How We Caught the D.C. Beltway Snipers (Beltway Snipers, John Muhammad, Lee Malvo)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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The Effects of a White Box Truck on the Shootings
The police were obviously misled by the early report connecting the shootings to a white box truck. The profile was based on the idea that most killers of this type are white and that may be true. Muhammad and Melvo displayed characteristics of more than one type of killer, so the answer isn't obvious.
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Transcript
A year after the 9/11 attacks, the Washington DC area was rocked by a series of random sniper attacks that left 10 people dead. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss the shootings, the men behind them, how police caught them, and why they went on their murder spree
