if some brain child can look at that and come up with some other idea of how that happened, you know, god bless them, but it has been 17 years and that has not >> blood coming out of her mouth. >> it was an unprecedented wave of terror that struck our nation's capital. >> you had 9/11. >> in 23 days over ten people were targeted for death. >> there was always a single shot. >> bleeding real bad. >> the victims were diverse, the motive is unknown. >> we're not sure if we had a terrorist operation. >> the panic is escalating.

>> they're striking at the heart of the suburbs. >> if a white man can survive. >> tomorrow, i'm going to my fourth funeral in four days. >> people were dying, and dying right in front of us. >> we can't be everywhere all the time. >> this, without a doubt was the most intense three weeks of my career. >> it was one of the biggest manhunts in american history. the hunt for the d.c. snipers, nex next. >> it is known as the beltway, the growing metropolis that

surrounds our nation's capital, encompassing our nation's capital, it is the kind of places where indiscriminate violence is rare. for area residents, october 2nd, 2002 began quietly enough. nationally, the big news was a hurricane in the gulf of mexico. and the build-up to the invasion of iraq. >> we know the awful nature of war. >> but a very different war was about to erupt. >> i got a call from my deputy. >> a 55-year-old man was killed outside the store. >> we had a gentleman who was shot in the parking lot at the shopper's food warehouse. i asked what kind of a situation, was it an argument between two people?

barney forsyth is the head of crimes for montgomery county. he said no, not really. we had a loud bang. >> it was directly across the street from a police station. in fact, the first police officers to arrive on the scene were those that heard the shot inside the police station and walked across the street. >> the victim is a 55-year-old government analyst named james martin. police have almost nothing to go on. >> security cameras were starting to become more popular. we were, of course, hoping that you know, it was going to tell us something. unfortunately, after we reviewed it the only thing we saw was the poor man basically getting shot, crumbling to the ground. >> we talked about the unusual nature of that particular

murder. >> the thing that bothered us was that there was no obvious reason for the shooting. >> in montgomery county, somebody being killed with a rifle is something very unusual. >> a single shot crashed through a store window, no one was hit. >> oddly, less than an hour earlier there had been a random shot fired just a few miles away. there were no injuries and no clues. >> we were not really sure what we had at that point. >> tonight, the mystery remains. >> that evening, the two shootings were still just a local story. the next morning, everything change changed. >> montgomery county. >> yes, we need a police and ambulance. >> okay, what is the problem? >> somebody has been shot down on our back lot, he is down on the ground. he is bleeding real bad. >> we had a call for a subject who had been out mowing a lawn. >> the victim is 39-year-old

sunny buchanan, a landscaper. >> immediately, we were pretty sure it was going to be related to the previous evening's shooting. >> the two crime scenes are just over four miles apart. >> we were reasonably sure they were parked within several hundred yards of this location. they managed to sight the victim and take the shot. >> 30 minutes later, the carnage continues. >> what happened here at the gas station? >> i had to fill the car up with gas. there was a gentleman filling his car. it was a taxi. and he looked at me and i looked at him. and then i looked down for a split second just to pick up my credit card. and then i heard a very loud bang. >> the shot came from up here. >> and then i looked up and the taxi driver was walking towards my car. he said to me, call an

ambulance, and he collapsed. we saw a lot of blood. >> the taxi driver is a 54-year-old, the witness is an emergency room doctor. >> i realized that he was having the last breath. >> when police arrive, dr. namro is performing cpr on a dead man. >> i started to feel a little worried when i saw everybody with the bullet proof vests on and i didn't have one. >> we all thought that there was a possibility that we could be targeted at that point. i remember the chief specifically told me to get my vest on. >> we are doing everything in our power to control our emotions as we deal with this situation. the challenge is to be factual, to be accurate, to not get tunnel vision or go off on a

tangent or put misinformation out there. >> the montgomery county chief goes public, but captain forsyth takes the lead. >> he was the right guy, in the right place, at the right time. >> as we were down here there was also a call coming out. a person possibly committing suicide about a north of here. >> but this is no suicide. it is murder, and it is less than two miles away. dead at the scene is a 34-year-old baby-sitter and housekeeper, sarah ramos. passersby thought she shot herself. >> 34-year-old sarah ramos was sit ting there at a shopping center reading.

