery is becoming the norm. but what you're about to see pushes the limits by any measure. it's a surgery to change your eye color that is expensive and risky. and you're going to meet one woman who did it anyway. >> they call them the win dopes to the soul. zoe's got dazzling blue eyes. zach can steal the spotlight from anyone with his blue steel. that pose made famous in "zhaolander." and now, no matter what nature gave you, you can have your pick of the color pallet. just ask tamika harris from "t.i. and tiny," the family hustle. who this month began seeing life through different eyes, thanks to iris implant surgery. your eyes were brown before. >> they were brown. >> reporter: now, they're quite
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light. >> they are ice gray. that's the color that i purchased. >> reporter: the reality starlet's has, rapper t.i., says, you can do whatever you like. so, she went gray in a glam way. >> they go into the eye and they make a little slit. they take this implant and they spread it over your eye. >> reporter: she didn't blink twice at the $8,000 price tag. >> i looked in the mirror and i was like -- they're amazing. >> reporter: the operation, not approved in the u.s. so, you decided to go to africa. what exactly did they say they would do to your eyes? >> they told me that the procedure was -- it would be quick, like, five, ten minutes and eye. >> reporter: people have had complications. people have had blurred or permanently damaged vision. >> i haven't really seen those risks with this company. >> reporter: now tiny has that icy stare she's always dreamed of. >> i just wanted to do something different. and it's -- i have the right to
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do that. it's my body. >> reporter: but with no long-term studies, it's not clear when or if complications could arise. for "nightline," i'm deborah roberts in new york. >> our thanks to deborah roberts for that story and thank you for watching "nightline" tonight. tune into "gma" first thing in the morning for their big halloween bonn unanimous sa. in the meantime, we're online 24/7, as always, at abcnews.com. thanks again for watching and good night.
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