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Author Albarus, Carmeta

Title The making of Lee Boyd Malvo : the D.C. sniper / Carmeta Albarus ; with forensic analysis by Jonathan H. Mack
Published New York : Columbia University Press, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (257 pages) : illustrations
Contents A father lost: the genesis of reactive attachment disorder in Lee Boyd Malvo -- A false father found: Malvo meets John Muhammad -- A false father rejected: separating Malvo from Muhammad -- A forensic mental health analysis of Lee Boyd Malvo by Jonathan Mack
Summary In October of 2002, a series of sniper attacks paralyzed the Washington Beltway, turning normally placid gas stations, parking lots, restaurants, and school grounds into chaotic killing fields. After the spree, ten people were dead and several others wounded. The perpetrators were forty-one-year-old John Allen Muhammad and his seventeen-year-old protégé, Lee Boyd Malvo. Called in by the judge to serve on Malvo's defense team, social worker Carmeta Albarus was instructed by the court to uncover any information that might help mitigate the death sentence the teen faced. Albarus met w
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
Subject Malvo, Lee Boyd, 1985-
SUBJECT Malvo, Lee Boyd, 1985- fast
Subject Criminal snipers -- United States -- Psychology
Serial murderers -- United States -- Psychology
Serial murders -- Washington Metropolitan Area -- Case studies
TRUE CRIME -- Murder -- Serial Killers.
Criminal snipers -- Psychology
Serial murderers -- Psychology
Serial murders
United States
Washington (D.C.) Metropolitan Area
Genre/Form Electronic books
Case studies
Form Electronic book
Author Mack, Jonathan H
LC no. 2012008511
ISBN 9780231512688
0231512686