As news of the capture of her son's alleged killer played across her TV screen, Darla Dickson decided not to wake her husband.

He slept soundly in the bedroom, unaware that state police had just captured Eric Matthew Frein, the 31-year-old Canadensis man accused of killing Cpl. Bryon K. Dickson II and wounding Trooper Alex T. Douglass in an ambush Sept. 12.For the past 48 days, she's waited for this news. She knew it would come eventually. She is a woman of powerful faith, and it helped her find peace after the loss of her son."It doesn't change our circumstances," she said. "It just changes how we'll view the next few days with some relief in our hearts."She compared the feeling of Frein's capture to a woman's feeling after she gives birth a release of the tight bundle of tension wrapped around her child.Mrs. Dickson works as a housekeeper at Wyoming Area School District. Mr. Dickson works at Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation in Jessup.After Cpl. Dickson's death, they only took about a week to grieve before going back to work."We're working people," she said.The long, unusual hours keep the Dicksons from knowing all their neighbors, but the ones they do know have poured out support, she said. So have their "church family" at Mill City Assembly of God.Mrs. Dickson's love of God flows through her with almost every sentence, guiding her after her son's death."It hurts that Bryon is gone, but there's a great hope and peace with us," she said. "Man didn't give it, and man can't take it away."She remembers standing next to her son's casket in St. Peter's Cathedral in Scranton an unusual place for a Pentecostal. She placed her hand on her son's body."Boy, in just a little while, I'm going to see you," she said.Thinking of Frein, her shoulders looked relaxed, and her face seemed clear and calm. She seemed at peace."I don't wish death on him because that's hatred, and that's what feeds him," she said.But thinking about Frein's parents, she began to weep."I wonder how it would feel to be the parents of a man who did such a horrible, horrible thing," she said. "Our hearts are broken by the sins of the son that afflicted the parents."She thinks God could still work in Frein's life. She brought up Saul of Tarsus, a Biblical figure who looked on as the Pharisees killed the Apostle Stephen for his faith before becoming a follower of Jesus, changing his name and writing most of the New Testament."Man has not the capacity to forgive like God does," she said.But she is glad Frein will see justice. So is her brother-in-law, Tony Dickson, who called from Idaho and left a message on the Dickson's answering machine."They caught Frein! Yeeeeaaah!" he said.Mrs. Dickson said she told state police Lt. Col. George Bivens early in the search that she never doubted the y would find Frein."I think my son is well-pleased," she said. "I think he is a proud state trooper."Police stood outside Cpl. Dickson's home in Dunmore Thursday night and said no one would be allowed to speak to his widow, Tiffany.Douglass' family could not be reached Thursday night for comment.A former colleague of Frein's said Thursday he was surprised that the suspected cop killer had been caught so suddenly.Jeremiah D. Hornbaker, who hired Frein in 2009 to work behind the scenes on a World War I documentary, was quoted in the Los Angeles Times on Sunday as saying, "they are really not going to catch him until he is ready to be caught. He is a very intelligent individual."On Thursday, Hornbaker told the Times-Tribune, a Times-Shamrock newspaper, "maybe he (Mr. Frein) was done running.""I don't know if the weather played a role, and I don't know what his physical or mental state is right now," he said. "I'm just surprised be cause it's been dragging on for almost two months, and it just came out of the blue."Hornbaker, who owns a company that provides props and set dressing for historical films, said he is headed to Tucson, Ariz., early Friday with Frein's longtime friend, Justin Smith, to work on another project.Smith was in Virginia working on a project on Sept. 12, the day of the ambush, when he received a text message from Frein that read, "all is good." Frein told Smith that he had stayed at Smith's East Stroudsburg apartment on Sept. 11, met his aunt and was heading to Delaware but would be back the next week.Police believe he had no intention of going to Delaware but instead opened fire on the troopers just hours later.During a search of Smith's apartment days later, police recovered several boxes of ammunition and 10 dirty gun cleaning patches, according to a search warrant."I think when Justin finds out about this, he will be greatly relieved," Hornbake r said. "It really upset his world and threw him for a couple of weird loops."I think, if anything, this helps bring closure to the situation and allows us to hear the full story, to see what happened from the beginning to the end."Luke Ranker, staff writer, contributed to this report.