The D.C. Snipers: One Man’s Deep-Seated Revenge

No One Would Expect an Anonymous Sniper

She didn’t expect her ex to follow her there and start shooting at random people in the street, hoping that she would be one of them. Many people have claimed the killing spree was a plot by Muhammad to kill his ex-wife and reclaim his children. He believed that the police wouldn’t focus on an estranged ex-husband as a suspect if Mildred appeared to be a random victim of an anonymous serial killer. Well, that was the idea…

A newspaper box headline reading ‘’Sniper Caught’’ on the street.

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Mildred later said that Muhammad began plotting against her as soon as she won custody of their son and two daughters in 2001. But their bitter divorce wasn’t the first time he showed such an ugly side of himself.

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