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Beltway Sniper Shootings-FR Commentary-Wed., Oct. 23,2002
Fox News, CNN, Press Conferences | October 23, 2002 | Fox News, CNN, Press Conferences

Posted on 10/23/2002 2:39:33 AM PDT by Peach

Let's keep a live commentary thread going again today. The FBI Tip Line #1-888-324-9800.

All seems quiet since yesterday's news the shooter may target children specifically. It was released on various news outlets the shooter's 3-page letter to police was in broken English and threatened extreme violence. Police announced an electronic transfer of $10m as requested by the shooter was not possible but other options for transfer remain open. No one seriously believes police will actually give the shooter $$, but police are trying to keep a dialogue open with the shooter in an effort to capture this monster.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; US: Maryland; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: beltwaysniper; dc; dcsniper; dcsnipers; fbi; investigation; maryland; shootings; sniper; terrorism; virginia
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To: HairOfTheDog
My bet on the tree stump: American Elm, Maple, or Lombardy Poplar.

Reason:

American Elms die of disease.
Some maples are bad trees with dropping sticks and roots that come to the surface, so the owners might have cut it down.
Lombardy Poplars are popular, fast-growing trees, but short-lived.

Can you tell I am a gardener? HA!

1,961 posted on 10/23/2002 5:48:48 PM PDT by Miss Marple
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To: alisasny
Okay, this is what I get for not keeping up. They've arrested a stump????
1,962 posted on 10/23/2002 5:48:51 PM PDT by mewzilla
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To: bcoffey
LOL

It's also going to have its very own guard.
1,963 posted on 10/23/2002 5:48:54 PM PDT by berkeleybeej
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To: Kip Lange
You mean Greta's face doesn't move? I'm too fascinated looking at that irregularly shaped mouth to watch the rest of her!
1,964 posted on 10/23/2002 5:48:57 PM PDT by Peach
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To: alisasny
Stump is in custody, but is not the suspect.
1,965 posted on 10/23/2002 5:49:31 PM PDT by looney tune
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To: Peach
Every time you log on....You mean you log off?
1,966 posted on 10/23/2002 5:49:34 PM PDT by snippy_about_it
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To: AmericanInTokyo
All I can say is: follow the money

That bears repeating 50,000 times. FOLLOW THE MONEY. There's a track there. Sniff it out, and you'll find the b@stards funding this thing, esp. if these perps turn out to be clueless initiates.

1,967 posted on 10/23/2002 5:49:35 PM PDT by Kip Lange
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To: bcoffey
The tree belongs too the two deported Mexicans from last week....
1,968 posted on 10/23/2002 5:49:37 PM PDT by alisasny
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To: Peach
LOL
1,969 posted on 10/23/2002 5:49:47 PM PDT by Freedom2specul8
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To: Peach
I think they mean an Native American as in "Not foreign" :) Just a guess.
1,970 posted on 10/23/2002 5:49:52 PM PDT by valleygal
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To: Letitring
oh...a dead stump...so sad!
1,971 posted on 10/23/2002 5:49:59 PM PDT by mystery-ak
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To: Peach; rintense
Yeah, we heard the "native American of Hispanic extraction" too.

Dad Indian, Mom Hispanic...? (Just kiddin!) sw

1,972 posted on 10/23/2002 5:50:03 PM PDT by spectre
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To: edayna
Maybe they just mean he's a Mexican?

CNN just reported that LE missed the sniper by about 10 minutes during the phone booth debacle due to miscommunication between the task force and Henrico County officials.

1,973 posted on 10/23/2002 5:50:24 PM PDT by poppyseed
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To: Sacajaweau
Okay, so far:

berkeleybeej - Maple
Sacajaweau - Oak

we still have a number of species left
1,974 posted on 10/23/2002 5:50:28 PM PDT by berkeleybeej
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To: All
cnn has a neighbor on NOW saying they called 911 on the prior resident of this house
due to gunfire on more than one occasion ...

cops responded to the area, but evidently didn't find who was shooting ...

1,975 posted on 10/23/2002 5:50:33 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: rintense
Forgive me but I'm STUMPED. The person's heritage was so weirdly phrased as to make it suspect.
1,976 posted on 10/23/2002 5:50:34 PM PDT by Peach
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To: Doohickey
Yes, it resisted. They had a terrible time with that thing. :) However, in true FBI fashion, they prevailed, got that sucker dead to rights and hauled it off in rental truck. U-haul, to be exact. :)
1,977 posted on 10/23/2002 5:50:53 PM PDT by Letitring
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To: Peach
Neighbor said they would hear gunfire about once a month. That's not unusual in that part of Tacoma.
1,978 posted on 10/23/2002 5:50:55 PM PDT by per loin
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To: tomkat
Bingo...
1,979 posted on 10/23/2002 5:50:56 PM PDT by Freedom2specul8
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To: bcoffey
And I thought I had a dull seatmate on my flight today. :)

LOL!

1,980 posted on 10/23/2002 5:51:17 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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