I know people like to be right about stuff, but crowing about being right about this is weird to me. to put it kindly. And how do you know he didn't blow his brains out before the fire?

The police fired tear gas into the cabin. Dorner figured the end was near and killed himself since the police heard one gunshot after they fired tear gas inside. The tear gas caused the fire. He's being cremated.

He didn't have the cojones to Butch Cassidy it.

he may have started the fire then shot himself
of course the first thing the media says is usually wrong so we will wait for more information
personally I hate this type of reporting and just turned it off

foot prints leading away from back door of cabin.

How do you know she did not mean it that way?

can't wait for your followup about how awful Ed Gein was.

'disappeared' before.

know if they were shot from the cabin or if he was in there at the time.

There was a news reporter on scene hiding from the shots.

No puns, no puns.

He probably shot himself before burning.

recognized it when he turned the TV on. Oops...all gone.

Just not in the form you're thinking of.

I got nothing.

Back in the early 1980's a group of right wing militia in Idaho were robbing banks in the Pac. NW to support their gun fetish.
One of the ring leaders was pursued onto Whidbey Island and holed up a street away from my house.
( really dumb thing to do, there is only one road off the island)
All sorts of police were at both ends of the road where he was holed up in a cabin, including 2 fire trucks.
I thought that a bit strange at the time.
But 4 hours later, the cabin burst into flames, and the fire trucks went in, the guy was declared dead in the press.

Few years later, Waco happened.

Seemed less co-incidental and more of a pattern.

the cops kill random, innocent people? Don't join a rw militia and rob banks?

remember what happened to the S.L.A. after Patty Hurst was rescued

That was part of the pattern that clicked in my mind.
Almost a forgone conclusion, actually.

I want hear about that martian that recently quit his job!

you can bank on it.

It minimizes the risk of casualties to those laying siege and gives the people inside an incentive to get out. It's how the government approached the end game of the Branch Davidians and in dealing with Bob Mathews of the Order for example.

on Whidbey. Had forgotten his name till you mentioned it.

Courtroom.

Neither did he.

Hell, I watched Waco. I was surprised they didn't firebomb the cabin sooner. Ugly, ugly stuff, all of it.

Same thread, note the time.

didn't see it, we were eating dinner.

that they won't go near the cabin until it has completely burned down/out.

Just wow. My skin feels like there's a million ants crawling over it.

Won't even bother to put the fire out, why? This will be a complete cremation with no or hardly any evidence to sift through including bones.

Maybe they don't want to approach in case he is holed up nearby, or under the cabin,somehow escaping the fire..
They gotta find enough bones to declare he is indeed dead tho.
And according to the cremation industry, some bones survive even the hottest cremation fires.
( I read the damnest things, don'tcha know)

Suspect. Everything the police state does should be considered suspicious until found otherwise.

of potential weapons, bombs, booby-traps. Too risky considering his training and military service.

I would like to know because I have heard HE started the fire....

the man was a monster but I still would like to know who started the fire..

I hope the families of his victims get the answers they need

was he still in the cabin?

Thanks in advance

lost

which indicate several versions, one of them being tear gas cannisters
another story said police were mum about who started fire, which is interesting in itself.
But I cannot think of any reason to be holed up in a cabin and then set fire to it.

This:
It was not clear who set the fire in the Big Bear community where Dorner apparently has been hiding since sometime last week.
from
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/02/12/fugitive-ex-cop-exchanges-fire-with-authorities-ap-source-says/


yeah, I know it is Fox, but it was what came up on the Google news search.

I guess there was too much media around to string him up and hang him..

so it was pretty certain all bets were off of him being taken alive.

Not happy with "terrorist" definition being expanded to cover what we used to call "criminals" or "killers".