Hunter/Hunted: Christopher Dorner - Part 1

DEVIANT

Cold Open Media

Education, Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.8 • 610 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

In February 2013, a double murder in an Irvine parking garage sets off a chain of events that quickly spreads far beyond the city. What begins as a quiet, baffling crime soon escalates into a statewide emergency. In Part 1 of this two-part DEVIANT episode, host Dan Szematowicz tracks the story from the killings of Monica Quan and Keith Lawrence through the critical discoveries that identify Christopher Dorner as the suspect. As the investigation unfolds, law enforcement agencies across Southern California move into high alert, protective details are deployed, and Dorner resurfaces violently. This episode covers the first confirmed attacks on police, the widening manhunt, and the moment authorities realize they are dealing with a trained, mobile shooter who is actively engaging officers. Part 1 ends with Dorner vanishing again, leaving behind burned evidence in the mountains and forcing law enforcement into a massive, uncertain search. Part 2 continues with the Big Bear manhunt, Dorner’s reappearance, and the final confrontation. SUPPORT THE SHOW: http://www.deviantpodcast.com Visit DEVIANT's socials: http://www.instagram.com/deviant.podcast http://www.tiktok.com/@deviant.podcast Copyright 2025 Cold Open Media LLC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is it. The world, as you know, it is over. Completely done. It's not about to be over. It's over.
0:09.1	Some of the scientists who helped build AI are now sounding the alarm.
0:13.5	I was selling AI as a great thing for decades, and I was wrong. I was wrong. There is a longer term existential threat
0:24.4	that will arise when we create digital beings that are more intelligent than ourselves. We have
0:30.1	no idea whether we can stay in control. While others say that AI will usher in unfathomable abundance,
0:36.6	I've always believed that it's going to be
0:38.2	the most important invention that humanity will ever make.
0:41.2	This really will be a world of abundance.
0:44.0	And among these fears and these fantasies,
0:46.6	we seek the story of our future.
0:49.4	Listen to the last invention
0:51.2	on Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music,
0:53.5	or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:58.8	Hey, everybody, it's Dan, and I hope you're having a great December.
1:03.4	In this episode, the story of former LAPD police officer Christopher Dorner, who in 2013,
1:14.6	terrified all of California as he threatened and hunted police officers and their family members. There's a lot of story here, so this is going to be a two-parter.
1:21.1	Okay, let's get to it. This is Christopher Dorner, part one. Part 1.
1:36.8	Most nights in Irvine, California are pretty much the same.
1:38.7	That's my experience, at least.
1:39.9	I used to live nearby.
1:48.9	It's the largest city in Orange County, just south of Los Angeles, and it's a bit inland from the coast, so it gets warm, but it's California warm.
1:55.6	So in February, that means it's in the 60s, and the weather is the same every day.
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