The Beltway Snipers: The Last Shot — Ep. 5 | MK Confidential

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September 21st, 2002 Eleven days before James Martin is shot crossing a grocery store parking lot in Wheaton, Maryland, when the country learns the word sniper. Montgomery, Alabama. Closing time on Zelda Road outside a liquor store. Two women are locking up. Claudine Parker is 52 She is the store's business manager, and she is in her last pay period before retirement. Next month, she is supposed to start coaching tennis at Alabama State. Behind her is Kelly Adams, 24, a clerk, newly married with a new baby.
Kelly doesn't hear anything. She will describe it as being electrocuted. A single rifle round comes in under her jaw from the left, goes through, and shatters the window beside the door. She goes down. Claudine Parker backs away, and for a moment, one of the store's pillars stands between her and the shooter. Then she backs out from behind it, and she is shot through the shoulder blade and does not move again.
Kelly Adams tells police what she can see from the ground. Thin black legs, shorts, somebody standing over her, pointing a small silver revolver at her head. And then the person just turns and runs off.
Two Montgomery Patrol officers on a routine patrol are close enough to hear the shots. They pull in and see a young black man with a medium Afro behind the pillar going through a purse. The young man runs. One officer stays with the women. The other goes after him, chasing him over a fence and then another and loses him. And somewhere in that chase, the runner drops something. There is a gun show in town that weekend, so it could belong to anybody. Two detectives bag it anyway. It's a catalog, a paper magazine full of rifle accessories from a company called Arma Light. Claudine Parker will never coach at Alabama State. She dies in surgery about three hours later. Kelly Adams lives. She will have 31 operations in the next five years and a permanent implant to manage the pain.
The gun magazine goes to the lab and it gives up 36 clean fingerprints all from the same person. Montgomery PD runs them locally, then through the state system, then through neighboring Georgia. Nothing comes back. Investigators take that to mean whoever handled the catalog has never been arrested as an adult.
For a month, the answer to the DC Sniper case sits in an evidence room in Alabama. And no one in the world knows it.
I'm Megyn Kelly and this is MK Confidential.
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By the middle of October 2002, Malvo and Muhammad have been trying for days to get police to take them seriously. Hotline operators screen them out, calls drop, people were not listening to us, Malvo says later. So they offer proof, a crime only the men doing the shooting could know about. They pick Alabama because they believe it is safe. As far as they know, the police in Montgomery have nothing. The next call comes with something in it that only the killers could know. A call comes into police headquarters in Rockville, Maryland, and gets transferred to an officer named Derek Beliles.