Officials: Dorner died of single gunshot wound to head

Officials: Dorner died of single gunshot wound to head

(CBS/AP) LOS ANGELES - Investigators determined that the burned human remains found inside a cabin after a deadly shootout in the mountains in Southern California are those of Christopher Dorner, but there are still questions about how the ex-police

To track Christopher Dorner, police from dozens of agencies chased tips across multiple states and into Mexico. But it appears now that he found a hiding place where searchers were thickest. It is unclear how long Dorner, 33, was hunkered down in the

What appeared to be the last stages of the largest manhunt in Los Angeles Police Department history unfolded on live television on Tuesday.

The fire that killed former Los Angeles police officer Christopher Dorner on Tuesday has drawn comparisons to the deadly 1993 raid on the Branch Davidian complex in Waco, Texas, and the 1985 police bombing of the MOVE headquarters in Philadelphia.

If Dorner didn't die (and is later caught), the nation would likely be forced to confront one of the biggest fiascoes in the American legal systemâ€"the death penalty in California.