What's wrong with this picture?
As far as burning out a confirmed criminal, they did that back in the days of John Wilkes Booth and he only had one confirmed kill at the time.
What bothers me is that it is more than 224 hours after the incident and they still have no confirmation it was the perp!
It shouldn't take that long even with crispy remains. They can't be that crispy or his driver's license wouldn't have survived. Beyond dental records, there is also DNA evidence which he must have left from the navy and the LAPD.
Gordon Kahl died in a similar incident in 1983 in Arkansas which also included a burnt down structure and charred remains. However, they had a positive identification almost immediately with technology 30 years older.
Please forgive the typo. I looked up the Gordon Kahl shootout at Medina, North Dakota and found out it happened exactly 30 years ago yesterday . . . while Kahl himself escaped to Arkansas, laid low and lived four more months.