How Did The Dc Sniper Get Caught

Lee Boyd Malvo, pictured here at the majuscule murder trial of John Allen Muhammad, at the Virginia Embankment Excursion Courtroom, was sentenced to life in prison house. His sentence is getting a second look at the Supreme Court. (REUTERS / Reuters Photographer – stock.adobe.com)

This timeline originally appeared in our November 2019 result, to accompany the feature, "The DC Sniper's New Mean solar day in Court." Detect the full story hither.

2000

October 2000
Malvo and Muhammad have a run a risk meeting at an electronics store
in Antigua.

2001

Jan 2001
After a few months of friendship, Malvo—who was without the supervision of his parents—moves in with Muhammad briefly.

Oct 2001
Muhammad had later helped Malvo and his mother move to Florida, but in October, Malvo ran away and reunited with Muhammad, now living in Bellingham, Washington.

By now, Muhammad has lost his biological children in a contentious custody battle.

2002

Feb. 16, 2002
Tacoma, Washington—Keenya Melt, 21, is shot point blank by Malvo at her aunt and uncle's home. The home was selected because the residents were friends with Muhammad'due south ex-married woman; Lee Boyd Malvo later tells his psychologist it was a test.

Jump/Summertime 2002
The men go on a shooting spree that includes victims in Los Angeles, Tucson, Clearwater, Florida, Denton, Texas, and Hammond, Louisiana.

*Paul LaRuffa was the starting time of the DC Snipers' many victims in the Washington region. He was shot v times outside his restaurant in Maryland. (Photo by Aaron Spicer)*

Sept. v,2002
Clinton, Maryland [effectually 10:30 p.1000.]—Paul LaRuffa, 55, is shot multiple times outside his restaurant, Margellina, earlier existence robbed of his laptop and $3,500. This was the beginning shooting in the DC region.

Sept. 14, 2002
Silvery Spring, Maryland [around x:10 p.m.]—Rupinder Oberoi, 22, is wounded after existence shot exterior Hillandale Beer & Wine.

Sept. 15, 2002
Brandywine, Maryland [around ten p.chiliad.]—Muhammad Rashid, 32, is shot and wounded while closing Three Roads Liquors.

Oct. 2, 2002
Aspen Hill, Maryland [around five:xx p.yard.]—Shot fired at Michaels craft store; no 1 hit.

Wheaton, Maryland [around half dozen p.yard.]—James D. Martin, 55, is fatally shot in a Shoppers parking lot.

Oct. 3, 2002
Rockville, Maryland [around seven:41 a.m.]—James Fifty. Buchanan, 39, is killed while mowing the backyard at a Fitzgerald Auto Mall.

Aspen Hill, Maryland [around 8:12 a.m.]—Premkumar Walekar, 54, is filling his taxicab with gas at a Mobil station when he is fatally shot.

Silverish Jump, Maryland [around 8:37 a.m.]—Sarah Ramos, 34, is fatally shot in the head on a demote.

Kensington, Maryland [around 9:58 a.grand.]—Lori Ann Lewis-Rivera, 25, is killed while vacuuming her minivan at a Vanquish station.

Washington, DC [around ix:20 p.m.]—Pascal Charlot, 72, is killed walking on Georgia Avenue NW.

October. 4, 2002
Fredericksburg, Virginia [effectually two:30 p.thou.]—Caroline Seawell, 43, is wounded loading bags into her minivan at a Michaels.

Oct. seven, 2002
Bowie, Maryland [around 8:08 a.m.]—Iran Brown, xiii, is critically wounded in front of Benjamin Tasker Middle School.

October. 9, 2002
Manassas, Virginia [around eight:18 p.chiliad.]—Dean Meyers, 53, is killed at a Sunoco station afterwards filling his car with gas.

Oct. eleven, 2002
Fredericksburg, Virginia [around 9:thirty a.m.]—Kenneth Bridges, 53, is fatally shot at an Exxon station; Government shut down entrance ramps to I-95 and Road 1.

Linda Franklin was killed at the Arlington Home Depot. Hither, police force search for clues on Oct. xv, 2002 (Associated Press / Photograph by DOUG MILLS)

October. xiv, 2002
Falls Church building, Virginia [around 9:15 p.m.]—Linda Franklin, 47, an FBI analyst, is killed while loading supplies into her trunk at The Home Depot.

The DC Snipers victims extended across the country and throughout Virginia. Hither, police force enforcement secures a crime scene after a shooting in Ashland, Virginia. (Associated Press / Photo by J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE)

Oct. 19, 2002
Ashland, Virginia [around 7:59 p.m.]—Jeffrey Hopper, 37, is wounded after being shot leaving a Ponderosa Steakhouse; Investigators observe a notation tacked to a tree.

