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One of the Washington D.C. snipers confessed to killing a man on a Southeast Side golf course four years ago, Tucson police said Friday. The confession from Lee Boyd Malvo on Thursday brings a sense of closure to Jerry Taylor's family, who for many years have believed that Malvo and fellow sniper John Allen Muhammad were behind the slaying on March 19, 2002. Taylor's daughter, Cheryll Witz, said she was ready to forgive Malvo for his crime. "I really do need to forgive him and I do believe he was brainwashed" by Muhammad, Witz said Friday. For several years, Tucson...

Attorney John Fuller has said that anyone who is connected with US sniper John Allen Muhammad will not leave the country. The head of the task force looking into the activities of US Sniper John Allen Muhammad has confirmed that one of Muhammad’s acquaintances in Antigua, Peter John Gianquinto jr. has been arrested in New York by federal authorities. The FBI is investigating connections between Muhummad and Gianquinto. According to an article in the Washington Post, Gianquinto left Antigua on 27 May, 2001, four days before Muhammad and John Lee Mavlo. He is now part of the broader inquiry into...

JARRATT, Va. -- John Allen Muhammad, the sniper who kept the Washington region paralyzed by fear for three weeks as he and a young accomplice gunned down people at random, was executed Tuesday night by lethal injection.

t - 3 hrs and counting down..

Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine (D) denied clemency for John Allen Muhammad on Tuesday, clearing the way for the sniper to be executed by lethal injection at 9 p.m. and putting an end to one of the most trying local criminal cases in U.S. history. Muhammad, 48, was convicted of capital murder in the slaying of Dean Harold Meyers on Oct. 9, 2002, at a gas station outside of Manassas, part of a spree that left 10 people dead in the Washington area and included shootings in several other states. A jury in Virginia Beach, where the trial was moved...

John Allen Muhammed, the Beltway Sniper, is sentenced to die by lethal injection tomorrow evening at nine o’clock. The Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal. It is not expected that Virginia Governor Tim Kaine will intervene. I’m not sure whether I should say, “Let God have mercy on him,” or “May he rot in hell.” A little of both, I think.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to block Tuesday's scheduled execution of sniper mastermind John Allen Muhammad. The Court did not comment Monday on why it refused to consider his appeal. Muhammad is scheduled to die by injection at a Virginia prison for the slaying of Dean Harold Meyers at a gas station during a three-week spree in October 2002 across Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C.

In court papers filed Tuesday, Muhammad's attorneys say the execution should be put off while the court considers whether his trial lawyer was ineffective.

A man pleaded guilty Thursday to buying a rifle for the Washington, D.C.-area snipers - though not the weapon used in the 2002 random shooting spree. Earl L. Dancy Jr., 36, faces a maximum 10 years in prison at sentencing June 24. He pleaded guilty to making a false statement in connection with the acquisition of a firearm. Dancy claimed on a federal form that he intended to use the weapon himself, the U.S. attorney's office said. During the November 2003 trial of sniper John Allen Muhammad, Dancy admitted he bought it for Muhammad. Muhammad, 44, and teen accomplice Lee...

The Supreme Court has murdered the Constitution. It was a subtle murder with no blood visible. We know they did it because they left a coded confession, in the form of what appears to be a legal decision. Like many crime scenes, this one is deceptive, at first. It looks like the Court simply decided the case of Roper v. Simmons, the juvenile death penalty case from Missouri. But a little C.S.I. investigation reveals the truth. There are two deaths in this matter. The first was a woman who was kidnaped from her home by Christopher Simmons. He told his...

Malvo gets life sentence in 2002 killing. Teen pleads guilty in man's murder, attempt on woman's life. (CNN) -- Convicted teen sniper Lee Boyd Malvo was sentenced Tuesday to two terms of life in prison without parole after pleading guilty to murder and attempted murder. He was charged with killing Kenneth Bridges, 53, outside a gas station in Fredericksburg, Virginia, and attempting to kill Caroline Seawell at an arts and crafts store, also in Spotsylvania County. Malvo, 19, already is serving a life sentence without parole for the murder of FBI analyst Linda Franklin, 47, outside a Home Depot in...

