Of all the crazy news swirling around the search for alleged murderer Christopher Dorner, including the LAPD's accidental shooting this morning of two women in a truck that looked like the suspect's, this one takes the cake.
Anderson Cooper today said he got a package from Dorner.
A very odd and alarming package.
Cooper took to Twitter to announce that he believes he got a package from the ex-LAPD officer believed by authorities to be on a murderous rampage in a twisted reaction to his 2008 firing from the department.
According to the CNN personality, Dorner sent him a package withe a note, a DVD and a coin that had been shot:
Learned today suspect Christopher Dorner sent me a parcel at CNN. Inside was a note, DVD, and a coin shot thru with bullet holes.
— Anderson Cooper (@andersoncooper) February 7, 2013
Of course, what we really want to know it's what's on the DVD and what's in the note.
[Update at 3:28 p.m.]: TMZ reports that Dorner sent messages to many notables, including Charlie Sheen, Tim Tebow, Ellen DeGeneres, Anthony Bourdain and Cardinal Roger Mahony. A sample:
Cardinal Mahoney [sic], you are in essence a predator yourself as you enabled your subordinates to molest multiple children in the church over many decades. May you die a long and slow painful death.
[Added at 5:13 p.m.]: Here's a Vine video loop of Anderson talking about the package.
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