1 00:00:01,163 --> 00:00:02,803 (Dark music) 2 00:00:02,843 --> 00:00:05,443 Fred dinenage (narrates): October 3, 2002, 3 00:00:05,483 --> 00:00:10,443 Montgomery county, Maryland, 7:41am, 4 00:00:10,483 --> 00:00:14,483 39-year-old landscape gardener James 'Sonny' Buchanan 5 00:00:14,523 --> 00:00:17,843 was cutting grass outside Fitzgerald auto malls 6 00:00:17,883 --> 00:00:19,443 on rockville pike. 7 00:00:19,483 --> 00:00:21,563 A single shot pierced the air... 8 00:00:23,683 --> 00:00:25,683 ..And Sonny fell to the ground. 9 00:00:26,883 --> 00:00:29,963 They just killed a man and it's a game to them. 10 00:00:30,003 --> 00:00:31,283 Right? 11 00:00:31,323 --> 00:00:35,603 08:12am, cab driver prem Kumar walekar, 12 00:00:35,643 --> 00:00:37,923 petrol station, Aspen hill, 13 00:00:37,963 --> 00:00:40,403 a single bullet ripped through his body. 14 00:00:40,443 --> 00:00:41,803 Man on phone: 911, it's emergency. 15 00:00:41,843 --> 00:00:43,043 He's bleeding real bad. 16 00:00:43,083 --> 00:00:47,563 Just ordinary folk like you and I going about our daily business. 17 00:00:47,603 --> 00:00:52,803 08:37am, 34-year-old Sarah ramos shot dead, 18 00:00:52,843 --> 00:00:55,763 sitting on a bench at leisure world shopping centre. 19 00:00:57,123 --> 00:00:58,843 I need ambulance. Hurry! 20 00:00:58,883 --> 00:01:02,123 It could have been anyone, anyone who can pull the trigger. 21 00:01:03,323 --> 00:01:05,003 09:58am. 22 00:01:05,043 --> 00:01:07,163 Lori Ann Lewis-Rivera, 23 00:01:07,203 --> 00:01:12,043 vacuuming her car at a gas station in Kensington. 24 00:01:12,083 --> 00:01:13,963 These are men who are high on killing, 25 00:01:14,003 --> 00:01:15,883 high on shooting innocent people. 26 00:01:15,923 --> 00:01:17,443 (Gunshots firing) 27 00:01:17,483 --> 00:01:21,323 21:20, 72-year-old Pascal charlot 28 00:01:21,363 --> 00:01:26,043 out walking in Washington DC, he was dead within the hour. 29 00:01:26,643 --> 00:01:27,883 (Gunshot fires) 30 00:01:27,923 --> 00:01:29,683 And if there was one single day 31 00:01:29,723 --> 00:01:33,323 that transformed the nation's capital, 32 00:01:33,363 --> 00:01:38,603 and sent a shiver down its spine, it was October 3, 2002. 33 00:01:38,643 --> 00:01:43,083 This was only the beginning of a three-week reign of terror, 34 00:01:43,123 --> 00:01:47,243 executed with deadly precision by John Allen Muhammad 35 00:01:47,283 --> 00:01:49,163 and Lee Boyd malvo, 36 00:01:49,203 --> 00:01:52,243 two of the world's most evil killers. 37 00:01:52,283 --> 00:01:53,723 (Theme music) 38 00:02:12,483 --> 00:02:17,683 October 2000, Caribbean island of Antigua, 39 00:02:17,723 --> 00:02:20,243 after the breakdown of his second marriage 40 00:02:20,283 --> 00:02:22,683 40-year-old John Allen Muhammad 41 00:02:22,723 --> 00:02:25,003 kidnapped three of his young children 42 00:02:25,043 --> 00:02:28,083 and fled to the island of Antigua, 43 00:02:28,123 --> 00:02:31,603 where he met 14-year-old Lee Boyd malvo. 44 00:02:33,003 --> 00:02:36,243 Lee Boyd was very smart in school, he was a good kid. 45 00:02:36,283 --> 00:02:40,003 He enjoyed sports, he was a normal, average, 46 00:02:40,043 --> 00:02:43,043 every day boy being raised by a single mother. 47 00:02:43,083 --> 00:02:46,003 Muhammad looks at malvo and sees a young man 48 00:02:46,043 --> 00:02:47,683 who hasn't got a father figure, 49 00:02:47,723 --> 00:02:49,683 who doesn't really have an authority figure 50 00:02:49,723 --> 00:02:51,243 in his life at all. 51 00:02:51,283 --> 00:02:53,443 So, that's a role that he can step into 52 00:02:53,483 --> 00:02:55,443 and he can start pulling his strings. 53 00:02:55,483 --> 00:02:59,443 When Muhammad left Antigua malvo followed him. 54 00:02:59,483 --> 00:03:01,203 And once malvo got across 55 00:03:01,243 --> 00:03:03,683 and was on the mainland of the United States, 56 00:03:03,723 --> 00:03:07,483 he reached out to Muhammad and wanted to come be with him. 57 00:03:07,523 --> 00:03:10,283 By September 2001, 58 00:03:10,323 --> 00:03:13,723 John Muhammad's life was crumbling around him, 59 00:03:13,763 --> 00:03:15,683 he had two failed marriages 60 00:03:15,723 --> 00:03:18,803 and had lost custody of his children. 61 00:03:18,843 --> 00:03:23,003 Lee Boyd malvo was all he had left. 62 00:03:23,043 --> 00:03:26,963 I think malvo was desperate to find a father figure. 63 00:03:27,003 --> 00:03:29,803 I think he would have done anything that Muhammad suggested. 64 00:03:29,843 --> 00:03:32,603 He was completely under Muhammad's spell, 65 00:03:32,643 --> 00:03:35,803 but it wasn't that one was senior to the other. 66 00:03:37,163 --> 00:03:39,163 Malvo may have been younger, 67 00:03:39,203 --> 00:03:41,283 but he was every bit as determined to kill, 68 00:03:41,323 --> 00:03:43,723 and to impress his father figure. 69 00:03:45,403 --> 00:03:50,283 The pair went on a nine-month rampage across the United States, 70 00:03:50,323 --> 00:03:52,563 robbing and killing at random 71 00:03:52,603 --> 00:03:57,763 before executing their plan in the suburbs of Washington DC, 72 00:03:57,803 --> 00:04:02,683 killing 17 people and leaving 13 injured. 73 00:04:02,723 --> 00:04:05,283 Do I believe my father is a serial killer? 74 00:04:05,323 --> 00:04:06,803 Yes, I believe John Muhammad 75 00:04:06,843 --> 00:04:10,643 committed the crimes that he was accused of. 76 00:04:15,803 --> 00:04:20,043 These killers' stories begin in 1960, 77 00:04:20,083 --> 00:04:23,763 John Allen Muhammad was born John Allen Williams 78 00:04:23,803 --> 00:04:28,123 on December 31 in New Orleans, Louisiana. 79 00:04:28,163 --> 00:04:30,043 His mother died of breast cancer 80 00:04:30,083 --> 00:04:33,203 when he was very young, around three-years-old. 81 00:04:33,243 --> 00:04:36,283 And he was sent to Baton Rouge to live with his aunts 82 00:04:36,323 --> 00:04:38,723 because his father just left. 83 00:04:38,763 --> 00:04:41,683 His aunts had several children, 84 00:04:41,723 --> 00:04:45,283 and John and his two brothers and two sisters 85 00:04:45,323 --> 00:04:47,603 were raised by them in Baton Rouge. 86 00:04:47,643 --> 00:04:52,163 John Muhammad's family was expected to do all of the chores in the home. 87 00:04:52,203 --> 00:04:57,843 So, John grew up feeling pretty inadequate 88 00:04:57,883 --> 00:04:59,963 from a very young age. 89 00:05:00,003 --> 00:05:04,883 In 1978 Williams graduated from scotlandville high school 90 00:05:04,923 --> 00:05:06,643 at the age of 17. 91 00:05:07,723 --> 00:05:10,403 He joins the Louisiana national guard. 92 00:05:10,443 --> 00:05:14,243 It gives him a kind of, rank, status, a bit of authority, 93 00:05:14,283 --> 00:05:16,243 which in many ways appeals to him. 94 00:05:16,283 --> 00:05:20,083 He is a man who likes to fit into hierarchies, 95 00:05:20,123 --> 00:05:22,323 at least in his early years. 96 00:05:22,363 --> 00:05:23,763 At the age of 20 97 00:05:23,803 --> 00:05:27,083 John Williams fell in love with a girl called Carol, 98 00:05:27,123 --> 00:05:29,483 and they married in 1981, 99 00:05:29,523 --> 00:05:33,683 welcoming their son Lindbergh into the world the following year. 100 00:05:35,163 --> 00:05:36,923 What kind of man was my father? 101 00:05:36,963 --> 00:05:39,323 My father was a very stern man. 102 00:05:39,363 --> 00:05:40,843 Very, 103 00:05:40,883 --> 00:05:42,243 very confident man. 104 00:05:44,083 --> 00:05:46,283 He was in the military, 105 00:05:46,323 --> 00:05:49,483 he was the type of person if he said something... 