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Hello.
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Today I'll be going over the case of the Beltway snipers.
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It began on October 2nd 2002
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and ended on October 24th, 2002.
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So this is the relatively recent case only happening two decades ago,
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and many of our parents may have been in this. My parents were involved in it,
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a zit. We lived in the DC area at the time.
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Some basics of the crap
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So first started when I 55 year old man was killed in Maryland
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and by the next day there were four more people dead.
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Given the speed of the deaths and possibility they were connected, Theo,
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FBI got involved and joined forces with the Montgomery
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County Police Department.
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So in the picture, they're investigating a crime scene with a gas station.
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And then here we have hundreds of agents
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were working on the case when a tip was given by one of the snipers.
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And in this picture, you can see the trunk of the car that they used.
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That little box at the top of the picture is
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a voice alter
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that they used to attempt to extort people.
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And I'll touch on that little hole in the back a little further on.
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So how do they make progress on the case? And what was this tip?
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So this tip was a caller who claimed to be the sniper,
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and he was bragging about killing two women in a liquor store in Alabama,
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but only one was actually killed.
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So fingerprint and ballistic evidence from the
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crime was
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taken by the FBI and analysed.
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And the fingerprint evidence from the crime
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in Alabama Master man named Lee Boyd Mama
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and then tips and
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Restaurant has also revealed the second suspect named John Allen Mohammed.
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So this picture here shows fingerprints on the laptop used by the pair
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thing, actual fingerprints
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that were found to imagine a Lee Boyd Malvo originally were on a
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magazine that was
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that was found at the crime.
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But
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I couldn't find a picture of that.
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So I used this laptop is also used to prove
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that they were the ones who committed the crimes.
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So profiles of these people, first of all go with the boy.
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The boy model was arrested previously in Washington state,
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so his fingerprints were ardent.
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AFIS
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Arrest records revealed another suspect in
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these snipings named John Allen Mohammed
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and a federal witness.
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Federal material witness warrant was obtained from although
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they could come and arrest him.
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But I move on to his partner, John Allen Mohammed.
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His name was mentioned in that tip, and it was also found on the arrest records.
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That's why he became the second suspect.
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He was found to be in illegal possession of a 0.223 Bushmaster rifle.
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And he was not allowed to have that as yet, A restraining order from his ex wife.
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So the FBI could charge him with federal weapons violations.
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And that was how they could arrest him.
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And Mohammed had a registered blue Chevy Caprice in the New Jersey area.
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So they knew. What car? Yes. So they had to look for that and had a licence plate and
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tips all local news stations to try and find these guys.
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So how did this case gets solved?
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The two were caught on October 24th, 2002,
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when that Chevy Caprice is spotted a Maryland restoration and cops swarm the area,
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making sure they couldn't escape.
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And they were both arrested
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and sentenced to life without parole.
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So quick Timeline
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of the slight things was October 2nd.
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The first victim was killed. The Man Who? We Maryland.
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October 17th.
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The snipers, one of the snipers called in
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and talk to police
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bragged about that homicide, Alabama.
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And then on October 24th,
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the pair were arrested
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not after killing multiple people.
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And then evidence that they found in the car was that Bush Master 2 to 3 rifle,
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which was used to
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slightly people a scope on a tripod
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to make sure their shots with land
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a core Emanuel.
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But this car manual had impressions of demand notes, which also helped to prove
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with impression evidence that they were the ones
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who did the killings
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of Ocean Quarter. Used to make demands.
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A laptop with the fingerprints earlier to get her out,
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get away around some shooting sites.
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And then that small hole I mentioned earlier.
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It's actually what they used to shoot out of the car.
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They had removed the medal between
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the trunk and the back seats so they could crawl in
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from the car and just lay down in the trunk,
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just like about people as they drove back.
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And here my sources.
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And that's the
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way