Here is the elusive sighting of M & M on the morning of September 19th. ALL the best-known search engines had lost it, but thanks to AlltheWeb.com and Aristeides I found it again. I will add it to the Muhammad/Malvo Timelines sometime soon. Sniper suspects slept here: Before the attacks in Maryland and Virginia began, Muhammad and Malvo slept in the parking lot of the Ramada Inn in PetersburgBy:JENNIFER FRANCIS , Staff Writer 10/30/2002 PETERSBURG VA - Just two days before sniper suspects John Allen Muhammad and John Lee Malvo allegedly shot and killed a clerk outside an Alabama liquor...

Muhammad and Malvo Terrorists' Timeline#2 - Dec 1999 thru 2001 December 1999 - Lynnwood police Sargeant goes to Mohammad's home to collect keys of the building locks, which Mohammad had not returned after being fired, This upsets Mohammad. December 1999 - Tacoma WA - Muhammad's second wife Mildred files for divorce. Muhammad was said to be having multiple affairs, including accepting sex in return for doing women's car repairs. Muhammad had reportedly been bringing home as much as $4000 per week, and had two expensive sports cars:   a 1998 Jaguar and a 1997 Nissan 300 ZX February 2000...

Most 'spiked' stories of 2003 Posted: December 31, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com Back in the old days of newspapering in America – when reporters and editors still used typewriters, pencils and paper to craft their stories – news articles were carried by copy boys from one editor to another. The couriers picked up the copy in one wire basket and brought it to a desk on another. At each stage of the article's development, there would be new scrutiny. Spelling would be checked. The writing would be reworked. Potential legal problems would be considered. Headlines would be...

<p>TACOMA, Wash. — The first clue that the day would be different came when neighbors saw men in suits snooping around the slate-colored duplex.</p> <p>"They just moseyed up and started looking around like they owned the place," said Dean Resop, who lives a block away from the home. The strangers were FBI agents.</p>

US authorities were warned a year ago that the ex-soldier suspected of carrying out 13 sniper attacks near the US capital may be a potential Islamic terrorist.A priest who runs a homeless shelter in this Pacific Northwest town where John Allen Muhammad lived for several months in 2001 and early 2002, raised the alarm last October, the Bellingham Herald newspaper said Friday."I felt like he was part of an organization," said Reverend Al Archer who runs the hostel where the Gulf War veteran stayed along with John Lee Malvo, 17, who was Friday charged along with Muhammad with six...

<p>CHESAPEAKE, Virginia (CNN) -- Several dozen jailhouse sketches by accused sniper Lee Boyd Malvo -- some depicting police in rifle crosshairs and others containing references to a holy war -- have been entered as evidence by defense attorneys, who say they are evidence of his indoctrination by an accomplice.</p>

Let's keep a live commentary thread going again today. The FBI Tip Line #1-888-324-9800.All seems quiet since yesterday's news the shooter may target children specifically. It was released on various news outlets the shooter's 3-page letter to police was in broken English and threatened extreme violence. Police announced an electronic transfer of $10m as requested by the shooter was not possible but other options for transfer remain open. No one seriously believes police will actually give the shooter $$, but police are trying to keep a dialogue open with the shooter in an effort to capture this monster.

Sniper suspect leads FBI, police, media swarm to sleepy'burb By Kristin Bender - STAFF WRITER PINOLE -- Suburban Pinole was deluged Thursday with FBI agents, local police, scores of news reporters and neighbors who wanted answers about a sniper suspect's possible connection to the bedroom community. Sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad, 41, previously known as John Allen Williams, once lived with Charlene Jackson, his former sister-in-law, in a house on Limerick Road in the Garrity Ridge housing development off San Pablo Avenue, according to neighbors and a Department of Motor Vehicles tracking system. Although she talked with FBI agents, at...

Michelle Malkin on Sean Hannity radio program in just a few minutes. Breaking info on DC Sniper case.

