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\"The
Batman<\/em> can be the source of a great deal of wisdom.
          \u201cSome men just want to watch the world burn.\u201d
–Alfred Pennyworth
The Dark Knight<\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"The
John Allen Muhammad was a modern-day monster. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Isa Nichols was a friend of Mildred\nMuhammad, the ex-wife of a former American soldier named John Allen Muhammad. John\nand Mildred\u2019s marriage was tumultuous and violent, and Mildred\u2019s friend Isa had\nencouraged her to press for a divorce. This angered John.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The
Lee Boyd Malvo was born in Jamaica but befriended by a cold-blooded killer who brought him to America illegally. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Isa\u2019s niece Keenya Nicole Cook was visiting her aunt in Tacoma, Washington, in February of 2002 along with her six-month-old daughter Angeleah. Setting her baby on a changing table she answered the front door to find a 17-year-old Jamaican named Lee Boyd Malvo. Malvo produced a .45-caliber handgun and shot the woman in the face. Thus began one of the most brutal killing sprees in American history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Origins of a\nMonster<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
\"The
John Allen Williams had a rough childhood. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

John Allen Muhammad was born in 1960 in\nBaton Rouge, Louisiana, as John Allen Williams. At age three Williams\u2019 mother died of\nbreast cancer, and his father left town. His maternal grandfather and an aunt\nsubsequently raised the boy. In 1978 Williams enlisted in the Louisiana Army\nNational Guard and trained as a Combat Engineer. Seven years later he\ntransferred to the Regular Army. In 1991 he deployed to Kuwait in support of\nthe First Gulf War.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The
Williams used his military experience as a foundation for crime and murder. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

While in uniform Williams qualified Expert with the M16A1 rifle and trained as a mechanic, truck driver, and metalworker. He would later put these skills to much darker use. In 1987, at age 27, John Allen Williams joined the Nation of Islam. In 1994 Williams was honorably discharged at the rank of Sergeant after seventeen years of service. In 1995 he acted as a security officer for the \u201cMillion Man March\u201d in Washington, DC.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The
Much of Muhammad\u2019s adult life orbited around trying to regain control of his children. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Williams was married twice. In 1999 he\nkidnapped his three children and took them to Antigua. During this time he met\nLee Boyd Malvo, the young Jamaican man he later described as his stepson. In\n2001 Williams officially changed his name to Muhammad, and formally gave\nhimself over to the Dark Side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The
John Allen Muhammad was a great fan of Osama bin-Laden and his murderous band of psychopaths. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

John Allen Muhammad expressed admiration\nfor Osama bin-Laden and studied al-Qaeda, modeling their behavior. He stated\nthat he fully approved of the September 11th<\/sup> attacks. His later\nattempts to extort money were intended to establish \u201ca camp in Canada where\nhomeless children could train as terrorists.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The
The sordid tale of John Allen Muhammad\u2019s domestic woes speaks volumes concerning the ineffectiveness of legal documents to protect the innocent. This is Muhammad\u2019s wife Mildred with two of her children. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Along the way, Muhammad\u2019s wife Mildred was granted a restraining order against him. This was one of several pyrrhic legal efforts that failed miserably to thwart this maniac. Muhammad and Malvo eventually murdered seventeen people, most of them randomly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This Brilliant\nDarkness<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
\"The
Muhammad and Malvo used this post-ban XM-15 rifle to terrorize the American landscape in 2002. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Starting with Keenya Cook in Tacoma, Muhammad and Malvo killed another six people in seven states over eight months. Along the way, they critically injured a further seven. They used a Bushmaster XM-15 rifle for most of the shootings. Then at 5:20 pm on October 2, 2002, they fired a round through a window at Michael\u2019s craft store in Aspen Hill, Maryland. No one was hurt, but thus began a reign of terror that would paralyze the DC area for three interminable weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The
It was the violent disruption of such familiar Americana that made the Beltway Snipers so horrifying. Their first DC-area killing was in the parking lot of a supermarket. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

