JAM met Malvo when he (JAM) kidnapped his own children and brought them to Antigua. It always truck me as odd that the “Sniper” turned out to be two people, a 40-something year old veteran, John Allen Muhammad, and a 17 year old Lee Boyd Malvo. Near one of the crime scenes, police found a note ( decorated with Halloween stickers.) that said, amongst other things, “Call me God,” and “you’re children are not safe.” There was a brief national obsession with white vans (assumed to have been used to commit the attacks), but this turned out to be wrong. In that sort of senselessness, this always reminded me of the Zodiac Killer: with no clear motive or clear selection of victim, it seemed like someone was just killing for the sake of killing. Someone was randomly shooting people in random locations-there was no apparent reason and no apparent connection between victims. But friends reported back to me the general fear they had walking around, hurrying to their cars if they were in a parking lot, or feeling paranoid around their own neighborhoods. This occurred in October 2002, during a year I happened to not be living in DC. But most of those murders are the more standard type (related to crime more broadly, and not serial killing). There’s actually a fairly high murder rate in DC (some years feel more like a spike than others)- in 2015, the per capital murder rate in DC was higher than those of Philadelphia, Chicago, or Atlanta. If you’ve read at least a third of Never Saw Me Coming, you’ve probably touched upon a certain serial killer, so I thought I would do a post on real DC serial killers.
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