Posted on 02/12/2013 12:32:31 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Some manhunts can take a few days. Others, years.
With hundreds of officers deployed across Southern California looking out for accused cop-killer Christopher Dorner, there's no telling how long this one might last.
"We've had cases where fugitives have been captured in a day, a week, a month," FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller said. "But certainly, there's an urgency here because of the ongoing threat."
Dorner, a former Los Angeles Police Department officer, has targeted cops in a manifesto he issued online as a vendetta for his dismissal from the department. He is accused of killing a Riverside police officer in an ambush and shooting at other officers. He also allegedly murdered the daughter of the former police captain who defended him in department hearings, and her fiance.
"I can't speculate as to how long he'll be on the loose. It's the great unknown," Eimiller added. "These cases vary wildly as far as how they're solved. Some cases, all you need is that one tip, that one phone call."
She said "at any given time there are thousands of fugitives on the loose - many for murder - and law enforcement are working on those cases every day."
Eimiller pointed to the 16-year search for James "Whitey" Bulger, a Boston mob boss who was wanted for 19 murders, money laundering, extortion and drug dealing. At one point Bulger was listed as No. 2 on the FBI's 10 most-wanted list, with a $2 million reward offered. It was a tip from the public after a media campaign by the FBI that led to his arrest in 2011 in a Santa Monica apartment.
Right ahead of Bulger on that list, of course, was Osama bin Laden, who was not found and killed until almost 10 years after the Sept. 11, 2001...
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I believe he killed and he likes it. He will be back.
Yea, I initially thought the ditched vehicle was a decoy but now with the news that it had a broken axle, he might still be up there
And here's another thought, it's unlikely it broke on the highway so where was he "off roading"?
He’s an ice cube somewhere within 15 miles of where the truck was found, is my expectation.
They’ll find him in the Spring thaw dead in a ditch with bugs up his nose.
Is that $1,000,000 with a Dead or Alive clause?
...and I just thought about taking a week vacation, nevermind
,,,bugs up His nose.
“It will bring out the desperate, disparate and retarded...”
I thought that’s who was chasing him these past few days.
The LAPD didn’t want to be accused of racial profiling, so they didn’t send out a description of a 300 pound black man; that’s why they shot up a couple of asian women delivering papers. Political correctness will get us all killed.
I have a strong suspicion that he may be one of many small "rumblings" that will get things rolling.
It’s not profiling, its facts. Dude is black.
It's Los Angeles -- they don't have basements there.
It would be nice to see a Dog take down a [ex]police officer for a change.
Respectfully, I’ve lived in So.Cal. since 1981, have never seen a basement, here. Thanks.
And, very few Black men at Big Bear or Arrowhead! Doener would stand out like a sore thumb.
Agreed. I think he is either dead, in a snowbank, or long gone from the area.
Hey.... That wuz a cheap shot...erh...errant...uhm .....how low can you go....do, do, do, duh, do.....
You can still take a weak vacation ....
Law enforcements actions to date answer the question.
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