All of the articles and stories about how "LE thinks he is so smart" end up being stories that quote opinions of friends or people with inside knowledge. I, however, IMO don't think he is really all that smart.
A story previously linked has a girl saying how he knows how to manipulate cell signals and bounce them off other towers. This assumes that LE knows he is using a cell phone and knows exactly what phone he is using. I have not read or seen any information from LE saying they know about a cell phone. They probably would not release that even if they did. They know he ditched his personal phone, and they have it. I am 1000% confident that if LE finds evidence of him using a trac phone or whatever, they will be able to locate him instantly. It is not physically possible to " hide" a phone's signal from any tower.
The only possibility is for him to hack the cell provider's entire internal system and physically erase all traces of his phone's communications with any tower it "talks" to. This would be a very impressive high-level operation requiring extreme equipment, skills, and knowledge. He has no access to any of these.
He would have to be some world-class hacker to pull that off, and I highly doubt he is. Besides, who is he calling anyway? Anyone who hears his voice and doesn't report it immediately is aiding and abetting a murderer - which carries it's own prison term! And that is true even if someone hears his voice and hangs up on him. If anyone has the slightest clue of his whereabouts or has any information at all, they have a legal duty to report it.
I don't think his address book is very big, at this point in his lawless life!
About him "hacking" a computer to get passwords? Big deal. As another post has pointed out, that's simple. Any 13 yo could do that nowadays. Especially since he probably had physical access to her machine. Download a key-logger on it. Easy as pie. That kind of knowledge and skill wouldn't help him hide from LE.
We know he's not all that smart. If he was smart, no body would have been found. If he was smart, he would not tell anyone what he did. If he was smart, he could have made it look like an accident - or had something happen when he was 100 miles away with an ironclad alibi. The way he went about this made him a wanted murderer running for his life. That, IMO, is not smart.
Sure, it can be factored in that this was probably a crime of passion - brought on in a sudden rage - so he has to deal with that. I don't think "smart" people do things like that, but even if you ignore that - you could say, "but he is really smart, and that is how he is alluding capture". I still call bs because after his insane moment of murder, he hasn't exhibited any sign (that I am aware of) of any real brilliance.
He let evidence be found. He told his brother what he did. He allowed himself to be spotted (the
Columbus incident). He has no alibi for the crime, in fact everything he's done since practically proves his guilt. Any jury will convict him, based on his own actions.
That's why I don't think he is smart. Lucky? Ya, so far, but that's all he is - just lucky . . . So far.
