On October 24, 2002, police in the eastern US arrested two snipers after their month-long shooting spree left 10 people dead and four wounded.

John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo - known as the Beltway Snipers - were arrested while they were sleeping inside their Chevy Caprice family sedan.

The FBI and police found a Bushmaster rifle used in the attacks inside the car, but that was not all.

The pair had also cut a hole in the trunk near the licence plate so that shots could be fired from within the vehicle. It was, in effect, a rolling sniper's nest.

The pair's reign of terror over the state of Maryland began on October 2, 2002 when a shot was fired through a craft store window, but no one was injured.

But then the same day a 55-year-old US government public servant was killed whe

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