106 00:05:49,523 --> 00:05:52,803 You can bet that he was going to do whatever it takes to get... 107 00:05:52,843 --> 00:05:54,283 Get that done. 108 00:05:54,323 --> 00:05:57,003 After a few years though, 109 00:05:57,043 --> 00:06:01,843 Carol started hearing rumours that John was seeing another woman. 110 00:06:03,923 --> 00:06:07,603 At one point she went and knocked on this woman's door, 111 00:06:07,643 --> 00:06:09,963 who lived in the same neighbourhood as they did, 112 00:06:10,003 --> 00:06:12,243 and saw John sitting on the couch 113 00:06:12,283 --> 00:06:15,123 and realised that her husband was cheating on her. 114 00:06:15,163 --> 00:06:18,683 John's new girlfriend was Mildred. 115 00:06:18,723 --> 00:06:22,643 His wife Carol made the decision to separate from her husband 116 00:06:22,683 --> 00:06:25,403 and took their son Lindbergh with her. 117 00:06:25,443 --> 00:06:27,883 In 1985, he decides, 118 00:06:27,923 --> 00:06:29,963 when his first marriage is collapsing, 119 00:06:30,003 --> 00:06:31,643 that he's going to convert to islam. 120 00:06:31,683 --> 00:06:35,003 And I think this means a great deal to him, 121 00:06:35,043 --> 00:06:36,963 and a couple of years later, 122 00:06:37,003 --> 00:06:40,883 he joins the nation of islam run by Louis farrakhan, 123 00:06:40,923 --> 00:06:44,203 for him, islam was very significant. 124 00:06:44,243 --> 00:06:46,723 After facing disciplinary action 125 00:06:46,763 --> 00:06:50,683 John Allen Williams left the Louisiana national guard 126 00:06:50,723 --> 00:06:56,643 and in 1985 at the age of 25 enlisted in the us army. 127 00:06:56,683 --> 00:06:59,643 In the same year, he was divorced from Carol 128 00:06:59,683 --> 00:07:04,363 and moved in with Mildred, marrying in 1988. 129 00:07:04,403 --> 00:07:08,643 Two years later he was deployed to the persian Gulf. 130 00:07:08,683 --> 00:07:10,643 Williams thrived in the army 131 00:07:10,683 --> 00:07:14,963 gaining the highest level of expert m16 marksmanship, 132 00:07:15,003 --> 00:07:17,963 and was decorated for his service. 133 00:07:18,003 --> 00:07:23,323 So, you have this period of calm in Williams' life 134 00:07:23,363 --> 00:07:25,523 based in the us army. 135 00:07:25,563 --> 00:07:30,243 And it's as if he's hanging onto the army 136 00:07:30,283 --> 00:07:32,523 as his identity. 137 00:07:32,563 --> 00:07:36,203 That is what makes John Williams work. 138 00:07:37,923 --> 00:07:41,123 And for a long time, he really remains quite stable. 139 00:07:41,163 --> 00:07:43,763 He isn't rushing off. 140 00:07:43,803 --> 00:07:45,323 I think he likes the uniform. 141 00:07:45,363 --> 00:07:49,883 I think he likes the identity, and I think he feels that, 142 00:07:49,923 --> 00:07:51,083 "oh... 143 00:07:51,123 --> 00:07:53,283 "I... I mean something now. 144 00:07:53,323 --> 00:07:55,883 "I'm... I amount to something." 145 00:07:55,923 --> 00:08:00,923 On April 26, 1994, at the age of 33 146 00:08:00,963 --> 00:08:05,003 Williams was honourably discharged from the us army. 147 00:08:05,043 --> 00:08:07,763 He was now living in Tacoma, Washington state 148 00:08:07,803 --> 00:08:10,043 with Mildred and their three children. 149 00:08:12,243 --> 00:08:14,403 He starts a couple of businesses, 150 00:08:14,443 --> 00:08:18,843 neither of which really work, and they fall apart. 151 00:08:18,883 --> 00:08:21,123 And his marriage to Mildred 152 00:08:21,163 --> 00:08:23,643 isn't going terrifically well either. 153 00:08:23,683 --> 00:08:27,723 They fought a lot and John was abusive to her 154 00:08:27,763 --> 00:08:31,643 on numerous occasions and their... 155 00:08:31,683 --> 00:08:34,883 Their relationship really went downhill. 156 00:08:34,923 --> 00:08:37,003 He loved his children, 157 00:08:37,043 --> 00:08:40,043 children were a very big part 158 00:08:40,083 --> 00:08:43,923 of what he felt like his role in life was. 159 00:08:43,963 --> 00:08:46,843 And so, he tried to be a good father to them, 160 00:08:46,883 --> 00:08:48,723 and they did have a close relationship. 161 00:08:51,203 --> 00:08:53,243 My mother raised me most of my life. 162 00:08:53,283 --> 00:08:56,243 Me and my father spent a lot of time talking over the phone, 163 00:08:56,283 --> 00:08:57,883 and then we had our summers 164 00:08:57,923 --> 00:09:00,243 to where we will meet up with each other. 165 00:09:00,283 --> 00:09:01,763 So, when I was younger, 166 00:09:01,803 --> 00:09:04,043 we went to Washington for a summer 167 00:09:04,083 --> 00:09:07,603 then my sixth-grade year going to seventh grade, 168 00:09:07,643 --> 00:09:10,683 I went to Washington and spent a summer with him. 169 00:09:10,723 --> 00:09:13,123 On one summer visit with his father, 170 00:09:13,163 --> 00:09:15,323 Williams called his ex-wife Carol 171 00:09:15,363 --> 00:09:18,883 and told her that Lindbergh wasn't returning home. 172 00:09:18,923 --> 00:09:22,763 Carol ended up having to get a court order 173 00:09:22,803 --> 00:09:27,723 to get Lindbergh back to Louisiana, and it took that whole summer. 174 00:09:27,763 --> 00:09:33,123 During that period John tried to brainwash Lindbergh. 175 00:09:33,163 --> 00:09:36,883 It was just one of those summers that I went down there, 176 00:09:36,923 --> 00:09:40,803 and he was telling me things that at that moment 177 00:09:40,843 --> 00:09:43,523 that I felt that he knew I wanted to hear, 178 00:09:43,563 --> 00:09:48,243 to keep me away from my mother and keep me from going home. 179 00:09:50,243 --> 00:09:52,963 In September 1999, 180 00:09:53,003 --> 00:09:56,443 John Allen William's second marriage to Mildred 181 00:09:56,483 --> 00:09:59,923 was falling apart and the couple separated. 182 00:09:59,963 --> 00:10:03,323 Three months later Mildred filed for divorce 183 00:10:03,363 --> 00:10:05,723 and custody of their three children. 184 00:10:06,963 --> 00:10:10,243 That is a very big blow 185 00:10:10,283 --> 00:10:12,963 to Williams and to his psyche. 186 00:10:13,003 --> 00:10:15,803 You've already had this slightly frail psyche, 187 00:10:15,843 --> 00:10:17,443 looking for identity. 188 00:10:17,483 --> 00:10:19,283 He took some identity from being married 189 00:10:19,323 --> 00:10:20,603 with three children. 190 00:10:20,643 --> 00:10:23,803 He took some identity from having been in the army. 191 00:10:23,843 --> 00:10:28,323 But now, he really is, in a sense, cut loose. 192 00:10:28,363 --> 00:10:32,723 He is on his own and he doesn't know what to do. 193 00:10:33,843 --> 00:10:37,523 So, if there is a trigger to the events that were to follow, 194 00:10:37,563 --> 00:10:39,483 it is that divorce, 195 00:10:39,523 --> 00:10:43,443 because then, Mildred applies for a restraining order, 196 00:10:43,483 --> 00:10:47,323 making sure that Williams, to become John Muhammad, 197 00:10:47,363 --> 00:10:51,563 cannot have any contact with her, or with their children. 198 00:10:51,603 --> 00:10:54,003 After receiving the restraining order 199 00:10:54,043 --> 00:10:56,123 Williams kidnapped his three children 200 00:10:56,163 --> 00:10:59,043 and fled to the Caribbean island of Antigua, 201 00:10:59,083 --> 00:11:03,683 where an unlikely friendship would have deadly consequences. 202 00:11:03,723 --> 00:11:07,243 October 2000, Antigua, 203 00:11:07,283 --> 00:11:10,283 John Allen Williams arrived on the island 204 00:11:10,323 --> 00:11:12,003 with his three children. 205 00:11:12,043 --> 00:11:14,563 They were welcomed into the local community 206 00:11:14,603 --> 00:11:18,323 and Williams made a living forging illegal documents. 207 00:11:18,363 --> 00:11:19,963 Soon after his arrival 208 00:11:20,003 --> 00:11:23,803 he met and enlisted the help of a 14-year-old islander 209 00:11:23,843 --> 00:11:25,883 called Lee Boyd malvo. 