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...through random sniper fire. People were killed cutting grass, pumping gas, going shopping, walking to school. Death itself, with hood and scythe, could not have been more random, more remorseless, more unnerving. Or more pointless. When at last the snipers--John Allen Muhammad and his juvenile accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo--were caught, they had so little reason for murder that they hardly even tried to explain themselves. There was the older man's anger, the younger man's loneliness, a quarter-baked extortion plot. Late on Nov. 10, in a Virginia prison, it was Muhammad who paid the final price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moment | 11/23/2009 | See Source »

...most notorious prison art, Kahan says, only inspires more pain and horror for the victims. In April, Denise Johnson and Victoria Snider, whose husband and sister, respectively, were killed in 2002 by the Beltway Sniper, Lee Boyd Malvo, were shocked when they learned that his sketch of Osama bin Laden was for sale on murderauction.com. The starting bid was $399, but so far the Canadian seller nicknamed "Redrum" - murder spelled backwards - has yet to sell the crudely drawn portrait. "It would be worthless without Malvo's name on it," Kahan says. "It is profit from ill-gotten notoriety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cracking Down on "Murderabilia" | 6/5/2007 | See Source »

...letter the Bishop refers to both the Unabomber and the D.C. sniper, Lee Boyd Malvo. "You will help, after all it is so easy to kill somebody it is almost scary," the letter states. "Just think it could be as simple as mailing a package just like The Unibomber [sic] use to do simple mail out a package and when the suspecting recipient opens it they don't even know what hit them, or maybe like Salvo [sic] did in the D.C. sniper case just a small hole in the trunk of the car and BANG...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Another Unabomber in the Making? | 2/13/2007 | See Source »

SENTENCED. JOHN ALLEN MUHAMMAD, 43, to death; for terrorizing the D.C. area with a three-week sniper spree in October 2002 that left 10 people dead; in Manassas, Va. His accomplice, LEE BOYD MALVO, 19, was sentenced to life in prison without parole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Mar. 22, 2004 | 3/22/2004 | See Source »

...SENTENCED. JOHN ALLEN MUHAMMAD, 43, and LEE BOYD MALVO, 19, respectively to death and life without parole; for their October 2002 Washington, D.C.-area killing spree that left 10 people dead; in Manassas, Virginia. The string of random sniper attacks was carried out with a high-powered rifle fired from the trunk of a car. Judge LeRoy Millette called Muhammad's offenses "so vile that they are almost beyond comprehension...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 3/15/2004 | See Source »

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