The D.C. Sniper Attacks

For three weeks in October 2002, John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo terrorized the Washington D.C. metropolitan area, shooting 13 people at random from the trunk of a modified Chevrolet Caprice, killing 10. The sniper pair left cryptic messages for police and demanded $10 million to stop. They were captured at a rest stop after their vehicle description was broadcast. Muhammad was executed in 2009; Malvo, who was 17 at the time, received multiple life sentences later commuted.