>> it was a crime scene, three shootings in less than an hour. >> we sensed they were related. but knowing and proving they were related were two different things. the rear of this parking lot provides a very good area. take a shot, one shot, one loud shot, one fatal shot, and then move away without causing a great deal of distraction. >> a witness reports seeing a white box truck fleeing the scene. it is the first material clue for investigators. >> the investigation really, really took on speed right here. >> an hour and 20 minutes later, five and a half miles away, laurie ann lewis rivera has stopped at a self service station to clean out her mini van. >> everyday people doing everyday things usually are not the victim s.

>> rivera, mother of a young daughter is just 25 years old. >> just the eenormity of this huge waste, this child lost her mother. >> two people in a truck with a damaged tailgate. >> so far they have not found anybody, and that is the situation as we know it right here. >> it is quiet for the next 12 hours. then, just a few blocks from the montgomery county line, one more shot shatters the night. 72-year-old pasquale charlotte, a retired carpenter, dies at the scene. >> in montgomery county, we average about five homicides a year, and we have had five of them in the space of an hour. >> you look at the victims the first day, they're from all

aspects, male, female, indian, white, hispanic, black. so basically that tells me they're looking at random targets, they're not pre-determined targets. do they hate suburban america? we couldn't figure out why they were doing it. but they were striking at the heart of the suburbs. >> you have 911. this is one year later. >> at first, we're not sure if we had a terrorist operation. >> there was no sense at all who was behind this, who the next victim might be, and if and when it would stop. >> the snipers began leaving notes. >> it is sort of like getting punched in the face. la's known definitely for its traffic,

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. >> an entire community of suburban maryland is living in fear. >> as police spread out. >> and a massive manhunt is under way. >> in a single day, the d.c. sniper murder spree became the top story across the nation. >> i don't know what the thought process is, what the plan is.

but yes, people need to continue with life. >> it was really terrifying to be in an area where there was a crazy person with a gun. >> suburban maryland is living in fear. >> fear was just -- i mean, not perception of fear, this is reality fear. >> a massive manhunt is under way with still no clues as to who killed five people. >> the reality was, they were mobile, they were willing to go anywhere at any time. >> but who were they? after six murders in 27 hours, police had just one common thread. >> there was a single shot and it was a very loud single shot. >> victim number 7, a 43-year-old mother of two is shot outside a second michael's craft store, more than 50 miles

south of from the previous attacks were clustered. she is the first victim to survive. >> is there any connection between the shooting that occurred in virginia and the ones that have occurred here in montgomery county? >> at this point, the fragments from the shooting are in the lab and the comparison tests are being conducted right now. >> by the second day, we had a good idea of the type of caliber. we were also able to tell that all the shots were fired from the same one. >> maryland investigators narrowing their search for the weapons by starting with the killers' bullets. >> just within 24 hours we knew we were dealing with an assault rifle. >> have you seen anybody who may have been linked to this? >> we had to look at the elevation of how the round hit the body, and we noticed we didn't have a high elevation angle, meaning being shot from a

high angle. which led us to believe they could have been shooting from a bench location. we even thought earlier they could be shooting from a platform, maybe like a van or a truck. >> the ballistics reports provo provoked a chilling conclusion, they were not dealing with the work of just any killer. they were dealing with a trained sniper. >> i am a sniper myself, i went to sniper school. each one of these individuals were shot with one rifle round, which scared me. >> the oh, no moment is when you realize this is not an ordinary investigation. we knew that we had a public safety crisis. >> the sniper realization fuelled even greater urgency. the witness report seeing the vehicle earlier drives the investigation. >> we do have new information now on the box truck, it has lettering on the side and back. >> and the media was basically