Though al-Qaida training videotapes and manuals captured in Afghanistan specifically show the planning of attacks on Americans in drive-by shootings, experts who have analyzed those materials are cautious about concluding the murder spree outside of Washington yesterday is connected in any way to terrorism. The videotapes and training manuals, which show Osama lin Laden's terrorists have prepared to kill Americans with small-arms fire from trucks and vans, were first revealed in a WorldNetDaily report last month. But John Holschen of Insights Training Center, who produced a report on the tape for military and law enforcement officials, said the rash of...

<p>PEOPLE: Cheerleader says new student was always smiling, laughing.</p> <p>Bellingham High School cheerleader Briana Axelsson is the kind of person who wants to make newcomers feel welcome, so it seemed like a natural thing to her to sit down with John Lee Malvo in the high school cafeteria in the fall of 2001.</p>

Malvo can be tried as adult 01/16/2003 Associated Press FAIRFAX, Va. - Citing what he called strong circumstantial evidence, a judge ruled Wednesday that 17-year-old sniper suspect John Lee Malvo can be tried as an adult, making him eligible for the death penalty. Juvenile Court Judge Charles Maxfield made his decision after a hearing in which prosecutors said that Mr. Malvo tried to extort $10 million from authorities during the killing spree and that fingerprints on the murder weapon and other evidence tied the teenager to four attacks, three of them fatal. Mr. Malvo and John Allen Muhammad, 42,...

CENTREVILLE, Va., Dec. 19 — In the nearly two months since the sniper attacks in the Washington area ended with the arrests of John Muhammad and his teenage protégé Lee Malvo, investigators say they have made one striking conclusion: All the evidence they have points to Mr. Malvo as the triggerman. Little if any indicates Mr. Muhammad fired a shot. Some officials who have reviewed the evidence at the sniper task force's new headquarters here in suburban Virginia say that the lack of evidence against Mr. Muhammad will complicate prosecutors' efforts to get a death sentence for him in the...

So police came across the sniper suspects at least 11 times during the long manhunt, but let them go every time. The D.C. police chief acknowledged that race was a factor in this amazing failure. "Everybody was looking for a white car with white people," he told The Washington Post. Writing on his Web site, Andrew Sullivan said this was racial profiling. If a white killer had been let go 11 times because cops were looking for a black man, he asked, "Wouldn't this be the basis for uproar? Wouldn't the cops involved be fired? Wouldn't there be a massive...

The picture says it all, folks:

Toogood Reports [Weekender, November 3, 2002; 12:01 a.m. EST]URL: http://ToogoodReports.com/ After having been constantly told that the sniper was a white, Christian male, we are confronted with a main suspect who is a "military veteran" (mumble, black Moslem, mumble). Although the suspects are both black, we have been told by white, liberal journalists such as Pete Hamill and black civilians alike, that black folks really don't need this to be about race. And although we know that John Allen Muhammad/Williams is a Moslem, we now know that not only race, but Islam was a non-factor in the sniper case. We...

<p>A Mexican man - seized mistakenly by Henrico County police in the sniper investigation - will be released from detention and given more than two months to leave the country voluntarily.</p> <p>Meanwhile, another illegal immigrant, from Guatemala, seized in the sniper probe has been ordered deported.</p>

Toogood Reports [Wednesday, October 30, 2002; 12:01 a.m. EST]URL: http://ToogoodReports.com/ Well, I guess I had it all wrong. It seems that race was a non-factor in the Beltway Sniper case. I know that, because New York Daily News columnist Pete Hamill told me so. In a race-obsessed column, Hamill informed the reader again and again, that this was not about race. "During the three frenzied weeks after the first sniper killing, almost none of the media profilers and experts suggested that the sniper might be black. The American imagination was filled by images of crazy white people, snarling and enraged,...

The Heart, the Mind, and "Ballistic Fingerprints"Joe BrowerOctober 26, 2002 With the advent of the "Beltway Sniper" shootings, there has been the predictable hue and cry for more gun control, mostly in the form of a so-called "ballistic fingerprinting database" for all firearms. Simply put, the idea is that bullets recovered from shootings could be matched to images stored in a computer, the owner of the weapon could then be determined, and an arrest could be made. Sounds good, doesn't it? Unfortunately, in the real world, it doesn't work. The federal government has been working on such a system for...

