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Welcome back to your crime army. I am your host Margo and this is a true crime podcast where I focus on crimes committed by military members and veterans.

But don't worry, you don't have to know anything about the military to listen. I promise.

You just have to be a true crime enthusiast and if that's you, welcome home.

So it's National Police Week and National Police Week pays special recognition to those law enforcement officers who have lost their lives in the line of duty.

And well, today I am bringing you a terrifying tale of one man's fight versus the LAPD.

What happens when a prior police officer plots for years against the same police department that brought him in?

Yet this prior police feels jilted by the entire organization.

Maybe it was racism or maybe it was something else.

This story has two distinct sides. Those that support the subject of this episode and heal him as a hero.

And those who think he's a monster will explore all angles and let you make your own decision whether he was a victim or villain or maybe a little bit of both.

Join me today as we peel back the layers of Navy veteran Christopher Dorner. Now let's dig in.

This episode was researched and written by listener and fan club member Mertle.

Sources include articles from the Los Angeles Times Orange County Register Baltimore Sun, the Atlantic Independent Reporter Andrew E. Met and web sources LAS.com and PR officer.com BBC News,

Inid news CNN the standard examiner. Dorner versus Los Angeles Police Department, a memorandum dated January 22, 2016 from the Justice System Integrity Division.

And a copy of an interdepartmental correspondence memorandum from the chief of police to the board of police commissioners dated June 17, 2013.

And I just want to say wow so many things to Mertle who did a bang up job on this episode and by bang up job I mean she did a really great job researching this episode.

An article in psychology today identifies a different motivations that drive serial killers. The first you have visionary killers they believe that they are being ordered to commit murder by God or another entity.

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