all over this story. >> they say the vehicle has six wheels, four wheels in the rear. >> they may have spotted two people in the box type truck with the damaged tailgate. >> and they started to put out a white box truck. >> the witness talked about two people. and the group thing took over. >> the graphics will be available. we think it will help people prompt their memories. >> white vans are everywhere, and all of a sudden there are millions of white vans, people said did you see? there is a white van. >> police say they're still looking for a white box truck. >> it got a life of its own that it should not have. >> two men in a white truck. >> unfortunately, it was the only game in town at the time. >> lost in the histeria was an alert put out the previous day, october third. >> the homicide detectives investigating the shooting on georgia avenue just inside the

d.c. line had a description of a chevy leaving the scene. it was not a big story, just kind of buried in the news. >> the white truck theory simply dominated the discussion, along with media experts who came forward with profiles of the sniper. >> this has all the markings of an all-american crime spree. this is somebody who actually is trying to taunt the nation. >> the message is getting out there that nobody is safe. >> everybody thought it was white guys, that seemed to be the main serial killer motiff. >> you know what? you want a serial killer? this will be a white, middle e aged male. >> i am looking for an individual who has a high degree of anxiety at work. >> it was very bad. >> there was a type of mass murderer, like a commando. >> they're waiting on the psychological profile piece from the fbi. we don't expect it to be so exact it would cause us to have tunnel vision.

>> to calm the public, satisfy the media and keep the facts straight, the chief, backed by the task force, holds daily press conferences, one a day every day. >> early on we determined that the snipers were listening to things that we were saying. several of us feared they were actually in the background watching these press conferences. >> the question about the schools and their status tomorrow, school is going to open. that decision clearly has been made. there is no reason to believe that the shooter is targeting school children. >> the public had been afraid that their kids were not safe. so we said okay, we'll send police to every school in montgomery county. every school had an officer at it. >> a 13-year-old boy, shot and wounded as he arrives at his suburban maryland school. >> the eighth victim is a student at benjamin middle

school. he is critically wounded but survives. >> right over there, right over my right shoulder is where the boy was shot. >> the idea that a shooter would target an innocent child on his way to school was alarming in a way that the previous shootings had not been. >> what they're now saying is that there is a connection between the shooting here and the other ones that have really caused quite the jitters throughout the washington area. >> the school shooting occurs 70-odd miles from the previous shooting in fredericksburg, virginia, the sniper idea seems to be growing. once again, witnesses report seeing a white van leaving the scene. it was a consistent detail that would nearly untrack the entire investigation. >> i think they were looking for a white man in a box truck. i don't think anyone was sort of

expecting that there were blacks involved. >> well, if you're two black guys in kind of a beat-up car doing this, no one would ever notice you. >> only much later would anyone realize that the witnesses and the media experts were wrong on both of the crucial points. there was no box truck. and the snipers were not white. it's important to get away from everything once in awhile.

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millions terrorized. almost a week has passed since the d.c. snipers struck. and now, the school has elevated the security dramatically. >> everybody working the detail, whether it was neighbors, relatives, their own children, it was kind of like where are we safe? >> even though witnesses had reported seeing a white van at the school, authorities quickly determined that the shot actually came from the adjacent woods. police find two pieces of evidence. a single spent shell casing and a disturbing communicae. >> our people recovered a tarot card. it was a desk card. >> michael buchard believes that the tarot card confirmed that the snipers had listened to the previous press conference. >> one of my words was, i don't

know why on god's earth somebody would do something like that. and sure enough, it said, this is the police, call me god, do not release to the press. >> word of -- of the tarot card was closely guarded by the task force, but not closely enough. it leaks on october 9th. >> when the news media got ahold of the tarot card and the information on it, law enforcement was extremely upset. >> you really want to get that piece of information and put it out while we're still doing this investigation. >> there was some discussion among all of us, do we report this or not? >> i don't think there is anybody that has not experienced the situation of leaks in the past. we have not been thrown off track. >> they claim they shot other people because we didn't do what they asked us to do. >> dean meyers, shot at this gas

station. >> dean meyers, a civil engineer, the ninth victim, shot in the chest while pumping gas near manassas, virginia, he was 53 years old. in a parking lot across from the crime scene, a police officer interviews potential witnesses. one of them is a man driving the same 12-year-old chevy caprice that had been spotted near the sixth murder scene, when police wave him on, they have no interview they have just interviewed the sniper and mastermind. john allen muhammad, and lee boyd malvo were an unlikely pair, joined by unlikely circumstances. muhammad, age 41, was definitely the alpha, his devoted follower, malvo, was just 17. >> one of the things that strikeout me was his devotion and commitment to john allen

