"It's a white guy in a white suit in a white van with a white gun."
Posted on 11/10/2009 11:45:20 AM PST by jpl
WASHINGTON - The man at the center of the investigation for the sniper shootings says he won't be at John Allen Muhammad's execution Tuesday night.
"I don't think I will be personally interested. I have seen a lot of death and destruction and I don't think I am interested anymore," former Montgomery County Police Chief Charles Moose tells Channel 5.
Moose was the face of law enforcement during those three terrifying weeks in October 2002.
Muhammad is scheduled to be executed at 9 p.m. for the killing of Dean Harold Meyers at a Manassas gas station. Meyers is one of 10 people across Maryland, Virginia and the District killed by Muhammad and fellow sniper Lee Boyd Malvo.
Now retired and living in North Carolina, Moose, 53, says the experience changed him.
"I think the whole experience has shown me and changed me in the sense that I will always be forthright and open with information. I think that is the big lesson for me and one that I wish I would have known when I was 14-years-old. I would have lived my life differently."
But Moose is proud of how he and the police handled the 23-day standoff.
"Three weeks is a short amount of time I think for the kind of fear and death that we were facing. Would I have preferred that it would have been taken care of in one day, certainly, but at the same hand I feel like the three weeks was overly long that it was overly extensive investigation I don't fault us in that sense," Moose tells Channel 5.
Moose does have one regret -- the perception that he disliked the media.
"I appreciate and understand the role of the media, the necessity of law enforcement and the media work together. So this whole thing that I was angry with the media or didn't like the media or didn't understand the media, not that it matters, but I guess if there was something to clear up I would like to clear up the fact that I am smart enough to know the two need to work together," says Moose.
Moose who retired after writing a book, "Three Weeks in October," says he misses the men and women he served with, but is happy with his decision to retire.
He’s still holding out for the white guy in the white van.
The fact is he had nothing to do with their capture and probably harmed the investigation.
I wonder why he is still depicted as the guy in charge?
They apparently refused to schedule the execution inside a white panel van, so...
He is just upset it was not a middle aged white christian like he thought it was.
There was a National Geographic special about the sniper attacks last night...I think it didn’t mention Moose a single time.
Yup. What a complete buffoon, and an incompetent too boot.
Probably harmed the investigation?
IMO only rank incompetence can excuse him from being an accessory after the fact.
If there’s any justice, Malvo will be on the receiving end of a shiv right about the same time. I’m still p!ssed that I wasn’t called for jury duty for that one.
He lost interest after he learned the culprits weren't white guys in a white van.
His interest was briefly piqued when he had a book to pimp.
We're seeing the exact same politically correct B.S. from some quarters today in the Ft. Hood case as well. Some things just never change.
I don't recall all the details but I do recall that Moose made Inspector Clouseau and the Keystone Cops look competent with his fixation on an angry white guy in a white van.
In the end, wasn't it an alert trucker who saw a car matching the real perp's description at a rest stop and called in the state police to do the job Moose couldn't get done?
It did harm the investigation. The DC sniper duo had been stopped at several of the roadblocks and were permitted to pass because the didn't meet the eroneous profile.
You'd think after being caught at the scene of SEVERAL events, they'd make a blip on the radar of investigators.
And when their letters were sent, we were still told it wasn't "terrorism".
How many more victims were there because Moose was deceptive and not willing to let anyone think it was other than a redneck in a white van? After tonight, maybe we’ll never hear his name again. Please God.
Yup...many more were shot due to Moose’s incompetance and his orders that black men weren’t to be detained, his insistence that the profile of the shooter showed it was a white male. Muhammad and Malvo were let through checkpoints because of not fitting Moose’s profile.
I lived in Tucson a few blocks from Mohammed’s sister who was in the airforce at the time stationed at Davis-Monthan AFB. Muhammad and Malvo were staying with her at the time that a man was shot and killed on the Fred Enke Golf Course just down the street from her house.
I’m curious how many more victims there were in other states. I recall that they determined that someone shot in Alabama (I think) was a “practice run” for the DC attacks.
Were there other “unsolved” murders (or murders wrongly attributed to others)?
Yep, that was exactly it. The trucker was the real hero; he even blocked the exit so there was no easy chance for them to escape.
There’s going to be all kinds of cya going on as soon as the PC crowd shut their muslim loving pie holes. I’ve noticed an uptick in stories on nonmuslim “terrorists” the last couple of days. Hmmm. Looks like the state controlled media are trying to shift the focus away from our enemy, and onto others.
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