Topic: - on October 25, 2002 at 5:51:30 PM CEST
This flash shows how the sniper shot out of his car
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Topic: - on October 25, 2002 at 2:22:30 PM CEST
Bushmaster 820$
Semi-Automatics - Available for sale to Individual Law Enforcement Officers, FET Exempt Agencies on department purchase order, and FFL Dealers.
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Topic: - on October 25, 2002 at 1:21:01 PM CEST
The United States of America v John Allen Muhammad
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Topic: - on October 24, 2002 at 4:45:05 PM CEST
Police believe Sniper have been captured
DEVELOPING STORY
Report: Rifle, Scope, Tripod Found In Car Army Veteran, Stepson Arrested At Md. Rest Stop Thursday
Meanwhile, one of President George W. Bush's administration sources told the AP that the president has been told federal authorities are reasonably sure the case has been solved.
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Topic: - on October 24, 2002 at 3:07:34 PM CEST
Its not the same gun
Sniper
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Topic: - on October 24, 2002 at 2:35:05 PM CEST
The Mind of a Killer
Joel Rifkin strangled 17 prostitutes in four years, at random and without remorse. But years after New York police caught him in 1994, he still said he had no idea why he killed.
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Topic: - on October 24, 2002 at 2:28:00 PM CEST
Cost-effective terror: a van and 13 bullets
It has been three weeks now since the first shot was fired - and 3 million people are still ducking and holding their collective breath.
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Topic: - on October 24, 2002 at 1:17:05 PM CEST
Two Men Arrested in Sniper Case
Two men wanted for questioning in the wave of deadly sniper attacks were arrested early Thursday after they were found sleeping in their car at a Maryland rest stop, authorities said.
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Topic: - on October 24, 2002 at 1:12:50 PM CEST
Tacoma Search Said Related to Sniper
The search for the sniper stalking the suburbs of the nation's capital took an unusual turn late Wednesday as authorities searched a home in Tacoma, Wash., more than 2,000 miles away.
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Topic: - on October 23, 2002 at 4:00:24 PM CEST
sniper 22 - 23 10 02 Press overview
News.com.au - Washington sniper takes tenth life (By Roy Eccleston in Washington, )
Published in News.Com.Au (Australia)
The latest victim was a male bus driver, about 40, who was on the top step of his vehicle when hit in the chest about 5.55am yesterday morning local time. He died of his wounds in hospital this morning Australian time.
Without a bullet, police could not be sure it was the sniper who wounded three of his victims. But the style -- firing a single shot at a person in a public place going about the everyday business of life -- was identical.
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| Washington sniper takes tenth life (October 23, 2002)
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Washington sniper takes tenth life
By Roy Eccleston in Washington
October 23, 2002
THE Washington sniper appeared to have killed his tenth victim last night, in a brazen return to the area where he slaughtered six people at the beginning of the murder spree on October 2 and 3.
The latest victim was a male bus driver, about 40, who was on the top step of his vehicle when hit in the chest about 5.55am yesterday morning local time. He died of his wounds in hospital this morning Australian time.
Reason and logic, at war with terror -- The Washington Times
Published in Washington Times
October 21, 2002
Reason and logic, at war with terror
Suzanne Fields
Suddenly, Washington is awash in nostalgia for the safety and security of the Cold War. Mutual assured destruction, MAD as it was and for all of the terror it inspired in the imagination, was based on reason and logic.
When Jack Kennedy told Nikita Khrushchev he would not allow Russian missiles in Cuba, and made him believe it, the Russians turned their ships around. The gamble paid off because both sides knew the rules of the game.
Sniper search: a communication strategy | csmonitor.com
Published in Christian Science Monitor
Police, meanwhile, have fiercely tried to protect every possibility of communication with the shooter in the hopes that it may help solve the case. In a case so difficult, even a few moments of contact could be key.
Most serial killers don't communicate. When they do, it can help break the case. It can also add to public hype and frustration.
With hopes for a break raised one day and dashed the next, a focus on "messages" from the shooter is posing complicated challenges for the press as well as the police.
"The media are not just sitting off to the side reporting this case.
Guardian Unlimited | UK Latest | US sniper threatens country's children in chilling message
Published in Guardian Unlimited
Council fined £100,000 after slaughterman shot sheep
Elephants suffering in European zoos
Police urge US sniper to renew contact
Government pleads with firefighters to ensure public safety
Tetley accused of exaggerating tea health claims
Ulrika granted Collymore injunction
Last updated: 9:02 AM
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US sniper threatens country's children in chilling message
Ananova
Tuesday October 22, 2002 10:42 PM
US police investigating a sniper who has shot 12 people in the past month say they have received a message warning: "Your children are not safe anywhere at any time.
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Stop the shooting: Son of Sam's prison plea to new serial killer
Published in Guardian Unlimited
The serial sniper known as the Son of Sam, who spread fear through New York in the 1970s, has appealed to the unseen gunman terrrorising the suburbs of Washington to put down his rifle and "stop hurting innocent people".
In a letter from the jail in upstate New York where he is serving 300 years for murder, David Berkowitz, now a fervent Christian, wrote to a reporter from the Fox News channel: "My heart is heavy over the loss of innocent lives ... For me, of course, it is as if I am reliving a nightmare. The past - my past - is so painful for me to deal with. It's a time I'd prefer to forget.
Guardian Unlimited | World Latest | Parents Frightened by Sniper Threat
Published in Guardian Unlimited
Wednesday October 23, 2002 2:50 AM
SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) - Kathy Franco cased the strip mall off Cherry Hill Road twice before she decided to shop at the Babies R'' Us store there. She wanted to make sure there were no woods nearby where a sniper could hide. She was already angry that a sniper has disrupted life in the Washington area. But when she learned Tuesday that he was specifically targeting children, her anger turned to rage. This isn't a person as far as I'm concerned,'' she said as she pushed 6-week-old daughter Katherine and 2-year-old son Liam in a shopping cart at the Silver Spring store.
Guardian Unlimited | World Latest | FTC Votes to Challenge Pickle Merger
Published in Guardian Unlimited
Sniper Warns Children Are Not Safe
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Police Know Sniper's Bullets
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From the Associated Press
FTC Votes to Challenge Pickle Merger
Wednesday October 23, 2002 3:00 AM
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Federal Trade Commission is seeking to block the proposed merger of two pickle companies as anticompetitive.
The FTC opposes the proposed acquisition of Claussen Pickle Co. by the investment firm Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst Equity Fund, which owns Vlasic Pickle Co.
Guardian Unlimited | World Latest | Sniper Warns Children Are Not Safe
Published in Guardian Unlimited
Wednesday October 23, 2002 3:20 AM
ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) - A bus driver was shot to death Tuesday as he was about to set out on his morning route in what authorities fear was the 13th attack by the Washington-area sniper. Police also revealed a chilling warning found at a weekend shooting scene: Your children are not safe anywhere at any time.'' Montgomery County Police Chief Charles Moose issued a new plea, urging the gunman to continue a dialogue with investigators. It is important that we do this without anyone else getting hurt,'' he said.