muhammad, who he referred to as dad. >> muhammad, a father of three, was an ex-army engineer who received the normal training in marksmanship. he saw action in the first gulf war. but returned home a changed man. >> desert storm, the first iraq war, flipped a switch in john muhammad. to this day, his ex-wife, is not sure what happened. >> it was like his spirit had been broken. he looked like just a broken man. >> that is the man who befriended lee malvo in 2000. muhammad met the teen on a trip to antigua, where malvo's mother had all but abandoned him. muhammad had brought him to the united states as formally adopted son. >> his true personality was that he was a soft, warm, loving child. it is very, very important that

one recognize that lee did not attach to a killer. he actually attached to a loving and caring father. >> at the time, muhammad was in a bitter and complicated custody battle for his own biological children whom he had stolen away from his estranged wife. when a tacoma court gave her full and permanent custody, muhammad vowed revenge. >> the children were given to his wife and he would no longer have any connection with his children. and he was outraged. >> he said you will not raise my children on your own. you have become my enemy and as my enemy i will kill you. >> did you believe him? >> totally. >> the outrage became anger and

ha hatred, fuelling a racist society and fuelling malvo. >> he was a soldier, you're talking about a child soldier. he was actually having lee go to sleep with taped extracts from the acts of war, and that was how he started the whole brainwashing process. >> the pair's murderous journey started miles from d.c., at muhammad's direction, malvo shot and killed the niece of a woman who had testified against him at the custody hearing. >> lee was trained not to feel. whenever he would feel and muhammad saw that there was a flinch of feelings, he would tell him to slap his chest and

say heart be still. after a while, he didn't have to tell him, heart be still. because he had, if i could use the word, monsterized him. >> no one ever linked muhammad and malvo to the girl's murder. now, eight months later, they're driving around the nation's capital in an old chevy caprice, shooting innocent citizens while everyone is looking for a white man in a white truck. >> law enforcement knew that the shooters had a distinct advantage. i think to them, it was quite frustrating. they all knew more people were going to die. >> we just received word of another shooting. >> you know you just have to keep plowing through. you just can't throw your hands up and walk away and say well, this is too hard. >> we knew that as fast as they

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everybody's daily routine. >> look at this, a white van with a ladder on top. >> certainly, the public was on edge. parking your car and running into the grocery store, ducking down next to your car while you put gas in it. >> i'm not exaggerating, people were zig-zagging through parking lots. >> who would have thought you would do that? >> we didn't go to parks or let the kids play outside the front of the house. >> you have an area around here with several million people, basically held hostage by who knows what. >> from this point forward we sit and we wait. >> meanwhile, the media continues to speculate about the snipers. and the snipers apparently continue to monitor the press conferences and the media. >> it just got more huge, more huge, more huge, just monstrous. >> i was being interviewed and the news caster asked a lot of the information is that the person is a trained military

sniper, basically what i said is it doesn't take a specialized expert to fire these shots. the next victim was shot in the hea head. >> officials here confirming that a man was shot in an exxon station along route one here in spotsylvania. >> kenny bridge was the ehth to die, pumping gas. >> one of the ideas that we had is that if we get a shooting we'll get on the interstate and do roadblocks, just stop everybody as they come through. >> it was pretty drastic action,

i guess like we were looking for a needle in a hay stack. but we needed to pull out all the stops. >> once more, the sniper car is given a pass. >> their vehicle, which was stopped several times by law enforcement over several days, in several states was legally registered. there was no warrants out for these individuals at any point in time. >> i don't know how anyone could have stopped that vehicle and known it was the sniper's vehicle. >> much later, when the authorities finally get a look at the chevy caprice. they are stunned by what they find. the vehicle had been utilized in most of the shootings. outside it looks perfectly ordina ordinary. inside, it is anything but. >> the seat back would lift up. and that is where the gun was stored. >> it was a customized killing machine. >> and by lifting up the back seat, the shooter could crawl into the truck. >> darker than normal tinting on

