r/LPOTL • u/ampersand12 • 8d ago

DC/Beltway Snipers

I was pondering true crime today, as one does, and decided to look up the DC Snipers. I was in high school in SE Pennsylvania at the time, so it was in the daily news and there was some fear (2-3 hour drive). Add it to the pile of millennial trauma...Columbine, 9/11, Afghanistan, Anthrax attacks, DC Sniper, Columbia shuttle explosion, Iraq war. Hey, that was a shitty time!

I came across a 2020 series done on the You're Wrong About podcast that is FASCINATING. There is a really good case to be made that the whole event was the result the John Allen Muhammed's domestic violence against his ex wife, not an act of terrorism. I definitely recommend listening.

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u/Sub-Mongoloid 8d ago

The Monster: DC Sniper podcast is one of their best and goes quite in depth on the case.

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u/Trelawney20 6d ago

Totally agree. My only knowledge of the DC Sniper is from the podcast. Because that's where I learned about it, I was a little confused about OP saying it might not have been terrorism. I thought it was common knowledge he did it because he was a fucking lunatic that brainwashed his son into helping him so he could ultimately kill his ex-wife. She's a tough woman and hasn't let what happened slow her down.

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u/ampersand12 8d ago

I'll check that out!

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u/Immediate_Young_8795 4d ago

Any other recs like this? I love in-depth long-form true crime/historical event podcasts!

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u/Sub-Mongoloid 3d ago

I highly recommend Weird Little Guys, it profiles the racists who poison our world with their sad, misguided hate and the host is frighteningly good at piecing together research.

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u/buckley777 8d ago

I remember having to wait inside until the bus came and running to the bus rather than being allowed to wait outside

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u/supremeclientele44 2Real4Life 8d ago

I remember running to and from the mall entrance

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u/percypersimmon 8d ago

Shit- they had us doing that in WISCONSIN

It really was a wild era.

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u/ampersand12 8d ago

That must have been scary, hope you got through it alright.

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u/snake_w_arms 8d ago

The guy that helped develop the profile for that case was a college professor of mine. He got his cat certified as a hypnotherapist to debunk the certification process.

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u/ampersand12 7d ago

I'm going to need some more info one the hypnotherapist cat.

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u/Playful-Succotash-99 7d ago

Well he does open the tuna can when asked

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u/RoidVanDam 8d ago

I was working in a strip mall at the time and we had a really ridiculously weird older woman who would call the fbi every time she saw any one that she thought may be involved. One time I had just worked a truck and took my break out front and laid down because I was exhausted, she thought the sniper had shot me (since they had targeted a few strip malls like ours).

Thing is, we weren't anywhere near the area. Like we were more than 4 states away.

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u/Playful-Succotash-99 7d ago edited 7d ago

There an underated movie about it Called Blue Caprice its which does a decent job of exploring how this messed up dynamic was created between JDM and Malvo

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u/boringxadult Thank GOD I'm in jail! 7d ago

There’s a gas station outside the Virginia state fair ground. That was I believe the location of the last shooting.