From October 2-25, 2002, the capital of the United States was held in a
grip of terror by a pair of elusive snipers whose targets were seemingly
selected at random. During this period, no gas station, convenience
store, or highway was safe from the relentless killers, throwing a
nation already reeling from the cataclysmic events of 9/11 into a frenzy
of panic and conclusion-jumping. Among those heading the efforts to
track down the snipers was Charles Moose, police chief of Montgomery
County, AL. Unable to give anything but fragmentary information at the
various press conferences held during the 23 dark days, Moose found
himself vilified and derided in many corners as ineffectual and
incompetent. Indeed, quite a few newspapers outside the area targeted by
snipers came right out and called for Moose's resignation. But the
chief's dogged persistence ultimately paid off -- and in the sort of
twist that a professional writer of thrillers might dismiss as
inconceivable, the two men arrested for the carnage turned out to be the
archetypal "least likely suspects." Originally telecast October 17,
2003, on the USA Network, the made-for-cable feature D.C. Sniper: 23
Days of Fear stars Charles S. Dutton as the beleaguered Charles Moose
and Bobby Hosea and Trent Cameron as alleged snipers John Allen Muhammad
and John Lee Malvo (whose murder trials had just gotten under way when
the film first aired). ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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