The dc sniper biography books
The dc sniper victims!
Exactly 10 years after the murder spree began, a new book helps explain how a good kid turned bad enough to coldly kill one person after another.
Reuters
There is no excuse for what Lee Boyd Malvo did to all those innocent people 10 years ago.
But, like most things in life, there is an explanation for it.
The dc sniper biography books
And the best explanation I have yet read for the madness that was the Beltway sniper spree can be found in the pages of a fascinating new book, published just last week, by Carmeta Albarus, a mitigation specialist who worked closely for years with Malvo and his defense lawyers following the teenager's 2002 arrest.
The book is called The Making of Lee Boyd Malvo, the D.C.
Sniper. It chronicles in great detail the relentless danger and disappointment that Malvo faced before he became wrapped up in John Allen Muhammad's wickedness. And then it presents the ways in which the older man controlled his understudy, controlled him to the point of hypnosis.
All the kid wanted was a