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eel ere t To: All FBIHO 5 M@sons From: Baltimore @ Re: 306-BA-102679, 10/28/2002 THé FBI tipline resulted in over 60,000 tips being called in and 10,220 Rapid Start leads being assigned. Forensic examination at various crime scenes resulted in the recovery of extortionate demand letters from the subject. One particular demand requested a substantial amount of money be sent to a Visa credit card number in the name of a female from Flagstaff, Arizona. Instructions were also received to call payphones in the Ashland, Virginia, area, the scene of the 13th shooting. The subject had also made various telephone calls to the Montgomery County Police Department's Press Information Office. This subject had intimate details of some of the shootings, admitted he was responsible, and said that police should verify the details of a shooting at a liquor store in Montgomery, Alabama, where a woman had died. On 10/18/02, a priest in Ashland, Virginia, received a telephone call from two unidentified subjects who stated that police should do ballistic tests from a liquor store robbery in Montgomery, Alabama. The subjects, who both spoke on the | telephone, dictated the exact language of the message on.a Tarot card found at the Benjamin Tasker Middle School shooting on 10/7/02 and asked the priest to contact the police with the information. The subjects stated they called a church so the call could not be traced. Agents began an inquiry into the Montgomery, Alabama, liquor store robbery which the subjects had mentioned and had requested be investigated. It was determined that on 9/21/02, a homicide shooting occurred at the ABC Beverage Store, 2690 Zelda Road, at 11:05 p.m. Two black female employees were closing the store when they were shot. Uniformed officers in the area rapidly responded to the scene and observed a young black male looking in the purse of one of the victims. Upon observing the officers, the male fled on foot and dropped an Armalite (weapons ) catalog which was recovered. A search of the area was unsuccessful. One victim was shot in the head and recovered, but the other victim who was shot in the torso died. Evidence from the Alabama shooting was flown to FBIHQ Laboratory and on 10/22/2002, latent fingerprints of value were obtained from the catalog. A search of IAFIS revealed that numerous latent prints on the catalog were positively identified as belonging to: . Lee Malvo Black male