In October of 2002, the DC snipers terrorized residents of Washington, DC, Virginia, and Maryland

for three weeks. During that time, people lived in constant fear that they would be killed.

Shot down while in the midst of doing something normally safe and benign, some daily activity,

like pump and gas, waiting for the bus, even just walking across a parking lot to do a little bit

of shopping. In total, 10 people were murdered, three people were critically injured, and others

would be randomly shot at. Hundreds of FBI agents and local police officers would work the case

before it was over. They were desperate to catch the man who was dubbed the DC sniper or beltway

sniper by the media, except it wasn't one man. Investigators were looking for a lone white male gunman.

They had no idea how wrong their profile was. When it was all over, 41-year-old John Allen

Muhammad and 17-year-old Lee Boyd Malvo, both black, would be arrested. And now the authorities

had unraveled the strange father-son-ish relationship between the two and uncovered their motive for

the shootings. Both the authorities and the public wondered, how could a man convince a teenage boy

to become a killer? It appeared that John Muhammad had turned Lee Malvo into his personal assassin.

Lee became a killing machine who wouldn't hesitate to pull the trigger on any target John ordered

him to take out. How was that able to happen? The answer is pretty sad. Lee Malvo had been

abandoned by so many people, you know, so many different times throughout his life,

combined with a powerful longing to be part of a family, to have a dad that loved him,

combined with being a people pleaser, that he'd become very unusually desperate for love and stability.

John Muhammad offered him everything he wanted, a home, a family, and a father's love.

And John loved to control his environment and Lee was right for being controlled.

And returned for his sense of belonging, Lee was willing to do anything John wanted,

even if that meant killing random people. He knew it was wrong, but to him it was also right because

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