Today’s movie is a crime drama with a scene that happens on October 24.
Watch it tonight and enjoy.
D.C. SNIPER: 23 DAYS OF FEAR
One morning in Montgomery County,
Maryland a man cutting grass is shot by a sniper. A very short time later a
taxicab driver is shot while pumping gas. A woman is shot on a bench outside a
post office. Police get a first incorrect report of a white box van being
involved. Next a woman is shot while vacuuming her car. The media suggest the
shootings may be terrorist in origin. Later that night another man is shot. The
FBI gets onto a militia group member. Then a woman is shot in a parking lot.
The militia member is arrested but he has nothing to do with the shootings. A
13 year old student is shot at a school and the police find a tarot card. This
is reported by the media, even though card warned police not to release it to
the media. The shooters are questioned
in their car but released. Then a person is shot at a gas station. The head of
the investigation, Chief Charles Moose blasts the press. Yet another person is
shot at a gas station. Then a woman who worked for the FBI is shot at a Home
Depot. A guy lies and says he saw the shooter.
John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo call the police for a third time,
but get nowhere. They shoot a man at a restaurant and the police find a letter.
Moose asks them to call police again.
Muhammad and Malvo call a priest and tell police to investigate a liquor
store shooting in Montgomery Alabama. Moose calls Alabama and from that gets a
fingerprint and car description. Then a bus driver is shot. The print is
matched to Malvo. Moose releases a threat made by Muhammad and Malvo against
children. Interviewing people abut Malvo, the police get onto Muhammad, who
realizes the police are onto him. The police barely save Muhammad’s ex-wife
from being killed by him. Info about the car gets out and it is spotted. On
October 24, 2002 [1:14:40 to 1:21:07] John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo
are arrested.
A very good police procedural.
Sticks very close to the actual facts of the case. Also highlights the
irresponsible attitude of the media in this case.
Serial Killers by William
Murray (Canary Press, New York, 2007) at page 167 gives the date of their
arrest
Producer - Orly Adelson, Jonathan
Eskenas and Tracey Jeffrey
Director - Tom McLoughlin
Screenplay - Dave Erickson
Runtime - 1 hour 25 minutes
Released – October 17, 2003
Starring – Charles S. Dutton as
Chief Charles Moose
Jay O. Sanders s Douglas Duncan
Bobby Hosea as John Muhammed
Trent Cameron as John Lee Malvo
Helen Shaver as Sandy Moore
Copyright by Ivan Walters in 2014.
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