D.C. sniper 10 years later: ‘I was a monster’

Yahoo ^ | 9/30/2012 | Dylan Stableford

[Hunton Peck]

Lee Boyd Malvo, who was convicted along with John Allen Muhammad in the 2002 D.C. sniper shootings that left 10 dead and three wounded, says he remembers the killings vividly but can't explain why he did what he did.

"I was a monster," Malvo told the Washington Post in a recent interview from a Virginia prison where he's serving six consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole. "If you look up the definition, that's what a monster is. I was a ghoul. I was a thief. I stole people's lives. I did someone else's bidding just because they said so. There is no rhyme or reason or sense."

Malvo, now 27, was a teenager at the time of the shootings. Muhammad was executed in 2009. The shooting spree lasted three weeks before the pair were arrested at a truck stop in Maryland.

"At that point in time, I had been desensitized," Malvo continued. "In the midst of the task, there is no feeling. It got to a point where I'd get in a zone. There was nothing else but whoever is before me, and anything that comes between me and, as you would say, the target, I'm either going...

[Bon mots]

I liked how the black police chief, Chief Moose if I remember correctly, was proudly announcing his ‘profile’ of the killer....

A White Christian right-winger.
It turned out to be two gay, black muslims.

Profiling criminals is perfectly fine as long as it’s a stupid black man profiling whites for no good reason...

[Salamander]

Yes, especially if they were out creeping around in the woods.

[Cronos]

He should not be released, but I’d like to believe that he feels remorse and will look to make his peace with God.

[Bon of Babble]

He should have been hanged by the neck years ago!!

My sister lived in the area at the time and talks to this day about the sheer terror of walking across a parking lot, filling your car up with gas, walking out to the sidewalk. People had to stay indoors in terror.