the back windows. >> they had cut an opening in the window by the license plate. they could stick the barrel out of the back of the trunk, fire the shot and nobody could see where the shot came from. >> at about 9:15 this evening, a female was shot in the upper body. in the parking garage of the home depot at seven corners. she was pronounced dead on the scene. >> the victim is 47-year-old linda franklin, shot while she and her husband loaded packages into their car. franklin is an fbi analyst. it is the first shooting in fairfax county, virginia. and takes place 50 miles from the previous shooting in spotsylvania county. a witness claims to have seen the shooter flee the scene in a white van. >> it has been determined

through further investigation that the information is not credible. >> but the damage is done. the sniper hot lined, already inundated, is again flooded with sightings of white vans. >> i believe we got over 115,000 tips. 16,000 of those were viable leads that needed to be followed up on. >> almost lost among all the phone calls are several from the snipers to the police. >> don't say anything, just listen. >> they were calling the task force. they were calling rockville city police. and they also called montgomery county police. >> in one, the caller says we've called three times trying to set up negotiations. we've gotten no response. people have died. the lady didn't have to die. >> i think they wanted to get a message across to us.

the 12 victim and third to survive is a 37-year-old musician from florida. he is shot outside a steak house in ashland, virginia, once again, a white van is seen leaving this area. >> they used that to their advantage, they were looking to find a white box vehicle style in close proximity to the shoot i ings. >> the suspects confirmed rather than flee, they often stayed at the crime scenes. >> they were very deliberate about that. going up, talking to law enforcement officials, taunting them in the sense of well, here i am and i'm the guy you're looking for. >> behind the steak house in the woods, police find a spent .223 shell and another note from the snipers. a four-page handwritten ransom letter. in the letter, the snipers wrote if stopping the killer is more important than catching us then

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>> as the sniper crisis enters its third week, nerves in the d.c. area are frayed >> a lack of information possibly in peril of the public. >> i appreciate the question, but i am personally insulted if you would think that i would hold something from you or anybody else that would keep you safe. >> after a three-day lull, the snipers strike again. conrad johnson, a 35-year-old montgomery county bus driver is shot at his first stop.

johnson is the 13th victim in three weeks. the tenth to die. >> mr. johnson had pulled up to this location, right directly across from us at which point he was shot and killed almost instantly. it was a single shot. we know that the shot came back from the wood line, no more than 30 to 50 yards away. >> johnson's death brings the entire case home to montgomery county. >> i can remember just thinking they're back. >> police find another note in the woods. >> we knew that if we could engage them, we would be that much closer to them either screwing up or making another mistake that would help us catch them. >> they did exactly what we asked them to do. they started writing us letters. they started calling. >> one of the phone calls basically told us we needed look at a robbery that had occurred

in montgomery, alabama. >> the call, it later turned out, was from lee boyd malvo. was he just bragging or hoping to get caught? no one knows, but it was a critical break. >> he didn't identify himself as the sniper or he says you just got to look at that. i said did you have a shooting at a liquor store, and they said, yeah, one individual was killed. one was seriously wounded. >> the only evidence is a set of fingerprints. s >> that around the same time we got a phone call from a gentleman who lived out in washington who said we need to take a look at these two guys, and he named the two guys. a mohammed and malvo. he said the kid's nickname out here is sniper. >> sniper. >> and all of a sudden it all started falling into place.

the tipster said the two practiced shooting on a tree stump in his back yard. atf and fbi immediately sent field agents to retrieve the stump. >> we asked our people to do it low key, keep it very quiet, don't tell anybody. about an hour later someone came into the chief's office and said take a look on tv. >> agents from the fbi and atf have just finished up their search. >> the helicopters and the news media were out there watching our people, and this backyard in tacoma, washington. >> an arrest warrant has been issued for john allen mohammed, also known as john allen williams. >> it came around 1:00 a.m. in a rest stop outside frederick, maryland, about 50 miles northwest of washington. a motorist who heard the police lookout just over an hour earlier spotted the blue 1990 chevrolet caprice with two men sleeping inside. >> it was a six-person assault element. we had three on the driver's side, three on the passenger side.

