JURORS wept yesterday as they listened to a recording of Linda Franklin’s husband wailing and sobbing as he made the emergency call reporting his wife’s sniper shooting.

BALLISTIC evidence conclusively links the death of a woman shot in the head in a suburban parking lot with eight other killings by the Washington-area sniper, authorities said yesterday.

THE latest three attacks linked to the elusive Washington area sniper were carried out near major highways that would have allowed the killer to come and go quickly.