“Spam King” and family found dead in murder-suicide
MSNBC is reporting that convicted email spammer, Edward Davidson, has been found dead in his parked SUV parked at a farmhouse driveway in Bennett, CO, 25 miles east of Denver. Along side him were the bodies of his wife, his 3-year-old daughter as well as a teenage girl who was shot in the neck and an unharmed baby in a carseat.
Edward “Eddie” Davidson (35), for those unaware, was considered the “Spam King” and worked as a “spammer for hire” of sorts, sending out spam hundreds of thousands of spam emails for his clients from 2002 to 2005. He was indicted by a federal grand jury on in June of 2007 for violating the CAN SPAM Act of 2003, plead guilty in December 2007 and sentenced to serve 21 months in federal prison as well as pay $714,139 in restitution to the IRS. He aparently “walked out” of the prision on July 20th, 2008 and fled.
