Beltway

John Allen Muhammad, along with his partner Lee Boyd Malvo, carried out a series of murders in the Metropolitan D.C. area in October of 2002. Armed with a high powered sniper rifle, Muhammad and his underage accomplice murdered 10 people and wounded three others over the course of 20 days. Muhammad and Malvo targeted civilians going about their everyday lives in a series of seemingly random attacks. This included people filling their car up with gas, exiting gas stations, and mowing the lawn. With

A reporter and cameraman of WDBJ7 in Roanoke, Va., were shot and killed Wednesday during a live broadcast of the morning news. Vester Lee Flanagan II fired 17 shots from point-blank range to kill Alison Parker, 24, and Adam Ward, 27, and injuring another woman before taking his own life later that day. After fleeing the scene, Flanagan left no evidence of where he was planning on going or what he would do next. After five hours of searching, Virginia police caught up to his car, and Flanagan shot

On December 24th, 2007 Joseph McEnroe and Michele Kristen, both 29, murdered six people with a .357 caliber magnum handgun. They shot and killed her parents, brother and his wife and their two children. The motive is believed to be money, her parents had requested they start paying rent on the trailer home they were living in (Green, 2014). When Joseph pulled the trigger of the .357 caliber magnum handgun he had set off a chain reaction. When he pulled the trigger it caused the firing pin to

In the D.C, Baltimore area, two people, John Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo drove around on a shooting spree that killed and inflicted terror on many people. The spree lasted from October 2nd, 2002 until October 24th. It all started on October 2nd, 2002, when a bullet was broke a glass window at a Micheal’s craft store in Aspen Hill, Maryland. The shot was fired at 5:20 p.m. nearly hitting a cashier. Fortunately; no one was killed during this attack. An hour later at 6:30, James Martin, a 55 year

When we look at how fragile each one of our lives are, we need to take a minute and realize the different characteristics that form us into who we are today. Studies have shown that there are characteristics within the behavior of an individual that can be linked to the specific behaviors demonstrated by an offender that would classify them as a psychopath. Along with other research that looks into an individual’s genetics to see if that plays a role in defining or making a psychopath. John Allen

Edwin H. Sutherland’s formulation of differential association theory proposed that delinquency, like any other form of behavior, is a product of social interaction. On October 14th, 2002, 17 year old Lee Boyd Malvo was charged by the state of Virginia for two capital crimes: the murder of FBI analyst Linda Franklin "in the commission of an act of terrorism" and the murder of more than one person in a three-year period. Sutherland’s nine propositions of differential association best explains Malvo’s

The term serial killers has never really been defined until roughly 1998 when congress passes a Children Protection act from Sexual Predator Act of 1998. This Act defined serial killers as a series of at least three or more killings.However because of the definition of serial killers, they often get confused between serial killers and a spree murder. The Difference is that spree murderers often get killed or seriously killed, however spree murderers have also killed themselves. Although serial

In September, 2014, 43 Mexican students disappeared. The 43 students were undergraduates at Escuela Normal Rural Raúl Isidro Burgos, a teachers college, in Ayotzinapa, with a history of activism. They were among about 100 students who headed out on the evening of Sept. 26, 2014, with a plan to steal some buses. This was a tradition. The students would steal buses, use them to go to an event, and then return them. Bus drivers were instructed to stay with the buses to make sure they were returned.

Discuss the impact of the automobile’s rise on urban form during the twentieth century and critically evaluate planning measures used to limit the negative social and environmental aspects Since the rise of the automobile, there have been many dramatic changes to urban form in attempts to accommodate this new mode of transport. Focusing on America and Britain, this discussion considers influences on all scales ranging from reclassification of physical roads to the decentralization

Inside the Beltway”- Someone who is “Inside the Beltway is separate from the rest of the country because of the political climate inside Washington D.C. 2. “Above Politics”- To be “above politics” is to be detached from the political spectrum and to make decisions based on the laws and constitution of the United states. 3. Pundit- an expert in a particular subject who often comments on what is going in his/her field. 4. Soundbite- A snippet of a speech or presentation that is recorded and broadcasted