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Beltway Sniper Marries in Prison

Loaded on Oct. 1, 2020 by Jayson Hawkins published in Prison Legal News October, 2020, page 59
Filed under: Marriage. Location: District of Columbia.

by Jayson Hawkins

For three weeks in October of 2002, the residents of the Washington, D.C. area lived in fear of unknown assassins taking aim at random victims. Thirteen people were shot during that period; 10 died. Perhaps the only thing more shocking than the arbitrary nature of the crime spree was the identity of the snipers: a middle-aged man, John Allen Muhammad, and teenager Lee Boyd Malvo.

Muhammad was depicted as the mastermind behind the murders. He received the death penalty and was executed in 2009. Malvo, only 17 at the time of the killings, was believed to have been heavily influenced by Muhammad. Convicted in eight of the slayings, Malvo received sentences of life without parole for each. Under current laws in Maryland and Virginia, he will never leave prison.

Malvo, a native of Jamaica, has managed to find a measure of joy and normalcy amidst his incarceration. In early March 2020, he wed a woman whom he had been writing and visiting with for the previous two years. The woman’s identity was not revealed, but two of Malvo’s attorneys described her as close to his own age and “an absolutely wonderful individual.”

Carmeta Albarus, part of Malvo’s original defense team, served as a witness at the ceremony and said the prison was “very accommodating.” She remembered feeling “overwhelming sadness that this boy was taken down this path” after his convictions in 2003. “But when I left there after the wedding, I left with overwhelming joy that two people could find joy the way they have.” 

 

Source: washingtonpost.com

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