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...alive. And it took place in front of another Michaels store. Desperate for a motive, police contacted Michaels headquarters in Texas for reports of disgruntled employees. But the return to a Michaels craft store may have been sheer coincidence, since there are 40 of them in Maryland and Virginia...
...locals braced themselves for the next live report, making whatever small adjustments they could concoct. Suburban gas-station owners began turning their surveillance cameras 180°, so they pointed toward the outlying roadways and woods. And a Virginia prosecutor, lacking a suspect, talked to TV cameras about two different ways he could try to impose the death penalty on the sniper, should he ever be caught alive. --With reporting by Melissa August, Perry Bacon Jr., Eric Roston, Elaine Shannon, Karen Tumulty and Michael Weisskopf/Washington and Amanda Bower and Jodie Morse/New York
...programs went on the air, the American Academy of Forensic Scientists has been flooded with e-mail from viewers hoping to enter the field. In 1993 Michigan State University received 60 applications for 12 spots in its criminal-justice program; this year the number rose to 147. At West Virginia University, 200 students were enrolled in the school's forensic-science program in 1999; this year that figure doubled. The University of California, Davis, which already offered an undergraduate forensic degree, has taken the training a step higher, establishing a master's program too. Interestingly, most of the applicants...
...Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms inspectors are visiting Virginia's 2,200-plus gun dealers and pawnbrokers, searching records for sales of rifles that fire the .223-cal. bullets used to kill nine people and wound two others...
...This diligence is interrupted by the occasional lunatic or false positive. Several people have called claiming to be the sniper, and police have traced each one, only to find a jokester at the other end. And a Virginia man who had offered the best witness description yet has been charged with giving false information. More than 70,000 calls have poured into the tip line, generating 14,487 leads. But most callers leave general suggestions or rants. Police have tracked down men who match the killer's profile, but they have turned out to have alibis...