Experience the gripping true story of the DC sniper attacks. Discover how random shootings terrorized the Washington D.C. area, claiming innocent lives and sparking widespread fear. Watch now for chilling details!
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I was living there at the time. It was crazy. My dad wouldn’t let us leave home for any reason. We weren’t allowed to even ride with him to the gas station. To be fair to my dad they shot someone at a Home Depot we lived right behind
I'm so confused by the four people shot dead and a fifth fatally? Was Simon trying to get at something else?
How anyone can be against the death penalty after watching this video is beyond me. Some people, by their own actions, forfeit their right to live.
I was in middle school, living in Alexandria, when these attacks happened. I remember the highway checkpoints and the school lock-downs. The white astro-van they searched for.. wild couple weeks
I was a freshman at Howard university when this happened… I lived on 4th street NW.
Those of us who lived in the rougher areas weren’t concerned about him coming out there
I used to love this narrator but now I can’t stand him. That never happens for me.
Dumbass cops fighting over jurisdiction let this go on way longer than it should’ve
I remember the fear when they were on the loose
Why are you talking so fast slow down man
Well no, because thankfully I am not American.
I’ve been waiting for Simon to cover this but I assumed it would been on The Casual Criminalist
I always hate when it's "The only lead they have.. is for the killer to strike again".
I grew up in Rockville, and I remember one of the first shootings happening near my house (Fitzgerald Auto on Rockville Pike). What made me angry was when John Ashcroft stepped in and had the perpetrators tried in Virginia instead of Maryland, even though most of the shootings took place here. His reasoning was that they were far more likely to get the death penalty in VA, as capital punishment was never really popular in MD (And was eventually abolished). Not that I was the biggest fan of that guy to begin with.
Semantics warning. Yes, they were making shots with rifles. However, calling them snipers is like calling an amateur pilot an astronaut. Or calling a good home cook a chef.
We do love hyperbole though.
I was in school during that time when 6 of the shootings happened within a 2.5 mile radius. The school asked parents to pick up their children at the front doors so that we didn’t have to be outside for long periods. It’s interesting how I remembered the chaos, but not understanding why it was happening. I sincerely feel bad for the victims and their families of this senseless tragedy
This was because he lost custody of his children.
I forget if it was a documentary about this or just the time in general, but I remember hearing a counter terrorism expert say that if 50 teams of DC snipers spread out across every state, 1 pair for each, it would bring the country to a standstill. Especially the days after 9-11, I was young but I even I recall the sense of anything could happen, at any time. Shit my dad almost booked the flight that hit the north tower, forgot why he choose another. Needless to say, he had a fear of flying that lasted for over a decade after that
I live near where all this happened! My Grandpa also lived right down the road from four of the shootings. I was living in VA in NOVA when it happened. Though I was only six when it happened. If you go down the road from the former Shoppers (it's a Lidl now), there's a monument to the fallen at Brookside Gardens in Wheaton, MD. I remember walking through Brookside when I didn't quite realize the significance of the monument. Then I watched this video and went "😳😳 Omg this happened right here!" I was like "Omg I know these places!" It definitely gives me a new perspective on the shootings. Hit close to home when I realized it.
That was horrific, I wonder if it inspired the Jack Reacher shooting spree plot.
Also imagine having literally served in the military and then narrating a script that called an unmagnified holographic sight a "long distance rifle scope"
Lived in MD during this time. They actually found the killers not far from my area. People were instructed to hide behind columns when filling up at gas stations, and walking zig zag when crossing parking lots. For over 3 weeks, we lived in fear. A white van was seen at every shooting – so every white van was sus. In the end, the killers turned out to be using a blue car. The white van thing was bc there’s just so many white vans around all the time.
I remember the paronia and as other messages have stated it was only about a year after 911 and the thought was that it was a white guy or guys doing the crimes the word profile and phrase profiling is a touchy subject with some people and in this case the authorities were dead wrong but profiling serves a purpose in determining facts and patterns of crimes and the likly perpetrators after all serial killings and shootings are almost always the work of white males but in this case it was 2 males of color
definitely make this a casual criminalist ep, i gotta know more!
This is terrifying. They never caught the guy in the act.
I was in high school in Montgomery County at the time. My girlfriend's mom's coworker was one of the people fatally shot, as was my friend's uncle. Many hours were spent listening to the news and watching Chief Moose's press conferences. At school, they literally told us to run from the bus to our house in a zig-zag if we didn't have someone to pick us up. My father had a white box truck for his business and I remember stopping at a gas station with him to fill it up one day. People quickly moved away from us and I could sense the suspicion. It was definitely a surreal time.
I remember this rather well. My family had moved to Montgomery county the summer before, and I was in elementary school. The teachers almost panicked because we’d had a code blue drill a month before, and nobody knew why until everyone went home. A few kids just didn’t come in the next day since their parents were too nervous to let them go back.