Ex-cop's remains identified

BIG BEAR LAKE, Calif. -- The burned remains found in a California mountain cabin have been positively identified as fugitive former police officer Christopher Dorner, officials said Thursday.

Jodi Miller, a spokeswoman for the San Bernardino County sheriff-coroner, said the identification was made through Dorner's dental records. She did not give a cause of death.

The search for Dorner began last week after authorities said he had begun a revenge campaign against the Los Angeles Police Department for his firing, warning he would bring "warfare" to LAPD officers and their families. Four people were killed.

The manhunt brought police to Big Bear Lake, 80 miles east of Los Angeles, where they found Dorner's burned-out pickup truck abandoned. His footprints disappeared on frozen soil and hundreds of officers failed to find him for five days.

The notion of Dorner holed up in a cabin just across the street from a police command post was shocking to many, but not totally surprising to some experts familiar with the complications of such a manhunt.

Police said Dorner died inside the burning cabin where he took cover during a blazing shootout. -- AP