ABCNEWS.com : Bloodhounds May Have Found Anthrax Suspect
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Authorities say they are building what is described as a "growing circumstantial evidence case." Their secret weapon has been a three-member team of bloodhounds from California: Tinkerbell from the South Pasadena Police Department, Knight from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office and Lucy from the Long Beach Police Department.
These bloodhounds considered by the FBI to be the best in the country at what they do were each given the scent extracted from anthrax letters posted last year and each, independently, then led handlers to the Maryland apartment of the same man Steven Hatfill.
NEWS.com.au
| Sniper demands $18m for safety (October 23, 2002)
Published in News.Com.Au (Australia)
The killer reportedly demanded $US10 million ($A18.09 million) in a two page note left at the scene of Saturday's shooting in Virginia, CNN has reported.
The police chief leading the hunt for the sniper made a new public attempt to make contact with killer today and urged him to end the spree of up to 10 killings.
Addressing himself directly to the killer via the news media, Montgomery County Police Chief Charles Moose said: "We have researched the options you stated and we have determined it is not possible electronically to comply in the manner that you requested.
IHT: Bad timing for movies with war themes
Published in International Herald Tribune
Bad timing for movies with war themes
Anne Thompson The New York Times
Wednesday, October 23, 2002
NEW YORK A cataclysmic event can change the fate of a movie. One example is "The Quiet American," the Australian director Phillip Noyce's adaptation of Graham Greene's 1955 novel. In the three days between its rough-cut preview on Sept. 10, 2001, and a Miramax strategy meeting, the story of a war-tangled Saigon love triangle morphed from hot Oscar prospect to problem child.
Miramax executives worried that what had been a romance set against the backdrop of early U.S. involvement in Vietnam now could be seen as a searing critique of U.S.
IHT: Citizens in the dark
Published in International Herald Tribune
Citizens in the dark
The Washington Post The Washington Post
Wednesday, October 23, 2002
With confirmation that the shooting Saturday night of a 37-year-old man outside a steakhouse in Ashland, Virginia, is linked to the sniper attacks plaguing the Washington region, the toll now stands at nine people dead and three critically wounded. In each case since Oct. 2, when the first shot was fired, the conditions seem alarmingly similar: a random target, a single gunshot, an elusive assailant and no witnesses. And yet, almost three weeks into this terrifying crisis, the sniper is still at large.
Local workers 'living in the cross hairs' -- The Washington Times
Published in Washington Times
Clues for police elevate thrill of chase
Employee whose office let hijackers in U.S. gets bonus
Italian author slams Islam's 'hate' for West
Burk keeps swinging away at golf's Augusta
Miss Tewolde dispenses hot dogs, pretzels and cotton candy in the parking lot of the Home Depot in Rockville — a store within a couple of miles of seven sniper attacks, and a chain that has been hit before. Her sister and children have begged her to shutter her stand, at least for a little while.
But she refuses to give in.
"I left my country to be safe," the 45-year-old mother of five said. "If this is not safe, where is a safe place?
Investigators search for sniper pattern -- The Washington Times
Published in Washington Times
More than two weeks of frantic investigation and even more harried speculation have kicked up a storm of leads, theories, odd facts and false twists — a mountain of meaninglessness that may contain telling information if it ever gets sorted out.
"Yes, there is a pattern, but whether it's one that can be easily discerned is another matter," says Iain Murray, an authority on statistics. "We're talking about human beings, and there's always some sort of rationality behind them.
"Unless," he went on, "he's a dice man — deliberately being random by rolling dice and acting according to the roll.
'Formula 51' puts vulgar mayhem 1st -- The Washington Times
Published in Washington Times
By Gary Arnold
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
"Formula 51" aims to be a rollicking monstrosity, anchored by the presence of Samuel L. Jackson as a man with a plan to swindle and exterminate the mob patrons he has been servicing for almost 30 years as a chemical consultant, recently specializing in the development of so-called designer drugs.
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N.Y. serial killer appeals to sniper -- The Washington Times
Published in Washington Times
October 22, 2002
N.Y. serial killer appeals to sniper
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — "Son of Sam" serial killer David Berkowitz has written a letter telling the Washington area sniper to "stop hurting innocent people."
"I feel that I have been feeling this person's anger and rage toward law enforcement," Berkowitz wrote in a letter sent from Sullivan Correctional Facility, where he is imprisoned for his killing spree 25 years ago.
"I felt this person has a tremendous rage against the FBI, or anyone of the various law enforcement organizations that are in this area, and maybe towards the U.S. government in general.
TV adds to sniper hysteria -- The Washington Times
Published in Washington Times
As entrepreneurs register the names "Beltway sniper" and "Washington shooter" as Web site names, journalists covet a conclusion. Many spent yesterday morning in fitful starts and stops, rehashing conflicting reports that suspects were in custody, cases linked, bullets matched.
The afternoon did not yield the moment of truth.
"I thank the media for carrying the message," a newly taciturn Montgomery County Police Chief Charles A. Moose told assembled reporters, acknowledging that the third communication between police and shooter had been sent out via the airwaves.
But the symbiotic relationship between police and the media was cut short.
Police plead for another call -- The Washington Times
Published in Washington Times
Clues for police elevate thrill of chase
Employee whose office let hijackers in U.S. gets bonus
Italian author slams Islam's 'hate' for West
Burk keeps swinging away at golf's Augusta
The appeal came hours after the leaders of the large police force said they had conclusively linked a shooting on Saturday night in Ashland, Va., to the sniper who has killed nine persons and wounded three in Maryland, Virginia and the District since Oct. 2.
Bus driver shot in Maryland dies -- The Washington Times
Published in Washington Times
Conrad Johnson, a 35-year-old father of two, was shot as he stood at the top of the steps of the bus shortly before 6 a.m., Montgomery County police said.
The location, 15 miles north of downtown Washington, is less than a half-mile from where the rampage began Oct. 2. In all, 12 people have been confirmed shot by the sniper in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C.; three were critically wounded.
"We remain concerned about the safety of all the people in our region," Police Chief Charles Moose said today.
The Village Voice: Nation: Press Clips: Blame It on Al Qaeda by Cynthia Cotts
Published in Village Voice
Media Hypes Sniper Conspiracy Theory
October 23 - 29, 2002
ast week brought the scariest news since September 11: Westerners lie dead from Bali to the Beltway, and the killers are on the loose. D.C. Residents are understandably freaked out and can't wait for the culprits to be brought to justice. But in the rush to cover a sensational story, some media outlets have been broadcasting speculation and uncorroborated evidence in a way that can only heighten the fear. The worst case of hysteria was the story making the rounds last week linking the sniper attacks to Al Qaeda.
The root of American-style terrorism | csmonitor.com
Published in Christian Science Monitor
Unlike terrorist acts committed in Latin America, Europe, or the Middle East, terrorism American-style arises more from pyschopathology than politics. The home-grown terrorist seeks to send a message but not necessarily one about our national policy. He virtually all are men has usually led a life of frustration, failure, and obscurity; and he strives to tell the world, usually through the barrel of a high-powered firearm and occasionally with explosives, that he is an important and powerful individual. In a sense, he is playing God. And, certain unhealthy changes in our social environment encourage him to do so.
