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targeted for death. >> there was always just a single shot. >> someone has been shot on our back lot. >> he's bleeding real bad. >> the victims are diverse. the motive is unknown. >> we're not sure if we had a terrorists operation. >> they were striking at the heart of the suburbs. >> i'm goings to my fourth funeral in four days. >> people were 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 man hunts in american history. the hunt for the d.c. snipers, next. ♪ it's known as the beltway, the growing metropolis that

surrounds our nation's capital encompasses portions of maryland and virginia, the beltway is a sprawl of medium and small towns, the kinds 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. >> category four hurricane -- >> and the buildup to the invasion of iraq. >> we know the awful nature of war. >> but a very different war was about to erupt. [siren sound] >> i got a call from my deputy. lieutenant phil long. 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 him what kind was it, did we have an argument between two people? did we have an answer to it.

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

murder. >> the thing that bothered us was there was no obvious reason for the shooting. in montgomery county, somebody being killed with a rifle is very unusual. >> a single shot fired through a craft store window. no one was hit. >> oddly, half an hour earlier there had been a random shot fired just a few miles away. there were no injuries and no clues. >> we weren't 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 changed. >> montgomery county. >> yes, ma'am, i need police and ambulance. >> okay. what's the problem. >> somebody has been shot on our back lot. he's down on the ground and he's bleeding real bad. >> we had a call for a subject to have been out mowing a lawn. >> the victim is 39-year-old

sonny 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're reasonably sure that they were parked within several hundred yards of this location. they managed to site 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. i saw a lot of blood. >> the taxi driver is 54-year-old prim wukar walakar. the witness is an emergency room doctor. >> i realized that he was having agonal breathing. which is the last breaths. >> when ambulances arrived she was doing cpr on a dying man. >> i started to be worried when everyone had a bullet proof vest on and i didn't have one. i remember the chief specifically told me to get any vest on. >> thank you, sir. >> 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, to not go off on a tangent, not put

misinformation out there. >> montgomery police chief charles moose becomes the public face of the investigation. but behind the scenes captain barney forsythe 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 mile north of here. >> but this is no suicide. it's murder and it's less than two miles away. dead at the scene is a 34-year-old baby-sitter and housekeeper, sara ramos. passers by thought she had shot herself. >> she was sitting at a bench in a shopping center reading. >> it's another busy location, another perplexing crime scene.

three fatal shootings in less than an hour in a four-mile radius. >> we sensed they were related but knowing and proving that are 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's 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, lori ann lewis rivera as stopped at a self-service vacuum stand to clean out her minivan. >> everyday people doing

everyday things usually are not the victims. >> she's the mother of a young daughter, about 25 years old. >> just the enormity of this huge sense of waste. this child lost her mother. >> another murder, again, a single shot, two people in a box type truck with a damaged tailgate. >> so far they haven't found anybody and that's the situation as we know it right now out here. >> it's 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 pasqual charlotte, a retired carpenter, dies at the scene. >> montgomery county we average 20 homicides in a year and we've had five of them in the space of a 16-hour period. >> if you look at the victims from the first day they're from all different aspects, male,

female, indian, white, hispanic, black. so basically that's telling me they're looking at random targets. they're not predetermined targets. >> this is americana, right? do they hate suburban america? we don't figure out why they were doing it. but they were striking right at the heart of the suburbs. you had 9/11. this is one year later. at first we're not sure if we have a terrorist operation. >> there was no sense at all who was behind this, who the next victim might be, when it would stop, if it would stop. >> we didn't know what the next 16 hours was going to bring. >> the snipers began leaving notes. >> it was sort of like getting punched in the face. [ bottle ] okay, listen up!

