CBS Evening News - 2002-10-18
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[0:00] story tonight. A teacher with a lesson
[0:03] we could all use.
[0:07] [music]
[0:12] >> This is the CBS Evening [music] News
[0:15] with Dan Rather.
[0:18] And good evening. Dan is on assignment
[0:20] tonight. I'm John Roberts. There is no
[0:22] other way to put it. The serial sniper
[0:25] has police stomped. 17 days, 11 people
[0:28] shot, nine dead, and an army of
[0:30] investigators has no idea tonight who
[0:33] the killer is, where he is, and how he's
[0:36] making a clean getaway every time. Leads
[0:39] are evaporating. Witnesses are proving
[0:41] useless or worse. One has just been
[0:44] arrested for allegedly lying. And if
[0:47] there is any good news tonight, it's
[0:49] that the sniper hasn't struck in 4 days.
[0:53] CBS's Joey Chen begins our coverage
[0:55] tonight in Rockville, Maryland. Joey
[0:58] >> John. Late today, police arrested
[1:00] 38-year-old Matthew Dowy and charged him
[1:03] with intentionally misleading police.
[1:05] His mother has told CBS News that he has
[1:07] been in and out of jail. Now,
[1:10] investigators say that his story
[1:11] unraveled. Uh the story of seeing a van
[1:14] and a shooter, it unraveled under
[1:16] questioning. And tonight, investigators
[1:18] say that the investigation may be
[1:20] falling apart as well.
[1:23] Suburban Washington woke up to a crisp
[1:25] fall morning and another manhunt. This
[1:28] time it didn't take long to figure out
[1:30] that it was just another fall sighting.
[1:32] But as the days tick by, the jitters
[1:34] grow. This marks the longest stretch
[1:36] between attacks. There were six in two
[1:39] days at the beginning of the month. A
[1:40] weekend off, then one every other day,
[1:43] another weekend of silence, and then the
[1:45] shooting last Monday night.