they assaulted and pulled both individuals out of john mohammed and lee boyd malvo less than three seconds. i looked down, and i saw lee boyd malvo. and you can see the sweat coming down his face. and this is a cold october night. and you could see he was just scared. and then john muhammad was on the other side, and he was more defiant. >> police lined up in the cold rain to say after three weeks they believe they caught the snipers and found the gun. >> sir, we feel very positive about being here, we have the weapon. it is off the street. >> apprehended 41-year-old muhammad and malvo. >> muhammad's ex-wife, mildred, who had moved to the d.c. area two years earlier, was stunned

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>> local and state prosecutors are meeting over some jurisdictional issues. >> for the residents in the washington, d.c. and the beltway area, three weeks of living on edge in constant fear is over. >> everyone was so glad it was over, and this mayhem has stopped, but there was also a lot of confusion of who these two guys were. they weren't what people were expecting. >> the confusion is compounded by disbelief as other disturbing revelations emerge about john muhammad and lee malvo, the two snipers eventually connected to dozens of shootings and robberies in at least five different states. >> they killed people in washington and they worked through texas and down to louisiana and alabama and i think they were in georgia, so

it's not just the h homicides here. >> john muhammad is clearly the mastermind, but people are stunned to find out his accomplice, lee boyd malvo is just a 17-year-old boy. >> it was a huge sense of horror that such a young person could have been involved in such horrendous crimes. that was very shocking. >> i guess you shake your head a little bit and you think what can bring a person to do something like this? it is complex for malvo, because he was a teen when he met muhammad and he was in dire straits. he was suicidal and unhappy with the family situation and without a father figure in his life and desperately seeking one. muhammad filled all of those roles for him. >> lee was told that the shootings were designed to create a society, a society of boys and girls that mr. muhammad would be lord over, and lee

would be one of his soldiers. and lee really believed that. >> he was so enamored with john allen muhammad that he would have done anything. and what muhammad was asking him to do was to kill over and over and over again. >> lee boyd malvo >> yes, sir. >> two years after the shooting, he was convicted of two counts of capital murder. he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. three years later, he wrote from his cell, i'm still grappling with shame, guilt, remorse and my own healing if that will ever be possible. as for john allen muhammad, he, too, was convicted of capital murder. the sentence, death by lethal injection. his own motive for the killing spree remains a mystery.

>> all we know about muhammad's approach to the shootings is largely what other people have theorized, because muhammad never really explained why it happened. there are theories that he was randomly shooting people in that area so that perhaps he could kill his ex-wife and then swoop in as the grieving ex-husband and take the children away and disappear. if he wanted to kill her, he could have killed her randomly, so i don't think that had anything to do with it. >> i was fearful for my life, but i never ever thought that he would go to this length, never. ever. it still boggles my mind. >> yet it made sense to you? because we were watching a movie and i don't remember the name of it, but it said i can take a small city and terrorize it, and they would think it is a group of people, and it would only be me. >> at 9:06 p.m. on november

10th, 2009, john allen muhammad was executed. his final meal included chicken with red sauce and strawberry cake. >> mr. muhammad was asked to be -- if he wished to make a last sometime. and he did not acknowledge us or make any statement whatsoever. he seemed very emotional. >> hello, everyone. i'm still on death row fighting. >> prior to his execution however, muhammad did speak. this short video was made after his conviction and aired on cnn in 2007. it included what seemed to be an oddly upbeat farewell. >> thank you for your patience, kindness and sacrifice that you always make. peace. may god be with you always.

thank you. >> we will not forget. we will never know your pain, and we only wish that we would have stopped this to reduce the number of victims. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >> marijuana, the burning weed, with its roots in hell. >> marijuana has not been always hated by the u.s. government. in fact, before 1937, it was not even considered an illegal drug. but after prohibition, the government needed a new evil to go after so they formed the bureau of narcotics and put marijuana at the top of their hit list. and they have been hating on pot ever since. but in 1996, california became the first state to legalize medical marijuana. and 18 suits followed suit