THE D.C. SNIPERS

THE D.C. SNIPERS


Rap Sheet

Names: John Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo
Reign: 2002
Business: Domestic Terrorism
Region: Washington, D.C. area
Claim to Fame: shattered the image of the White, male serial killer.
Downfall: bragging on the phone help reveal their identity
Sentence: life without parole
Status: serving time in Virginia state prisons
Lesson: Just acting White don’t make it right.


Case File
In October, 2002, the ‘D.C. Snipers’ introduced a new kind of terror to the US. public. For three weeks, the killers shot people at random - ordinary citizens doing the most mundane things - shopping, pumping gas, waiting for a bus. No one was immune, and no activity was safe. Six million people across two states and six counties were in the crosshairs, traumatized by two psychopaths on a private jihad. All the experts assumed that a single White male was behind the killing spree - that¹s the typical profile of a serial killer, but the D.C. Snipers turned out to be an African-American man and his teenage sidekick, stereotype busters of the creepiest kind. Between shootings, the killers communicated with authorities in a cat-and-mouse dialogue, dropping clues that included a Tarot Card with a skeleton on a horse and the words "Call Me God" scrawled across the top. The real story behind the carnage turned out to be as shocking as the bloodshed. John Muhammad, 42, was a deranged dad on a mission to get back his kids. Lee Boyd Malvo, 17, was a
homeless juvenile desperate for a father – who John Muhammad methodically transformed into a boy soldier. Incredibly, the killings were all a smokescreen to camouflage Muhammad's ultimate target-- his estranged wife.

THE D.C. SNIPERS