Posted on 10/13/2002 9:17:06 AM PDT by Brian Mosely
FBI HAS ASKED PENTAGON TO SEARCH RECORDS FOR RECENTLY DISCHARGED GI’S WHO HAD GONE THROUGH SNIPER SCHOOL, FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS TELL TIME
Nearly 1,000 People Working On Sniper Case, Including ATF Units, U.S. Marshals, and State Police
FBI Creating Animated 3-D Computer-Graphic Displays to Reconstruct Crime Scene, In Hopes of Jogging Witnesses Memories
New York -- The FBI has asked the Pentagon to search its records for recently discharged GIs who had gone through sniper school, federal law enforcement sources tell TIME. The schools teach snipers to work in tandem—one as the spotter, the other as the shooter, TIME’s Amanda Ripley reports.
An estimated 1,000 people are working on the case, including Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms units, U.S. Marshals and state police. The FBI. is creating animated 3-D computer-graphic displays to reconstruct the crime scene and help calculate the sniper’s position, in hopes of jogging potential witnesses’ memories, TIME reports.
The Science of Catching a Killer If there’s any consolation for horrified Americans watching the drama of the sniper slayings unfold, it’s that now, more than ever in history, officials have the skills to catch so slippery a killer, TIME’s Jeffrey Kluger reports. Even as the shooter—or shooters—taunted investigators by picking off more victims last week, police unleashed an unprecedented arsenal of tools to crack the case: geographic-profiling computers to try to pinpoint the killer’s location, ballistics databases that might link his unique bullet markings to other crimes, and trace-substance technology to lift whatever clues (fingerprints, DNA) might adhere to a shell casing or a tarot card.
But investigators are less dependent than ever on chance, and what they’ve unveiled this week is only a sampling of what they have in their high-tech kits, TIME reports. Perhaps the most futuristic—and controversial—of the new crime-busting technologies is a procedure known as brain fingerprinting. The principle behind the technique is that when the brain processes an image it recognizes (as opposed to one it has never seen before), it emits distinct electrical impulses that are detectable by scalp sensors. A positive response to a photo of a crime scene may mean a suspect was there before; a negative response may help confirm an alibi.
TIME.com Person of the Week: Charles A. Moose For his role as the unofficial spokesman for the sniper investigation, Charles Moose is TIME’s person of the week. This strong-willed, inveterate leader wants to do it his way — a tall order when you consider the masses of media, federal police and FBI agents swarming around each new crime scene — and second-guessing every move that's made.
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Also, it is almost certain that this killer is NOT driving a white truck, but only waiting for one to come near his chosen victim before taking the shot.
This is no amateur.
BTW it does not take a trained sniper to do one-shot one-kill at the distances they are talking about.
Let's not help the shooter.
Unless, of course, he's really a VPC operative giving anti-sniper weapon fodder to the gun grabbers. In that case, he can villianize .223 varmint rifles at the same time they villianize everything else.
But a person who was a trained sniper would KNOW that .223 pointed away from a trained sniper. And would know that .223 was "good enough" for this purpose.
That said, I'm dubious this person is a professional sniper; certainly doesn't seem to be required by the evidence.
He would if he didnt want people to think he was a trained sniper. Why use the standard tools of the trade, and give himself away?
The only thing that doesn't fit is that typically the goofy mooselims seem eager to take credit for this type of terror activity. So far, no one has claimed credit.
Just hope they catch whoever it is.
I haven't made up my mind on who this sniper is-- al Qaeda, a nut, two nuts, former military....
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