Guardian | The killer next door
Published in Guardian Unlimited
The killer next door
Yesterday the Washington sniper claimed his 10th kill. But it's ridiculous to describe him as a cold-blooded monster, says crime writer Patricia Cornwell. He's as warm-blooded and human as the rest of us - which is why he's going to be so hard to spot
Patricia Cornwell
Wednesday October 23, 2002
The Guardian
One of the many threadbare jokes I used to hear, going back to my earliest days of running around with cops, was that a shooting victim "died of lead poisoning". I used to roll my eyes at the stupid joke. But I'm not now.
ABCNEWS.com : Sniper Warning: 'Children Are Not Safe'
Published in ABC News.com
The focus on the sniper's communications comes as authorities investigate whether the deadly shooter struck again this morning. Conrad Johnson, a 35-year-old bus driver, was gunned down as he was about to start his route.
As officials tried to determine whether Johnson was the killer's 10th fatality, they sent out messages to the sniper and to the community.
In one press conference this afternoon, Montgomery County Police Chief Charles Moose said police had received another message in the Washington, D.C., area serial sniper case. Plus, Moose disclosed details from an earlier communication.
ABCNEWS.com : UpClose: Dr. Stanley Greenspan
Published in ABC News.com
UpClose tonight, Oct. 22: Dr. Stanley Greenspan
From where we write these e-mails every day, we feel a bit like a
community with a large target over it. Life has been anything but normal
for nearly three weeks around the capital. For those of us who call
Washington, D.C., and its suburbs home, the instructions have been to "get
on with your lives" but "be vigilant." It's one thing for adults to
process those kinds of mixed messages, it's something else for the
schoolchildren who've been in virtual lockdown since the serial sniper(s?)
began terrorizing the region.
ABCNEWS.com : How Businesses Are Dealing With Security
Published in ABC News.com
Safety concerns are even more immediate for those companies that have been directly impacted by the sniper attacks. Retailers like Home Depot and Michael's
Arts and Crafts Store both have had sniper shootings in parking lots outside of their D.C.-area stores, and such incidents can make customers especially wary in these locations.
"As security relates to a lot of these incidences, it's really a mall issue," says Daniel Butler, vice president for retail operations at the National Retail Federation, the Washington, D.C.-based retail trade association.
ABCNEWS.com : Parents Scared by Sniper's Threat
Published in ABC News.com
SILVER SPRING, Md.
Oct. 22
— Kathy Franco cased the strip mall off Cherry Hill Road twice before she decided to shop at the Babies "R" Us store there. She wanted to make sure there were no woods nearby where a sniper could hide.
She was already angry that a sniper has disrupted life in the Washington area. But when she learned Tuesday that he was specifically targeting children, her anger turned to rage.
"This isn't a person as far as I'm concerned," she said as she pushed 6-year-old daughter Katherine and 2-year-old son Liam in a shopping cart at the Silver Spring store.
ABCNEWS.com : Police Appeal to Sniper to End Killings
Published in ABC News.com
Oct. 22
— WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Police told the Washington-area
sniper in a televised message on Tuesday they could not comply
with "options" communicated to them and appealed for an end to
the killings that have chilled the nation's capital.
"In the past several days you have attempted to communicate
with us. We have researched the options you stated and found
that it not possible electronically to comply in the manner
that you requested," Montgomery County Police Chief Charles
Moose said in a statement at a news briefing.
ABCNEWS.com : Sniper Case: Everyone's Got a Theory
Published in ABC News.com
One of the peculiar consequences of the Washington, D.C.-area sniper case is that it has turned scores of Americans into amateur criminal profilers and armchair detectives.
On Internet message boards, by office water coolers, in chats with friends, people are sharing their own theories and striking down rival possibilities.
Kathy Perkins a church secretary in Riverside, Calif., who has been following the latest developments in the sniper attacks believes the killer might be a deliveryman, a theory shared by others following the case.
ABCNEWS.com : Stock Research Reforms Are Studied
Published in ABC News.com
EXCLUSIVE: Dogs Sniff Out Anthrax Suspect
Poll: Could Ballistic Fingerprints Snag Sniper?
Halloween Ghouls Get New Friend
ALBANY, N.Y.
Oct. 22
— Wall Street's biggest brokerages and its top regulators will consider two landmark proposals Thursday that would create independent research for investors, a Wall Street expert said Tuesday.
The nation's largest investment firms have pitched a "consortium" of their research arms, said Columbia law professor John Coffee, who has spoken to major brokerages and regulators on the issue.
CNN Programs - Your World Today
Published in CNN
Thanks to all of you for your kind remarks on the debut of Your World Today! As you know if you watched the program Monday, we're reading many of your comments about the news and our new show live on the air. Keep them coming to YWT@cnn.com!
This is the place to look for more about what's coming up on the program each day. Of course, you can count on Your World Today to bring you all the major breaking news. Four hours of coverage begins each weekday at 1500 G.M.T.
IHT: No new clues, police say, as bus driver is killed in Maryland
Published in International Herald Tribune
Latest shooting, possibly the sniper's 10th fatality, keeps anxiety high
WASHINGTON A bus driver was shot and fatally wounded Tuesday in Montgomery County, Maryland, and an investigation was being carried out to see if the driver was the 10th fatality of a suburban sniper, the police said.
"The law enforcement community is looking at this situation, certainly very similar to other situations we have been dealing with as a region," said Charles Moose, chief of the Montgomery County police.
IHT: 2 detained by police in hunt for U.S. sniper
Published in International Herald Tribune
RICHMOND, Virginia Police trying to establish contact with the Washington-area sniper said Monday that a phone call had come in but was too muddled for authorities to understand. They pleaded with the person to call back.
‘‘The person you called could not hear everything you said. The audio was unclear and we want to get it right. Call us back so that we can clearly understand,’’ Montgomery County, Md., Police Chief Charles Moose said.
Moose said he could not discuss the message further.
Moose made no mention of a development in Richmond earlier Monday in which police seized two men for questioning in the attacks.
DC area sniper's note threatens children -- The Washington Times
Published in Washington Times
"Your children are not safe anywhere at anytime," says a postscript to a note found near the last confirmed sniper shooting Saturday night in Ashland, Va., which seriously wounded a Florida man.
The note, believed to come from the sniper, asked for $10 million, CNN reported Tuesday night, citing unidentified sources.
The person or people behind the attacks apparently contacted police investigators again on Tuesday, but Montgomery County Police Chief Charles Moose did not disclose the content or means of that contact, except to say that investigators were formulating a response.
Sniper search: a communication strategy | csmonitor.com
Published in Christian Science Monitor
from the October 23, 2002 edition - www.csmonitor.com
Sniper search: a communication strategy
A man was fatally shot Tuesday at a Maryland bus stop, as police continue to seek contact with the killer.
