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This is US 93, a mostly two-laner along the rim of the Hoover Dam, 35 mi SE of Las Vegas. A slow, comm’l truck-filled border crossing, this area is highly patrolled at ALL times. It would be only too easy to spot his vehicle there …[/quote]
Maybe, if we knew what vehicle he was driving. But since his truck burned up, we don’t.
You gotta wonder if he might lay low for a while. Law enforcement can’t keep this level of presence up forever. Maybe he’ll wait until things settle down and then go after his primary target (whoever that is). Tough to lay low when you have such a distinctive appearance and everybody in the country is looking for you, I know. But maybe he’s had a plan for that all along.
I wonder if the whole truck thing was a ruse. If he planned this all weeks or months (or even years) in advance, he coulda had another car up there. So, bring your truck up there, the vehicle everybody is looking for. Break the axle, on purpose, by hitting a rock or something. (Who breaks an axle? That’s gotta be tough to do. He probably wouldn’t be driving like a maniac up there. It would only draw attention to himself. You gotta be stealthy in his situation.) You break the axle on purpose so that when they find your truck, they think you are in the immediate area. You have to be because you broke your axle and of course you didn’t bring an extra car.
Then he sets his truck on fire. Why set it on fire? To make sure it’s found. If he just left it there with a broken axle, it might taken a while for anybody to notice it and connect it to Dorner. If he sets it on fire, it gets noticed right away. Which is part of his plan.
Plus, why would he go to Big Bear (other than to perpetrate this ruse)?
So he gets everybody to think he’s in Big Bear, and then he scurries to god knows where to hide out. Or maybe there was another reason (a better one) for the ruse that I’m not thinking of.
He talked about using all his training, and the element of surprise. He said he would use unconventional and asymmetrical warfare. So, to me, him having such a plan doesn’t seem far-fetched.
