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...deadly sniper saga continues in the Washington, D.C. suburbs and well into Virginia, leaving investigators stymied. Death returned to Maryland early Tuesday morning when a bus driver was shot and killed in Montgomery County; Wednesday afternoon, ballistic tests confirmed a link with previous shootings. Public anxiety, already on the rise, was further piqued by the words on a note found near Saturday's shooting in Richmond, and released by police Tuesday evening: "Your children," the ominous message read, "are not safe anywhere at any time...
...Over the buzz of misinformation, anxiety and outright lies, the army of investigators working the sniper case still managed to invent new ways to pursue the clues left intact last week. It was an exercise in data management and stamina, with extra points for creativity...
...called a varmint cartridge," says Danny O. Coulson, a former FBI Hostage Rescue Team commander, "because it's used for killing foxes, coyotes, rabbits and prairie dogs." Last week someone in the Washington area was using it, with chilling efficacy, to hunt people. After seven sniper-style killings, Montgomery County, Md., police and federal investigators linked five of the murders to the same gun, firing a lightweight .223 round...
Charles A. Moose is in a bit of a bind. As Montgomery County Police Chief, Moose wants desperately to identify the sniper who has terrorized the Washington D.C. suburbs for the past eight days, most recently killing a man at a Virginia service station. But this strong-willed, inveterate leader wants to do it his way - a tall order when you consider the masses of media, federal police and FBI agents swarming around each new crime scene - and second-guessing every move that's made. For his role as the unofficial spokesman for the sniper investigation, Charles Moose...
...been hearing a lot about this forensic technique, in part because it's one of the only ways officials have to track the sniper. Geographic profiling is generally used when investigating serial crimes - rape, murder, robbery - and depends on mapping the location of each crime in order to determine the most likely point of origin for the suspect. In other words, if you pinpoint the place each shooting occurred, you can deduce a "center" for the criminal's activity, and that often ends up being the perpetrator's home...