The thing is, if he was good, he'd have had his face everywhere and still gotten away with it. You just need to be 100% ghost when you're committing the crime.
Like, you come up with a perfectly valid reason to be in town. Visiting a campus, whatever. Stroll around big and bold, doing your tourist stuff, right out in the open.
When you do your crime, 100% different clothes, even and especially your shoes. Zero evidence behind. Go back to tourist or whatever stuff. You get cleared as just some guy who was around, for a good reason, and obviously not hiding out.