Now that The Washington Sniper has left this world, has the Earth revolved around enough for a movie to be made about the intense anxiety of those terrifying three weeks in America’s capital?

A period where gas stations became a wasteland, when parents were afraid to send their children to school and people took to online shopping, rather than face the supermarket parking lot, in case they were the unlucky ones chosen, at random, to be shot.

I write this not as a man looking for a sensationalist movie you must understand. I write this as an outsider to America who remembers vividly the feelings seven years ago when The Washington Sniper was a big deal and long before I knew of the Zodiac murders, it was the first time that I have ever witnessed a sense of extreme paranoia in a society about people leaving their homes and the interjection of 24 hour news media to create a frenzy over such a prolonged period.

It really was a case of everytime I turned on the news, he had struck again.

John A. Muhammad, put to death by lethal injection,
Tuesday 10th November, at 9.11pm in Virginia. 

It’s kind of inevitable a movie will happen one day. We’ve had a few on the 9/11 atrocities, so it’s a fair bet a Washington Sniper movie is on it’s way. Though it’ll be a brave set of actors to play the two killers, who would have to be the main characters, John A. Muhammad (41 at the time and executed last night) and Lee Boyd Malo (then 17 and will spend the rest of his life in prison).