[Peach]

Overnight News: May our friends and family in the Beltway area have a safe, quiet day.

[Peach]

Ping, and try to visit the Prayer Thread Here

[Sacajaweau]

Thanks for all your work Peach.

Sac

[Kerberos]

Just the overnight news wheel running so far.

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

All seems quiet since yesterday's news the shooter may target children specifically.

There is an article posted (sorry I don't know how to link), but a 9 yr old was wounded at a football practice in Penn. Any ideas why we are not hearing about this? Why is not being considered as related?

[MissHardihood]

I didn't hear if the bus driver was killed by the sniper. Has anyone heard?

[Neets]

Good morning Peach! Thanks for all you do here every day.

[kattracks]

10th slaying, renewed demands
Sniper leaves 2nd note, wants $10 million wired into a domestic account; Victim is from Prince George's; Montgomery chief says authorities are still open, ready to discuss requests

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By Alec MacGillis, Del Quentin Wilber and Dennis O'Brien
Sun Staff
Originally published October 23, 2002

SILVER SPRING - After police pleas for a telephone dialogue, the serial sniper stalking the Washington region responded yesterday with a different statement: the killing at daybreak of a bus driver, accompanied by another demanding letter left for authorities, less than a mile from where the gunman began shooting three weeks ago.

Full Article

[areafiftyone]

Good Morning Freepers:

On Fox News this morning they said the Sniper called a couple of times on the hotline and was extremely angry. He would start his conversation with "I AM GOD". Looks like he has a tape recorder at the pay phone that is why they couldn't understand his message too well.

[tomkat]

gotta get my fix in early - big stack of boards on today's plate.

prayers for all of you living in the midst of this madness ...

[aristeides]

"Five people had to die" because of it, the letter said, according to one law enforcement source who has seen a copy of the letter.

This letter was sent at the time of the shooting in Ashland Saturday. At that point the sniper had killed 9 people (now 10). Presumably he could not know at that point whether the shooting victim would survive or not.

So, at the time he made this statement, he was thinking he had killed either 9 or 10 people. That means he started phoning the tip number after either his 4th or 5th victim. At the end of his shooting spree on the morning of Oct. 3, he had killed 5 people. Since presumably he would not have made his call in the middle of the spree, this presumably means he started calling at the end of the spree that morning, Oct. 3.

At that time, the tip number did not yet exist. But there were other numbers that people were being asked to call then. I wonder if any record was kept of the numbers from which calls were being received.

[aristeides]

He kept the names of the people who answered the phone. Could Linda Franklin have been one of them?

[AFPhys]

Well, I'm still holding out with the hypothesis that his notes probably say the killer started it all when he snapped because he couldn't take the NJSC decision. His demand is that the Louse resign from the race, and the Torch be forced to run. The PCers and Dems assigned to the case realize what that would cost them, and have decided that a few more dead bodies are an acceptable cost and the killer won't have any leverage or reason to kill in just a couple more weeks so they are keeping things to themselves as much as possible. This is why Chief Moose has decided to tough it out. Not much could be more chilling than the Republicans picking up a Senate seat for this crowd.

[Momaw Nadon]

Is it time to bring in psychics to solve the DC area sniper case?

[anguish]

Just as thought about the "I am GOD" note - didn't Bill Paxton play a sniper in the movie "Navy Seals" that called himself "God". IIRC it was him having his eyes on everything (like God) from his position that gave him the name. Anyone know where Bill has been these last couple of weeks? ;)

- "Come in, God."
- "God here."

[Deguello]

Bump.

[Vinomori]

If this turns out that the killings are taking place because of how you get treated when you call a government agency then I think juries will let him off.

[katnip]

Did anyone else listen to the Curtis and Kuby radio show this morning.

WABC in NY. They were taking calls about the sniper.

A man named Richard called and said he thinks the shooter just walks away and puts the gun under the front seat of his car. He then goes back and mingles with the crowd. After a few hours, he goes back to his car.

When Ron Kuby said to him "I'm sure they're checking parked cars in the area", Richard said "I go 10 to 15 blocks away".

A few people called in and had caught the "I" statement and wondered if Richard could be the shooter.

Then another man called in and said Richard sounded just like a man that was interviewed yesterday at the scene of the bus shooting.

Richard by the way had no accent at all.

[mhking]

Glendenning on FNC: "We will use National Guard as backup if needed."

[Helms]

Once again for the hearing and otherwise existentially challenged- THIS IS MIDEASTERN TERRORISM- the recent news about children at risk and especially BODY BAGS are totally consistent with this theory. Further body bags is a term the regimes in the ME love to use as a reminder of our Vietnam experience. This is a term of WAR, not psychosis. As to the $ issue, a diversion, althougth we all know that they may be running low on cash and need adequate funding ( ask the UN about that when it comes to Palestinian terror).

By the way, the media are giving this all the exposure of an Al Queda Cell at work. My bet is that these are some buddies of the earlier bombers of the TTT. After all, was there not alot of target practise arond Lakawanaand was not George Tennet very nervous lately.

Think for yourselves as the Government and local enforcement have no current interest in fessing up to it directly.

[phd2b]

What if we smoke the sniper out into the open by really making him mad?

Chief Moose comes out and says--Sorry Sniper we are not paying you $10 million. Instead, we have decided to increase the reward for your capture-DEAD OR ALIVE--to $10 million dollars.

That's right-- $10 million dollars to the person who helps us capture YOU!