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Spam King and Family Dead In Murder-Suicide
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kdawson
on Fri Jul 25, 2008 09:05 AM
from the coming-to-a-bad-end dept.
from the coming-to-a-bad-end dept.
Lt.Hawkins was one of many readers sending in word that the escaped spam king discussed yesterday was found dead in Colorado, after apparently killing his wife and 3-year-old daughter. A teenager was injured, and an infant was found alive in the car.
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Bobfrankly1 writes "The FBI, IRS, and the Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force are helping the US Marshals search for escaped 'Spam King' Edward 'Eddie' Davidson. He apparently jumped in a car with his wife, changed clothes at home, and hasn't been seen since." Update: 07/24 22:20 GMT by T : It seems that Davidson has been found, victim of a murder-suicide which also left two others dead.
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I understand running away from prison... but (Score:5, Interesting)
What a sad state of affairs.
Re:I understand running away from prison... but (Score:5, Insightful)
Not justifying it, just stating that its not so cut and dry as a simple choice to kill your family.
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Re:I understand running away from prison... but (Score:5, Funny)
He got tired of having his box filled with unsolicited male?
(Shamelessly stolen from Fark)
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Re:I understand running away from prison... but (Score:5, Insightful)
It takes someone with a minor god complex. "I'm the only thing that matters to my family, so they're better off dead." I know some people here will celebrate the spammers death, but I would have rather seen him in a 8x10 cell.
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Re:I understand running away from prison... but (Score:5, Insightful)
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beware (Score:5, Funny)
spam kills
This quote says it all (Score:5, Informative)
Re:This quote says it all (Score:5, Insightful)
The guy was in a minimum security farm prison, if you ask me it had a lot more to do with social rehab than vengeance. The guy wasn't going to be able to access an uncontrolled computer in the two years he was there, if they wanted vengeance they may have sent him to a maximum security prison for longer than two years.
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Re:This quote says it all (Score:5, Insightful)
Pretty much. Seriously, the US prison system breeds criminals - if you're not one going in, you sure as hell will be coming out.
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Re:This quote says it all (Score:5, Insightful)
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Re:This quote says it all (Score:5, Insightful)
That's right - the US penal system killed that little girl and her mother.
Asshole.
You can throw all the pejoratives you want, the fact remains that the US penal system does an excellent job of making petty criminals into hardened criminals. Never mind issues like prison rape. This guy may have been serving in a minimum security facility but he US penal contains a number of penal facilities that are such hell-holes that being sent there could be construed as cruel and unusual punishment.
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A couple more details (Score:5, Informative)
I saw another article that linked to this one http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_9985333 [denverpost.com] that had a couple of other details.
It sounds like they weren't just a big happy family...
Very typical psychopath (Score:5, Insightful)
Doesn't care about anyone (millions of people inconvenienced by his spam), doesn't have a conscience and leaves a trail of misery and destruction behind.
Psychopaths are very charming but still, girls, try not to marry one.
So this is the guy that inspired the name... (Score:5, Funny)
SpamAssassin
Damn... (Score:5, Insightful)
Good riddance to him. But how sad for his family. Why do assholes like this feel the need to take others along with them when they decide to check out? It's times like this when I'm sorry to be an atheist -- I want to believe that he's burning in Hell. Mere nonexistence is not a sufficient punishment for him.
So much for spammers being "non-violent" criminals...
TGIF (Score:5, Insightful)
I don't know about the rest of you, but I would be willing to take a lifetime of spam to spare the life of his wife and daughter. The positive news of the story (the spam king is gone for good) pales in the shadow of this tragedy.
Suicide (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Woo! (Score:5, Insightful)
Celebrating someone killing their family. Fuck you.
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Re:Jackass (Score:5, Insightful)
"He also didn't deserve death for what he did; the jail time and fines/restitution was plenty."
Don't you mean his FAMILY didn't deserve death? Because whether or not he deserved it is moot - he did it to himself.
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Re:Jackass (Score:5, Insightful)
I know he did, but what I meant was even his death isn't something to be celebrated. The man was obviously deeply disturbed. Implying that someone like him should die (and that implication has been made many times here on /.) is just whacked.
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Re:Sad... (Score:5, Insightful)
But he was at one of those white-collar resort prisons. That's why he was able to escape.
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The sign on the way out (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Coward. (Score:5, Funny)
You're just jealous because he went one better than you. Right, Hans?
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Re:Coward. (Score:5, Funny)
As an atheist, it does make me wish there really was a hell for guys like this.
The christians have it so easy sometimes :)
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Re:Coward. (Score:5, Funny)
I always say that I'd like to meet the Atheist who doesn't say "god damn it" or "go to hell," and he lesbian that doesn't use a dildo... but they both seem to be very elusive specimens.
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