10:30pm/wednesday: attempted theft Southwestern Yacht Club near Point Loma
yacht club ---> San Diego airport: 4 miles/11 minutes
time unknown/wednesday: discard briefcase/wallet/badge/ID near airport
SD airport ---> Corona: 100-115 miles/90 minutes-2 hrs depending on route
1:30am/thursday: shooting in Corona
Corona ---> Riverside: 13 miles/20 mins
time unknown/thursday: shootings in Riverside
Riverside ---> Big Bear/near 2N10 abandoned truck: 55-70 miles/90 mins-2 hrs
8:30am/thursday: reports surface that burned truck is being investigated
1:00pm/thursday: truck found in Poway w/ plates registered to Dorner
(Poway truck's stolen plates found on burned truck)
2:30pm/thursday: announcement that burned truck belongs to Dorner
(that's when they announced it, not when they knew it)
http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2013...hunt-for-suspected-killer-christopher-dorner/
it's a really tight timeline. three hours between theft attempt at 10:30pm and first shooting at 1:30am, w/ about 2 hours of that time spent driving. plus however long it took in Poway (north of SD) to decide which truck plates to steal and get 'er done
cannot find link giving exact time of Riverside shootings which came next. referring to 1:30am Corona shooting, all articles say "a short time later, in Riverside ... "
20 minutes from Corona to Riverside, guesstimate the second shooting at 2am
it takes 90 minutes-2 hours to go from Riverside to Big Bear. now we're at 4am
it's illogical that he would make a 45-minute drive up a mountain hwy to rush to a back-country road so he could immediately burn his only transportation. that cannot have been his purpose. if he had other means of transportation he would't have abandoned the outdoor gear and weapons found in the truck. I exclude the use of a bike or motorcycle because he is not traveling light enough for that mode of transportation. he had to have spent time doing something once he arrived in Big Bear, driving by locations, planning that day's events, examining his life, whatever. then the truck got stuck or the axle broke and he unloaded/cached some of his gear/weapons before starting the fire. guesstimate he spent 90 minutes on all of that. now we're at 5:30am
"reports began to surface" about the burned truck being investigated at 8:30am. which means it was discovered at least, shall we say, 30 minutes before the 8:30 reports appeared? now we're at 8am. or 60 minutes? now we're at 7:30am
haven't guesstimated fuel/comfort stops/meals (or sleep?) along the way, and those make the timeline tighter
I wonder if he didn't set the fire until at least 5:30am, about two or two-and-a-half hours before it was discovered