One of the unquestioned premises of the investigation is that the persons with whom the Task Force was dealing in telephone calls and cryptic statements delivered through the media were also the shooters who seemed bent on giving the Task Force enough clues to effect their apprehension. That just doesn't make any sense at all. It boggles the mind to believe that Muhammad was stupid enough to think he could get away with collecting $10 million dollars in extorted funds without getting caught. In other words, were Muhammad and Malvo (who most likely are the shooters) set up to be captured at the end of the terror inspiring killing spree?

There is one theory, rife on the Internet, that will be immediately rejected by most. That is that Muhammad and Malvo were operating under some kind of mind control. This writer must admit that County Police Chief Charles Moose's delivery of cryptic statements in live television press conferences to one he believed to be the sniper sent a chill down the back. It immediately brought to mind the Frank Sinatra/Laurence Harvey movie, The Manchurian Candidate about an assassin programmed by mind control who was triggered by spoken phrases.

At any rate, there are still a lot more questions than there are answers.

Jim Rarey

The author is a free lance writer based in Romulus, Michigan. He is a former newspaper editor and investigative reporter, a retired customs administrator and accountant, and a student of history and the U.S. Constitution.

He can be reached at: jimrarey@comcast.net