THE DC SNIPERS
Episode 208 | Historical Events
In this History episode we focus on the DC Sniper attacks of October 2002 — seventeen people shot across the Washington metropolitan area in three weeks, and the profile failure that sent law enforcement chasing white vans while the actual suspects were waved through checkpoints at least ten times. John Allen Muhammad and seventeen-year-old Lee Boyd Malvo were traveling in a dark blue 1990 Chevrolet Caprice with a hole cut in the trunk as a shooting port. They didn't match the profile. They kept being cleared.
We trace the psychological relationship between…
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