Episode Summary
For three weeks in October 2002, the nation’s capital region was paralyzed with fear as a series of deadly sniper attacks killed innocent people across Virginia, Maryland, and Washington DC. This week we have partnered with the FBI to bring you this episode and commemorate the 100th anniversary of the first African-American agent to join the Bureau. Together with a very special guest from the FBI, we delve into the case of the notorious DC Sniper.
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Episode Info
On November 8, 2019 the FBI will celebrate the 100th year since the first African-American came in as a Special Agent to the Bureau.
If you want to learn more about the FBI’s initiative to honor the history of African-American special agents, visit FBI.gov.
James Wormley Jones – First African-American FBI Special Agent.
Episode Source Materials
- FBI
Beltway Snipers - FBI
Our History, Our Service: Celebrating 100 Years of African-American Special Agents - The Smoking Gun 10-24-2002
Documents On The “Beltway Sniper” - The Guardian 10-25-2002
Dropped clues that led police to sniper - CNN 11-2-2002
Fact sheet: The sniper case widens - Slate 9-25-2003
The Pied Sniper - PBS News Hour 11-11-2003
D.C. Sniper Trials - Vanity Fair 9-2-2004
THE MAKING OF A SNIPER - Washingtonian 9-26-2012
Terror in October: A Look Back at the DC Sniper Attacks - Today 10-24-2012
D.C. sniper Lee Boyd Malvo: I was sexually abused by my accomplice - Call Me God: The Untold Story of the DC Sniper Investigation
Jim Clemente, Time Clemente, Peter McDonnell - Crime Watch Daily 2-4-2016
Mother, Children of D.C. Sniper Speak Out – Pt. 2 - Murderpedia
John Allen Muhammad - 23 Days of Terror: The Compelling True Story of the Hunt and Capture of the Beltway Snipers
Angie Cannon