Eddie Davidson: Spam King Escapes, Kills Himself, Wife, Daughter

Spam King Turns Killer



A cautionary tale for Internet spammers?

The "Spam King", Eddie Davidson escaped from a federal prison in Colorado and four days later was found dead in an apparent multiple murder-suicide.

Davidson died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound

Davidson's body was found at his wife's former home in Bennett, Colorado.

Davidson also shot and killed his wife along with his three-year-old daughter. His 7-month old son was found unharmed strapped in a baby seat of an SUV. Davidson's 14-year old daughter was wounded in the neck but was able to run to a neighbor's house for help.

His wounded daughter was able to tell police what had happened before being taken to the University of Colorado Hospital in Denver for treatment. The infant was taken to the Children's Hospital in Aurora to be examined.

Davidson, 35, was sentenced in April to serve 21 months in federal prison for his role in sending massive amounts of spam promoting penny stocks as good investments.

After being convicted, Davidson became a consultant to the FBI, with the goal of helping the agency investigate other spam artists. He'd served less than 2 months of a 21-month prison sentence when he busted out of the Colorado facility.

According to the Rocky Mountain News, U.S. Attorney, Troy Eid called Davidson a "coward".

"What a nightmare, and such a coward. Davidson imposed the death penalty on family members for his own crime."

A tragic end for the wife and daughter of an annoying spam-meister.

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DBKP Today in Weird History: March 20, 2008

WAR, TERRORISM, DISASTER, ESCAPES, BEATLES, WOW, CLINTONS, HANGED, RESCUED, MUPPETS, PATENTS, JEWS, MAINSTREAM MEDIA, CLUELESSLY IMPOTENT, GODLESS, DICTATORS, MURDER, BORN, BIRTHDAYS, DEATH

WAR!

1942 General MacArthur vows, "I shall return".

2003 A subdued Saddam Hussein appeared on state-run television after the initial U.S. air strike on Baghdad, accusing the United States of a "shameful crime" and urging his people to "draw your sword" against the invaders. American combat units rumbled across the desert into Iraq from the south and U.S. and British forces bombed limited targets in Baghdad. The start of war in Iraq triggered one of the heaviest days of anti-government protesting in years, leading to thousands of arrests across the United States and prompting pro-war counter-demonstrations.

TERRORISM

1993 IRA-bomb kills 3 year old in Warrington England.

1995 In Tokyo, 12 people were killed, more than 5,500 others sickened when packages containing the poisonous gas sarin were leaked on five separate subway trains by Aum Shinrikyo cult members.

DISASTER

1760 Great Fire of Boston destroys 349 buildings.

1972 19 mountain climbers killed on Japan's Mount Fuji during an avalanche.

1998 A tornado in rural northeast Georgia killed at least 13 people and injured 100.

WOW!

1988 8-year-old DeAndra Anrig found herself airborne when the string of her kite was snagged by an airplane flying over Shoreline Park in Mountain View, Calif. (DeAndra was lifted 10 feet off the ground and carried some 100 feet until she let go; she was not seriously hurt.)

MUPPETS

??? Big Bird muppet was born today on in an unknown year.(Sesame Street)

DICTATORS

1992 Manuel Noriega's (Panama) wife Felicidad arrested for stealing buttons from dresses.

PRO WRESTLING

1994 Wrestlemania X at Madison Square Garden New York, Bret "The Hitman" Hart pins Yokozuna to win WWF championship.

PATENTS

1885 John Matzeliger of Suriname patents shoe lacing machine.

MAINSTREAM MEDIA

1954 1st newspaper vending machine used (Columbia Pennsylvania).

MURDER

1996 Erik & Lyle Menendez found guilty of killing their parents.

ESCAPES

1815 Napoleon Bonaparte returned to Paris after escaping his exile on Elba, beginning his "Hundred Days" rule.

CLINTONS

1998 President Clinton's lawyer, appearing before a federal court in Little Rock, Ark., declared that Paula Jones' evidence of sexual harassment was "garbage" unworthy of a trial.

CLUELESSLY IMPOTENT

1980 US appeals to International Court on hostages in Iran.

JEWS

1939 7,000 Jews flee German occupied Memel Lithuania.

BEATLES

1969 John Lennon married Yoko Ono in Gibraltar.

HANGED

2007 Saddam Hussein's former deputy, Taha Yassin Ramadan, was hanged in Baghdad, the fourth man to be executed in the killings of 148 Shiites.

GODLESS

1984 Senate rejects amendment to permit spoken prayer in public schools.

RESCUED

2007 Rescuers found Michael Auberry, a 12-year-old Boy Scout, who was dehydrated and disoriented after four days in the wooded mountains of North Carolina.

