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Topic: Couple recounts harrowing
Dorner ordeal |
Couple recounts harrowing
Dorner ordeal
Los Angeles Times, by Adolfo Flores and Robert J. Lopez
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Posted By:earlybird, 2/14/2013 7:34:47 PM
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| Fugitive former police officer Christopher Jordan Dorner was apparently holed up inside a Big Bear area condo for as many as five days before the husband and wife who own the property surprised him and then were tied up and gagged, the couple said Wednesday night. (Snip)The couple said Dorner had been at the condo in the 1200 block of Club View Drive since as early as Friday, when they arrived to do maintenance in the yard. He told them he watched them — and even said they were "hardworking, good people." The couple slept at another property nearby.
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Comments:
They didn´t enter the condo until Tuesday.
Interesting that Dorner told them he had "no problem with" them, that "I just want to clear my name".
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
earlybird, 2/14/2013 7:36:04 PM (No. 9177016)
This is the condo very near the sheriffs department command center. Dorner could watch what was happening at and around the command center from an upstairs window.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino, 2/14/2013 7:46:42 PM (No. 9177047)
Very interesting.
The folks who escaped from Dorner are interviewed the next day - - but the folks who escaped from Benghazi remain gagged for over five months.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
NorthernDog, 2/14/2013 8:11:15 PM (No. 9177106)
I wonder if they feel traumatized. Some people can initially shrug off an event like that, but then the fear settles in later.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Calico Al, 2/14/2013 8:31:22 PM (No. 9177136)
"I just want to clear my name". Thats going around lately.All you have to do is go out and kill some people and bingo your name is cleared.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
reilly, 2/14/2013 9:39:04 PM (No. 9177247)
He left her access to her cell phone? Not exactly detective material.
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