Just when and how accused cop-killer Eric Frein, who was captured by U.S. marshals Thursday, suffered facial wounds, remains to be seen.

Conflicting statements from Pennsylvania State Police and U.S. Marshals have been reported about how Frein, 31, of Canadensis, got a gash on his nose and a scrape over his eye that were clearly visible in photographs and video widely disseminated in the media after his capture outside an abandoned airplane hangar in the Poconos.Frein is charged with first-degree murder in the Sept. 12 ambush that killed Cpl. Bryon Dickson and critically wounded trooper Alex Douglass at their barracks in Blooming Grove, Pike County. He was caught on the 48th day of a massive manhunt in the Poconos.State police Commissioner Frank Noonan had said in a news conference Thursday night that Frein suffered the wounds while still on the run before his capture.During a news conference following Frein's arraignment Friday, state police Lt. Col. George Bivens echoed Noonan's explanation.Their fugitive had acquired the scratch on his nose and the bruises at some point when he was on the run, he said. Bivens went as far as to say Frein explained this to state police."There was no struggle with law enforcement," Bivens said. "He has talked to us about some things that occurred to him while he made his way through the woods and so forth over that 40-plus day period, but those injuries occurred to him at some point in his flight."New detailsHowever, the Associated Press reported on Saturday that U.S. Marshals Scott Malkowski and Scott Kimball said Frein suffered the injuries "while they had him down on the pavement."On Thursday, Kimball was stationed in a command post while Malkowski and other members of the team acting on a request from Pennsylvania State Police worked to clear an abandoned resort. About two hours in, Malkowski and two others approached the hangar at the old Birchwood-Pocono Airpark."We just had a hunch that if we were on the run, this is a place we would hide," he said.Once Frein was spotted, Malkowski and his team sneaked up on the fugitive. They were about 25 yards away when Frein finally realized he wasn't alone. Malkowski identified himself as law enforcement and ordered Frein, who was unarmed but had weapons in the hangar, to get on the ground.The marshals told the AP that Frein made no attempt to flee and didn't put up a fight.Local talk radio host Steve Corbett on Monday reported on-air that some members of the state police are claiming that U.S. Marshals Service representatives did not provide accurate information when they told Bivens that Frein suffered the injuries before they took him into custody."My source says that's why Noonan and Bivens repeated the story that marshals now dispute with their admission that they ground Frein's face into the asphalt," Corbett wrote in an email to Maria Finn, Noonan's press secretary, asking her on Monday if that were true.Finn replied that Noonan and Bivens have only repeated what the U.S. Marshals Service reported to them at their briefing the night Frein was taken into custody."This is why we are referring all media questions on this specific issue to the USMS. Our troopers were not on scene when Frein was apprehended so we can only provide what we were told directly from the USMS that is, the facial injuries happened prior to arrest. The discrepancy should be addressed by the USMS," Finn wrote to Corbett.Time on the runAuthorities said they were trying to reconstruct Frein's time on the run. They believe he broke into cabins and other places for food and shelter, and he evidently found time to shave he had a neatly trimmed goatee when he was caught.State police Lt. Col George Bivens put the cost of the manhunt at about $10 million.Troopers questioned Frein, but authorities would not disclose what he told them or discuss a possible motive. Authorities have said Frein had expressed anti-law enforcement views online and to people who knew him.He is being held without bail in the Pike jail pending a preliminary hearing, which is tentatively scheduled for Nov. 12.IsolationFrein has not had any visitors at the Pike County Correctional Facility as of midafternoon Monday, Sgt. George Kumburis said."He's in isolation," Kumburis said. "He's in (protective custody) max status. He's closely observed, eating normally ... he hasn't requested anything. He hasn't really spoken much."He's confined to a 5-by-7 foot cell, complete with a toilet, bed and water fountain. He's allowed showers."He's provided everything that he's entitled to," Sgt. Kumburis said.Two Pike County public defenders have been specially appointed to represent accused cop killer Frein.Michael Weinstein and Robert Bernathy, both part-time public defenders, were appointed Monday and will be paid a rate of $178 per hour, which is the rate paid to federal public defenders in capital homicide cases, Weinstein said. The payment is in addition to the annual salary he and Bernathy earn as public defenders.Weinstein said he was on his way to meet Frein at the Pike County Correctional Facility Monday afternoon. He would not comment further.Pike County District Attorney Ray Tonkin has said he plans to seek the death penalty for Frein, who is charged with first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, aggravated assault and several other offenses in connection with Sept. 12 sniper attack.The Associated Presscontributed to this report.