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May 12, 2021
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Washington D.C. sniper Lee Malvo is participating in a documentary series about all the people he killed.
According to the Associated Press, Malvo is taking part in Vice TV’s “I, Sniper” documentary series, and reportedly describes in detail the 10 murders he helped commit.
Malvo and his partner John Allen Muhammad unleashed a killing spree in the Washington, D.C. area in 2002. Muhammad was later executed, but Malvo couldn’t be because he was a minor at the time of his crimes. He was sentenced to life, and could eventually get out on parole.
The D.C. Sniper Gets A Documentary, and He Stars in It From Prison
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A new documentary series chronicles the Washington, D.C.-area sniper and is narrated by the man himself.
Lee Boyd Malvo, who is serving a life sentence for his crimes in 2002, is the subject of VICE’s upcoming eight-part docuseries I, Sniper, where he discusses what he and former mentor John Allen Muhammad did, The Daily Beast reported.
I, Sniper, which premiered on May 10, had its challenges. Malvo could only be interviewed in 15-minute intervals due restrictions by Red Onion State Prison in Virginia, which meant the production took several years to complete.
Malvo also described his struggles and issues while growing up in Jamaica as he was left by his father and his mother used to abuse him. But in 1999 as a teenager, he shifted to Antigua and met Muhammad, who became a father figure as well as his lover. The 41-year-old Gulf War veteran wanted to take revenge on the military, White people, and his own family as he had terrorized his wife and kids with murder and kidnapping threats. According to Malvo, he was also a victim of Muhammad, who used him to punish his âenemiesâ. âMuhammad was master puppeteer. I was an instrument,â he added.
D.C. sniper to narrate new docuseries on shootings
Convicted killer Lee Boyd Malvo opens up at length about his 2002 reign of terror and how he and his partner John Allen Muhammad were able to evade law enforcement
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In a move that audiences may find stunning at first, a new documentary series examining the Washington, D.C.-area sniper murders will be narrated by the convicted DC sniper himself.
I, Sniper convicted killer
Lee Boyd Malvo opens up at length about his 2002 reign of terror and how he and his partner
John Allen Muhammad were able to evade law enforcement as they ran amock in the Washington, D.C., area, ultimately killing 10 people.
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I, Sniper, Lee Boyd Malvo speaks at length about the 2002 reign of terror he and partner John Allen Muhammad carried out in the Washington, D.C., area, resulting in ten deaths. Yet despite using audio clips from his phone calls as narration, Vice’s eight-part docuseries (premiering May 10) is most notable for putting its prime emphasis on the pair’s innocent victims, and the countless friends, family members and loved ones left to cope with unthinkable tragedy. To its admirable credit, it’s a true-crime affair that seeks to understand its “monsters” while simultaneously recognizing and highlighting the fact that such comprehension doesn’t necessitate empathy, especially when the atrocities in question are as inexcusably heinous as these.