In a fascinating profile of John Allen Muhammad's activities during the past decade, the Washington Post revealed Sunday that the sniper's activities and comments led two individuals to express their worries about him to the FBI. One man, who ran a homeless shelter, believed that Muhammad was a sleeper terrorist. According to the paper, John Muhammad arrived at the 80-bed Lighthouse Mission homeless shelter in Bellingham, Washington in early August 2001. Muhammad showed up with at least two children. But the Post also noted that the fit, always well-dressed Muhammad, who never seemed stretched for cash, led an active life,...

Rita Cosby interviewed Montgomery, AL Mayor Bobby Bright and Police Chief John Wilson. Wilson told Cosby he was very concerned because both Muhammed and Malvo were on foot, being chased by police officers. The chase was interrupted by a large blue car that Muhammed ran into, putting both hands on the hood to prevent him coliding with it. After this moment, both men being chase escaped. Later--still in September, Montgomery police put out a public call for the driver of the blue car to come forward; fingerprints on the car could be used to break the case. However, and a...

Toogood Reports [Weekender, October 27, 2002; 12:01 a.m. EST]URL: http://ToogoodReports.com/ The profilers — the "experts" — all told us that the Beltway Sniper was a white man, from 20-30 years of age, likely a racist, gun collector. Instead, the main suspect — excuse me, "person of interest" in custody, is 41-year-old black supremacist, John Allen Williams, aka John Allen Muhammad. Williams/Muhammad, a Gulf War veteran, earned the title of "expert" marksman while in the army. The other suspect, who was arrested with Williams/Muhammad, is 17-year-old John Lee Malvo, reportedly a Jamaican citizen, and may be Williams/Muhammad's son or stepson. Reportedly,...

<p>The last cryptic message from Montgomery County Police Chief Charles Moose to the Washington-area sniper referred to a Cherokee Indian story about an arrogant rabbit that was duped by the duck he tried to catch.</p> <p>"You have indicated that you want us to do and say certain things. You've asked us to say, 'We have caught the sniper like a duck in a noose.' We understand that hearing us say this is important to you," Moose said late Wednesday at a televised news briefing, called so authorities could release information on two people sought for questioning in the 13 sniper shootings.</p>

Remembering The Zebra Killings By James Lubinskas FrontPageMagazine.com | August 30, 2001 MOST SERIAL KILLINGS in America take on a life of their own through movies, books and documentaries. The crimes of Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer and The Son Sam are still well remembered years after they committed. Yet there is one set of serial killings that been almost completely forgotten and is rarely mentioned popular culture. The Zebra Killings occurred in the Francisco bay area between 1972 1974 and left 71 people dead. They were dubbed the Zebra because of the radio channel used the police investigating the case...

"John Muhammad, a long time convert to Islam, a follower of Louis Fara Khan and an individual who vocally approved of 911 was arrested in conjunction with the Beltway Sniper case this morning at a rest stop on I-70 in Maryland."

Fox News Channel reports that search warrants have been issued for Camp Ground Zero in Alabama! http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/wnt/DailyNews/WNT_alabama_camp020725.html?partner=earthlink July 25 — A training camp linked to Islamic militants has been operating in Alabama, and European law enforcement officials believe Muslim extremists were using it to prepare for a holy war. British authorities also thought that militants from overseas were training in the United States to take advantage of America's gun laws, sources told ABCNEWS. The looming question for law enforcement is whether there is a connection between the camp and the al Qaeda terror network. An investigation by Britain's Scotland Yard...

Police confirm sniper's 13th victim 10/23/2002 Associated Press ROCKVILLE, Md. - A slain bus driver was the sniper's 13th victim, police said Wednesday, as anxious parents took their youngsters back to schools despite the chilling warning that "your children are not safe." Gov. Parris Glendening announced that the state would consider posting National Guard troops at polling places if the sniper wasn't caught by Nov. 5. "I'm hoping the person is brought to justice long before Election Day," the governor said. Ballistics and other evidence connected Tuesday's shooting of bus driver Conrad Johnson, 35, to the fatal shootings of...

