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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.
by Mondoreb
image: notice things
image/source: webpronews
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.
compiled by Mondoreb
image: granitegrok
Sources:
* Today in History
* Today in History
DBKP.com - Bigger, Better!.
Death by 1000 Papercuts Front Page.
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.
by Mondoreb
image: virtual tourist
Source:
* Today in History
* Today in History
Death by 1000 Papercuts Front Page.
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