An hour after the Michael\u2019s shooting, the\npair shot and killed James Martin, a 55-year-old program analyst for NOAA outside\na supermarket. The following morning they killed four random strangers in less\nthan two hours. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The
America\u2019s familiar spaces had suddenly become killing fields. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

39-year-old landscaper Sonny Montgomery\nwas killed as he mowed grass at the Fitzgerald Auto Mall. 54-year-old part-time\ncab driver Prem Walekar was shot while he refueled his taxi. 34-year-old Sarah\nRamos was murdered as she sat at a bus stop reading a book. 25-year-old Lori\nAnn Lewis-Rivera was shot as she vacuumed her minivan. Later that evening a\n72-year-old retired carpenter named Pascal Charlot was killed while out for a\nwalk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The
Each crowded crime scene had been meticulously researched and carefully selected. The innate congestion made timely identification of the shooter all but impossible. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This first day\u2019s victims represented a fairly homogeneous cross-section of American society. Each was killed with a single bullet fired from a significant distance. News of these random shootings terrified the nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The
White utility vans are quite literally everywhere. One man who intentionally lied about having seen a man with an AK47 outside a Home Depot near one of the scenes was eventually prosecuted for making a false police report. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Initial reports were that there had been\na white van seen near each of the murder sites. The entire country became\nsuspicious of white utility vans. I recall counting fifteen over the course of\nfive minutes while driving through my little Southern town. White panel vans\nare ubiquitous. However, some astute witnesses also reported seeing a blue\nChevrolet Caprice. This was a critical observation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The
This young man narrowly survived being shot by the Beltway Snipers. His testimony proved to be a critical piece of the prosecution. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The two men then began hunting farther afield and killing every two to three days. A 43-year-old homemaker was shot in the parking lot of a shopping mall. 13-year-old student Iran Brown was grievously wounded. He had previously been kicked off the bus for eating candy. As a result, his aunt, a nurse who had just dropped him off at school, administered first aid and rushed him to a nearby hospital, saving his life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The
This tarot card was intentionally left behind at the scene of the Iran Brown shooting. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"The<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

At the scene of this shooting police\nfound a tarot death card inscribed with \u201cCall me God\u201d on the front. On\nthe back was written, \u201cFor you Mr. Police,\u201d \u201cCode: Call me God,\u201d and \u201cDo not release to\nthe press.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The
The terror of the Beltway shootings changed the way Americans lived their lives. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Three more victims died over the\nfollowing week. Gas stations erected tarps around their pumps, and schools kept\ntheir children indoors. Field trips and sporting events were canceled, while\ngovernment buildings tightened security. Americans scuttled about, minimizing the\ntime they spent exposed. Law Enforcement swarmed the area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The
Once Law Enforcement identified the two shooters and tied them to this blue 1990 Chevrolet Caprice their fates were sealed. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

