D.C. snipers and answered prayer. (Insider Report).

Ron Lancz doesn't consider himself a hero, but thanks to his alertness and heroic action, D.C. sniper suspects John Allen Muhammad and John Lee Malvo were nabbed, ending a three-week terror spree. Mr. Lancz, a 62-year-old truck driver, was just five hauls short of retirement when he pulled into a rest stop along I-70, fifty miles northwest of Washington, D.C. It was a few minutes before 1:00 a.m., and he had just heard a radio report with an all points bulletin for a blue or burgundy 1990 Chevrolet Caprice. As he pulled into the rest stop, Mr. Lancz noticed a blue Caprice matching the APB description.

He called 911 and then pulled his truck up to block the exit, while another trucker he had alerted pulled his rig up to help block the entrance. Then, unarmed and vulnerable, they waited for law enforcement to arrive and apprehend the suspects, who had eluded police in one of the most intense manhunts in recent history.

"I'm no hero," Mr. Lancz told CNN. "I just want people to think what I did was what I should have done. I'm no hero at this, no hero whatsoever. I don't even want to be thought of as a hero," he said. Lancz then went on to tell CNN about a trucker prayer meeting he had attended the week before where the group had prayed that the murderers would be captured and the terror ended.

"Last Thursday we had 50 drivers and one bunch had a prayer meeting up there 20 miles from where this happened and we thought -- we knew our prayer was going to be answered," Lancz said in the CNN interview. "That's the way we believe." When not on the road, the truck-driving grandfather attends the Nazarene Church near his home in Fort Wayne, Kentucky. He leads the church's men's ministry. Mr. Lancz says if he receives any of the $500,000 reward offer for his role in the capture, he will give it to the shooting victims' families.

If Ron Lancz had been a homosexual, a transvestite, a New Age mystic, an atheist, or a specimen of some other grouping approved by the social and media elites, his role in capturing the killers would have made headline news for days. However, after the initial CNN interview, Ron Lancz and his inspiring story of an answer to prayer dropped from sight, receiving almost zero news coverage. Even CNN rebroadcasts of the story cut out Lancz' references to God and prayer.

Former ABC television executive Squire Rushnell, author of the book When God Winks, cites the Lancz case as yet another example of media censorship. "A pervasive fear in using the G-O-D word in TV programs and mainstream media, is particularly baffling given the uncertain times in which we live," says Rushnell. "Yet producers and editors unthinkingly back away from the 'G' word like an infectious disease." The 20-yew media veteran says he is "deeply concerned that in a medium which today pushes the limits on the use of language once considered unacceptable, there is a permeating discrimination of the name G-O-D. Why? When did GOD become a dirty word?"