When the FBI finally got their man he was found living at the end of a long, narrow track which forms part of the footpath on a steep, thickly-forested hill leading towards the popular Cadair Ifan Goch viewing point and the stunning views it offers across the Carneddau mountains of Eryri.
Llidiart y Coed benefits from the same breathtaking scenery.
Large swathes of the Conwy river are clearly visible below, snaking its way to the sea a few miles to the north, while the icy face of Carnedd Llewelyn glistens in the distance beyond.
Only the low-level hum of traffic rising from the A470 reminds you just how close you are to modern life.
Llidiart y Coed was once just a small, two-storey Welsh cottage. But a large, single-storey flat roof extension, glazed over with a late November frost, now provides the main living area.
Details of how the man known locally as Danny Webb lived in this Welsh idyll will, perhaps, emerge in the days to come. There are suggestions he was a keen mountain biker and a wetsuit hanging just inside a door indicates a man who enjoyed the great outdoors.
But after 20 years on the run, Daniel Andreas San Diego’s next home, presumably in a prison cell, will be very different.
