July 25, 2008 6:58 AM PDT

Escaped 'spam king' allegedly kills self, family

A convicted spammer who escaped from prison was found dead Thursday night, along with his wife and 3-year-old daughter.

Eddie Davidson, dubbed a "spam king," was sentenced to 21 months in prison in April after pleading guilty to falsifying header information to send spam e-mail, tax evasion, and criminal forfeiture, the Associated Press reported.

Police had been searching for Davidson since Sunday, when he escaped from a minimum-security federal prison in Florence, Colo., 90 miles south of Denver, according to the AP.

Police responding to reports of gunshots found Davidson and his family in an SUV in a driveway in Bennett, Colo., according to news reports. A baby was found in a car seat uninjured, and a teenage girl who was shot in the neck ran to a neighbor's house for help and has been hospitalized. The relationship of the baby and teen to Davidson is unclear, according to the AP.

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by mtadam July 25, 2008 7:46 AM PDT
Are you kidding me? EVERYONE who is incarcerated on ANY level should have a GPS band around their neck that requires at the very least, bolt cutters to remove. That way the police have a solid chance at aprehending them before they run home and kill their family. WAKE UP AMERICA.
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by krosavcheg July 25, 2008 7:56 AM PDT
Coward is, coward does Forrest. Kill your family for having to go do 21 months? That is the real no brainer here. School shootings, people killing their whole family, kids shot for Ipods...when is enough a enough? Sad yes, embarrassing as a society, absolutely.
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by open-mind July 25, 2008 8:12 AM PDT
mtadam...

I couldn't agree more regarding GPS. This is such an obvious solution, yet the law enforcement world seems oblivious to it. I imagine the ACLU and liberal judges would whine about it, but that happens every day anyway. The rights of criminals are the most important ones after all.
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by fredtheviking July 25, 2008 8:14 AM PDT
mtadam? GPS band around the neck? Are you insane? You can't stop murder or crime by such extreme measure. In fact, crime cannot altogether be stop. It comes down with what people are willing to live with. I would say the crime rate in my area (Boston) is well within my threshold. I feel quite safe. GPS band are not likely to make you safer and will only make prison worse than it already is.
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by Remo_Williams July 25, 2008 8:23 AM PDT
go back to sleep, 'tard. two million ankle bracelets is too much care and feeding for most of the population. besides, the guards are the ones who need an upgrade.

-R
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by 08Rabbit July 25, 2008 8:25 AM PDT
Man, people are sick...
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by jarmenda July 25, 2008 8:39 AM PDT
What a pisser
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by happyguy77 July 25, 2008 8:39 AM PDT
Wait, so he did that rather than just do the 21 months in prison? I mean, that's less than 2 years, wow. And knowing our prison system he probably would have gotten out in less than half that time on good behavior. Depressing stuff.
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by kkohnen July 25, 2008 8:43 AM PDT
I feel very sorry for his wife and daughter.
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by Mabus July 25, 2008 9:04 AM PDT
It probably wasn't about the 21 months, but rather about the wife discovering the teenage mistress and baby...
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by masonx July 25, 2008 9:11 AM PDT
For the last hundred years, almost every animal study made on over population shows that as population increases, limited physical resources (in humans it includes the perception of limitations) and the resulting mental stresses create really bizarre deviations from normal mental (logical) processing and or typical instinctive species behavior. This kind of increased mental aberration in our uncontrolled, unmanaged and illogical growing population is just the beginning folks. In spite of our arrogance and conceit, we are subject to the same basic biological laws as all the other species. Welcome to the ongoing human bloom and crash process. Slower moving than in rat over population affects because of our longer life spans, later maturing and longer offspring rearing spans - but just as deadly.
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by 4score20 July 25, 2008 9:26 AM PDT
This is such a tragedy. Family annihilation is a very scary phenomenon. It usually occurs with men but women have been known to kill their children and themselves at times also.
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by yacahuma July 25, 2008 9:47 AM PDT
fredtheviking , within your threshold??????????

You have to be out of your freaking mind. If there just one dead in a whole year, and that happened to be your son, your spouse. Is that withint your threshold.

One death, is one to many, for the one affected, IDIOT
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by Joe3Eagles July 25, 2008 12:22 PM PDT
Appropriate end for the sleazeball. Unfortunate for his family.
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by Vegaman_Dan July 25, 2008 1:16 PM PDT
I would be curious why once the prisoner's escape had been noticed that the authorities didn't immediately check and stake out his home since that was an obvious possible destination? We don't know the whole story here, but this is one question I'd like to have answered.
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by listenbeforespeaking July 25, 2008 5:36 PM PDT
I believe law enforcement dropped the ball on this one!
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by walwebster July 25, 2008 11:13 PM PDT
Kinda confirms everything you ever suspected about the quality of person who generates spam, though, doesn't it? One step lower than bottom feeders ...
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by Harrison912 July 26, 2008 12:21 AM PDT
Wow! I know spamming is wrong and for him the penalty was jail time but certainly not worth taking your life over.

There's got to be more to this than just the spamming charge.
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