More than two decades after the Washington, D.C., sniper attacks paralyzed the nation’s capital, a new documentary is reframing one of America’s most frightening crime sprees through the eyes of the woman who was the real target.

For three weeks throughout the fall of 2002, many news headlines called it “the D.C. Sniper case.” But what no one knew at the time was that the violence wasn’t random. It was personal.