BORN

1902 Edgar Buchanan Humansville MO, actor (Uncle Joe-Petticoat Junction).

1906 Ozzie Nelson Jersey City NJ, actor (Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet).

1908 American broadcasting pioneer Frank Stanton, the president of CBS for 26 years, was born in Muskegon, Mich.

BIRTHDAYS

Producer-director-comedian Carl Reiner is 86. Actor Hal Linden is 77. Singer Jerry Reed is 71. Former Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney is 69. Country singer Don Edwards is 69. TV producer Paul Junger Witt is 65. Country singer-musician Ranger Doug (Riders in the Sky) is 62. Hockey Hall-of-Famer Bobby Orr is 60. Blues singer-musician Marcia Ball is 59. Actor William Hurt is 58. Rock musician Carl Palmer (Emerson, Lake and Palmer) is 58. Rock musician Jimmie Vaughan is 57. Country musician Jimmy Seales (Shenandoah) is 54. Movie director Spike Lee is 51. Actress Theresa Russell is 51. Actress Vanessa Bell Calloway is 51. Actress Holly Hunter is 50. Rock musician Slim Jim Phantom (The Stray Cats) is 47. Actress-model Kathy Ireland is 45. Actor David Thewlis is 45. Rock musician Adrian Oxaal (James) is 43. Actress Liza Snyder is 40. Actor Michael Rapaport is 38. Actor Alexander Chaplin is 37. Rock singer Chester Bennington (Linkin Park) is 32. Actor Michael Genadry is 30. Actress Bianca Lawson is 29.

DEATH

1727 Sir Issac Newton English physicist/astronomer, dies in London at 84.

1991 Conor Clapton Eric Clapton's son, falls out of 53rd floor window at 4.

March 20, the 80th day of 2008. There are 286 days left in the year. Spring's arrival: 1:48 a.m. Eastern time.

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DBKP Today in Weird History: February 26, 2008

WAR, TERRORISM, DISASTER, NATIONAL PARKS, ESCAPES, CURFEW, IMMIGRATION, A-BOMB, SHADOWS, REBUKES, OPRAH, GOVERNMENT OVERREACH, LYNCHED, CHESS, COMMIES, SHORT PEOPLE, BUFFALO, CLYDESDALES, MERGER, NAZI CARS, KO, JEWS, NANNY STATE, PRO WRESTLING, GOLD, SLURS, TIRED, BORN, BIRTHDAYS, DEATH

NATIONAL PARKS

1919 Congress established Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona.

1929 President Coolidge signed a measure establishing Grand Teton National Park.

WAR!

1942 WWII Navy flier Don Mason sends message "Sighted sub sank same".

2003 President Bush, offering new justification for war in Iraq, told a think tank that "ending this direct and growing threat" from Saddam Hussein would pave the way for peace in the Middle East and encourage democracy throughout the Arab world.

TERRORISM

1531 Earthquake in Lisbon Portugal, kills 20,000.

1993 A bomb built by Islamic extremists exploded in the parking garage of New York's World Trade Center, killing six people and injuring more than 1,000 others.

2007 Iraq's Shiite vice president, Adel Abdul-Mahdi, narrowly escaped death as a blast ripped through a government meeting hall just hours after it had been searched by U.S. teams with bomb-sniffing dogs; at least 10 people were killed.

DISASTER

1852 British frigate Birkenhead sinks off South Africa-458 die.

1918 Stands at Hong Kong Jockey Club collapse & burn, killing 604.

1972 Slag heap dam collapses above Buffalo Creek WV, kills 125.

2003 A fire at the Greenwood Health Center in Hartford, Conn., killed 16 nursing home patients; a patient charged with setting the blaze was later ruled incompetent to stand trial.

SHORT PEOPLE

1876 Pauline Musters shortest known adult (58.9 cm, 1' 11.2") born.

TIRED

1984 Pak Awang (84) marries 80th spouse

PRO WRESTLING

1960 Verne Gagne beats Doctor X in Omaha, to become NWA wrestling champion.

1967 Verne Gagne beats Mad Dog Vachon in St Paul, to become NWA champion.

GOLD

1974 Gold hits record $188 an ounce in Paris.

CURFEW

1945 A midnight curfew on nightclubs, bars and other places of entertainment was set to go into effect across the nation.

CLYDESDALES

1893 2 Clydesdale horses set record by pulling 48 tons on a sledge, Michigan.

KOs

1941 2 fighters unable to continue slugfest, referee declares double KO.

IMMIGRATION

1907 Congress created the Dillingham Commission to examine the impact of immigrants on America. (The panel later recommended curtailing immigration from southern and eastern Europe.)

