A note supposedly left by the sniper at the scene of the shooting in Ashland, Virginia demanded that $10 million be transferred to a certain credit card account. Cosby was told that credit card had been stolen in an attempted robbery and murder at a liquor store in Montgomery, Alabama on September 21st.
The two perpetrators were nearly caught by a cruising patrol car but managed to escape. During the chase one of the two had dropped a "magazine" later identified as a gun catalog. A fingerprint from the catalog was obtained by the Montgomery (Maryland) Task Force and run through the FBI's national data base matching that of John Lee Malvo. Malvo had been in custody of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) at one time in the State of Washington and was known to be closely associated with a John Allen Muhammad. The investigation shifted to Tacoma and Bellingham, Washington. Without disclosing any names, the media trumpeted the credit card and fingerprint as solving the case.
That fairy tale scenario began to crumble the following morning (October 24th) when Montgomery, Alabama Police Chief, John Wilson in a live television press conference emphatically denied (at least twice) that a credit card had been involved in the liquor store shooting. (It was later disclosed the credit card had been stolen from the purse of a bus driver in Arizona during a run between Nogales and Flagstaff on March 25th of this year.). The original report said a $12.01 charge for gas in the Washington D.C. area had been made against the card before the account was closed. That was later changed to the purchase being made in Tacoma, Washington.
The two perpetrators were nearly caught by a cruising patrol car but managed to escape. During the chase one of the two had dropped a "magazine" later identified as a gun catalog. A fingerprint from the catalog was obtained by the Montgomery (Maryland) Task Force and run through the FBI's national data base matching that of John Lee Malvo. Malvo had been in custody of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) at one time in the State of Washington and was known to be closely associated with a John Allen Muhammad. The investigation shifted to Tacoma and Bellingham, Washington. Without disclosing any names, the media trumpeted the credit card and fingerprint as solving the case.
That fairy tale scenario began to crumble the following morning (October 24th) when Montgomery, Alabama Police Chief, John Wilson in a live television press conference emphatically denied (at least twice) that a credit card had been involved in the liquor store shooting. (It was later disclosed the credit card had been stolen from the purse of a bus driver in Arizona during a run between Nogales and Flagstaff on March 25th of this year.). The original report said a $12.01 charge for gas in the Washington D.C. area had been made against the card before the account was closed. That was later changed to the purchase being made in Tacoma, Washington.