210 00:11:27,083 --> 00:11:32,083 Lee Boyd malvo was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1985. 211 00:11:32,123 --> 00:11:35,683 His mother was una James, 212 00:11:35,723 --> 00:11:37,883 she was not married to his father. 213 00:11:37,923 --> 00:11:40,763 His father stuck around for a few years but then left, 214 00:11:40,803 --> 00:11:44,723 so una raised Lee Boyd by herself. 215 00:11:44,763 --> 00:11:46,483 They moved around a lot, 216 00:11:46,523 --> 00:11:48,963 sometimes Barbados, sometimes Jamaica, 217 00:11:49,003 --> 00:11:52,603 and eventually made their way to Antigua. 218 00:11:52,643 --> 00:11:56,123 And I think right when Muhammad met malvo, 219 00:11:56,163 --> 00:11:57,843 there was a bond, 220 00:11:57,883 --> 00:12:01,123 and Muhammad used him to traffic 221 00:12:01,163 --> 00:12:03,363 ah, fake birth certificates on the island, 222 00:12:03,403 --> 00:12:06,603 just messenger type work and paid him a little bit. 223 00:12:06,643 --> 00:12:09,523 Young Lee Boyd malvo had big dreams 224 00:12:09,563 --> 00:12:12,643 of one day becoming a commercial airline pilot 225 00:12:12,683 --> 00:12:15,043 and was a talented artist. 226 00:12:15,083 --> 00:12:18,283 But the one thing that he does have some control over 227 00:12:18,323 --> 00:12:19,883 is his schoolwork. 228 00:12:19,923 --> 00:12:22,403 And I think this provides him with that consistency, 229 00:12:22,443 --> 00:12:24,563 with that security, and that stability. 230 00:12:24,603 --> 00:12:27,003 And he does incredibly well in school, 231 00:12:27,043 --> 00:12:28,563 he gets good exam results, 232 00:12:28,603 --> 00:12:31,403 he appears to be a really promising student. 233 00:12:31,443 --> 00:12:34,203 Malvo's mother obtained fake documents 234 00:12:34,243 --> 00:12:35,363 from Williams 235 00:12:35,403 --> 00:12:38,843 and travelled to fort meyers, Florida looking for work. 236 00:12:40,163 --> 00:12:44,963 Una James left Lee Boyd malvo with John Muhammad in Antigua 237 00:12:45,003 --> 00:12:47,883 to watch him while she was gone. 238 00:12:47,923 --> 00:12:49,323 And this was the moment 239 00:12:49,363 --> 00:12:51,923 in which the father-son relationship 240 00:12:51,963 --> 00:12:56,323 that lay at the heart of what was to come in the future, 241 00:12:56,363 --> 00:12:58,963 began to form around the pair. 242 00:13:00,003 --> 00:13:02,843 On may 24, 2001, 243 00:13:02,883 --> 00:13:07,123 John Allen Williams, his children, and Lee Boyd malvo 244 00:13:07,163 --> 00:13:10,083 also left Antigua for Florida. 245 00:13:10,123 --> 00:13:12,923 Malvo travelled on forged documents. 246 00:13:12,963 --> 00:13:15,603 He stayed with his mother in fort meyers 247 00:13:15,643 --> 00:13:17,283 and Williams took his children 248 00:13:17,323 --> 00:13:20,763 back to bellingham in Washington state. 249 00:13:20,803 --> 00:13:25,083 While he was gone Mildred had been granted a no-fault divorce 250 00:13:25,123 --> 00:13:28,243 and full custody of their three children. 251 00:13:28,283 --> 00:13:32,403 The authorities were soon alerted of Williams return. 252 00:13:32,443 --> 00:13:35,883 The children were seized and returned to their mother 253 00:13:35,923 --> 00:13:40,203 who fled to the east coast and the suburbs of Washington DC. 254 00:13:44,443 --> 00:13:48,843 Williams, now alone and homeless, moved into a shelter. 255 00:13:50,283 --> 00:13:55,683 A month later Lee Boyd malvo turned up at the lighthouse mission. 256 00:13:55,723 --> 00:13:59,203 John and Lee Boyd lived together in a homeless shelter 257 00:13:59,243 --> 00:14:00,763 for many months, 258 00:14:00,803 --> 00:14:04,443 and it was there that John really began... 259 00:14:04,483 --> 00:14:08,443 Inserting his discipline into Lee Boyd's life. 260 00:14:08,483 --> 00:14:13,923 Eventually John got a place and began training Lee Boyd 261 00:14:13,963 --> 00:14:16,083 in the use of weaponry. 262 00:14:16,123 --> 00:14:18,723 He started to cut malvo off from any others 263 00:14:18,763 --> 00:14:20,803 who might have an influence over him. 264 00:14:20,843 --> 00:14:24,563 And that is a key tactic of coercive and controlling behaviour. 265 00:14:24,603 --> 00:14:27,923 You isolate your target from anybody 266 00:14:27,963 --> 00:14:31,163 who might criticise the relationship that you have with them. 267 00:14:31,203 --> 00:14:34,603 Muhammad did quite a lot of good things for malvo. 268 00:14:34,643 --> 00:14:35,883 He made sure we went to school. 269 00:14:35,923 --> 00:14:37,203 And in fact, at one point, 270 00:14:37,243 --> 00:14:40,643 he registered him for school as his father, 271 00:14:40,683 --> 00:14:45,203 actually cementing this concept of him being the father, 272 00:14:45,243 --> 00:14:48,283 moulding his new son. 273 00:14:49,523 --> 00:14:51,843 In October 2001, 274 00:14:51,883 --> 00:14:56,083 in recognition of his islamic faith John Allen Williams 275 00:14:56,123 --> 00:15:00,203 had officially changed his name to John Allen Muhammad. 276 00:15:00,243 --> 00:15:04,963 He encouraged Lee Boyd to also learn about his version of islam. 277 00:15:06,083 --> 00:15:09,003 John took Lee Boyd under his wing. 278 00:15:09,043 --> 00:15:11,403 He had kidnapped his own son, Lindbergh, 279 00:15:11,443 --> 00:15:13,283 and that hadn't worked out. 280 00:15:13,323 --> 00:15:16,963 So, in Lee Boyd he saw the perfect venue 281 00:15:17,003 --> 00:15:21,483 through which to, you know, achieve what he wanted to achieve in life. 282 00:15:23,803 --> 00:15:26,403 They start shooting at tree stumps. 283 00:15:28,203 --> 00:15:32,283 Malvo is very impressed by this. 284 00:15:34,123 --> 00:15:36,283 And remember, he's 16. 285 00:15:36,323 --> 00:15:37,963 He's very impressionable. 286 00:15:39,003 --> 00:15:40,683 Lee Boyd was actually right 287 00:15:40,723 --> 00:15:46,243 for the manipulation that John would do with him. 288 00:15:46,283 --> 00:15:49,003 John controlled every aspect of his life, 289 00:15:49,043 --> 00:15:53,483 what he ate, he exercised him rigorously. 290 00:15:53,523 --> 00:15:55,763 John was a master marksman, 291 00:15:55,803 --> 00:16:00,083 and he trained Lee Boyd to be a marksman. 292 00:16:01,163 --> 00:16:04,643 Malvo's mother una James arrived in bellingham 293 00:16:04,683 --> 00:16:08,203 in December 2001, to see her son. 294 00:16:11,283 --> 00:16:13,403 They met at the lighthouse mission, 295 00:16:13,443 --> 00:16:16,403 but someone had tipped off immigration services. 296 00:16:17,643 --> 00:16:22,323 Both una and Lee Boyd were detained as illegal immigrants. 297 00:16:23,643 --> 00:16:27,563 Before he could be deported malvo managed to run away, 298 00:16:27,603 --> 00:16:29,603 and returned to John Muhammad. 299 00:16:32,403 --> 00:16:34,483 What was it that... 300 00:16:35,563 --> 00:16:38,443 Turned them from being... 301 00:16:40,323 --> 00:16:42,323 An older man and a younger boy... 302 00:16:44,683 --> 00:16:47,203 Into what was effectively a killing machine? 303 00:16:48,723 --> 00:16:51,123 I think it started... 304 00:16:51,163 --> 00:16:55,083 Because malvo wanted to prove to Williams, 305 00:16:55,123 --> 00:16:57,283 that he was worthy of his respect. 306 00:16:57,323 --> 00:16:59,043 I think that malvo, 307 00:16:59,083 --> 00:17:02,123 always wanted to show the older man 308 00:17:02,163 --> 00:17:04,523 that he was capable of living up to him. 309 00:17:06,243 --> 00:17:11,003 February 16, 2002, Tacoma, Washington... 310 00:17:13,843 --> 00:17:17,843 Lee Boyd malvo approached the house of isa Nichols 311 00:17:17,883 --> 00:17:20,883 a friend of John Muhammad's ex-wife Mildred... 