February 18, 1985 - Lee Boyd Malvo

Malvo was a teenager when he participated in the 2002 D.C. sniper attacks, a three-week campaign of random shootings that paralyzed the Washington metropolitan area and killed ten people. His case drew sustained attention to the psychological dimensions of the crimes — specifically, how John Allen Muhammad had cultivated a relationship with a young, vulnerable Malvo and shaped his worldview before enlisting him in the violence. Later accounts of abuse and manipulation complicated straightforward readings of culpability, making Malvo one of the more legally and ethically contested figures in modern American criminal history.

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Lee Boyd Malvo (born February 18, 1985), also known as John Lee Malvo, is a Jamaican convicted mass murderer who, along with John Allen Muhammad, committed a series of murders dubbed the D.C. sniper attacks over a three-week period in October 2002.

Malvo and Muhammad killed 10 people and critically wounded three others in the D.C. sniper attacks. The D.C. sniper attacks, which terrorized the Washington, D.C. area, were masterminded by Muhammad. Malvo was aged 17 when he and Muhammad committed the sniper attacks. The two were arrested while sleeping in a vehicle at a rest stop near Frederick, Maryland on October 24, 2002. On December 18, 2003, a Virginia jury convicted Malvo of capital murder charges in connection to the killing of Linda Franklin. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole. In October 2004, Malvo entered an Alford plea to charges of murder and attempted murder in Virginia and pleaded guilty to two firearms charges; he was sentenced to life in prison without parole for murder and was sentenced to eight years in prison on the weapons charges.

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