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an entire community of suburban maryland is living in fare 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's a crazy person with a gun. >> suburban maryland was 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. >> who were they? after six murders in 27 hours, police had one common thread. >> it was a single shot and it was a very loud single shot. >> victim number seven, a

43-year-old mother of two is shot outside a second michael's craft store, more than 50 miles south of where the previous attacks were clustered. >> police say the bullet passed through her body. >> 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 test is 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 of the shots were fired from the same weapon. >> maryland investigators are narrowing their search for this weapon by narrowing the caliber of the weapon. >> have you seen anyone may have weapons similar to this? >> we had to look at the

elevation of how the round hit the body, and we noticed that we did not have a high entry elevation, meaning being shot from a high angle. which led us to believe they could be shooting from a bench location or we even thought earlier they could be shooting from a platform, maybe like a van or a truck. >> the ballistics reports provoked a chilling conclusion for investigators. they weren't dealing with just any killer. this was the work of a highly motivated sniper. >> i'm a trained sniper myself. i went through sniper school. each one of these individuals was shot with one rifle round, which scared me. >> the oh, shit moment is when you realize that this is not a normal investigation. we knew that we had a public safety crisis. >> the sniper investigation fuelled even a greater

emergency. the white van or truck fleeing one of the early murder scenes began to drive the investigation. >> the box truck does have lettering, two lines of block letters on the side and the back. >> the media was all over this story. >> the vehicle has six wheels with four wheels in the rear. >> they may have spotted two people in a white box truck with a damaged tailgate. >> they started putting out white box truck. white box truck. white box truck. >> the witness talked about two people in it. >> and the group thing took over. >> graphics will be available. we think it will help people, prompt their memories. >> white vans were everywhere. >> that a white van similar to the other white fan then all of the sudden there were millions of white vans. >> police are still looking for a white box truck. >> it got a life of its own that it shouldn't have gotten. >> two men inside. >> unfortunately, it was the only game in town at that point. >> lost in the hysteria of a white box truck alert was an

alert put out by d.c. police after the last shooting of the pevious day, okd 3rd. >> the homicide detectives investigating the shooting on georgia avenue just inside the d.c. line had a description of a chevy caprice leaving the scene. it was not a big story. it was kind of buried in the news coverage. >> the white truck theory simply dominated the discussion, along with media experts who came forward with profiles of the sniper. >> this has all of the markings of an all-american crime spree. this is somebody who is trying to taunt the nation. >> the message is getting out there that no one is safe. >> everyone thought it was white guys because that seemed to be the predominant serial killer motive. >> you want a profile. here is a guy who's going to turn out, i believe, to be a white middle-aged male. >> i would be looking for an individual who has a high degree of irritability at work. >> we're still waiting on the

psychological profile piece from the fbi. we don't expect that it will be exact to cause us to have tunnel vision. >> stand still, please! still, please! >> to calm the public and satisfy the media and keep the facts straight, chief moose holds daily press conferences, one a day, every day. >> i have to take some questions. >> 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 the 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 weren't safe. so we said okay, we'll send police. every school in montgomery

county 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 a student at beng men tasker middle school. he's 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 hadn't 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 zone 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 they were blacks, i think. ♪ >> 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 media experts were wrong on the crucial points. there was no box truck and the snipers were not white. ♪ [ male announcer ] this is the story of the little room over the pizza place at 315 chestnut street. the modest first floor bedroom in tallinn, estonia and the dusty basement at 1406 35th street. it is the story of the old dining room table at 25th and hoffman avenue. the southbound bus barreling down i-95.

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police find two pieces of evidence, a single spent shell casing and a disturbing communique. >> our people recovered a tarot card. it was the death card. >> michael bouchard believes the tarot card confirms that the snipers had been his tongt previous press conference. >> my words were why would someone on earth do this. and it says it's the police, call me god, do not release to the press. >> word of the tarot card was closely guarded by the sniper task force but not closely enough. it leaks on friday night. >> when the news media got ahold of the tarot card and the information on it, law enforcement was extremely upset. >> you want to get that piece of information and put it

out while we're still doing this investigation. >> there was some discussion in the newsroom of do we report this or not. >> i don't think there's anyone that hasn't experienced the hindrance of leaks in the past. we have not been thrown off track. >> they claimed they shot other people because we didn't do what they asked us to. >> dean myers shot at this manassa, virginia gas station. >> he is the ninth victim, shot and killed 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 at the sixth murder scene. when the police wave him on, they have no idea that they've just interviewed the sniper mastermind.

john allen muhammad and lee boyd malvo were an unlikely pair joined by unlikely crcumstances. mohammed, age 41, was definitely the alpha. his devoted follower and more than willing accomplice, malvo, was just 17. >> one of the things that struck 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 mohammed. to this day his ex-wife isn't sure what happened. >> it was like his spirit had been broken. he was a broken man.