By Gail Russell Chaddock | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
ROCKVILLE, MD. - As the sniper investigation grinds on, the issue of communication among the shooter, the police, and the media has emerged as one of the most intriguing yet exasperating facets of the case.
The root of American-style terrorism | csmonitor.com
Published in Christian Science Monitor
Unlike terrorist acts committed in Latin America, Europe, or the Middle East, terrorism American-style arises more from pyschopathology than politics. The home-grown terrorist seeks to send a message but not necessarily one about our national policy. He virtually all are men has usually led a life of frustration, failure, and obscurity; and he strives to tell the world, usually through the barrel of a high-powered firearm and occasionally with explosives, that he is an important and powerful individual. In a sense, he is playing God. And, certain unhealthy changes in our social environment encourage him to do so.
Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | FBI casts doubt on new twist in sniper drama
Published in Guardian Unlimited
Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington and Jon Henley in Paris
Tuesday October 22, 2002
The Guardian
The hunt for the roving sniper of the suburbs descended from high drama to fiasco yesterday with police begging the killer to ring in again because they had not heard him properly the first time.
The appeal brought a dismal end to a day that began with a swoop on two men by swat teams in bulletproof vests that was televised live. Hours later, it transpired, the men detained
were illegal workers from Central America who had no connection with the sniper.
Jim Geraghty on New Jersey Politics & Senate on National Review Online
Published in National Review Online
But fairgoers got
some dramatic theatrics this year. Democratic Senate candidate Frank Lautenberg's
scheduled grip-and-grin was interrupted by the approach of his GOP opponent,
Doug Forrester, dragging two podiums. Forrester challenged Lautenberg
to make good on his earlier "any place, any time" debate pledge
on the spot.
For about 15 minutes,
Forrester asked the 78-year-old former senator to justify past votes against
the 1991 Persian Gulf War and for military spending cuts, while Lautenberg,
wagging his finger in Forrester's face, brought up his opponent's views
on abortion and gun control.
ABCNEWS.com : FBI Whistle-Blower May Be Fired
Published in ABC News.com
EXCLUSIVE: Dogs Sniff Out Anthrax Suspect
Poll: Could Ballistic Fingerprints Snag Sniper?
Halloween Ghouls Get New Friend
W A S H I N G T O N,
Oct. 22
— An FBI agent who accused colleagues of stealing a Tiffany crystal globe from the World Trade Center ruins received a poor performance review, an indication the agency is preparing to fire her, her lawyer said Tuesday.
Special Agent Jane Turner of Minneapolis already was on probation for reporting "serious misconduct" last year in a criminal case in North Dakota, said Washington lawyer Stephen Kohn.
Ananova - US sniper threatens country's children in chilling message
Published in Ananova
US sniper threatens country's children in chilling message
US police investigating a sniper who has shot 12 people in the past month say they have received a message warning: "Your children are not safe anywhere at any time."
The threat was apparently discovered by police on Saturday night at the scene of a shooting outside a Virginia steakhouse.
Police say the warning came in the form of a "postscript".
Sources add the warning contained a demand for millions of dollars.
Montgomery County Police Chief Charles Moose says police "will be responding soon" to the latest message and did not take any questions from the media.
CNN.com - Sniper alert over French marksman - Oct. 21, 2002
Published in CNN
PARIS, Lyon -- France has alerted Interpol about a crack military marksman who is missing in North America, prompting speculation over a link to a sniper who has killed nine people and wounded three in the Washington area.
The killings, which have taken place mainly around shopping centres since October 2, have baffled U.S. police and spread fear among Americans living in the area. (Full Story)
Police officers are trying to establish telephone contact with a messenger linked to the sniper, and on Monday arrested two men near the area from where the tipster rang authorities.
CNN.com - Surveillance cameras play increasing role as investigation tool - Oct. 21, 2002
Published in CNN
(Court TV) -- For years, the electronic eyes of surveillance cameras have stared from banks, traffic intersections, stores and countless other perches.
But as the watchers have increased in recent years, with an estimated two million video surveillance systems in the U.S., according to the surveillance industry, investigators are turning more and more to the footage for helpful glimpses of crime.
CNN.com - Federal violation by sniper would not trigger Fed probe takeover - Oct. 22, 2002
Published in CNN
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- U.S. government lawyers are searching for a violation of federal law by the Washington-area sniper, but Justice Department officials insist that effort in no way suggests the federal government would formally take over the investigation.
Justice Department officials publicly insist their focus is entirely on the apprehension of the sniper, and called any review of possible federal crimes "incidental" to the investigation.
"It's premature to even be talking about potential prosecutions until you have someone in custody," said one Justice official.
CNN.com - No debate in topsy-turvy New Jersey Senate race - Oct. 21, 2002
Published in CNN
SOUTH ORANGE, New Jersey (Reuters) -- Election Day is only two weeks away, but former Sen. Frank Lautenberg says it's too early for him to debate Republican Douglas Forrester in New Jersey's topsy-turvy Senate race.
The 78-year-old Democrat, who retired in 2000 after 18 years in the Senate, returned to politics only three weeks ago, when the state's Supreme Court ruled he could replace scandal-plagued Sen. Robert Torricelli on the November 5 ballot.
"I've been out of circulation for two years," the white-haired grandfather said in an interview after a campaign stop at an Irish pub in this wealthy New York suburb.
sunspot.net - maryland news
Published in Baltimore Sun
Montgomery County Police Chief Charles A. Moose tonight used the media yet again to respond to the Washington-area sniper, who apparently had communicated with authorities earlier in the day.
Speaking to the killer, Moose said: "We have researched the option you
stated and found that it is not possible electronically to comply in the manner you requested. However, we remain open and ready to talk to you about the options you have mentioned."
Moose added: "It is important that we do this without anyone else getting hurt.
sunspot.net - election 2002
Published in Baltimore Sun
Democrat Kathleen Kennedy Townsend began airing an advertisement over the weekend titled "Choices That Matter," focusing on the issues of gun control and environmental protection. The ad is airing in the Baltimore and Washington television markets.
What the ad says: The 30-second spot begins with the words "Choices That Matter" on the screen, as a male announcer reads those words:
"First, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend has proposed expanding ballistic fingerprinting of guns to assault weapons and other firearms to help police solve crimes.
sunspot.net - nation/world
Published in Baltimore Sun
After police seized two men just outside Richmond, and as the latest victim of the sniper lay in hospital bed after a weekend attack just north of the city, the worries settled in here.
Two women in a Home Depot parking lot stood lookout for each other as they loaded their cars. The sign for Bullets, a fast-food restaurant downtown, read like a cruel joke. Children stayed inside. And all day, most everyone had an ear cocked for news, hoping for an arrest.
"It's frustrating for this community to know that we're now a part of this," said Nan Miller, who heads the Children's Museum of Richmond, which will be open today despite the jitters.
Profiles of the nine people killed by the sniper
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The nine people killed in the Washington-area sniper shootings:
James Martin, 55, of Silver Spring, Md. Killed Oct. 2. He was a Vietnam War veteran and a program analyst for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. His father died when he was 8, and he worked his way through college. He had an 11-year-old son and was a Boy Scout leader and church trustee.
