# West Virginia sniper case breakthrough! Suspect is a fat white man in a pickup truck!

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**Created:** [August 20, 2003, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/west-virginia-sniper-case-breakthrough-suspect-is-a-fat-white-man-in-a-pickup-truck/196371 "2003-08-20T04:43:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2003, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/west-virginia-sniper-case-breakthrough-suspect-is-a-fat-white-man-in-a-pickup-truck/196371/1 "2003-08-20T04:43:01Z")

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[New York Post - Sights on Sniper](http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/3571.htm)

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> August 19, 2003 – The same FBI team that helped nail the Beltway sniper suspects has been called in on the terrifying new West Virginia case, as stymied authorities desperately hunt for the latest possible psycho: an angry, fat, white man in a pickup truck

Wow, with that highly specific ID you can bet the killer is sweating bullets! How will he ever blend in now?

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**Author:** ![T.Slothrop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3e96dc/32.png) [@T.Slothrop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/T.Slothrop)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/west-virginia-sniper-case-breakthrough-suspect-is-a-fat-white-man-in-a-pickup-truck/196371/2 "2003-08-21T01:43:59Z")

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Luckily both my truck and I are in Honolulu and have been for years. And I’m not that fat anyway, just a little overweight from quitting smoking. Other than that, the description sounds just like me (except for the angry part).