UNREST

1946 2 killed & 10 wounded in race riot in Columbia TN.

ESCAPES

1815 Napoleon Bonaparte escaped from exile on the Island of Elba.

MERGER

1907 Royal Oil & Shell merge to form British Petroleum (BP).

GOVERNMENT OVERREACH

2003 In a victory for abortion foes, the Supreme Court ruled that federal racketeering and extortion laws had been wrongly used to try to stop blockades, harassment and violent protests outside clinics.

NAZI CARS

1936 Hitler introduces Ferdinand Porsche's "Volkswagen".

LYNCHED

1870 Wyatt Outlaw black leader of Union League in North Carolina, lynched.

A-BOMB

1952 Prime Minister Winston Churchill announced that Britain had developed its own atomic bomb.

BUFFALO

1891 1st buffalo purchased for Golden Gate Park.

JEWS

1941 Utrecht & Zaandam strike against raid on Jews.

1980 Egypt & Israel exchange ambassadors for the 1st time

SHADOWS

1979 A total solar eclipse cast a moving shadow 175 miles wide from Oregon to North Dakota before moving into Canada.

COMMIES

1848 Marx & Engels publish "The Communist Manifesto".

NANNY STATE

1954 Michigan Representative Ruth Thompson (R) introduces legislation to ban mailing "obscene, lewd, lascivious or filthy" phonograph (rock & roll) records.

SLURS

1984 Reverend Jesse Jackson acknowledges that he called NYC, "Hymietown".

REBUKES

1987 The Tower Commission, which probed the Iran-Contra affair, issued its report, which rebuked President Reagan for failing to control his national security staff.

CHESS

1859 Paul Morphy's chess match vs Augustus Mongredien begins; Morphy wins.

OPRAH

1998 A jury in Amarillo, Texas, rejected an $11 million lawsuit brought by Texas cattlemen who blamed Oprah Winfrey's talk show for a price fall after a segment on food safety that included a discussion about mad cow disease.

BORN

1846 William F "Buffalo Bill" Cody Davenport IA, killed 4000 buffaloes.

1852 John Harvey Kellogg surgeon, inspired flaked cereal industry.

1893 William Frawley Iowa, actor (Fred Mertz-I Love Lucy, Bub-My 3 Sons).

1916 Jackie Gleason Brooklyn NY, comedian (Ralph Kramden-Honeymooners).

BIRTHDAYS

Singer Fats Domino is 80. Political columnist Robert Novak is 77. Country-rock musician Paul Cotton (Poco) is 65. Actor-director Bill Duke is 65. Singer Mitch Ryder is 63. Rock musician Jonathan Cain (Journey) is 58. Singer Michael Bolton is 55. Actor Greg Germann is 50. Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine is 50. Bandleader John McDaniel is 47. Actress Jennifer Grant is 42. Rock musician Tim Commerford (Audioslave) is 40. Singer Erykah Badu is 37. Rhythm-and-blues singer Rico Wade (Society of Soul) is 36. Rhythm-and-blues singer Kyle Norman (Jagged Edge) is 33. Rhythm-and-blues singer Corinne Bailey Rae is 29. Country singer Rodney Hayden is 28. Actress Taylor Dooley is 15.

DEATH

1959 Lou Costello actor (Abbott & Costello), dies at 52.

February 26, the 57th day of 2008. There are 309 days left in the year.

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DBKP Today in Weird History: January 26, 2008

CLINTONS, WAR, TERRORISM, DISASTERS, FALLS, NANNY STATE, MAINSTREAM MEDIA, CROWDS, LOTTO, DISCOVERY, ESCAPES, PRO WRESTLING, ROCKS, REST STOPS, PATENTS, JEWS, COMPUTERS, POLITICS, CIVIL RIGHTS, TAKEOVERS, RATIONING, BACK, MASSACRES, MURDERS, ASSASSINATION, NATIONS, SCIENCE, CELEBRATIONS, PARKS, TRIALS, BIRTHDAYS, DEATH


CLINTONS

1998 President Bill Clinton forcefully denied having an affair with a former White House intern, telling reporters: "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky."

WAR!

1861 Louisiana seceded from the Union.

1862 Lincoln issues General War Order #1, calling for a Union offensive McClellan ignores order.

1942 The first American expeditionary force to go to Europe during World War II went ashore in Northern Ireland.

2003 Secretary of State Colin Powell, citing Iraq's lack of cooperation with U.N. inspectors, said he'd lost faith in the inspectors' ability to conduct a definitive search for banned weapons programs.