James ''Sonny'' Buchanan, 39, of Abingdon, Va. Killed Oct. 3. A landscaper, he served on the regional board of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Washington and volunteered with a Crime Solvers hotline.
'The worst feeling in the world' Pain of victims' families deepens as sniper continues to elude police
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ARLINGTON, Va. -- Twelve candles, one for each victim of the Washington-area sniper, flickered on a church altar Monday as 300 mourners remembered Linda Franklin a week after she was shot and killed.
Her father, Charles Moore, his voice shaking, offered a cautionary message: Let those close to you know that you love them. When they are suddenly gone, the void is forever. ''It leaves a hole in our lives,'' said Moore, 73.
Franklin, a 47-year-old FBI analyst, became the ninth person slain by the sniper or snipers as she and her husband were leaving a Home Depot last week. Three others have been wounded since the shootings began Oct.
Police must play by sniper's rules Experts warn: Dialogue meant to benefit killer, not investigation
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WASHINGTON -- The hunt for a sniper around Washington has become perhaps the ultimate TV reality show. Investigators are engaged in an extraordinary effort to communicate via live television with a killer whose face and name they don't know.
But he knows them. He's watching every day on television, investigators believe. It's like playing poker with an executioner who is standing behind a one-way mirror.
Such communication is both rare and risky for police. Serial killers rarely communicate with police, and when they do, they are usually not looking to get caught.
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The first report of the shooting came into 911 at about 6 a.m. EDT, said Rob Sauerhoff, a 911 supervisor for Montgomery county Police.
Montgomery County Fire Department spokesman Pete Piringer said one adult male victim suffered a chest wound and was being airlifted via helicopter to a local trauma center. He would not disclose which hospital.
Police were setting up roadblocks on the street where the shooting occurred — just minutes from the border with Washington, D.C.
On Monday, the hunt for the Washington-area sniper turned into a case of high-stakes phone tag.
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | FBI casts doubt on new twist in sniper drama
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The hunt for the roving sniper of the suburbs descended from high drama to fiasco yesterday with police begging the killer to ring in again because they had not heard him properly the first time.
The appeal brought a dismal end to a day that began with a swoop on two men by swat teams in bulletproof vests that was televised live. Hours later, it transpired, the men detained
were illegal workers from Central America who had no connection with the sniper.
National Review Online (www.nationalreview.com)
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he annual town fair in Metuchen, N.J. isn't really known for bare-knuckle
politicking. It's usually marked by parents eating funnel cakes drowned
in powdered sugar and children trying to win goldfish by tossing beanbags
into baskets. In election years, the political action is mostly candidates
showing up for a little handshaking and baby-kissing.
But fairgoers got
some dramatic theatrics this year. Democratic Senate candidate Frank Lautenberg's
scheduled grip-and-grin was interrupted by the approach of his GOP opponent,
Doug Forrester, dragging two podiums.
ABCNEWS.com : Scientists Study Preemie Blindness
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EXCLUSIVE: Dogs Sniff Out Anthrax Suspect
Poll: Could Ballistic Fingerprints Snag Sniper?
Halloween Ghouls Get New Friend
Oct. 22
— As premature babies fight for life, another battle is raging behind their tiny eyelids an eye disease that ultimately blinds up to 2,000 of these infants a year.
Now scientists are exploring two promising new ways to save preemies' eyesight: strictly maintaining the babies' oxygen levels at a constant but slightly lower level than usual which apparently slashed blindness at one major hospital and giving the smallest babies an eye-important growth hormone they lack.
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'Sniper victim' named
Police have named the bus driver believed to be the 10th fatal victim of the US serial sniper.
Conrad Johnson, a 35-year-old father of two, was shot as he stood at the top of the steps of a bus stop in Montgomery County, Maryland.
The location, 15 miles north of downtown Washington, is less than half-a-mile from the scene of the first shooting on October 2.
"We remain concerned about the safety of all the people in our region," said police chief Charles Moose.
Salon.com News | Police prepare response to sniper
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The statement was made after police began searching the gray and white van near Richmond.
Police in Hanover County, where Saturday's shooting took place, told reporters that the van had been stopped along Broad St. a major commercial street. It had been surrounded at a service station, parked next to an outdoor phone, before it was towed away.
"It was specific enough to be a suspect vehicle in all the cases," said Lt. Doug Goodman of the Hanover County Sheriff's Department.
A police officer at the scene said the van was a Plymouth Voyager with temporary Virginia tags. Broadcast reports said a man was taken into custody.
Salon.com News | Police ask sniper: 'Call us back'
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"The person you called could not hear everything you said. The audio was unclear and we want to get it right. Call us back so that we can clearly understand," Moose said.
Investigators believe that the call may have came from the sniper and that the caller was the same person who left a message and phone number at the scene of the latest shooting, a law enforcement source told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
Authorities did not disclose who received the call, when it was made or any other details.
For the second consecutive day, Moose seemed intent on establishing a dialogue with the killer.
Salon.com News | Bus driver shot in Maryland dies
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The victim was taken to Suburban Hospital in Bethesda, but he died, county Police Chief Charles Moose said.
The shooting happened shortly before 6 a.m. near an apartment building and wooded area along Connecticut Avenue. The bus was parked at a staging area where drivers get ready for their morning runs, state police spokesman Cpl. Rob Moroney said. He didn't know if anyone else was on the bus.
The location, some 15 miles north of downtown Washington, is less than a half-mile from where the rampage began Oct. 2. In all, 12 people have been shot by the sniper in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C.; three were critically wounded.
Salon.com News | Bus driver shot in Maryland dies
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ASPEN HILL, Md. (AP) -- A bus driver was shot and killed early Tuesday, and a police task force was investigating as if the shooting was related to the serial sniper who has killed nine people this month.
Police put a widespread dragnet into place immediately after the shooting, clogging traffic on Connecticut Avenue, one of the main arteries into Washington, D.C., just as the morning commute began.
The 40-year-old man was shot as he stood at the top of the steps of the bus, Montgomery County Police Capt. Nancy Demme said.
"We don't know if this is related but we're treating this as if it is," Demme said.
CNN.com - Ashcroft does not foresee FBI taking over sniper probe - Oct. 22, 2002
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TOKYO, Japan (CNN) -- Attorney General John Ashcroft said Tuesday he knows of "no additional value" the FBI could bring to the D.C.-area sniper investigation by taking it over, but he did not rule out the possibility.
Since October 2, the sniper has managed to avoid capture while killing nine people and wounding three others in various jurisdictions within 90 miles of Washington, D.C. -- both in Maryland and Virginia.
The deadly spree has prompted calls from some quarters that the FBI unify the investigation under its umbrella.
CNN.com - Police try to communicate with sniper - Oct. 22, 2002
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Sources close to the Washington-area sniper investigation are giving more details of the communications between police and the person investigators suspect is the sniper.