312 00:17:22,683 --> 00:17:26,723 Her niece, keenya Nicole cook was visiting her aunt 313 00:17:26,763 --> 00:17:28,243 with her baby daughter. 314 00:17:31,763 --> 00:17:35,043 Keenya answered a knock at the front door. 315 00:17:41,403 --> 00:17:45,243 Malvo shot the 21-year-old point blank. 316 00:17:46,403 --> 00:17:52,363 He had killed for the first time, two days before his 17th birthday. 317 00:17:53,883 --> 00:17:57,003 I absolutely believe that 318 00:17:57,043 --> 00:17:59,843 John Allen Muhammad brainwashed Lee Boyd malvo. 319 00:17:59,883 --> 00:18:01,443 I think... 320 00:18:01,483 --> 00:18:04,403 Lee Boyd's life would have been totally different 321 00:18:04,443 --> 00:18:06,923 had he never met John Muhammad. 322 00:18:06,963 --> 00:18:08,603 I don't think he would have ever killed. 323 00:18:09,843 --> 00:18:14,683 One month later march 19th in Tucson, Arizona, 324 00:18:14,723 --> 00:18:18,523 60-year-old Jerry Taylor was on the golf course. 325 00:18:18,563 --> 00:18:22,483 A long-range single shot to the chest killed him. 326 00:18:23,723 --> 00:18:28,563 From march to August 2002 there were two more fatalities 327 00:18:28,603 --> 00:18:32,443 and five serious injuries across several states. 328 00:18:34,763 --> 00:18:37,883 The first proper killing 329 00:18:37,923 --> 00:18:41,203 is almost certainly committed by malvo... 330 00:18:42,403 --> 00:18:45,363 As a test from Muhammad. 331 00:18:46,443 --> 00:18:48,763 "You've got to kill someone, 332 00:18:48,803 --> 00:18:53,243 "so that I can see that you are worthy of my respect." 333 00:18:53,283 --> 00:18:56,643 And the first string of shootings, 334 00:18:56,683 --> 00:18:59,363 almost all are committed by malvo. 335 00:18:59,403 --> 00:19:01,603 (Intense music) 336 00:19:10,283 --> 00:19:14,643 September 5, 2002, Clinton, Maryland. 337 00:19:17,923 --> 00:19:20,763 Restaurant owner Paul j laruffa 338 00:19:20,803 --> 00:19:23,803 was carrying over $3,000 of cash 339 00:19:23,843 --> 00:19:26,923 and a laptop inside his briefcase. 340 00:19:26,963 --> 00:19:28,603 As he got in the car, 341 00:19:28,643 --> 00:19:30,443 Lee Boyd malvo rushed up 342 00:19:30,483 --> 00:19:33,563 and shot him six times through the window. 343 00:19:34,803 --> 00:19:37,283 (Gunshots fires) 344 00:19:37,323 --> 00:19:40,123 He emptied the briefcase, stole the cash 345 00:19:40,163 --> 00:19:43,203 and fled with the laptop and his gun. 346 00:19:43,243 --> 00:19:46,963 Miraculously Paul j laruffa survived. 347 00:19:48,523 --> 00:19:52,683 Five days later with the cash stolen from laruffa, 348 00:19:52,723 --> 00:19:56,883 Muhammad purchased a 1990 blue Chevy caprice 349 00:19:56,923 --> 00:20:01,003 at sure shot auto sales in Trenton, New Jersey. 350 00:20:02,523 --> 00:20:05,243 Apparently when Muhammad was purchasing 351 00:20:05,283 --> 00:20:07,403 the Chevy caprice in New Jersey, 352 00:20:07,443 --> 00:20:09,203 we learned from the salesman that 353 00:20:09,243 --> 00:20:11,923 he did something very unusual that in 25 years 354 00:20:11,963 --> 00:20:14,243 of being a car salesman had never been seen before 355 00:20:14,283 --> 00:20:15,443 by this person. 356 00:20:15,483 --> 00:20:17,523 He said that Muhammad opened the trunk 357 00:20:17,563 --> 00:20:20,203 and climbed into the back of the trunk 358 00:20:20,243 --> 00:20:25,123 and pulled the trunk covered down and said, "yeah, this will work." 359 00:20:30,883 --> 00:20:34,563 September 15, Clinton Maryland... 360 00:20:38,883 --> 00:20:42,523 September 21, Atlanta Georgia. 361 00:20:45,003 --> 00:20:46,523 19 hours later, 362 00:20:46,563 --> 00:20:49,883 a liquor store in Montgomery, Alabama, 363 00:20:49,923 --> 00:20:51,563 two women were gunned down 364 00:20:51,603 --> 00:20:53,843 with a long-range high-powered rifle. 365 00:20:55,563 --> 00:20:58,803 Malvo approached and rifled through their purses. 366 00:21:00,003 --> 00:21:03,883 A police car spotted him and gave chase. 367 00:21:03,923 --> 00:21:06,403 He ran, dropping a gun catalogue 368 00:21:06,443 --> 00:21:09,483 and discarding a .22 calibre revolver. 369 00:21:10,803 --> 00:21:14,043 Claudine Lee Parker died of her injuries 370 00:21:14,083 --> 00:21:18,163 and Kelly Adams survived despite being shot through the neck. 371 00:21:19,603 --> 00:21:23,923 Finally, September 23, Baton Rouge Louisiana... 372 00:21:23,963 --> 00:21:25,443 (Gunshot fires) 373 00:21:27,763 --> 00:21:30,363 In this first spree of killings, 374 00:21:30,403 --> 00:21:33,203 they are moving location across states. 375 00:21:33,243 --> 00:21:36,283 They weren't concentrating on one area. 376 00:21:36,323 --> 00:21:39,603 And that made them incredibly difficult to track down, 377 00:21:39,643 --> 00:21:43,123 because these apparently were random killings, 378 00:21:43,163 --> 00:21:44,803 committed in different states. 379 00:21:44,843 --> 00:21:47,723 How do you join the dots to that? 380 00:21:47,763 --> 00:21:49,523 The answer is, you don't. 381 00:21:50,683 --> 00:21:55,843 Between September 26 and October 2, 2002 382 00:21:55,883 --> 00:21:58,203 there were no killings. 383 00:21:58,243 --> 00:21:59,763 During this break 384 00:21:59,803 --> 00:22:03,843 Muhammad and malvo modified their new Chevy caprice. 385 00:22:03,883 --> 00:22:06,083 They drilled a hole in the trunk. 386 00:22:07,163 --> 00:22:09,323 They used a glove to lay the barrel on... 387 00:22:09,363 --> 00:22:14,443 Through the hole to extend the end of the rifle 388 00:22:14,483 --> 00:22:16,723 through to the outside of the trunk. 389 00:22:16,763 --> 00:22:20,483 And then they pulled the trunk almost closed 390 00:22:20,523 --> 00:22:23,923 but left about an inch for visibility through their sight. 391 00:22:25,003 --> 00:22:27,323 Satisfied with the modifications 392 00:22:27,363 --> 00:22:31,363 they headed to the suburbs of Washington DC. 393 00:22:31,403 --> 00:22:35,083 On October 2, 2002, at 5:30 in the afternoon, 394 00:22:35,123 --> 00:22:37,683 a shot was fired through a craft store window, 395 00:22:37,723 --> 00:22:39,803 narrowly missing the cashier. 396 00:22:39,843 --> 00:22:41,043 (Gunshot fires) 397 00:22:41,083 --> 00:22:43,323 That was the first 398 00:22:43,363 --> 00:22:47,683 of the DC sniper shootings. 399 00:22:47,723 --> 00:22:52,123 An hour later at 6:30, a man was killed by a rifle. 400 00:22:52,163 --> 00:22:54,003 He was called James Martin. 401 00:22:54,043 --> 00:22:58,283 The following day, October 3, 07:41, 402 00:22:58,323 --> 00:23:01,043 James Sonny Buchanan was shot. 403 00:23:01,083 --> 00:23:03,403 Mowing the lawn of an auto mall. 404 00:23:10,283 --> 00:23:16,123 30 minutes later at a gas station in Aspen hill, prem Kumar walekar... 405 00:23:17,923 --> 00:23:21,563 Leisure world shopping centre, Sarah ramos. 406 00:23:24,123 --> 00:23:27,603 She was sitting on a bench reading a book. 407 00:23:27,643 --> 00:23:29,003 That same morning... 408 00:23:30,563 --> 00:23:35,403 Lori Ann Lewis Rivera, vacuuming her dodge minivan. 409 00:23:35,443 --> 00:23:39,523 And then finally, on that day at 9:20 in the evening, 410 00:23:39,563 --> 00:23:43,763 Pascal charlot, a retired carpenter, was shot... 411 00:23:43,803 --> 00:23:44,803 (Gunshot fires) 412 00:23:44,843 --> 00:23:47,883 ..Walking along Georgia Avenue in Washington DC. 413 00:23:49,123 --> 00:23:51,563 And if there was one single day 414 00:23:51,603 --> 00:23:55,323 that transformed the nation's capital, 415 00:23:55,363 --> 00:24:00,843 and sent a shiver down its spine, it was October 3, 2002. 