TERRORISM

2007 The White House said President Bush had authorized U.S. forces in Iraq to take whatever actions were necessary to counter Iranian agents deemed a threat to American troops or the public at large.

DISASTERS

1531 Lisbon hit by Earthquake; about 30,000 die.

1932 British submarine M-2 sinks in Channel (60 dead).

1947 KLM Dakota crashes near Copenhagen, 22 die.

1968 Israeli submarine Dakar crashes in Mediterranean Sea, 69 die.

FALLS

1972 Stewardess Vesna Vulovic survives 10,160m (6.31 miles) fall without parachute.

NANNY STATE

1838 Tennessee becomes 1st state to prohibit alcohol.

MAINSTREAM MEDIA

1979 "The Dukes of Hazzard" premieres on CBS's vast wasteland.

CROWDS

1980 175,000 pay to hear Frank Sinatra sing in Rio de Janeiro.

LOTTO

1991 New York Lotto pays $90 million to nine winner (#s are 5-15-30-35-46-50).

DISCOVERY

1788 The first European settlers in Australia, led by Capt. Arthur Phillip, landed in present-day Sydney.

ESCAPES

1920 Amadeo Modigliani's mistress jumps out of a window.

PRO WRESTLING

1987 Hart Foundation beat British Bulldogs for WWF tag team title.

ROCKS

1905 World's largest diamond, the 3,106-carat Cullinan, is found in South Africa.

REST STOP

1995 New Jersey Governor Christine Whitman, dedicates a rest stop to Howard Stern.

PATENTS

1875 Electric dental drill is patented by George F Green.

JEWS

1940 Nazis forbid Polish Jews to travel on trains.

1958 H Laskow replaces Moshe Dayan as Israeli minister of Defense.

COMPUTERS

1998 Intel launches 333 MHz Pentium II chip.

POLITICS

1837 Michigan became the 26th state.

2007 Defense Secretary Robert Gates told a news conference that a congressional resolution opposing President Bush's troop buildup in Iraq undercut U.S. commanders and emboldened the enemy.

CIVIL RIGHTS

1948 Executive Order 9981, end segregation in US Armed Forces signed.

TAKEOVERS

1841 Britain formally occupied Hong Kong, which the Chinese had ceded to the British.

RATIONING

1918 US food administrator Hoover calls for "wheatless" & "meatless" days for war effort.

MASSACRES

1885 Charles George Gordon, British Governor-General, executed (slain with troops by Sudanese in Khartoum) at 51.

BACK

In 1870, Virginia rejoined the Union.

MURDERS

1920 Matthias Enzberger German minister of finance, murdered.

1939 Professor Cristescu Romania's iron guard leader, murdered.

1965 Ali Mansoer premier of Persia, murdered.

1989 Stéphane Steinier Belgian journalist, kidnapped & murdered.

ASSASSINATIONS

1939 Armand Calinescu Romania's PM, assassinated by the iron guard.

NATIONS

1950 India officially proclaimed itself a republic as Rajendra Prasad took the oath of office as president.

SCIENCE

1962 the United States launched Ranger III to land scientific instruments on the moon — but the probe missed its target by more than 22,000 miles.

CELEBRATIONS

1988 Australians celebrated the 200th anniversary of their country as a grand parade of tall ships re-enacted the voyage of the first European settlers.

PARKS

1954 Ground breaking begins on Disneyland.

TRIALS

2007 Nine black youths were convicted in juvenile court in Long Beach, Calif., of beating three white women in a racially charged attack on Halloween night.

BIRTHDAYS

Actress Anne Jeffreys is 85. Actor Paul Newman is 83. Actress Joan Leslie is 83. Cartoonist Jules Feiffer is 79. Sportscaster-actor Bob Uecker is 73. Actor Scott Glenn is 69. Singer Jean Knight is 65. Activist Angela Davis is 64. Rock musician Corky Laing (Mountain) is 60. Actor David Strathairn is 59. Singer Lucinda Williams is 55. Rock singer-musician Eddie Van Halen is 53. Reggae musician Norman Hassan (UB40) is 50. Actress-comedian Ellen DeGeneres is 50. Hockey star Wayne Gretzky is 47. Musician Andrew Ridgeley is 45. Rhythm-and-blues singer Jazzie B. (Soul II Soul) is 45. Actor Paul Johansson is 44. Gospel singer Kirk Franklin is 38. Actress Jennifer Crystal is 35. Rock musician Chris Hesse (Hoobastank) is 34. Actress Sarah Rue is 30. Country musician Michael Martin (Marshall Dyllon) is 25.

DEATH

1979 former Vice President Nelson A. Rockefeller died in New York at age 70.

January 26, the 26th day of 2008. There are 340 days left in the year.


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