•One official said investigators received a "communication" from the Richmond, Virginia, area early Sunday morning instructing them where to find a letter.
•The letter police believe to have been left by the sniper behind the Ponderosa Steakhouse in Ashland, Virginia -- the scene of Saturday night's sniper shooting -- contained a telephone number. Police were instructed to call the sniper at that number to establish communication.
TIME.com: Nation -- Trailing the Beltway Sniper
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Trailing the Beltway Sniper
Two men are questioned in Richmond, VA, but answers are still hard to come by. A look at the frustrating search for a killer
BY
AMANDA RIPLEY
Over the buzz of misinformation, anxiety and outright lies, the army of investigators working the sniper case still managed to invent new ways to pursue the clues left intact last week. It was an exercise in data management and stamina, with extra points for creativity.
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RA'ANANA, Israel - Following the news these days isn't very encouraging for those that thought al-Qaida was finished.
Marines attacked in Kuwait, a tanker blasted in Yemen, a nightclub struck in Bali, bombs in the Philippines. Doesn't seem to be much doubt that terror is alive and kicking. Just read the papers, listen to the radio or watch television. For those who thought Osama bin Laden and cohorts were gone, a rude awakening is in place.
So when someone is wreaking havoc and sniping away in the suburbs of America's capital, why is it that no one thinks of this as terror?
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ALBANY, N.Y. - "Son of Sam" serial killer David Berkowitz has written a letter telling the Washington-area sniper to "stop hurting innocent people."
"I feel that I have been feeling this person's anger and rage toward law enforcement," Berkowitz wrote in a letter sent from the Sullivan Correctional Facility, the maximum-security prison where he is doing time for his killings 25 years ago.
"I felt this person has a tremendous rage against the FBI, or anyone of the various law enforcement organizations that are in this area, and maybe towards the U.S. government in general.
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RICHMOND, Va. - It took just a day for this city to become fully initiated in the rituals of the sniper story.
The Virginia capital, after thinking itself a world away from the shootings that have terrorized the Washington area, now shows the same signs of fear that have dominated the nation's capital for weeks.
After police seized two men just outside Richmond, and as the latest victim of the sniper lay in hospital bed after a weekend attack just north of the city, the worries settled in here.
Two women in a Home Depot parking lot stood lookout for each other as they loaded their cars.
Boston Globe Online / Nation | World / Gun advocates draw no lesson in sniper case
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Democrats say they have learned that calls for bans can have painful consequences. Some believe they lost their majority in the House in 1994 because of their support for the Brady handgun control law the year before. Others believe Al Gore did not make it to the White House because his support of gun control was anathema in West Virginia, Arkansas, and Tennessee.
Representative Diana DeGette, Democrat of Colorado and an advocate of what she calls sensible gun control, said the National Rifle Association has succeeded in intimidating members of Congress and blocking sweeping gun control.
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ROCKVILLE, Md. – A bus driver was shot to death Tuesday as he was about
to set out on his morning route in what authorities fear was the 13th
attack by the Washington-area sniper. Police also revealed a chilling
warning found at a weekend shooting scene: "Your children are not safe
anywhere at any time."
Montgomery County Police Chief Charles Moose issued a new plea to the
killer, urging the gunman to continue a dialogue with investigators.
"It is important that we do this without anyone else getting hurt," said
Moose, who had publicly pleaded for more communication in the two days
before Tuesday's slaying.
Police reach out to sniper But failed trap could complicate dialogue
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RICHMOND, Va. -- Through a series of stiffly delivered, cryptic public statements, police believe they have established a dialogue with the mysterious sniper who is terrorizing the Washington area.
But it is unclear how the tenuous relationship has been affected by an unsuccessful police surveillance operation here Monday that authorities had hoped would trap the sniper. Instead, it snared two immigrants who investigators later said were not linked to the rifle attacks that have killed nine people and wounded three others since Oct. 2.
By late afternoon, Montgomery County (Md.
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The Washington-area sniper who has killed nine people since Oct. 2 may have left a message for police at the scene of the latest shooting.
Montgomery County, Md., Police Chief Charles Moose referred cryptically to a message found after a 37-year-old man was wounded Saturday night. ''To the person who left us a message at the Ponderosa (restaurant) last night,'' Moose said at a news conference Sunday evening in Rockville, Md. ''You gave us a telephone number. We do want to talk to you. Call us at the number you provided.''
Moose did not disclose the wording of the message left at the scene Saturday night in Ashland, Va.
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The serial sniper who has terrorized the Washington area for nearly three weeks appears intent on avoiding any pattern other than defying the experts.
If police link the latest shooting to the sniper who has killed nine people and gravely wounded two others, the most recent theory will be upended. Analysts had speculated last week that perhaps the sniper had avoided striking on weekends because he had a family that would notice his absence.
The shooting Saturday night in Ashland, Va.
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Early Tuesday, bus driver Conrad Johnson, 35, was fatally wounded as he prepared for his morning bus route in nearby Aspen Hill, the suburban Washington community where the shootings began Oct. 2. In all, 12 people have been shot by the sniper in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C.; three were critically wounded.
Johnson, a father of two, was shot as he stood at the top of the steps of the bus shortly before 6 a.m.
Moose has now used four briefings to communicate directly with the person believed to be the sniper.
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ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) --
Hours after a bus driver was killed in a shooting that appeared to be the work of the Washington-area sniper, police said Tuesday they received a message warning: Your children are not safe anywhere at any time.'' The chilling warning apparently was discovered by police Saturday night at the scene of a shooting outside a Virginia steakhouse. Police said in came in the form of a postscript.''
Montgomery County Police Chief Charles Moose also said police ``will be responding soon'' to the latest message and did not take any questions from the media.
CNN.com - Living in a state of uncertainty - Oct. 22, 2002
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WASHINGTON (CNN) – Residents in the Washington D.C. area are being terrorized by a sniper or snipers killing and shooting people at random. Schools around Richmond, Virginia, were closed Monday and Tuesday and many people are afraid to go about day-to-day activities.
Are people overacting or are their fears justified?
Forensic psychologist Mark Siegert and security analyst Kelly McCann joined "Crossfire" hosts Tucker Carlson and Paul Begala to debate the issue.
CARLSON: May I ask you a question, Mr. Siegert?
CNN.com - Sniper fears push 'home' games out of town - Oct. 21, 2002
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HERNDON, Virginia (AP) -- Because of the Washington-area sniper, high school football coach Tommy Meier is trying to organize a "home" game that will take place 100 miles away.
"Just like everybody else, our world's been turned upside down," the coach of the Hornets at Herndon High School said Friday.
For the last two weeks in the Washington area, virtually all outdoor school activities -- games, practices, homecoming events, even the daily lunchtime recess -- have been canceled, postponed or moved inside because of a serial sniper who has killed nine people and wounded three others since October 2.
CNN.com - Bush in campaign mode - Oct. 22, 2002
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BANGOR, Maine (AP) -- President Bush previewed at campaign stops Tuesday the deeper tax cuts, medical malpractice limits and homeland security powers he says he can win if Republicans "crank up a good, healthy vote" and deliver him control of the House and Senate.