416 00:24:02,963 --> 00:24:06,603 October 3, Montgomery county, Maryland, 417 00:24:06,643 --> 00:24:10,003 John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd malvo 418 00:24:10,043 --> 00:24:14,003 had brought terror to the suburbs of Washington DC. 419 00:24:14,043 --> 00:24:17,243 Five people had been killed in less than 16 hours. 420 00:24:20,003 --> 00:24:22,403 Ashan Benedict was a special agent 421 00:24:22,443 --> 00:24:25,643 with the bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms 422 00:24:25,683 --> 00:24:28,203 assigned to the Washington field division. 423 00:24:28,243 --> 00:24:30,763 At that time, you know, five people getting shot 424 00:24:30,803 --> 00:24:33,603 in one day was very unusual, right? 425 00:24:33,643 --> 00:24:35,843 Um, unfortunately, in today's day and age 426 00:24:35,883 --> 00:24:38,043 you hear about it much more frequently. 427 00:24:38,083 --> 00:24:40,603 But at that time, it definitely raised some eyebrows. 428 00:24:40,643 --> 00:24:44,443 It definitely got law enforcement response generated. 429 00:24:44,483 --> 00:24:46,043 The good thing about atf 430 00:24:46,083 --> 00:24:49,203 is that we will respond to shooting... 431 00:24:49,243 --> 00:24:51,883 As a matter of business practise. 432 00:24:51,923 --> 00:24:54,563 Witness statements on October 3 433 00:24:54,603 --> 00:24:57,403 detailed seeing a blue Chevy caprice 434 00:24:57,443 --> 00:25:00,683 but it was not reported as acting suspiciously. 435 00:25:02,483 --> 00:25:05,283 On that day at 7:00pm in the evening 436 00:25:05,323 --> 00:25:08,923 the Chevy ran two stop signs near Washington DC 437 00:25:08,963 --> 00:25:11,163 and was stopped by the police. 438 00:25:11,203 --> 00:25:13,123 John Muhammad pulled over. 439 00:25:14,283 --> 00:25:15,683 He had a valid licence. 440 00:25:15,723 --> 00:25:18,883 He had a valid registration, and he was very respectful and... 441 00:25:18,923 --> 00:25:21,043 And cordial to the officers when they stopped him. 442 00:25:21,083 --> 00:25:24,443 These attacks came a year after 9/11, 443 00:25:24,483 --> 00:25:28,163 and 9/11 cast a very long shadow over the us. 444 00:25:28,203 --> 00:25:31,923 There was a real climate of fear, a real state of anxiety. 445 00:25:31,963 --> 00:25:34,883 The nation was on a really high state 446 00:25:34,923 --> 00:25:36,963 of alert at this time. 447 00:25:37,003 --> 00:25:39,963 So, it's almost like the perfect opportunity 448 00:25:40,003 --> 00:25:41,443 this window of time 449 00:25:41,483 --> 00:25:46,003 for Muhammad and malvo to wreak utter destruction. 450 00:25:46,043 --> 00:25:47,803 We're going to follow the evidence, 451 00:25:47,843 --> 00:25:50,403 we're going to follow the science and the technology. 452 00:25:50,443 --> 00:25:54,083 We had numerous shell casings recovered at all these scenes 453 00:25:54,123 --> 00:25:56,963 and they all went to the atf national laboratory 454 00:25:57,003 --> 00:25:58,163 in beltsville Maryland. 455 00:25:58,203 --> 00:26:01,003 So, we ascertained very quickly 456 00:26:01,043 --> 00:26:05,523 that the same gun was used to fire at different shooting scenes. 457 00:26:05,563 --> 00:26:08,603 So, that science gave us a starting point. 458 00:26:08,643 --> 00:26:10,843 We knew we had one shooter 459 00:26:10,883 --> 00:26:15,323 or we had one gun utilised by several shooters potentially 460 00:26:15,363 --> 00:26:18,763 and that honed in our investigative team. 461 00:26:18,803 --> 00:26:20,683 Those bullets that we received 462 00:26:20,723 --> 00:26:25,083 had six lands and grooves, 463 00:26:25,123 --> 00:26:27,323 and they had a right twist on it. 464 00:26:27,363 --> 00:26:31,043 And we can measure those land impressions, 465 00:26:31,083 --> 00:26:32,443 each one of the six. 466 00:26:32,483 --> 00:26:35,883 And we can measure each one of the groove impressions, 467 00:26:35,923 --> 00:26:37,643 note the direction of twist, 468 00:26:37,683 --> 00:26:40,483 and come up with a fair degree of accuracy, 469 00:26:40,523 --> 00:26:42,683 the make and the model of the firearm 470 00:26:42,723 --> 00:26:45,403 that fired that projectile. 471 00:26:45,443 --> 00:26:50,683 The gun was identified as a bushmaster.223 calibre rifle, 472 00:26:50,723 --> 00:26:53,923 not a weapon usually associated with a sniper. 473 00:26:53,963 --> 00:26:55,043 (Gunshot fires) 474 00:26:55,083 --> 00:26:57,203 You can go to gun shows and just buy it cash 475 00:26:57,243 --> 00:27:00,523 and carry in some locations here in the us. 476 00:27:00,563 --> 00:27:04,763 The ar style 15 firearm 477 00:27:04,803 --> 00:27:06,843 was developed by the military 478 00:27:06,883 --> 00:27:09,403 and it was a firearm they used in Vietnam. 479 00:27:09,443 --> 00:27:11,643 It's not an unusual firearm. 480 00:27:11,683 --> 00:27:12,963 In the states, 481 00:27:13,003 --> 00:27:16,683 most of the mass shootings occur with this kind of rifle. 482 00:27:16,723 --> 00:27:18,763 On October 4, 483 00:27:18,803 --> 00:27:22,043 the following day to this outrageous attack 484 00:27:22,083 --> 00:27:23,563 in Washington DC, 485 00:27:23,603 --> 00:27:25,203 the pair moved their location. 486 00:27:26,603 --> 00:27:30,083 And a woman, called Caroline seawell is shot 487 00:27:30,123 --> 00:27:33,363 while she's loading her car, she, does however survive. 488 00:27:34,883 --> 00:27:37,643 Forensic analysis from the crime scene 489 00:27:37,683 --> 00:27:40,403 again determined that the bullet fragments came 490 00:27:40,443 --> 00:27:44,003 from a .223 calibre bushmaster. 491 00:27:44,043 --> 00:27:47,963 A blue Chevy caprice was also seen in the vicinity. 492 00:27:49,163 --> 00:27:51,883 The tip-lines received thousands of calls 493 00:27:51,923 --> 00:27:54,363 and witness sightings of a blue Chevy 494 00:27:54,403 --> 00:27:57,763 were buried in the volume of information coming in. 495 00:27:59,203 --> 00:28:02,043 Three days later on October 7, 496 00:28:02,083 --> 00:28:05,283 Muhammad and malvo drove to a wooded area 497 00:28:05,323 --> 00:28:07,803 close to Benjamin tasker middle school 498 00:28:07,843 --> 00:28:09,603 in bowie Maryland. 499 00:28:10,883 --> 00:28:13,043 One of them took a ball point pen 500 00:28:13,083 --> 00:28:18,163 and wrote on a tarot card depicting death, "call me god." 501 00:28:18,203 --> 00:28:21,043 On the back, they wrote, "for you, mr police. 502 00:28:21,083 --> 00:28:23,003 "Code, call me god. 503 00:28:23,043 --> 00:28:25,643 "Do not release to the press." 504 00:28:25,683 --> 00:28:30,123 The card was placed in a plastic bag and attached to a tree. 505 00:28:31,203 --> 00:28:35,443 They hunkered down in a makeshift blind and waited. 506 00:28:35,483 --> 00:28:39,963 He's called Iran brown, and he's 13. 507 00:28:40,003 --> 00:28:41,803 He's attending a middle school, 508 00:28:41,843 --> 00:28:44,243 and he's been taken there by his aunt. 509 00:28:47,243 --> 00:28:48,563 (Gunshot fires) 510 00:28:48,603 --> 00:28:51,763 He fell to the ground with a single gunshot wound 511 00:28:51,803 --> 00:28:54,403 to the chest, critically injured. 512 00:28:54,443 --> 00:28:57,283 Now, all of our victims have been innocent, 513 00:28:57,323 --> 00:28:58,723 have been defenceless. 514 00:28:59,763 --> 00:29:02,123 But now we're stepping over the line, 515 00:29:02,163 --> 00:29:04,843 because our children don't deserve this. 516 00:29:04,883 --> 00:29:07,243 But it's after that shooting 517 00:29:07,283 --> 00:29:09,883 that we get the first communication 518 00:29:09,923 --> 00:29:14,963 between Muhammad and malvo and the authorities. 519 00:29:15,003 --> 00:29:16,603 "Dear mr police." 520 00:29:16,643 --> 00:29:18,243 It's... 521 00:29:18,283 --> 00:29:19,363 It's a taunt. 