D.C. Sniper: 23 Days of Fear (also known as Sniper: 23 Days of Fear in Washington D.C.) is a 2003 TV movie created by USA Network based on the Beltway sniper attacks of 2002.
The films chronicles the period when John Allen Muhammad (played by Bobby Hosea) and Lee Boyd Malvo (played by Trent Cameron) went on a serial killing spree in October 2002 in Virginia, Washington, D.C., and Maryland, all parts of the Washington Metropolitan Area, the entire area of which was held in a "grip of terror."
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Plot
In October 2002, Chief Charles Moose of the Montgomery County Police Department, heads an effort to track down those responsible for a recent string of murders in Montgomery County, Maryland.
Unable to give anything but small pieces of information at various press conferences held during the 23 dark days, Moose finds 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."
Cast
Charles S. Dutton as Chief Charles Moose
Jay O. Sanders as Douglas Duncan
Bobby Hosea as John Allen Muhammad
Trent Cameron as John Lee Malvo
Helen Shaver as Sandy Moose
Tom O'Brien as Lieutenant Jacobs
Charlayne Woodard as Mildred Muhammad
Garwin Sanford as FBI Agent Tremain
Doug Abrahams as FBI Agent Stone (credited as Doug Abrams)
Michael Kopsa as Detective Foster
David Neale as Detective Paulson
Veena Sood as Sylvia Mack
Nels Lennarson as Gordon Wolf
Michael Adamthwaite as George Lenahan
Sean Allen as Father Sullivan
Gillian Barber as Audrey Duncan
Bianca Blake as Taiba Muhammad
Artine Tony Browne as Jacobs (credited as Artine Brown)
Linda Darlow as Joan Abernathy
Shai-Anne Davis as Sulena Muhammad
Andrew Francis as Jeffrey Duncan
Anthony Lively as Jack Duncan
Alexandria Michell as Melanie Duncan
Claire Riley as Beatrice Jaffe
Lucas Sherry as John Muhammad Jr.
George W. Bush as Himself (archive footage)
Release
D.C. Sniper: 23 Days of Fear originally aired on the USA Network on October 17, 2003, just as John Allen Muhammad and John Lee Malvo's murder trials were getting underway.