The end of the DC Snipers’ reign of terror came October 24, 2002 - shortly after police publicly identified John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo as their prime suspects and gave a description of the car they were driving to carry out their terrifying and deadly crimes. It was a combination of good police work, the outreach from the killers themselves, and their life of crime preceding their killing spree that would eventually solve the case.
By the time we get to the third week in our true crime podcast series, 'Three Weeks of Hell: The DC Snipers," 10 people had been shot, 8 of them killed.Â