522 00:29:20,603 --> 00:29:22,603 It was leaked that it said, "I am god." 523 00:29:22,643 --> 00:29:24,403 And in fact it said, "call me god." 524 00:29:24,443 --> 00:29:28,123 So, anyone that called the tip line and said, I know somebody who says, 525 00:29:28,163 --> 00:29:29,843 "I am god 10 times a day. 526 00:29:29,883 --> 00:29:31,643 "I think you should look at him," 527 00:29:31,683 --> 00:29:32,763 we were able to eliminate 528 00:29:32,803 --> 00:29:34,363 without spending too much time on it. 529 00:29:34,403 --> 00:29:37,883 We were all in this together and what every agency had, 530 00:29:37,923 --> 00:29:40,963 did the best of, they brought that best to the table 531 00:29:41,003 --> 00:29:42,523 and said, "I will handle this." 532 00:29:42,563 --> 00:29:43,603 Atf said, 533 00:29:43,643 --> 00:29:46,963 "we are the federal firearms investigative agency 534 00:29:47,003 --> 00:29:50,083 "for the United States, we will do the ballistics." 535 00:29:50,123 --> 00:29:52,483 FBI will do fingerprinting. 536 00:29:52,523 --> 00:29:55,123 The Montgomery county, prince George's county, 537 00:29:55,163 --> 00:29:57,923 Virginia state authorities, they work crime scenes. 538 00:29:57,963 --> 00:29:59,323 That's what they do well. 539 00:29:59,363 --> 00:30:00,523 (Intense music) 540 00:30:02,043 --> 00:30:05,723 On October 9 around 8.15 in the evening 541 00:30:05,763 --> 00:30:08,883 53-year-old Dean meyers was filling his car 542 00:30:08,923 --> 00:30:12,603 with at a sunoco gas station in manassas Virginia. 543 00:30:14,723 --> 00:30:18,883 The blue Chevy caprice was parked in a lot across the street. 544 00:30:21,083 --> 00:30:23,763 A single shot to the head killed meyers 545 00:30:23,803 --> 00:30:26,443 as he stood at the gas pump. 546 00:30:26,483 --> 00:30:28,803 With such a heightened state of alert 547 00:30:28,843 --> 00:30:30,963 police were quickly at the scene. 548 00:30:31,003 --> 00:30:32,083 The bullet recovered 549 00:30:32,123 --> 00:30:35,403 was from a .223 calibre bushmaster rifle. 550 00:30:36,923 --> 00:30:39,563 In the immediate aftermath of the shooting 551 00:30:39,603 --> 00:30:43,603 Muhammad was interviewed in the parking lot but not detained. 552 00:30:46,523 --> 00:30:49,483 Local news here in Washington is national news. 553 00:30:49,523 --> 00:30:51,523 So, when you have a serial shooter 554 00:30:51,563 --> 00:30:55,723 or shooters committing random acts of violence in the nation's capital 555 00:30:55,763 --> 00:30:56,803 and its suburbs, 556 00:30:56,843 --> 00:30:59,483 it captures the nation's attention very, very quickly. 557 00:30:59,523 --> 00:31:01,883 All eyes were on Washington at that time. 558 00:31:01,923 --> 00:31:05,323 It was like anybody else sitting at home, 559 00:31:05,363 --> 00:31:07,283 watching CNN and... 560 00:31:07,323 --> 00:31:11,843 You see one day it was a shooting somewhere. 561 00:31:11,883 --> 00:31:15,123 And then you check back two, three days later 562 00:31:15,163 --> 00:31:17,259 and it's another shooting and then it's another shooting, 563 00:31:17,283 --> 00:31:21,443 so I was captivated and on alert like the rest of the world was. 564 00:31:22,883 --> 00:31:25,403 So, I think there was a sense of satisfaction 565 00:31:25,443 --> 00:31:26,603 on the part of the snipers 566 00:31:26,643 --> 00:31:29,443 that they were able to create this sense of fear, 567 00:31:29,483 --> 00:31:33,003 paralyse a community, paralyse the nation's capital, 568 00:31:33,043 --> 00:31:36,043 the region, with one gun. 569 00:31:36,083 --> 00:31:38,803 And so, but it wasn't enough for them. 570 00:31:38,843 --> 00:31:42,323 I mean, they could've, you know, gone across the country and escaped, 571 00:31:42,363 --> 00:31:43,843 but no, they kept at it. 572 00:31:43,883 --> 00:31:45,283 It was a game of cat and mouse. 573 00:31:46,363 --> 00:31:51,483 Seven dead in the DC suburbs and two more critically injured, 574 00:31:51,523 --> 00:31:55,083 for Muhammad and malvo it wasn't enough. 575 00:31:56,403 --> 00:32:00,643 John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd malvo's killing spree 576 00:32:00,683 --> 00:32:02,483 had gripped the entire nation. 577 00:32:02,523 --> 00:32:06,883 No one in and around Washington DC felt safe. 578 00:32:08,243 --> 00:32:13,243 Although their targets were random, the planning was not. 579 00:32:13,283 --> 00:32:14,443 They were killing people 580 00:32:14,483 --> 00:32:19,043 close to the exits and entrances of interstates, 581 00:32:19,083 --> 00:32:22,243 so as they would shoot somebody 582 00:32:22,283 --> 00:32:24,403 all they had to do was jump on the interstate 583 00:32:24,443 --> 00:32:26,523 to go to their next destination, 584 00:32:26,563 --> 00:32:29,803 and it made an easy escape route for them. 585 00:32:29,843 --> 00:32:31,523 On October 11, 2002, 586 00:32:31,563 --> 00:32:35,483 Kenneth Bridges is shot at an exxon station 587 00:32:35,523 --> 00:32:38,003 in fredericksburg, Virginia. 588 00:32:38,043 --> 00:32:39,963 And at that point, 589 00:32:40,003 --> 00:32:44,243 some of the gas station owners on the east coast 590 00:32:44,283 --> 00:32:46,883 begin to erect tarpaulins 591 00:32:46,923 --> 00:32:51,043 so that their customers can drive in and fill up their cars 592 00:32:51,083 --> 00:32:54,643 without fearing they're going to be targeted by a sniper. 593 00:32:54,683 --> 00:32:59,043 That's how big an effect that Muhammad and malvo 594 00:32:59,083 --> 00:33:01,403 have had on the whole area. 595 00:33:01,443 --> 00:33:03,643 There was no connection between the victims. 596 00:33:03,683 --> 00:33:06,803 The only connection was between the shootings themselves. 597 00:33:06,843 --> 00:33:09,883 The ballistics, the evidence left behind, 598 00:33:09,923 --> 00:33:12,963 the DNA, the fingerprints, the notes, that was the link. 599 00:33:14,323 --> 00:33:18,803 October 14, Columbus day holiday, 600 00:33:18,843 --> 00:33:22,643 47-year-old FBI analyst Linda Franklin 601 00:33:22,683 --> 00:33:26,083 was shopping at a home depot with her husband. 602 00:33:26,123 --> 00:33:27,563 From across the street, 603 00:33:27,603 --> 00:33:30,803 malvo trained his sight on William Franklin. 604 00:33:32,243 --> 00:33:35,003 At the last moment he switched targets 605 00:33:35,043 --> 00:33:36,323 and pulled the trigger. 606 00:33:39,363 --> 00:33:43,963 And she had her head blown off in front of her husband, literally. 607 00:33:44,003 --> 00:33:47,043 And that reality and this... 608 00:33:47,083 --> 00:33:52,243 The whole emotion of the gravity of that and the sadness... 609 00:33:52,283 --> 00:33:54,763 I mean the 911 call that 610 00:33:54,803 --> 00:33:58,763 mr Franklin made immediately following Linda Franklin 611 00:33:58,803 --> 00:33:59,843 going down... 612 00:34:00,963 --> 00:34:04,923 Is chilling, and I will never get that out of my head. 613 00:34:08,243 --> 00:34:10,163 No one was standing around. 614 00:34:10,203 --> 00:34:11,803 Folks were definitely on edge 615 00:34:11,843 --> 00:34:13,723 and not looking to make themselves a target. 616 00:34:13,763 --> 00:34:16,363 But the streets were just shut down. 617 00:34:16,403 --> 00:34:18,323 The amount of traffic in the Washington region 618 00:34:18,363 --> 00:34:21,083 is pretty heavy on a normal day. 619 00:34:21,123 --> 00:34:23,723 But when you start shutting down roads around crime scenes 620 00:34:23,763 --> 00:34:27,243 and on the beltway, it comes to an absolute crawl. 621 00:34:29,163 --> 00:34:31,523 After the shooting of Linda Franklin 622 00:34:31,563 --> 00:34:35,483 Muhammad and malvo laid low for five days. 623 00:34:35,523 --> 00:34:39,843 During this period the task force caught a lucky break. 