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Posted on 11/04/2002 4:31:43 PM PST by Utah Girl
Edited on 07/20/2004 11:47:38 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
For three weeks, as a series of deadly sniper shootings terrorized the Washington area and police shut down highways, frantically searching for a phantom white van, suspects John Allen Muhammad, 41, and John Lee Malvo, 17, apparently did not bolt from the scenes of the attacks.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesdispatch.com ...
30th Anniversary of the Munich Olympic Massacre 5 Spetember 1972.
Yet another indication that someone was giving John Allen Mohammed bonuses for striking on key dates.
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$250.00 is about what you would pay to have a hunk of junk towed to the nearest scrap heap -- applied to a working automobile in the New Jersey area, it might get you the back seat.
The dealer wrote it up for $250.00 (cash) and pocketed the rest, in all probability.
"Keep the change," Muhammad was mocking the guy.
It’s interesting how all these stories tiptoe around the issue of why Muhammad and Malvo weren’t ID’d sooner, while marveling at the fact that they and the car were seen so many times in close proximity to the shootings. (Golly, gee, imagine that!)
Instead of concentrating on the pizza man, and his penny tip, the media seems reluctant to comment on the significance of these few paragraphs in this Washington Post story:
It was pitch-black when Muhammad and Malvo arrived at the Ramada Inn on Jefferson Davis Highway in Massaponax at 4:30 on the morning of Friday, Oct. 11. The two provided phony names and fake addresses and paid $44.95 cash for a one-night stay. By all accounts, they were composed, well-mannered, respectful.
Five hours later, a single shot believed to have been fired from the Ramada Inn parking lot cut down Kenneth H. Bridges, 53, a Philadelphia businessman, as he filled his car at the Four Mile Fork Exxon across the street.
Police cordoned off the Ramada Inn and conducted room-to-room searches, interviewing guests and poring over registration records. Witnesses reported seeing a white van at the time of the shooting. Police sealed off escape routes. They dispatched helicopters overhead. They shut down major stretches of I-95, all in a frantic effort to stop whoever was responsible. Through it all, Muhammad and Malvo stayed put. They simply moved from the Ramada over to the Econo Lodge, a hotel 200 yards away from the Exxon.
Police said they were still looking for a white van or box truck, and the Caprice remained a low priority. When Montgomery County Police Chief Charles A. Moose was asked about reports of a Chevy Caprice leaving the scene of the District shooting (on October 3), he played it down.
"Not a big push for public feedback on that," the police chief said that Sunday (October 13).
On October 14, a woman was shot dead outside a Home Depot in Falls Church, Virginia.
On October 19, a man was grievously wounded outside a Ponderosa restaurant in Ashland, Virginia.
On October 22, a bus driver was shot dead in Aspen Hill, Montgomery County, Maryland.
"Famous, But Incompetent."
(Anyone who believes that Moose was running this investigaiton, I want to sell them a bridge.)
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