October. xx, 2002
Investigators compare the calls from the tip line, to Rockville Police force and a phone phone call confession to an Ashland priest from the snipers; the confession hints at an before Alabama liquor store robbery-homicide. These calls are considered the crack in the case.

October. 21, 2002
Law receive a call from sniper(s) traced to an Exxon payphone in Glen Allen, Virginia; Two illegal immigrants are arrested, only no connection to attacks discovered, and subsequently released.

Oct. 22, 2002
Argent Spring, Maryland [around five:56 a.m.]—Conrad Johnson, 35, is killed standing on the top step of his Montgomery County Ride On Bus.

October. 23, 2002
Image of John Muhammad is faxed to sniper task strength and investigators place make, model and plate of Chevrolet Caprice suspect is driving.
BOLO issued for Muhammad, Malvo and vehicle.

Montgomery Law Chief Charles Moose holds printing conference and says, "Nosotros have caught the sniper like a duck in a noose," per sniper request.

Oct. 24, 2002
Myersville, Maryland [effectually 12:54 a.thousand.]—Civilian spots Malvo and Muhammad sleeping in Caprice at I-70 residue stop; FBI takes them into custody at three:30 a.m.

Muhammad is arraigned on a preliminary federal weapons laws violation charge and Malvo is held as a material witness and juvenile in Baltimore.

Oct. 25, 2002
Montgomery County, Maryland, prosecutors denote Muhammad and Malvo volition face six kickoff-degree murder charges and they will seek the expiry punishment for Muhammad.

Oct. 29, 2002
Virginia prosecutors file uppercase murder charges against Muhammad and Malvo.

*John Allen Muhammad (center) and Lee Boyd Malvo were apprehended on October. 24, 2002. Both were charged with capital murder. (REUTERS / Reuters Photographer – stock.adobe.com)*

2003

Jan. fifteen, 2003
Charles Maxfield, a juvenile court judge in Fairfax Canton, rules Malvo will be tried as an adult in the death of FBI Analyst Linda Franklin.

July 2, 2003
Malvo's trial is moved to Chesapeake, Virginia.

July xvi, 2003
A circuit judge moves Muhammad's murder trial to Virginia Beach.

Sep. 17, 2003
Guess Jane Marum Roush rules the decease punishment is a possible penalization for Malvo if he is convicted.

November. x, 2003
Arraignment and jury selection begin for Malvo'south trial, in which he is charged for the shooting expiry of Linda Franklin.

Nov. 17, 2003
Muhammad is found guilty of three charges, including one count of uppercase murder.

*(REUTERS / Reuters Photographer – stock.adobe.com)*

November. 24, 2003
A Virginia Beach jury sentences Muhammad to decease for the murder of Dean Meyers.

Dec. eighteen, 2003
A jury finds Malvo guilty of capital murder, terrorism and utilize of a firearm in the Oct. fourteen shooting expiry of the FBI annotator.

2004

March 10, 2004
Malvo is sentenced to life in prison without parole, following the guilty finding in the Linda Franklin case.

October. 26, 2004
Malvo takes a plea deal, is found guilty and sentenced to life without parole for the death of Kenneth Bridges and shooting of Caroline Seawell.

2005

March 1, 2005
The U.S. Supreme Court bans capital punishment punishments for minors.

2006

May 23, 2006
As office of a Montgomery County, Maryland, plea deal, Malvo testifies against Muhammad during the older shooter'southward trial.

Oct. ten, 2006
Malvo confesses to the half-dozen shootings in Montgomery County, Maryland—the surface area with the most incidents—and pleads guilty.

Nov. 8, 2006
Malvo is sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in Montgomery County, Maryland.

2009

Nov. 10, 2009
Jarratt, Virginia—Muhammad is executed past lethal injection at the Greensville Correctional Center.

2012

July 25, 2012
The Supreme Court of the United States decides that sentencing a juvenile to life without possibility of parole violates the Eighth Amendment.

2013

June 2013
Maryland and Virginia federal courts receive a petition from Malvo's attorneys to vacate his life sentences.

2014

June 2014
Malvo'due south merits that his life sentences without parole violate the U.Due south. Constitution is rejected by a Virginia federal judge; his chaser'due south appeal the side by side month.

2016

Jan. 25, 2016
The U.South. Supreme Court decides ruling in Montgomery v. Louisiana and determines the decision in Miller v. Alabama tin be applied retroactively.

2017

May 26, 2017
Malvo's cases are sent back to Chesapeake and Spotsylvania County for resentencing after a federal judge overturns two of his life sentences.

2018

June 21, 2018
Based on Miller v. Alabama, a federal appeals courtroom agrees Malvo's 4 Virginia life sentences must be vacated.

2019

March xviii, 2019
The Supreme Court agrees to hear Malvo's example, which challenges his life sentences.

October 16, 2019
The U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments to decide if Malvo's life without parole sentences should be vacated due to the 2012 and 2016 cases.