A convicted fugitive spammer, his wife and 3-year-old daughter were found slain outside a Denver-area farm house Thursday in an apparent murder-suicide.
U.S. Attorney Troy Eid said Edward "Eddie" Davidson, whom the authorities called the "Spam King," and the other two were found at the home in a rural part of Bennett, about 25 miles east of Denver. Eid said Davidson shot himself; the woman and girl were also dead from gunshots.
Authorities had been searching for Davidson, 35, since Sunday, when he and his wife drove away from a minimum-security federal prison in Florence, 90 miles south of Denver. Davidson was sentenced April 28 to 21 months in prison and ordered to pay $714,139 in restitution to the IRS after pleading guilty to falsifying header information to send spam e-mail, tax evasion and criminal forfeiture. "What a nightmare, and such a coward," Eid said. "Davidson imposed the 'death penalty' on family members for his own crime." |