What They Said   

Who is the sniper?

"He's probably Caucasian. He's probably in his 30s...he may have been in the military."
-N.G. Berrill, forensic psychologist and faculty member at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice at City University of New York (ABC, October 8)

"Here is a guy who's going to turn out, I believe, to be a white middle-aged male."
-Jack Levin, Northeastern University criminologist (CNN, October 11)

"This guy is a psychopath.... He's involved in power control, and he might like Rambo movies, Arnold Schwarzenegger, anything that gives him the feeling of power that he controls the universe."
-Pat Brown, self-taught criminal profiler and author (CNN, October 11)

"There's probably two skinny kids out there who have made a pact with each other."
-Bo Dietl, retired New York City homicide detective (New York Times, October 16)

"It's probably some introverted guy living by himself, working by himself, living out the ultimate fantasy."
-James Alan Fox, Northeastern University criminal justice professor (New York Times, October 16)

"I see him all into this stealth ninja stuff, walking around with a swagger, used to bossing people around, maybe a fireman or construction worker."
-Candice DeLong, retired FBI agent and field profiler (New York Times, October 16)

"When you break down the demographics of the Washington region, there is a statistical probability that the sniper is a white man."
-Gregg McCrary, former profiler and instructor at the FBI Academy's profiling unit (Washington Post, October 23)

Where does the sniper live?

"It was clear that this individual, and, in my opinion, these individuals, were going to stay in the major metropolitan Washington area, which tells me that they're residents. These people are long-term residents."
-Robert Ressler, former FBI profiler (CNN, October 18)

"I have surmised from the beginning that he probably lives in the--somewhere about three miles from the Olney, Maryland, area."
-Brown (CBS, October 22)

Why does the sniper kill?

"To go out and do something like this over a multi-day period, this is emotional Viagra for this guy. He likes it. He gets a hit from it."
-Clint Van Zandt, retired FBI agent and hostage negotiator (MSNBC, October 4)

Why was the sniper initially skipping weekends?

"There's two takes on this. One is that he actually can't get away from whatever weekend obligations he has. Maybe he has a partner, a wife, children, visitation rights. Maybe he lives with his parents. ... It could, on the other hand, be part of his God complex, because on the seventh day, God rested, of course."
-Casey Jordan, criminologist at Western Connecticut State University (CNN, October 14)

Does the sniper like attention?

"He's loving every minute of the attention he's getting. ...This guy is watching. He's watching television. He's reading the news. It's amazing he even has some free time to kill with all the attention he's getting, and that he's watching."
-Fox (CNN, October 10)

"We analysts out here, who are just trying to give the public some information, we've got to be very careful what we say. I think he's playing off our words."
-Van Zandt (CNBC, October 15)

"We know that the killer, or at least we suspect that the killer is motivated in part by the publicity that he gets."
-Levin (CNN, October 18)