Two weeks before the balloting that will decide the majority in Congress and 36 governorships, Bush put his record fund raising -- more than $140 million this year -- behind him and turned to rallying voters to the polls.
CNN.com - Sniper probe 'unprecedented' for region - Oct. 22, 2002
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- With 12 confirmed attacks, nine of them fatal, the sniper shootings that have terrorized the Washington area for three weeks have spawned the largest criminal investigation the region has ever seen.
A conservative estimate would put at 1,000 the number of officers and experts from various federal, state and local law enforcement officers assigned to the case, and the size of the investigation grows with each new development -- and shooting -- in the case.
CNN.com - Account of police contact with possible sniper - Oct. 22, 2002
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A source close to the Washington-area sniper investigation gave the following account of the communication between police and the person investigators suspect is the sniper:
•A letter police believe to have been left by the sniper behind the Ponderosa Steakhouse in Ashland, Virginia -- the scene of Saturday night's sniper shooting -- contained a telephone number. Police were instructed to call the sniper at that number to establish communication.
•Police said the number was for a residence and they felt that the sniper had inadvertently transposed the last two digits of the telephone number.
CNN.com - Sniper probe seeks answer from messenger - Oct. 22, 2002
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"I usually get on that bus," she said. "God was with me today. That could have been me -- just dead."
The shooting was reported at 5:56 a.m. EDT in the Aspen Hill neighborhood of Silver Spring, an area close to the scenes of several of the previous sniper attacks.
Police in cars and helicopters converged on the shooting scene, which is near a basketball court surrounded by woods. Major roadways in and around the Washington metro area were blocked as police hunted for clues. Bloodhounds were being used to comb the woods near the scene. (Gallery)
The first six sniper shootings took place in Montgomery County.
D.C. Dispatch | 2002.10.22 | Powers
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The Washington sniper was already terrorizing millions across a large metropolitan area. But for some media people, one scared city is simply not enough. A story like this just isn't fully realized, hasn't achieved its maximum impact, until the fear has spread everywhere and you've got a Major Mass Trend rolling across the land.
So Newsweek stepped up to the mark and did its solemn journalistic duty. In its cover package this week, the magazine offered hard factual evidence that "The Tarot Card Killer" (catchy name, invaluable marketing tool) had slipped the shackles of one measly media market and gone full-on national. The evidence?
D.C. Dispatch | 2002.10.22 | Taylor
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During a conversation on August 27, 2001, ... an agent in the FBI's Minneapolis office told an FBI headquarters official that he was trying to make sure that Moussaoui "did not take control of a plane and fly it into the World Trade Center." The Minneapolis agent said that the headquarters agent told him, "... You don't have enough to show he is a terrorist.
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The snippets were as tantalizing as they were puzzling.
"We do want to talk to you. Call us at the number you provided," Montgomery County police Chief Charles A. Moose said late Sunday as he opened a dramatic public conversation with the serial sniper who has spread fear across the Washington region.
Early yesterday, as the television cameras rolled and a fascinated audience watched the true crime story unfold in real time, Moose returned with another carefully scripted telegraph: Authorities had received a message and were "preparing our response.
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RICHMOND, Va. - Desperate to continue a cryptic dialogue they've established with the serial sniper stalking the Washington region, police urged the killer yesterday to contact them again - specifically, in response to a threatening letter he wrote demanding a large sum of money, law enforcement sources told The Sun.
The letter, found at the scene of the sniper's most recent shooting, is one of the few clues left for investigators, who swooped down yesterday on two gas stations just outside Richmond in a vain effort to capture the elusive gunman.
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"First, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend has proposed expanding ballistic fingerprinting of guns to assault weapons and other firearms to help police solve crimes." Images flash on the screen of assault weapons displayed on a table, as well as Townsend chatting with police officers.
"Bob Ehrlich criticized Maryland's laws for ballistic fingerprinting, saying they've done nothing to reduce gun crimes, and he would consider repealing them," the announcer says. A picture of Ehrlich is accompanied by newspaper headlines and a written quote from Ehrlich saying: "They've done nothing to reduce gun crimes.
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ON GREENMOUNT Avenue, where the neighborhood starts to get a little rough, Dr. Pallavi Kumar pulls into a gas station. She looks around and sees several guys who are nobody's definition of choirboys. She gets out of her car. As she pumps gas into her tank, she feels an odd sense of security she no longer feels at home.
Home is the Washington-area suburbs, where somebody has been shooting people at random.
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Sniper's threat : 'Your children are not safe'
10/22/2002
Associated Press
ASPEN HILL, Md. – A chilling threat, apparently from the Washington-area
sniper, was released by Montgomery County police Tuesday afternoon:
"Your children are not safe; anywhere, at any time."
The revelation came just hours after the fatal shooting of a suburban
Washington bus driver, a crime that has not yet been linked to the
serial gunman who has targeted 12 people since Oct. 2.
Montgomery County police Chief Charles Moose said the language of the
message appeared as the postscript in a longer letter to police.
USATODAY.com - Profiles of the nine people killed by the sniper
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The nine people killed in the Washington-area sniper shootings:
James Martin, 55, of Silver Spring, Md. Killed Oct. 2. He was a Vietnam War veteran and a program analyst for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. His father died when he was 8, and he worked his way through college. He had an 11-year-old son and was a Boy Scout leader and church trustee.
James "Sonny" Buchanan, 39, of Abingdon, Va. Killed Oct. 3. A landscaper, he served on the regional board of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Washington and volunteered with a Crime Solvers hotline. He was planning to ask his girlfriend to marry him over the holidays.
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By Gregg Zoroya and Traci Watson, USA TODAY
ARLINGTON, Va. Twelve candles, one for each victim of the Washington-area sniper, flickered on a church altar Monday as 300 mourners remembered Linda Franklin a week after she was shot and killed.
Her father, Charles Moore, his voice shaking, offered a cautionary message: Let those close to you know that you love them. When they are suddenly gone, the void is forever. "It leaves a hole in our lives," said Moore, 73.
Franklin, a 47-year-old FBI analyst, became the ninth person slain by the sniper or snipers as she and her husband were leaving a Home Depot last week.
USATODAY.com - Police hope caller holds clues to sniper
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BREAKING NEWS: A male bus driver was shot in Montgomery County, Md., early Tuesday, but authorities said it was too early to tell if it was connected to the sniper who has killed nine people and injured three this month. The shooting occurred near the site of five other sniper attacks. Police put a widespread dragnet into place immediately after the shooting, clogging traffic on one of the main arteries into Washington, D.C. as the morning commute began. The first report of the shooting came into 911 at about 6 a.m. ET, said Rob Sauerhoff, a 911 supervisor for Montgomery County Police.
USATODAY.com - Son of Sam weighs in as sniper story hits wall
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Every story has its arc, and Monday morning it appeared as if the search for the sniper in the Washington, D.C., area was near an end.
