The Ole Medic’s Comments

• Oct 15th, 2010 @ 2:54pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Washington DC Snipers

  on How Is It That A Random Comment On Reddit Leads To Your Friend Getting Tracked By The FBI?
  From news reports at the time;
  
  4 October 2002
  A former FBI profiler said the sniper killer in suburban Maryland was probably a calculating white man in his 20s or early 30s who lives nearby and has a score to settle. "This isn't somebody who just snapped," said Clinton Van Zandt, a former FBI agent. "This is someone who likes what they're doing. This is someone who is playing God. They're sticking their finger in the face of the authorities and society." The gunman "is somebody who is cold, who is calculating, who has the skills and doesn't care who they hurt," Van Zandt said.
  
  Police searched for white trucks and vans in the area after reports that a white box truck was seen speeding away from one of the scenes.
  
  21 October 2002
  In other developments, France has alerted Interpol about a French army deserter who is known as a marksman and is missing in North America. A Defense Ministry spokesman said there was speculation of a link to the sniper investigation.
  
  
  23 October 2002
  An angry letter found tacked to a tree behind a restaurant where the sniper wounded a man last weekend complained of six failed attempts to reach police, and threatened more killings -- of children in particular -- if millions of dollars were not deposited in a bank account within two days, according to law enforcement sources.
  
  
  23 October 2002
  Members of the sniper task force converged on a freeway rest stop in Maryland and arrested John Allen Muhammad, a 42-year-old Gulf War veteran, and John Lee Malvo, his 17-year-old junenile companion. Police said the two were considered suspects in the shootings that have killed 10 and wounded three in the Washington area. The rest area is along a seven-mile stretch of Interstate 70 near Myersville, Maryland, that had been shut down in a dragnet launched just a few hours earlier by Montgomery County Police Chief Charles Moose, the head of the sniper task force.
• Oct 15th, 2010 @ 2:41pm

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  on How Is It That A Random Comment On Reddit Leads To Your Friend Getting Tracked By The FBI?
  One reason I will always have a job! :)
• Oct 14th, 2010 @ 4:48pm

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  on How Is It That A Random Comment On Reddit Leads To Your Friend Getting Tracked By The FBI?
  Your point is well taken about random hits. Those of us in the Washington DC metropolitan area well remember Lee Boyd Malvo and John Allen Muhammad. Over a span of three weeks their random shootings of 13 people (10 died) brought fear and panic to the area. I remember seeing people pull into gas stations and crouch behind their car as they pumped gas. And all these guys needed was an old car and a single shot rifle.