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 spreeAI-powered
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How We Caught the D.C. Beltway Snipers (Beltway Snipers, John Muhammad, Lee Malvo)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
The Shooting Spree
Each victim was shot only a single time. Out of 10 shots, only one missed. This level of accuracy suggested the sniper had good firearms training. Investigators began to believe that the sniper was shooting from a vehicle. It's not common to have two people working as a team of shooting in shooting sprees.
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