BEIJING, July 25 (Chinese medianet) -- A convicted spammer
and his wife, who were being sought after she helped him escape prison, were
found slain along with their young daughter Thursday near Denver, Colorado, in
an apparent murder-suicide, authorities said.
A teenage girl was shot in the neck and a baby was
found unhurt in a car seat inside the vehicle where the three bodies were found,
Arapahoe County undersheriff Mark Campbell said. The relationship between the
girl, baby and the escaped convict wasn't immediately clear.
The bodies of "Spam King" Edward "Eddie" Davidson,
his wife, and 3-year-old daughter were found in an SUV parked in a farmhouse
driveway in a rural part of Bennett, about 25 miles east of Denver. Authorities
said Davidson was the apparent gunman.
"What a nightmare, and such a coward," U.S. Attorney
Troy Eid said. "Davidson imposed the 'death penalty' on family members for his
own crime."
Authorities had been searching for them since Sunday,
when the couple drove away from a minimum-security federal prison in Florence,
90 miles south of Denver.
Eid said that after Davidson escaped, he drove to the
Denver suburb of Lakewood and got a change of clothes and cash. The house where
the shooting occurred was not where the Davidsons lived, Campbell said.
Davidson, 35, was sentenced in April to 21 months in
prison and ordered to pay 714,139 U.S. dollars in restitution to the IRS after
pleading guilty to falsifying header information to send spam e-mail, tax
evasion and criminal forfeiture.
When Davidson was sentenced, U.S. District Judge
Marcia Krieger noted it was Davidson's first serious conviction, and that he was
supporting three children, which documents did not identify. She noted Davidson
had been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. A condition of
his sentence was that he undergoes mental health counseling.
(Agencies)
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