>> that's the man who befriended lee malvo in 2000. he met the teen while on a trip to anti gurkz a where malvo's mother had all but abandoned him. mohammed brought malvo to tacoma, washington, as his informal adopted son. >> his personality was a loving child. it is 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, mohammed 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 hatred fuelling an inner war against a racist society which mohammed in turn fed to young lee malvo. >> he was being conditioned to be a soldier. you're talking about a child soldier. he was actually having lee go to sleep with taped extracts from "the art of war" from books talking about war and revolution, et cetera, and that was how he started the whole brain washing process. >> the pair's murderous journey

started in tacoma, nearly 3,000 miles from d.c. at mohammed's direction, malvo shot and killed the niece of a woman who had testified against mohammed at the custody hearing. >> lee was trained not to feel. whenever he would feel and mohammed 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've just received word of another shooting. >> you know you have to keep plowing through. you cannot throw your hands up and walk away and say this is too hard. >> you know as fast as they were shooting people, there would probably be another one before we caught them. dentures are very different to real teeth.

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as the d.c. sniper death toll mounted, the public fear grew accordingly. the attacks had completely altered everyone's daily routine. >> millions of vehicles on these roads every day. that's great video there. look at this. 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're putting gas in it. >> i'm not exaggerating. people were zigzagging through parking lots. >> who would have ever thought he would do that? >> we didn't go to the parks, we didn't let the kids play outside the front of the house. >> you have an area around here where several million people are basically held hostage by who knows what.

>> from this point forward we sit and wait. >> meanwhile the media continue to speculate about the snipers and the snipers apparently continue to monitor the press conferences and the media. >> it just got more huge and more huge and more huge. it was just monstrous. >> i was being interviewed and the newscaster asked that a lot of information is that the sniper is a trained expert. >> i said it doesn't take an expert to fire these shots. the next victim was shot in the head. >> officials confirming that a man was shot at an exxon station along route 1 here. in spotsylvania. we died shortly after that. kenneth bridges was a

businessman from philadelphia, the tenth victim. the eighth to die. he was shot while pumping gas. >> a lot of these shootings, especially in virginia would occur right off of the interstate. one of the ideas was if we get a shooting we're going to get on the interstate and do roadblocks, just stop everybody as they come through. it was pretty drastic action, i guess a little bit like looking for a needle in a hay stack. but we needed to pull out all of the stops. >> among those stopped at one of roadblocks, a dark blue chevy caprice carrying none other than john mohammed and lee boyd malvo. once more the sniper car is given a pass. >> their vehicle which was queried several times by law enforcement over several days and several states was legally registered. there were no warrants out for these individuals at that point in time. >> i don't know how anyone could have stopped that vehicle and known that 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 ordinary, inside it's anything but. >> the seat back would lift up and that's where the gun was stored. >> it was a customized killing machine. and by lifting up the back seat the shooter could crawl into the backseat. they had cut an opening in the trunk above the license plate. >> this is the view when they pull the trigger. >> they could stick the barrel out 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's 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's been determined through further investigation that the information is not credible. >> but the damage is done. the sniper hotline 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 of 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 were also calling 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 12th 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 the area. >> they used that to their advantage. they were looking to find a white box still vehicle in proximity to their shootings, because that would add to their anonymity. the snipers later confirmed that rather than flee, they often stayed at the crime scenes.

>> they were very deliberate about that. going up and talking to law enforcement officials, taunting them in the sense that here i am, i'm the guy you're looking for. >> behind the steak house in the woods, the 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 killing is more important than catching us, then you will accept our demand. you will place $10 million in a bank account." >> i never thought money was the motive. i thought that was their arrogance to see how far they could push the government to see what they could get us to do. >> but there is a chilling postscript on the note that gets everyone's attention. >> imagine being in a position where you are responsible for the safety of your community and then somebody says your children aren't safe and they've got proof that that's true because they've shot one.

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as the sniper crisis enters its third week, nerves in the d.c. area are frayed. frustrations mount for police and the media. >> could a lack of information possibly imperil the public? >> i appreciate the question but i am personally insulted if you think i withhold something from you or anyone else that would keep you safe.

