[MeekOneGOP]

I'll post a link when one is available. Please comment and post links if you have them. Thanks, folks !

[timestax]

Do they have KrispyCreams Doughnuts Shops around that part of the Nation??! Waht about White Castles??!

[Z-28]

what the heck does he mean?

chief, get some sleep, your request makes no sense,"... call me at the number you left me last night???" doh ... how does anyone do that???

[mikeb704]

Is it possible the chief is just looking for new members for The Get Along Gang?

Michael M. Bates: My Side of the Swamp

[Ronin]

I smell a copy-cat sicko who wants in the action.

[RichardW]

To all of the geniuses here trashing Moose and his cryptic message you show your lack of maturity. If anyone stops to analyze what he said it isn't at all mysterious. Chief Moose wants to establish contact with either the shooter or the witness; whoever left the message. Moose's statement was obviously discussed over and over in the headquarters and it was deemed highly desirable to go about it in this fashion. Let's hope it turns up something. And all of the children who have posted here should go to bed. You have kindergarten tomorrow morning.

As to the crime itself, I believe when this is solved, hopefully sooner than later, is that the shooter is involved in a "game" where only one shot is allowed for the kill. If you check around on the internet you can find games and "scores" of "kills" and other sniper related web sites.

This sniper believes he is supremely intelligent and have outsmarted the best of law enforcement. This one shot and leave is part of his trademark. He would not be "honorable" if he took more than one shot.

[per loin]

OK. This clinches it. Send me the $500,000. The sniper team is composed of Thomas Harris and Jules Pfiefer.

[fso301]

The plea would be much more effective if one of those blonde Fox babes came on and said she's lonely and want's the guy to call her.

[dark_lord]

I don't know that this is what it is all about, but:

(1) There are services that you can set up where you talk to someone on a scheduled number, its called conference calling. Businesses use this all the time. Set up a schedule, pay in advance, people call in to the same number, you talk. The service cannot effectively track where you are calling from - heck, you can be using voice over IP - dial up to an ISP, then call the conference call and talk into your laptop.

(2) These same services also provide a "forwarding" feature where you call a number, and it "reroutes" the call through their number to the destination - preventing a trace!. See this service (a few paragraphs down the page): Connected Call Transfers. Visualize calling from a pay phone on a disposable phone card, to the connected call transfer service, to the conference call. Yeah, the LEOs are going to track that really quick.

Phone phreaks (yeah, that's how they spelled it) can actually route a call around the world a half dozen times through multiple exchanges - for free. These guys could do that. So - tracing the call is likely to be unproductive if these guys have the right skills and knowledge. But - I think the message that the Moose gave fits perfectly for a conference call.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

I don't know if it's been speculated already, but is it possible the sniper left a cell phone at the scene with a note saying he would contact police on that phone?

[Sloth]

I hate playing phone tag with a serial killer.

[bigunreal]

Chief Moose is an embarrassment to the entire Washington, D.C. area. People are terrified here and this idiot certainly doesn't instill much confidence in the law enforcement authorities, who thus far appear to be totally clueless. I hate to say it, but Moose is a walking advertisement against affirmative action. I think that when they failed to catch him (or them), or even see anything valuable, a few fridays ago when a state trooper was less than 50 yards from the man who was shot as a gas station in Manassas, Va., law enforcement proved they are incapable of catching the sniper(s). If they couldn't catch him when a state trooper was standing that close to the shooting scene, how can they ever expect to have a better opportunity?

[Demidog]

Everytime I see this guy's name I think of that game....

Chief Moose in the kitchen with a hammer.

[Jeff Gordon]

My local ABC news station just reported that the note contained "a significant amount of text" and that Tarot cards has been left at "more than one" shooting scene.

[Macklew]

The news media made so much about the sniper must work on weekends because he wasn't shooting on weekends. At the time it seemed to me to be an open invitation for him to do something on the weekend. Maybe just a coincidence - but he did, didn't he?

[WaterDragon]

Wow! This is news! Thanks for the ping, MnM!

[texasbluebell]

Anybody seeing this? They've arrested somebody in a white van in VA near a phone booth.