For three weeks in 2002 Washington, D.C., was paralyzed in fear as a sniper randomly took the lives of 10 people and wounded three others. When it was all over, Gulf War veteran John Muhammad and his 17-year-old accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo were arrested for the killing spree. And no one was more shocked than Muhammad’s ex-wife, Mildred.

n Mildred’s new book “Scared Silent,” (read an excerpt here) she chronicles her mentally and emotionally abusive relationship with John, the man who would become the D.C. Sniper, and says that she was the intended target of his bloody rampage.

When I met John, he was very charming and thoughtful. He would give you the shirt off your back. He was that kind of person, before he went to the Gulf War. When he returned in 1991 he was a different man.

The Changes Begin
Whatever happened to him there shook the foundation of his life. When he came back he was not the same person. He didn’t laugh anymore. He made sure that everything that he did he had control over.

He was not debriefed or counseled when he returned. His change in behavior was gradual, but he got more and more obsessive and abusive. It got to a point where he said, “It’s a question of mind over matter — I don’t mind because you don’t matter.” When I went to my community they didn’t believe me. They asked me what I did to provoke him.

I spent a long time believing what he said. When someone you hold dearest to you tells you that you’re nothing, you tend to believe them. He was able to blame me and caused me to be ashamed. He would isolate and control me.

“You Have Become My Enemy, and As My Enemy I Will Kill You”
After 12 years of marriage I was finally able to break free, but it was not easy. He was angry that I divorced him. He felt that I was abandoning him. He said, “You have become my enemy, and as my enemy I will kill you.” I was forced to move into a transitional home, and was granted a restraining order for life against him.

Out of revenge, he fled the country and took the kids with him. I had no idea where they were. He settled with them in Antigua, which is where he met [sniper accomplice] Lee Boyd Malvo. Lee took on a sort of “big brother” role with the kids. (Source)

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JARRATT, Virginia (AP) – John Allen Muhammad, the mastermind behind the sniper attacks that left 10 dead, was executed Tuesday night as relatives of the victims watched, reliving the killing spree that terrorized the Washington metro area for three weeks in October 2002.

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The daughter of a Tucson man believed to have been murdered by the D.C. sniper plans tol be front and center today when the state of Virginia is scheduled to pump a lethal dose of potassium chloride into the murderer’s bloodstream.

Jerry Taylor was one of at least 11 victims linked to the three-week murder spree committed by John Allen Muhammad and his teenage accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo, that stretched from Arizona to Virginia back in 2002.

Taylor’s daughter, Cheryl Wiltz, will be in Virginia today to watch Muhammed die — she seems to be looking forward to it, too.

“[Muhammed] took part in watching my dad die, and I want to watch him die. That’s justice to me,” Wiltz tells CBS 5 (KPHO-TV).

The duo was never convicted of murdering Taylor, but it is widely believed that the snipers are linked to victims in Arizona, Louisiana, and Alabama, as well as the muders they are convicted of committing in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C.

Taylor was standing on a golf course in Tucson when he was shot dead by an unknown gunman

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