One of the shooters made a phone call from a payphone boasting of his cleverness. Police traced the call but missed the two by minutes. The killers left long rambling notes at the scenes of subsequent murders, one of which demanded $10 million as a ransom to stop the bloodshed. Their thirst for attention eventually pointed the FBI toward Muhammad and Malvo. Once they were tied to their blue Caprice the two psychopaths were doomed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Car<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
\"The
John Allen Muhammad bought this 1990 Caprice specifically intending to turn it into a shooting platform. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The blue 1990 Chevrolet Caprice was a\nformer police stakeout vehicle that Muhammad had modified into a rolling sniper\nhide. Muhammad bought the car via auction at Sure Shot Auto Sales in New Jersey.\nBefore bidding he had crawled inside the trunk for a close inspection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The
The adaptation the two killers made to the vehicle was inspired. Lee Boyd Malvo drew this diagram of the car\u2019s interior while in prison. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Muhammad and Malvo modified the back seat\nof the vehicle to allow entry into the trunk from within the car. Both men took\ntheir turns behind the rifle. They used handheld radios to communicate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The
Muhammad cut a small firing port out of the back of the car. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Muhammad removed a small portion of the\nrear of the vehicle to form a firing port and rested the muzzle of his rifle on\na glove to keep it steady. They spray painted the inside of the trunk dark blue\nto minimize interior glare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Gun<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
\"The
The XM-15 rifle was a stripped-down post-ban gun without any \u201cassault weapon\u201d features. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Bushmaster XM-15 rifle was a post-ban\nweapon with a fixed stock. The gun had no flash suppressor or bayonet lug. The\nrifle included an EOTech Holosight, a folding bipod, and a twenty-round\nmagazine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The
The gun was stolen, the mastermind was legally prohibited from touching a firearm, and the younger of the two was in the country illegally. If ever there were poster children for the ineffectiveness of gun control legislation Muhammad and Malvo were they. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Malvo actually shoplifted the rifle from Bull\u2019s Eye Shooter Supply in Tacoma during business hours. Because of his restraining order, John Allen Muhammad was restricted from purchasing or possessing a firearm. As Malvo was an illegal alien he was a prohibited person as well. Despite the many labyrinthine rules crafted to keep them unarmed, Malvo and Muhammad had ready access to numerous firearms. Malvo later testified that they spent as much as twelve hours a day practicing at a shooting range. John Allen Muhammad trained Malvo in weapons handling until they could operate as a team with military precision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Rest of the\nStory<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
\"The
The pair shot a man and stole this laptop early in their spree. They used the machine to maintain detailed maps of their shooting positions and facilitate a fast egress. Fingerprints helped connect the shooters to their crimes. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"The<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

 Police were overwhelmed with tips, so much so that when the actual killers tried to contact authorities they had a tough time getting through. Eventually, Muhammad admitted to a robbery\/murder in Alabama in an effort to establish his credibility. With that information, the FBI identified both men via fingerprint and DNA evidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The
Police and concerned citizens improvised a quick roadblock that hemmed the murderers\u2019 vehicle in at an I70 rest stop. A SWAT team took the pair into custody without incident. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Once the shooters and the car were\nidentified detailed descriptions were released to the public. Around 3 am on\nOctober 24, 2002, a passerby named Whitney Donahue noticed a suspicious blue\nCaprice parked at a rest stop off of Interstate 70 near Myersville, Maryland. Responding\nofficers blocked the vehicle in using police cruisers and a commandeered tractor-trailer.\nA SWAT team breached the car to find both Muhammad and Malvo sleeping. The\nprimary murder weapon and support equipment were found in their possession.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The
What many took to be an organized terrorist act was actually just the depraved acts of a man trying to get away with killing his estranged wife. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Malvo later admitted that the whole\nbloody mess was designed to deflect attention from the planned murder of\nMuhammad\u2019s ex-wife. Muhammad intended to kill \u201csix white people\nper day for thirty days\u201d to establish the spree and then shoot\nMildred to regain custody of his three children. Muhammad supposed that if his\nex-wife died as part of this larger reign of terror there would be no reason to\nsuspect her estranged husband.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The
John Allen Muhammad died on this table for his crimes. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

John Allen Muhammad died via lethal\ninjection on November 10, 2009. He made no final statement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The
Lee Boyd Malvo was just a teenager when he helped kill seventeen people. He will never again breathe free air. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Lee Boyd Malvo will spend the rest of his\nlife in solitary confinement at the Red Onion Supermax Prison in Fairfax,\nVirginia. In a 2012 interview with the Washington Post Malvo, then 27, said, \u201cI was a monster. If\nyou look up the definition that\u2019s what a monster is. I was a ghoul. I was\na thief. I stole people\u2019s lives.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The
Malvo is apparently a fairly competent artist. He drew this sketch of his training with Muhammad from his prison cell. I was shocked to find that his autographed work is for sale on Twitter. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"The
This was the round of .223 ammunition found in the chamber of the killers\u2019 rifle when they were finally arrested. Had they not been caught it likely would have been fired the following day. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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