WASHINGTON — A new true-crime documentary airing Tuesday night places the DC sniper’s ex-wife at the center of a story long overshadowed by headlines.
About DC Sniper ex-wife documentary
Hunted By My Husband: The Untold Story of the DC Sniper premieres at 9/8c on Investigation Discovery and streams on Max, revealing how Mildred Muhammad survived years of psychological abuse before her ex-husband terrorized the Washington region in 2002.
Random shootings in the DMV weren’t so “random”
For three weeks, John Allen Muhammad and his teenage accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo, carried out a shooting spree that left ten people dead and three wounded across Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia. The attacks, which began in Montgomery County, appeared random. But according to Mildred Muhammad, they were anything but.
“He wanted to kill me,” she says in the film. “He planned to make my death look like it was part of the shootings”.
Dr. Muhammad on Domestic violence
The documentary reframes the sniper case through the lens of domestic violence. It features exclusive interviews, archival footage, and expert analysis that trace the warning signs leading up to the attacks. Mildred recounts how John Muhammad used gaslighting, isolation, and threats to control her, long before he turned to murder…