>> after a three-day lull, the snipers strike again. conrad c.j. 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. >> as you can see, the forward most bus up there is the one where the -- >> johnson's death brings the entire case back 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 to 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. he says, you got to look at that. >> i called montgomery, alabama, i said, did you have a shooting at a liquor store. they said yeah, one individual was killed, one was seriously wounded. >> the only evidence was a set of fingerprints. >> they ran it against the national database including immigration records and found malvo's print. >> then around the same time we got a phone call from a man who lived in washington who said we needed to take a look at these two guys and he named the guys muhammad and malvo.

he said the kid's nickname out here is sniper. >> and all of the sudden it all started falling into place. the tipster says the two practiced shooting at a tree stump in his backyard. atf and fbi immediately send field agents to retrieve the stump. >> we asked our people to do it low-key, be very quiet, don't tell anybody. about an hour later, someone came in to chief moose's office and said, look at the tv. >> agents from the fbi have just finished up their search. >> the helicopters and the news people were out there watching our people in this back yard in tacoma, washington. >> a federal arrest warrant has been issued for john allen muhammad. also known as john allen wales. >> the end came around 1:00 a.m. at a rest stop outside of frederic, maryland.

a sharp-eyed motorist who heard the police call earlier respond the blue 1990 chevrolet caprice with two men sleeping inside. >> there was a six-person assault element. they pulled both individuals out in less than three seconds. i looked down and i saw lee boyd malvo and you could 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 a cold rain to say that 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 john

all allen mohammed, an iraq war veteran, and 17-year-old john lee malvo. >> muhammad's ex-wife was stunned when she saw his face on television. >> i walked over to the screen and put my hand on it and said, what happened to you? at 315 ch. the modest first floor bedroom in tallinn, estonia and the dusty basement at 1406 35th street. it is the story of the old dining room table at 25th and hoffman avenue. the southbound bus barreling down i-95. ...and the second floor above the strip mall at roble and el camino. ♪ this magic moment it is the story of where every great idea begins. ♪ so different and so new where those with endless vision and an equal amount of audaciousness believed they had the power to do more. time and time again. ♪ and then, it happened at dell, we're honored to be part of some of the world's great stories. stories that began much the same way ours did.

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>> local state and federal prosecutors are meeting to discuss charges and some jurisdictional issues. >> for the residents of washington, d.c. and the beltway, three weeks of living on edge in constant fear is over. >> everyone was so glad it was over and this mayhem had stopped. there was also a lot of confusion about 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 are eventually connected to dozens of shootings and robberies in at least five different states. >> they killed people in washington, worked their way i think through texas, down into louisiana and alabama. i think they were in georgia. so it's not just the 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 shake your head a little bit and you think, what could bring a young person to do something like this. >> it's complex for malvo. he was a teen when he met muhammad and he was in dire straits. he was suicidal, he was very unhappy with his family situation. he did not have a father figure in his life and was desperately seeking one. muhammad filled all of those needs for malvo. >> lee was told that the shootings were designed to create a society, a society of 70 boys and 70 girls that

mr. muhammad was going to be lord over and lee would be one of his soldiers. and he really believed that. >> he was so enamored with john muhammad that he would have done anything. and what muhammad was asking him to do was kill other and over again. >> lee boyd malvo. >> yes, sir. >> two years after the shooting lee boy malvo was convicted on 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 these 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 kill her randomly. i don't think that had anything to do with it. >> i was fearful for my life but i never thought that he could go to this length never ever. it still boggles my mind. >> yet it made some sense to you? >> because we were watching a movie. i don't remember the name of it. he said, i could take a small city, terrorize it, they would think it would be a group of people but 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 if he wished to make a last statement. he did not acknowledge us or make any statement whatsoever. he seemed very unemotional. >> 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 and kindness and the sacrifice that you always made. peace and may god be with you all.

thank you. >> we will never forget, we'll never know their pain and we only wish we could have stopped this to reduce the number of this to reduce the number of victims. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com one was world renowned, one of the greatest musicians. >> the other was a lonely kid from georgia, with no particular talents and no real direction in life. >> everyone said he was a nice person. he wanted to bring attention to him. >> they were as different as night and day. two men on intent personal journeys that converged in a single shocking act. >> i