A "Spam King" Snaps (Update)
Simple Justice:
From ABC7 News in Denver, via Turley, the shocking and tragic end of “Spam King” Eddie Davidson, who escaped from a minimum security federal prison and then engaged in an unthinkable murder-suicide.
Escaped “Spam King” Edward ‘Eddie’ Davidson, his wife and 3-year-old daughter were found slain outside a farm house Thursday east of Denver in an apparent murder-suicide.
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.”
Arapahoe County undersheriff Mark Campbell said deputies rushed to a home in a subdivision in Bennett after receiving reports of shots fired.
Deputies found Davidson, who appeared to be the gunman on the driver’s side of the SUV in a driveway, and a woman dead on the passenger side. A girl was also found dead in the back of the car.
An 7- or 8-month-old baby boy was found in a car seat uninjured.
Davidson was sentenced to 21 months, and had to pay $714,139 in restitution to the IRS, as well as forfeit property purchased with proceeds. While this isn’t exactly a slap on the wrist, it also isn’t a particularly harsh sentence. Certainly not so harsh as to explain what he did.
That Davidson took the lives of his family as well as his own bespeaks serious psychological problems. Eid’s attempt to characterize an utterly irrational act in self-serving terms does a disservice. Davidson was sick, for only a horribly sick person would do something like this.
It is no one’s fault except Davidson that he suffered the penalties for his conduct. But it begs the question why no one noticed that this person was so psychologically fragile that he was about to explode, and kill his wife and child in the process. This is a recurring theme in criminal…