This case truly began long before the investigation really began, even before the 9/11 attack, forty-one-year-old John Allen Muhammad and his seventeen-year-old protege, Lee Boyd Malvo started their “reign of terror” when they pretended to be father and son in the state of Washington. But, even before this, Muhammad had two failed marriages which caused him to kidnap his own children and flee to the caribbean island of Antigua where he became involved with Malvo’s mother. Malvo and his mother later entered the United States illegally through Florida and settled in Bellingham, Washington, Muhammad later followed. When Malvo’s mother was apprehended Malvo lived with Muhammad at a shelter, where he pretended to be Muhammad’s son. Police later …show more content…
Police say that this may have been the trigger that led him on his murderous rampage. In this rampage, a friend of his ex-wife was murdered. A month later a man was shot dead on an Arizona golf course. More shootings and murders followed as Muhammad and Malvo made their way across the country. They later drove around and target random people doing everyday things, such as pumping gas or going shopping, when it was all over this duo killed ten and injured three in the DC area. Were they ever apprehended? Or maybe they got away for free. You will have to further investigate this case to find out the answers to the many questions you have.
There were many different things occurring in this investigation which means many different forensic techniques were used. The first being fingerprint analysis, the person hired to do this is entitled a Dactyloscopist. Essentially a Dactyloscopist alyses fingerprints from a crime scene from those of a suspect to further narrow down the investigators list of suspect or further incriminate a certain suspect. Another thing that stuck out to me in this investigation was when the pook said that “police believe this” -- meaning police returning Muhammad's children to their mother -- “may have been the trigger that