Angry Missive Complains of 'Ignored' Calls (Details of Sniper Letter)

The Washington Post ^ | Wednesday, October 23, 2002 | Sari Horwitz and Carol Morello

[ARCADIA]

Let's not forget the lame "audio garbled please call again" Moose message. Several Freepers, with no LE experience, predicted a shooting would follow and it did.

It sounded like a lame excuse, the purpose of which was to keep the shooter talking. I personally don't believe the garbled audio, but if it was true, they should have done to reassure the shooter. Might have saved the bus driver.

[ARCADIA]

BUT! -- could they somehow set up a system that would tie the call in to a powerful computer that would look for a voice match, as best as possible, with the earlier known calls.

That's way too sophisticated for the task force. I don't even think the spy plane's been deployed.

[ARCADIA]

Since presumably he would not have made his call in the middle of the spree, this presumably means he started calling at the end of the spree that morning, Oct. 3.

I thought the same thing. So he was never a spree killer that morphed into a serial killer, then. It was extortion all along.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

The answer to that trivia challenge is....... (drum roll please) .... Hopscotch, starring Walter Matthau. Thanks for reminding me. I'd almost forgotten about that one :-).

[Snowy]

No more calls! We have a winner!

[cricket]

This does not sound like 'broken English'. . .just uneducated. . .

[L,TOWM]

>>>>>>it does the sniper no good unless he can get them to pass some of it on somehow; how can they do so without scrutiny?<<<<<<

Now that I have some time, I will walk you through it. Notice that the note writer requested an electronic transfer of the funds to a DOMESTIC bank, to which Moose replied "we CAN'T". He is lying through his teeth. They CAN, but do not want to, because the $$$ and the shooter will gone with LE chasing after a dead end.

Here's how I would play it: Have a Nevada LLC established with my NV in state agent setting up a bank account for me. The account would have been established with a bank draft or money order, and be (initially) a modest sum. The bank would be a small one, HQ'd in Carson City (or another place an hour or two away from an FBI office.) My in state agent would receive word to advise the bank that I (the shooter) was getting a 'litigation settlement' or 'state contract payment' from MD and that he needed to instruct the bank to be able to receive an elctronic transfer, and transfer the funds rapidly when received.

Once I got the agreement, I would give my NV agent (and the bank) a date and time, and transfer instructions to "meet my payroll and satisfy my creditors". I would withhold the instructions from the MD authorities until I had verification that all that needed to be done was to input the routing and account numbers numbers. I would then give them the numbers at 10 minutes before closing time for my bank in NV. Using wire instructions waiting at the bank, the funds would then be transfered in a matter of seconds to one or more OFFSHORE accounts.

Using another shell company agent in (let's say) Montserrat, I would have them waiting to receive bank drafts from the offshore accounts, without a payee filled in. At that point, I break a trail back to me. The only thing LE has is serial numbers from checks, my agent could probably convert those into cash on Montserrat within a few hours, and give me the money. Once I have cash, I could even go back myself to the original bank and open a "real" account (with a modest sum) or, simply visit an agent for an offshore Limited Partnership and become a Limited Partner for a few million in cash.

A lot of offshore LP's get cash deposits from Colombians, it would'nt get a second glance from the LP agent. A variation would be to use a Hawaii Bank just before closing time; my agent walks into the lobby for cash/drafts at my offshore bank's opening (four hours later). One drawback to the net and password activiated accounts--money can moved at ungodly speeds these days. An not every country out there is fighting a war on drugs, either...