"Spam King," Wife and Daughter Found Dead
"Spam King" Eddie Davidson, who escaped this week from the federal prison camp at Florence, Colorado, is dead, as are his wife and three year old daughter. Apparently, it was a murder-suicide and Davidson had mental health issues.
[Davidson] was sentenced in April to serve 21 months in prison for his role in sending hundreds of thousands of unsolicited and fraudulent e-mails from his Bennett home. His business, Power Promoters, peddled watches, perfume and penny stock investments for 19 clients. Davidson grossed $3.5 million between 2003 and 2006, according to court filings, money that wasn't reported to the Internal Revenue Service.
At his sentencing, the Judge noted:
...."He has some difficulty due to his diagnosis of ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) in focusing on all of his responsibilities, and he obviously has some unresolved issues with regard to his childhood and how he was raised that he believes impair his ability to make good decisions in the future," she said, according to a transcript of the proceedings.
All died from gunshots. An eight month old son was unhurt and a teenage daughter was grazed by a bullet but is OK. She was able to provide authorities with details of what happened.
Comments
Submitted by Jeralyn (not verified) on Sat, 2008-07-26 22:59.
Thanks, ohwilleke. It is strange that an 18 month sentence in a camp would cause such distress. According to this article , he only had 7 months left.
Apparently, the teenage daughter was Davidson's from a prior relationship.
Submitted by ohwilleke (not verified) on Fri, 2008-07-25 12:44.
Later news reports seem to confirm that the infant and teen were indeed son and daughter. Your post is correct.
Submitted by ohwilleke (not verified) on Fri, 2008-07-25 10:46.
From the story: "Davidson's relationship to the teen and infant was unclear."
Also, ADHD doesn't obviously have a link to his subsequent actions.
Indeed, motive is extremely murky here, as is the question of where he got a pistol while a fugitive who had only been out for four days and didn't seem to have any prior links to violent crime.
This was a guy facing a fairly modest sentence (about a year and a half) in a minimum security federal prison, although his cooperation with authorities in his case could have put him at risk as a snitch.
The only thing that makes any sense is that he saw no future in his life and wanted to somehow stop it imagining that it was the way it used to be before he was charged.
