Lee boyd malvo interview with matt lauer

In an exclusive television interview, airing on "Today" Thursday, October 25, Matt Lauer talks to D.C. sniper Lee Boyd Malvo who is serving a life sentence at a southwest Virginia prison. On the tenth anniversary of his arrest, Malvo opens up to Lauer, for the first time, about how he was sexually abused by John Allen Muhammad. He also talks to Lauer about how there are more victims than the ones he and sniper mastermind John Allen Muhammad had previously admitted to, life in solitary confinement and his message to the victims' families.

By Ian Sager and Scott Stump, TODAY 

In an exclusive television interview with TODAY’s Matt Lauer, D.C. sniper Lee Boyd Malvo claims that he was sexually abused by John Allen Muhammad, the mastermind behind the sniper attacks that terrorized the nation’s capital in 2002.

“For the entire period when I was almost 15 until I got arrested, I was sexually abused by John Muhammad,” Malvo said.

“I felt a sense of shame, and I just said, ‘That's just something that I'd never tell anyone.’ And to a certain extent, up until that point, I really couldn't handle it.”

It has been ten years since Malvo and Muhammad went on a rampage that killed 10 and wounded three. Muhammad was executed by lethal injection in 2009. Malvo, who is serving a life sentence at a southwest Virginia prison, said it took years for him to come to terms with the abuse.

“The main reason I'm coming forward now is because I am more mature. As far as the guilt that I carried around for several years, I dealt with that to a large extent for years. And now, I can handle this. In here, there's no therapy. Rehabilitation is just a word. In solitary confinement, in a cell by yourself, I am priest, doctor, therapist. So, it just worked out that I just took it off piece by piece. That I could handle it.”

Malvo also told Lauer that there are victims of his shooting spree that have not been identified.

Law enforcement officials did not comment on the alleged unidentified victims. There is no proof that other crimes occurred. According to former FBI profiler Clint Van Zandt, Malvo's memory of the events may be unreliable, given his age at the time and his relationship with Muhammad. 

Malvo told Lauer he has forgiven himself for the murders.

“That's the only way I can live with myself,’’ he said.

Malvo, who told TODAY producers that this would be his final interview about his crimes, also spoke about the families of his victims.

“I would

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American serial killer (born 1985)

Lee Boyd Malvo (born February 18, 1985), also known as John Lee Malvo, is a Jamaican convicted mass murderer who, along with John Allen Muhammad, committed a series of murders dubbed the D.C. sniper attacks over a three-week period in October 2002. Malvo was aged 17 during the span of the shootings. He is serving multiple life sentences at Keen Mountain Correctional Center in Virginia, a maximum security (level 4) prison.

The D.C. sniper attacks were the last in a series of shootings across the United States connected to Muhammad and Malvo which began on the West Coast. Muhammad had befriended the juvenile Malvo and enlisted him in the attacks. According to Craig Cooley, one of Malvo's defense attorneys, Malvo believed Muhammad when he told him that the $10 million ransom sought from the U.S. government to stop the sniper killings would be used to establish a Utopian society for 140 homeless Black children on a Canadian compound. In 2012, Malvo claimed tha