624 00:34:39,883 --> 00:34:42,523 A fingerprint taken from a gun catalogue 625 00:34:42,563 --> 00:34:46,563 found at a crime scene in Alabama on September 22 626 00:34:46,603 --> 00:34:49,963 was a match to a print taken by immigration services 627 00:34:50,003 --> 00:34:52,403 in bellingham, Washington state. 628 00:34:52,443 --> 00:34:56,883 This information coincided with a call to the tip line 629 00:34:56,923 --> 00:35:00,003 from a bellingham resident called Robert Holmes. 630 00:35:01,643 --> 00:35:04,603 An army friend of John Allen Williams 631 00:35:04,643 --> 00:35:07,323 who said, "I think this could be my friend 632 00:35:07,363 --> 00:35:10,083 "and my co-worker in the army." 633 00:35:10,123 --> 00:35:11,923 And he gave us that name. 634 00:35:11,963 --> 00:35:13,123 And he said, incidentally, 635 00:35:13,163 --> 00:35:15,803 he's recently been travelling with... 636 00:35:15,843 --> 00:35:20,003 Someone I think is about 17, that he nicknamed 'sniper'. 637 00:35:20,043 --> 00:35:23,243 The national motor vehicle title database 638 00:35:23,283 --> 00:35:25,923 also revealed that John Allen Muhammad 639 00:35:25,963 --> 00:35:30,963 had purchased a blue Chevy caprice on September 10, 2002, 640 00:35:31,003 --> 00:35:33,203 in Trenton New Jersey. 641 00:35:33,243 --> 00:35:35,043 It was very specific. 642 00:35:35,083 --> 00:35:38,243 We had linked the shootings 643 00:35:38,283 --> 00:35:42,683 to the robbery down in Alabama. 644 00:35:42,723 --> 00:35:46,443 The forensics information came in, the DNA came in, 645 00:35:46,483 --> 00:35:47,763 the fingerprints came in. 646 00:35:47,803 --> 00:35:49,843 We were able to put that all together 647 00:35:49,883 --> 00:35:51,763 and realise who we we're looking for. 648 00:35:51,803 --> 00:35:56,163 So, now we had concrete information on the suspects, 649 00:35:56,203 --> 00:35:58,243 and the vehicle we're looking for. 650 00:35:58,283 --> 00:36:00,203 So, that happened in a blink of an eye 651 00:36:00,243 --> 00:36:02,603 where we went from casting a wide net 652 00:36:02,643 --> 00:36:04,443 to now, we know what we're looking for. 653 00:36:04,483 --> 00:36:05,643 We're fishing with a spear. 654 00:36:08,323 --> 00:36:10,763 On the evening of October 19, 655 00:36:10,803 --> 00:36:13,923 malvo and Muhammad were concealed in the treeline 656 00:36:13,963 --> 00:36:18,803 opposite the ponderosa steak house in Ashland Virginia, waiting. 657 00:36:21,443 --> 00:36:25,603 They had tacked a handwritten five page note to a nearby tree. 658 00:36:27,283 --> 00:36:30,763 The note was emblazoned with 13 red stars, 659 00:36:30,803 --> 00:36:32,203 one for each kill. 660 00:36:34,203 --> 00:36:35,683 Just before 8:00pm 661 00:36:35,723 --> 00:36:39,923 37-year-old Jeffrey hopper left the steak house with his wife 662 00:36:39,963 --> 00:36:42,043 and was shot in the stomach. 663 00:36:43,123 --> 00:36:45,843 He was critically injured but alive. 664 00:36:45,883 --> 00:36:50,603 The note basically demanded $10 million be put on a credit card, 665 00:36:50,643 --> 00:36:55,443 which fortunately the criminals aren't as smart as they could be, 666 00:36:55,483 --> 00:36:57,683 or it might be more difficult to catch them, 667 00:36:57,723 --> 00:37:00,563 but they expected us to put $10 million on a credit card. 668 00:37:00,603 --> 00:37:04,843 Muhammad asks for $10 million 669 00:37:04,883 --> 00:37:07,283 for them to give themselves up, 670 00:37:07,323 --> 00:37:09,363 so that they can found a school 671 00:37:09,403 --> 00:37:12,923 for disadvantaged black children in Canada. 672 00:37:18,443 --> 00:37:20,203 On October 22, 673 00:37:20,243 --> 00:37:23,043 Muhammad and malvo waited across the street 674 00:37:23,083 --> 00:37:26,163 from a bus stop in Montgomery county. 675 00:37:26,203 --> 00:37:29,243 Another note was positioned in plain sight. 676 00:37:29,283 --> 00:37:34,843 At 05:58am a bus driver was about to begin his daily route, 677 00:37:34,883 --> 00:37:37,043 a single gunshot to the chest. 678 00:37:38,203 --> 00:37:40,923 He died standing on the top step of his bus. 679 00:37:42,403 --> 00:37:45,123 His name was Conrad, it was his first name. 680 00:37:45,163 --> 00:37:49,283 The note in the bushes in the plastic bag, 681 00:37:49,323 --> 00:37:51,923 not necessarily for its forensic value 682 00:37:51,963 --> 00:37:55,963 but for the mere fact that they put it there. 683 00:37:56,003 --> 00:38:00,043 They just killed a man and it's a game to them, right? 684 00:38:00,083 --> 00:38:04,603 It was so upsetting to me to see that level of, 685 00:38:04,643 --> 00:38:07,003 so casual about taking a life 686 00:38:07,043 --> 00:38:10,243 and planting this note and going, "now, see if you can find me. 687 00:38:10,283 --> 00:38:11,363 "Here's a little bit... 688 00:38:11,403 --> 00:38:12,563 "Here's a little bit more." 689 00:38:15,163 --> 00:38:17,003 On October 23, 690 00:38:17,043 --> 00:38:20,843 the DC sniper task force released the licence plate 691 00:38:20,883 --> 00:38:22,723 of the blue Chevy caprice 692 00:38:22,763 --> 00:38:25,403 and descriptions of their primary suspects 693 00:38:25,443 --> 00:38:27,123 to the national media. 694 00:38:27,163 --> 00:38:30,523 Well, we wanted to use the media and the public 695 00:38:30,563 --> 00:38:34,443 and law enforcement as a team, to find these suspects, right? 696 00:38:34,483 --> 00:38:36,499 So, it wasn't a secret that we wanted to find them 697 00:38:36,523 --> 00:38:38,483 but we need everybody's help to do that. 698 00:38:38,523 --> 00:38:40,883 So, the only things that we were trying to keep, 699 00:38:40,923 --> 00:38:45,003 um, kind of, close hold was we wanted to make sure 700 00:38:45,043 --> 00:38:47,803 the information we're releasing to the public was accurate, 701 00:38:47,843 --> 00:38:50,963 it was actionable and it was timely. 702 00:38:51,003 --> 00:38:53,043 On October 23, 703 00:38:53,083 --> 00:38:56,123 refrigerator repairman Whitney donahue 704 00:38:56,163 --> 00:38:59,603 was driving home on the i-70 to Pennsylvania 705 00:38:59,643 --> 00:39:01,403 when he heard a news report 706 00:39:01,443 --> 00:39:05,323 releasing the details of the wanted suspects. 707 00:39:05,363 --> 00:39:07,203 He made a note on his pay stub, 708 00:39:07,243 --> 00:39:09,403 which was on his passenger seat 709 00:39:09,443 --> 00:39:12,563 of the information of the car and wrote down the licence plate. 710 00:39:12,603 --> 00:39:16,643 He pulled into a rest stop off of i-70. 711 00:39:16,683 --> 00:39:18,923 And as soon as he got parked, 712 00:39:18,963 --> 00:39:23,163 he observed a blue Chevy caprice. 713 00:39:23,203 --> 00:39:24,683 It fit the description 714 00:39:24,723 --> 00:39:26,563 of what he had just heard on the news. 715 00:39:26,603 --> 00:39:28,563 He called 911. 716 00:39:28,603 --> 00:39:33,043 And so he was very brave and got on his cb radio, 717 00:39:33,083 --> 00:39:36,483 which is the ability to communicate with the truckers in the region. 718 00:39:36,523 --> 00:39:38,083 And on his own, 719 00:39:38,123 --> 00:39:42,723 he asked truckers to help block the entrance to the rest stop, 720 00:39:42,763 --> 00:39:46,843 and the exit from the rest stop, with their 18 wheelers 721 00:39:46,883 --> 00:39:50,563 so that these suspects wouldn't be able to escape by car. 722 00:39:50,603 --> 00:39:53,203 Donahue confirmed the licence plate, 723 00:39:53,243 --> 00:39:57,523 and that the vehicle was occupied to the police, 724 00:39:57,563 --> 00:40:02,483 he waited and watched as law enforcement agents moved in. 725 00:40:02,523 --> 00:40:04,003 The window was breached 726 00:40:04,043 --> 00:40:06,523 because the door in the back was locked. 