Lee Boyd Malvo
Defendant
Also known as John Lee Malvo. Malvo, 18, is currently charged with the capital murder of Linda Franklin at a Home Depot store near Falls Church, Va. on Oct. 14, 2002. Prosecutors allege that he was part of the team that killed 10 people during the October 2002 sniper attacks.
Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Malvo and his mother, Una James, moved to Antigua in 1999, where they met John Allen Muhammad. In October 2001, Malvo ran away from home to join Muhammad in Bellingham, Wash., where they lived in a homeless shelter as father and son.

John Allen Muhammad
Defendant in separate trial
Also known as John Allen Williams. Prosecutors allege that Muhammad, 42, was the captain of the killing duo with Malvo. He is facing capital murder charges in the shooting death of Gaithersburg resident Dean H. Meyers.

Linda G. Franklin
Victim
Franklin, 47, was an FBI intelligence specialist from Arlington, Va., a wife and mother of two, and a soon-to-be grandmother. She and her husband, Ted, were shopping for their new apartment at a Home Depot store in Seven Corners Shopping Center, near Falls Church, Va., the night she was fatally shot in the head. She was the ninth person killed in the string of shootings.

Jane Marum Roush
Judge
Fairfax County (Va.) Circuit Court Judge Roush, 46, has spent 10 years on the bench. She was formerly a commercial lawyer with the Washington D.C. firm Hogan & Hartson.

Robert F. Horan Jr.
Prosecuting attorney
Fairfax County Commonwealth Attorney Horan, 71, is the longest-serving prosecutor in Virginia, having held the office in Virginia's most populous county for nearly 40 years. One of his most prominent cases was against Pakistani national Aimal Kasi, who was convicted of killing two CIA employees near the Langley agency headquarters in 1993. Kasi was executed on Nov. 14, 2002.

Craig S. Cooley
Defense attorney
Cooley, 56, is one of Virginia’s most experienced capital defense lawyers. is one of Malvo's two defense lawyers. Based in Richmond, Cooley has been in practice since 1987.

Michael S. Arif
Defense attorney
Arif, 52, has handled many death penalty cases. In 1990, he formed a law firm with Charles R. Martin and later added partners Mark J. Petrovich and Thomas B. Walsh, who will assist in the Malvo trial.