What Happened to the D.C. Snipers? Inside the Aftermath of Their Horrific Killing Spree and How One Turned on the Other

John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo terrorized nan organization erstwhile they went connected a serial shooting spree successful October 2002.

Muhammad, past 41, and Malvo, past 17, changeable and killed 10 group and injured 3 crossed Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C. wrong 3 weeks, according to The New York Times. They were later linked to 11 different shooting incidents that resulted successful 5 much deaths, per The Washington Post.

Muhammad's ex-wife, Mildred Muhammad, said astir her ain acquisition pinch nan slayer successful nan Investigation Discovery documentary Hunted By My Husband: The Untold Story of nan D.C. Sniper, which premiered connected Oct. 28.

In it, she specifications nan stalking, harassment and maltreatment she suffered earlier Muhammad began murdering strangers successful nan Beltway area.

“We really ore connected nan 20%, which is beingness violence, but we seldom ore connected nan 80%, which is domestic abuse,” Mildred told WTOP. “I americium perpetually erased from nan story. I americium hopeful that nan assemblage will understand, overmuch much than what they do, that maltreatment happens earlier nan unit does.”

So what happened to nan D.C. Snipers? Here's everything to cognize astir John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo's lives aft they were caught.

Who were nan D.C. Snipers?

Muhammad was calved John Allen Williams successful Louisiana connected Dec. 31, 1960.

CNN reported that aft divorcing his first woman successful 1985, Muhammad joined Mildred Green successful 1988, pinch whom he shared children John Jr., Salena and Taalibah.

Muhammad served arsenic a combat technologist successful nan 1991 Gulf War, earning nan rank of sergeant and a badge for expert-level marksmanship earlier his honorable discharge successful 1994. Mildred later told nan Associated Press (via CBS News) that Muhammad's behaviour changed erstwhile he returned to their Tacoma, Wash., location aft his subject work and that he apt had undiagnosed post-traumatic accent disorder.

Mildred revenge for divorcement successful October 2000, alleging that Muhammad was abusive and had kidnapped their children. She sewage a restraining bid against him and moved to Clinton, Md., conscionable extracurricular Washington, D.C., but he continued to track, frighten and harass her.

Lee Boyd Malvo was calved Feb. 18, 1985, successful Kingston, Jamaica. His parents divided up erstwhile he was young, and Malvo was estranged from his father, Leslie Malvo, The Washington Post reported. His mother, Una James, often near Malvo pinch her relatives for months astatine a clip to activity successful different countries.

The mother and boy moved to Antigua successful 1999, wherever James near him unsocial again for respective months successful 2001, erstwhile he began staying pinch Muhammad. He concisely reunited pinch James successful Fort Myers, Fla., that May. But Malvo stuck by Muhammad and moved pinch him to Bellingham, Wash., successful October 2001. By nan pursuing summer, successful July 2002, they traveled crossed nan state to nan Beltway area.

In October 2012, Malvo told The Washington Post of his narration pinch Muhammad, "The groundwork was laid successful Antigua because I leaned connected him, I trusted him. I was incapable to separate betwixt Muhammad nan begetter I had wanted and Muhammad nan tense wreck that was conscionable falling to pieces. He understood precisely really to motivate maine by giving support aliases denying approval. It's very subtle. It wasn't convulsive astatine all."

He added, "He picked maine because he knew he could mold me. He knew I could beryllium what he needed maine to be."

What did nan D.C. Snipers do?

On Oct. 2, 2002, Muhammad and Malvo embarked connected what would beryllium a three-week execution spree crossed Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C., sidesplitting 10 people.

Their victims were strangers successful nan incorrect spot astatine nan incorrect time: Premkumar A. Walekar, 54, Lori Ann Lewis-Rivera, 25 and Dean Harold Meyers, 53, astatine state stations; James D. Martin, 55 and Linda Franklin, 47, successful parking lots; Sarah Ramos, 34, astatine a station office; James L. Buchanan, 39, while mowing nan section of a commercialized property; Pascal Charlot, 72, while stepping astatine nighttime and Conrad E. Johnson, 35, while opinionated connected nan apical measurement of nan commuter autobus he operated.

Caroline Seawell, 43, and Jeffrey Hopper, 37, were changeable successful parking lots, and Iran Brown, 13, extracurricular of his Bowie, Md., mediate school, but each 3 survived.

Each unfortunate and subsister was deed pinch a azygous changeable from a .223-caliber Bushmaster rifle, CNN reported, and nan then-unknown killers were fixed nan moniker of nan D.C. Snipers. According to nan FBI, they trim a spread successful nan trunk of nan car adjacent nan licence plate, and Muhammad would sprout from there.

Malvo later testified that Muhammad planned to termination six White group regular for 30 days, according to The Daily Telegraph.

How did nan D.C. Snipers get caught?

Throughout nan shooting spree, witnesses caught glimpses of a vehicle, starring to 1 of their first clues.

Eventually, investigators discovered that Muhammad had purchased a bluish 1990 Chevrolet Caprice successful September 2001, which was registered to a Camden, N.J., address, CNN reported.

On Oct. 24, 2002, constabulary tracked nan conveyance to a remainder extremity successful Frederick County, Md., wherever they recovered Muhammad and Malvo dormant successful nan car.

Ballistics grounds linked Muhammad and Malvo to each of nan murders, arsenic good arsenic to a changeable fired into a Michaels trade shop connected Oct. 2, that didn't deed immoderate people, according to The New York Times.

What were nan D.C. Snipers' sentences?

After their arrests, Muhammad and Malvo were each recovered blameworthy of 2 superior execution charges and 1 weapons complaint successful Virginia, per The Baltimore Sun.

Muhammad went connected nan protect and yet served arsenic his ain lawyer successful court. Meanwhile, Malvo claimed that he had been nether Muhammad's power and later testified against him.

In Maryland, Muhammad was convicted of six execution charges, while Malvo pleaded guilty to six execution counts. They each received six consecutive life position successful prison. Muhammad was later sentenced to death.

What happened to nan D.C. Snipers?

Muhammad was executed by lethal injection astatine astir 9 p.m. ET connected Nov. 10, 2009, ABC News reported. He was 48 years old.

Hours earlier, then-Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine declined to commute Muhammad's condemnation to life successful prison. He had exhausted nan appeals process earlier, arsenic nan Supreme Court declined to perceive his case.

Some of Muhammad's family members visited him earlier successful nan day, and he reportedly requested to support his past repast private. According to Greensville Correctional Center spokesperson Larry Traylor, erstwhile asked if he had immoderate past words, Muhammad "did not moreover look astatine america aliases admit us."

Malvo began his life condemnation astatine nan supermax Red Onion State Prison successful Virginia. CNN reports that Malvo joined successful March 2020, but his spouse's sanction isn't publically known.

According to nan Associated Press, changes to laws successful Virginia and Maryland prohibit minors from getting life sentences without parole. Malvo, who is serving his condemnation successful Virginia, would beryllium eligible for parole after 20 years successful prison successful nan state, but his request was denied successful a September 2022 hearing.

More recently, successful September 2024, a Maryland judge elected to postpone a resentencing proceeding for Malvo indefinitely because he insisted connected attending successful person, and nan authorities of Virginia wouldn't let him to time off Keen Mountain.

Malvo transferred to Keen Mountain Correctional Center successful September 2024, WTOP reported. Keen Mountain is reportedly a information level 4 situation that houses inmates pinch life sentences who haven't exhibited disruptive behaviour for 2 years.