MOOERS -- A routine task took Darcy R. Manor to the camp where he was murdered Thursday night.

"He was fixing a pump or something, just helping out," said Stacy Manor, brother of the Mooers man, whose murderer remained at large Friday.

State Police mounted a search statewide and beyond for Manor's teal, 1992 Ford pickup truck, cautioning anyone who spots it to immediately call for help.

"Don't approach it," said New York State Police Troop B commander Maj. Richard Smith.

Manor's attacker -- or attackers -- are considered very dangerous and possibly armed, he said.

State Police increased patrols in the Mooers area; Bureau of Criminal Investigation Capt. Robert LaFountain said during an afternoon news conference they would continue around the clock, as would the command post at the Mooers Fire Station on Route 11.

"We want the people who reside in this area to use extreme caution," he said. "There is a murderer or murderers on the loose."

Police revealed no details about how Manor died.

Manor's body was found at the camp -- Churubusco Lodge -- at about 12:10 a.m. Friday by a friend who had joined with others to search for him after he failed to return home Thursday evening.

Help was summoned by phone from a neighboring camp, police said.

Manor had closed DJ's Auto car-repair shop in Ellenburg Depot at about 5 p.m., Stacy said, then driven the pickup to the camp, where he was part-time caretaker.

"Come to get dark, his wife started wondering," he said, taking a few moments to talk about his brother at Ellenburg Depot Fire Station.

TALL MAN

There, after a long, middle-of-the-night drive from his job downstate at Greenhaven Correctional, Stacy helped load folding chairs and tables for use by loved ones gathering at his brother's residence, just a few miles from where he died.

Darcy Manor, a full-time Northern Adirondack Central School bus driver and longtime Ellenburg Depot Fire Department member, leaves his wife, Heather, and their two preschool-age sons, Jake and Evan.