Am I correct in thinking I heard FoxNews say that a SWAT team surrounded a phone booth and captured the Tarot-ist?If so, someone tell Babwa Walters.

Chief Moose Press Briefing: Sniper says "Your children are not safe - anywhere, at any time"

Soldier Is Sniper Suspect A French soldier who went missing on a holiday trip to America is reported to have matched an image of the serial sniper terrorising Washington. The soldier is reported to have been identified as the man in a US police sketch of the gunman who has killed nine people in the Washington area since October 2. French officials confirmed a 25-year-old soldier from the prestigious Saint-Cyr military academy deserted after leaving for a holiday to the US in August. Academy He did not return to the academy in the northern coastal region of Brittany, where he...

Just announced on WBAP in Dallas. Two men apprehended are illegal aliens and not connected to sniper case.

Chief Moose Asks Sniper to Call Them Back Beltway Sniper attempted contact last night ! Very short press conference where he simply states that the Beltway Sniper attempted contact and Chief Moose requested that he call them back.

Another shooting alarms Virginia Man wounded by hidden gunman about 90 miles from DC 10/20/2002 From Wire Reports ASHLAND, Va. - A man was shot and wounded in a steakhouse parking lot Saturday night while walking to his car with his wife. Authorities were investigating whether the Washington-area sniper who has killed nine people had struck again, for the first time on a weekend. The couple was leaving a Ponderosa restaurant around 8 p.m. when the 37-year-old man was shot once in the abdomen, authorities said. He was conscious and able to talk to doctors when he arrived at...

Has killer sent '9-11' message?9 dead out of 11 hit, shootings seem to have stopped Posted: October 18, 200211:00 a.m. Eastern By Paul Sperry© 2002 WorldNetDaily.com WASHINGTON – It's been more than 72 hours since the Beltway sniper last struck, the longest stretch so far. To date, he's killed nine out of the 11 people he's shot. He's 9 for 11, or 9-11. Is it a sick Sept. 11 message from Islamic terrorists? Other factors may explain the pause. It has rained heavily in the Washington area over the past few days, and the weather may have convinced the sniper to postpone...

Another – unnamed – federal law enforcement officer tells me the inside scuttlebutt in the FBI and other police agencies is that comments made by Ari Fleischer may have sparked a terrorist wave. On Oct. 1, Fleischer told the White House press corps that "one bullet" into Saddam's head – "if Iraqi people take it on themselves" – would be an easy way to avoid a war with the U.S. On Oct. 2, the day after Fleischer made this sensational comment advocating Saddam's assassination, the sniper first struck, killing James D. Martin as he crossed a supermarket parking lot in...

In 1934, Congress outlawed the sale or ownership of automatic weapons (aka machine guns, tommy guns). Doesn't the AK-74 fall under this prohibition?

This time, sniper left clues Witness reports seeing man fire fatal shot at latest victim 10/16/2002 From Wire Reports FALLS CHURCH, Va. - The roving sniper left more clues after Monday night's killing, with a number of witnesses getting a better, more chilling glimpse of him and his getaway van as they looked beyond his latest victim bleeding to death on the parking garage floor. One government official described the closest, most stark sighting yet by a witness who reported seeing the gunman step brazenly from his van - about 90 feet from Linda Franklin and her husband, Ted,...

Police confirm sniper link in Va. slaying 10/15/2002 Associated Press FALLS CHURCH, Va. - Ballistic evidence conclusively links the death of a woman shot in the head in a suburban parking lot with eight other killings by a Washington-area sniper, authorities said Tuesday. Linda Franklin, 47, of Arlington was shot Monday night as she and her husband loaded packages into their car outside a Home Depot at the Seven Corners Shopping Center, Fairfax County Police Chief Tom Manger said. AP An Arlington County (Va.) police officer secures the perimeter of the crime scene. Some witnesses were able to give...