rivera, mother of a young daughter, is just 25 years old. just the enormity of this huge sense of waste. this child lost her mother. another murder. again, a single shot, two people in a box type truck with a damaged tailgate. so far, they haven t found anybody and that s the situation as we know it right now out here. it s quiet for the next 12 hours. then, just a few blocks from the montgomery county line, one more shot shatters the night. 72-year-old pasqual charlotte, a retired carpenter, dies at the scene. in montgomery county, we average 20 homicides in a year and we ve had five of them in the space of a 16-hour period. if you look at the victims
after the last shooting of the previous day, october 3rd. the homicide detectives investigating the shooting on georgia avenue just inside the d.c. line had a description of a chevy caprice leaving the scene. it was not a big story. it was kind of buried in the news coverage. the white truck theory simply dominated the discussion, along with media experts who came forward with profiles of the sniper. this has all of the markings of an all-american crime spree. this is somebody who is actually trying to taunt the nation. the message is getting out there that no one is safe. everyone thought it was white guys because that seemed to be the predominant serial killer motive. you know what sgh? you want a profile? here is a guy who s going to turn out, i believe, to be a ? you want a profile? here is a guy who s going to turn out, i believe, to be a white middle-aged male. i would be looking for an individual who has a high degree
county had an officer at it. a 13-year-old boy shot and wounded as he arrives at his suburban maryland school. the eighth victim is a student at benjamin tasker middle school. he s critically wounded but survives. right over there, right over my right shoulder is where the boy was shot. the idea that a shooter would target an innocent child on his way to school was alarming in a way that the previous shootings hadn t been. what they re now saying is that there is a connection between the shooting here and the other ones that have really caused quite the jitters throughout the washington area. the school shooting occurs 70 odd miles from the previous shooting in fredericksburg, virginia. the sniper zone seems to be growing. once again, witnesses report seeing a white van leaving the scene. it was a consistent detail that
the victim is 47-year-old linda franklin, shot while she and her husband loaded packages into their car. franklin is an fbi analyst. it s the first shooting in fairfax county, virginia, and takes place 50 miles from the previous shooting in spotsylvania county. a witness claims to have seen the shooter flee the scene in a white van. it s been determined through further investigation that the information is not credible. but the damage is done. the sniper hotline already inundated is again flooded with sightings of white vans. i believe we got over 115,000 tips, 16,000 of those were viable leads that needed to be followed up on. almost lost among all of the phone calls are several from the snipers to the police. don t say anything, just listen. they were calling the task force, they were calling
a tangent, not put misinformation out there. montgomery county police chief charles moose becomes the public face of the investigation. but behind the scenes, captain barney forsythe takes the lead. he was the right guy in the right place at the right time. as we were down here, there was also a call coming out, a person possibly committing suicide about a mile north of here. but this is no suicide. it s murder and it s less than two miles away. dead at the scene is a 34-year-old baby-sitter and housekeeper, sara ramos. passers-by thought she had shot herself. 4-year-old sara ramos was sitting on a bench in a shopping