But by late afternoon, those hopes began to unravel when CNN reported that two men who were detained probably were in the "wrong place at the wrong time." Police gave no hope that they were any closer to finding who has shot 12 people since Oct. 2.
As the day's lead story fizzled, it raised new questions about whether cable news, previously skewered for saturation coverage of such sensational cases as O.J. Simpson, JonBenet Ramsey and Chandra Levy, is milking this story despite a lack of developments.
USATODAY.com - Sniper spree stirs video-game violence debate
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By Marc Saltzman, Gannett News Service
The release of a sharp-shooting video game has again put a spotlight on a billion-dollar industry and its alleged lax stance on violence and gore. While officials in the Washington, D.C. area hunt a sniper who is shooting people at random, Internet buzz is drawing parallels to the content of Konami's Silent Scope 3 for Sony's PlayStation 2. The game puts the player in the shoes of a government-hired sniper who is commissioned to kill.
'Silent Scope 3' has rekindled debate about violent video games.
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GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, HOST: Three weeks before the 16-hour murder spree introduced the world to the Beltway sniper, another man was gunned down with a single shot. It happened on Saturday, September 14, outside a liquor store where the victim worked in Silver Spring, Maryland. He survived, and feds took little interest in the unsolved crime until now. FBI agents descended upon the store today and quizzed the owner for the first time since the shooting occurred. What were they looking for? And why did Maryland cops push this case off their desks?
We went looking for answers with owner Arnie Zelkovitz and retired D.C.
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GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, HOST: The serial shooter, the Beltway sniper, the Montgomery County monster. The sniper's got a lot of names. But what if you called him brother or father or son? Would you do the right thing, or would you look the other way?
My next guest had the courage and stopped an 18-year serial killer. Joining us from Albany is David Kaczynski, brother of convicted Unabomber Ted Kaczynski. David is also executive director of New York's -- New Yorkers Against the Death Penalty.
Welcome, David.
DAVID KACZYNSKI, BROTHER OF UNABOMBER: Hi, Greta.
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Those horrific Beltway Shootings are not only killing innocent victims, they’re striking widespread fear which some say may be the sniper’s real intent. No one’s feeling the fallout from that fear than businesses in the Washington, D.C. area. Now The FBI is looking into if Al Qaeda may behind all this. So what if it is terrorism and what if the terrorists put a few more snipers in a few more major cities? Could that shut down the U.S. economy from a consumer standpoint?
Jim thinks the market and economy would initially fall in such a scenario. But he also believes both would rebound and that we can deal with such a threat.
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The Beltway Sniper's latest victim, a 37-year-old man whose name and hometown have not been released by police, remained in critical but stable condition Monday after being shot in the stomach and chest area Saturday night outside a Ponderosa restaurant in Ashland, Va.
Although he'd undergone several hours of surgery and needed more, doctors expected him to recover, remaining cautiously optimistic about his prognosis.
"He's lucky to be alive … He's a very, very strong man," Dr. Rao Ivatury, one of the victim's team of physicians, said at a Monday afternoon press conference outside the hospital.
The Sacramento Bee -- sacbee.com -- 'Son of Sam' asks D.C. sniper to stop
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'Son of Sam' asks D.C. sniper to stop
By SEANNA ADCOX, Associated PressPublished 3:55 a.m. PDT Tuesday, October 22, 2002
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - "Son of Sam" serial killer David Berkowitz has written a letter telling the Washington-area sniper to "stop hurting innocent people."
"I feel that I have been feeling this person's anger and rage toward law enforcement," Berkowitz wrote in a letter sent from Sullivan Correctional Facility, the maximum security prison where he is doing time for his killing spree 25 years ago.
The Sacramento Bee -- sacbee.com -- 'Your children are not safe,' sniper warns in message
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'Your children are not safe,' sniper warns in message
By DAVID DISHNEAU, Associated Press - (Published October 22, 2002)
ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) - The sniper apparently struck for the 13th time Tuesday, killing a bus driver about to set out on his morning route. Police also revealed a chilling warning found at a weekend shooting scene: "Your children are not safe anywhere at any time."
Conrad Johnson, 35, was fatally wounded just before 6 a.m.
The Sacramento Bee -- sacbee.com -- Mourners remember woman killed last week by sniper
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Mourners remember woman killed last week by sniper
By HEATHER GREENFIELD, Associated PressPublished 11:28 a.m. PDT Monday, October 21, 2002
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) - One week after her life was cut short by a sniper's bullet, Linda Franklin was remembered Monday as a spirited woman with a generous heart.
Moments before Monday's memorial service began, the sky suddenly brightened and sunlight streamed through the windows of the Mount Olivet United Methodist Church, about five miles west of Washington, D.C..
Franklin, 47, was killed by the sniper last Monday night outside a Home Depot in Falls Church, Va.
The Sacramento Bee -- sacbee.com -- 'Son of Sam' asks D.C. sniper to stop
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'Son of Sam' asks D.C. sniper to stop
By SEANNA ADCOX, Associated PressPublished 8:58 p.m. PDT Monday, October 21, 2002
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - "Son of Sam" serial killer David Berkowitz has written a letter telling the Washington-area sniper to "stop hurting innocent people."
"I feel that I have been feeling this person's anger and rage toward law enforcement," Berkowitz wrote in a letter sent from Sullivan Correctional Facility, the maximum security prison where he is doing time for his killing spree 25 years ago.
AP Wire | 10/22/2002 | Sniper: Kids 'Not Safe Anywhere'
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Law enforcement personnel stand outside a bus that was the scene of the shooting. EVAN VUCCI, AP
ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) - The sniper apparently struck for the 13th time Tuesday, killing a bus driver about to set out on his morning route. Police also revealed a chilling warning found at a weekend shooting scene: "Your children are not safe anywhere at any time."
Conrad Johnson, 35, was fatally wounded just before 6 a.m. as he stood on the top step of his bus, setting off a police dragnet and snarling traffic in the suburbs north of the nation's capital.
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South River earned the opportunity to defend its Anne Arundel County boys soccer championship with a 1-0 victory yesterday at Severna Park.
Senior back Scott Forney scored the lone goal in the first three minutes of play.
Win, lose or draw today at Old Mill, No. 4 South River is in the final set for 4 p.m. Thursday at a site to be determined by best record.
South River (10-1-2 overall) is 9-0-1 in league play while Severna Park (9-3-1) and Old Mill (9-2-2) are 8-1-1 each.
Old Mill won, 4-0, at Southern-Harwood yesterday and has to win today.
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Officials: Size of probe hurting hunt
Reluctance and difficulties in sharing information among the growing number of agencies investigating the serial sniper case and the FBI’s problems handling thousands of phone tips are hampering the probe, numerous law enforcement officials say.
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Communiques from past serial killers
Examples of communiques by serial killers, according to a study by Tomas Guillen, who teaches journalism at Seattle University:
LIPSTICK KILLER: "For heaven's sake, catch me before I kill more; I cannot control myself," said the message scrawled in lipstick on a wall in the home of one of the Chicago killer's victims in 1946. Another victim's family was sent a letter demanding $20,000 in ransom.
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