727 00:40:06,563 --> 00:40:07,563 They were pulled out. 728 00:40:07,603 --> 00:40:10,763 They were handcuffed and separated on the curb. 729 00:40:10,803 --> 00:40:15,083 And immediately the first review of the car, 730 00:40:15,123 --> 00:40:16,803 they were able to find the bushmaster 731 00:40:16,843 --> 00:40:18,643 behind the back seat. 732 00:40:18,683 --> 00:40:21,243 And it had one in the chamber ready to fire. 733 00:40:21,283 --> 00:40:23,803 It was actually not in the safe mode. 734 00:40:23,843 --> 00:40:26,243 So, a simple pull of the trigger, 735 00:40:26,283 --> 00:40:28,163 and there would have been an incident. 736 00:40:28,203 --> 00:40:30,163 And malvo said, "it's my fault. 737 00:40:30,203 --> 00:40:31,283 "I fell asleep." 738 00:40:33,883 --> 00:40:34,923 It was a huge relief, 739 00:40:34,963 --> 00:40:37,923 and it was a sense of accomplishment and pride 740 00:40:37,963 --> 00:40:41,603 not only for atf but for the entire taskforce team. 741 00:40:41,643 --> 00:40:45,123 The nation's psyche was drawn to this investigation 742 00:40:45,163 --> 00:40:49,083 because really it could be any one of us on any given day. 743 00:40:49,123 --> 00:40:50,963 Three weeks of shootings, 744 00:40:51,003 --> 00:40:54,043 of trying to find these people, bring them to justice, 745 00:40:54,083 --> 00:40:55,923 get them off the street, 746 00:40:55,963 --> 00:40:57,723 get the public safety aspect 747 00:40:57,763 --> 00:41:00,483 back to where folks were comfortable in their communities. 748 00:41:02,923 --> 00:41:07,443 Both men initially pled not guilty and faced years of litigation 749 00:41:07,483 --> 00:41:10,603 for their multi-jurisdictional crimes. 750 00:41:10,643 --> 00:41:13,043 In October 2003, 751 00:41:13,083 --> 00:41:15,843 John Allen Muhammad was first brought to trial 752 00:41:15,883 --> 00:41:20,123 in the state of Virginia for the murder of Dean Myers. 753 00:41:20,163 --> 00:41:22,523 He was found guilty of capital murder 754 00:41:22,563 --> 00:41:27,883 and in march 2004 sentenced to death by lethal injection. 755 00:41:27,923 --> 00:41:32,323 Lee Boyd malvo was first brought to trial in 2003 756 00:41:32,363 --> 00:41:35,443 in Virginia for the murder of Linda Franklin, 757 00:41:35,483 --> 00:41:38,723 as a minor he did not face the death penalty. 758 00:41:38,763 --> 00:41:41,763 Three years later in a surprise reversal, 759 00:41:41,803 --> 00:41:46,003 malvo pleaded guilty and testified against Muhammad. 760 00:41:46,043 --> 00:41:50,123 Malvo is currently serving ten consecutive life sentences 761 00:41:50,163 --> 00:41:51,483 without parole 762 00:41:51,523 --> 00:41:54,323 in red onion state prison in Virginia. 763 00:41:55,923 --> 00:42:00,043 I don't hold him as responsible as I hold John Allen Muhammad, 764 00:42:00,083 --> 00:42:03,563 because John Allen Muhammad took a teenager 765 00:42:03,603 --> 00:42:06,443 who did not have a father from his home 766 00:42:06,483 --> 00:42:10,243 and he manipulated him, he brainwashed him, 767 00:42:10,283 --> 00:42:12,803 and he trained him to be a monster. 768 00:42:12,843 --> 00:42:15,523 There isn't an ounce of me that thinks that 769 00:42:15,563 --> 00:42:17,923 malvo was brainwashed by Muhammad. 770 00:42:17,963 --> 00:42:19,563 I think that he was all in 771 00:42:19,603 --> 00:42:22,003 and it was a very willing participant. 772 00:42:22,043 --> 00:42:25,923 He was calculating and smart on choosing targets. 773 00:42:25,963 --> 00:42:29,283 The teamwork was obviously very successful. 774 00:42:29,323 --> 00:42:31,523 The prosecutors in Muhammad's trial 775 00:42:31,563 --> 00:42:33,883 insisted that perhaps the motive 776 00:42:33,923 --> 00:42:37,803 was that Muhammad wished to shoot his ex-wife, 777 00:42:37,843 --> 00:42:39,443 second ex-wife, Mildred, 778 00:42:39,483 --> 00:42:43,243 and he was using these shootings around Washington 779 00:42:43,283 --> 00:42:44,363 as an excuse. 780 00:42:44,403 --> 00:42:46,563 I've never believed it and I don't think it's true. 781 00:42:46,603 --> 00:42:48,723 How could the person that at one point in time 782 00:42:48,763 --> 00:42:53,123 I looked up to, commit these type of crimes, 783 00:42:53,163 --> 00:42:54,523 what happened... 784 00:42:55,923 --> 00:42:57,723 To lead up to these crimes? 785 00:42:57,763 --> 00:43:01,843 What went so wrong to make you snap 786 00:43:01,883 --> 00:43:05,003 and think this was the right decision, 787 00:43:05,043 --> 00:43:06,683 to make these actions? 788 00:43:07,923 --> 00:43:10,803 On November 10, 2009, 789 00:43:10,843 --> 00:43:13,843 at greensville correctional centre in Virginia, 790 00:43:13,883 --> 00:43:18,603 John Allen Muhammad was executed by lethal injection. 791 00:43:18,643 --> 00:43:21,963 At 09:11pm Muhammad was pronounced dead. 792 00:43:23,083 --> 00:43:27,283 The only person he spoke to that night was his son Lindbergh. 793 00:43:28,723 --> 00:43:31,923 The last words my father told me was, "be strong, black man". 794 00:43:31,963 --> 00:43:33,723 That was his exact last words. 795 00:43:35,363 --> 00:43:37,123 "Be strong, black man" 796 00:43:37,163 --> 00:43:38,963 and he turned around and walked out the door 797 00:43:39,003 --> 00:43:40,003 and never looked back. 798 00:43:40,043 --> 00:43:42,763 What makes these two killers so despicable 799 00:43:42,803 --> 00:43:47,963 is the fact that to be somebody they had to destroy other people. 800 00:43:48,003 --> 00:43:50,363 They felt that to gain the respect 801 00:43:50,403 --> 00:43:54,083 that they were entitled to and to gain the recognition, 802 00:43:54,123 --> 00:43:56,643 they needed to go and harm and gun down 803 00:43:56,683 --> 00:43:59,683 everyday people going about their business. 804 00:43:59,723 --> 00:44:03,883 I remember seeing, again, his body outside that bus 805 00:44:03,923 --> 00:44:06,083 and thinking to myself, you know, "this... 806 00:44:06,123 --> 00:44:07,803 "This gentleman just went to work 807 00:44:07,843 --> 00:44:10,963 "to take people about their day to day lives 808 00:44:11,003 --> 00:44:12,363 "and that was taken from him 809 00:44:12,403 --> 00:44:13,819 "and it was senselessly taken from him." 810 00:44:13,843 --> 00:44:16,723 I am getting older, and I don't remember 811 00:44:16,763 --> 00:44:18,763 what I had to eat yesterday for breakfast, 812 00:44:18,803 --> 00:44:21,683 but I remember the dates, and the victims, 813 00:44:21,723 --> 00:44:26,123 and the tragedy of this case with a snap of a finger. 814 00:44:26,163 --> 00:44:28,883 So, I can't explain it. 815 00:44:28,923 --> 00:44:30,083 It's deep. 816 00:44:33,843 --> 00:44:36,403 17 people shot dead. 817 00:44:36,443 --> 00:44:38,563 The largest serial killer manhunt 818 00:44:38,603 --> 00:44:41,603 in the history of the United States had ended. 819 00:44:41,643 --> 00:44:44,403 There was no pattern to the senseless killing, 820 00:44:44,443 --> 00:44:46,763 there were no victim profiles. 821 00:44:46,803 --> 00:44:50,563 They were all just ordinary folk living their lives, 822 00:44:50,603 --> 00:44:52,723 going about their daily business 823 00:44:52,763 --> 00:44:55,643 when they were targeted by, the beltway snipers, 824 00:44:55,683 --> 00:44:59,083 John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd malvo, 825 00:44:59,123 --> 00:45:02,283 two of the world's most evil killers. 826 00:45:02,323 --> 00:45:03,603 (Instrumental music) 827 00:45:16,163 --> 00:45:19,163 Captioned by ai-media ai-media. 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