Sunday, January 15, 2006
Vita Simul Artis
In the beginning of A History of Violence, a movie I really didn't like at all, there are two guys traveling about the country murdering almost everyone they meet, including children. I thought to myself, there aren't any people like that, are there?
Well, it turns out there are, and they struck in my old kinda home town (I went to High School there), Richmond, VA. The suspects are long time criminals, Ricky J. Gray and Ray J. Dandridge, who are uncle and nephew but are both 28 (Southern family values, I guess). These guys should be dead, to paraphrase Dennis Miller, before the 't' sound stops in their confession "I did it."
Grisly details:
What was discovered inside was so gruesome that homicide detectives cried. All four Harveys -- Bryan, 49; Kathryn, 39; Stella, 9; and Ruby, 4 -- had been bound with tape and beaten. Their throats were slit.
[...]
Five days later, police acting on a tip went to a working-class neighborhood a mile from the Harveys' home and found three more bodies. Like the Harveys, Ashley Baskerville, 21, her mother, Mary, 47, and stepfather, Percyell Tucker, 55, had been tied up before being slain in their home.
There's more:
The men have told police they slashed the throat of an Arlington man [who survived] on New Year's Eve, and police suspect they robbed a Chesterfield County [ south of Richmond] couple in their home three days later. In addition, Gray is a suspect in the death of his wife of barely six months, Treva Terrell Gray, whose body was found in November in a weedy lot south of Pittsburgh.
What caused this to catch my attention is that victim Bryan Harvey was a semi successful musician in a two man group, House of Freaks (best CD is Tantilla, named after the Richmond dance hall, dear to my heart, torn down in 1969). Another rock and roll victim of senseless, vicious crime.
Well, it turns out there are, and they struck in my old kinda home town (I went to High School there), Richmond, VA. The suspects are long time criminals, Ricky J. Gray and Ray J. Dandridge, who are uncle and nephew but are both 28 (Southern family values, I guess). These guys should be dead, to paraphrase Dennis Miller, before the 't' sound stops in their confession "I did it."
Grisly details:
What was discovered inside was so gruesome that homicide detectives cried. All four Harveys -- Bryan, 49; Kathryn, 39; Stella, 9; and Ruby, 4 -- had been bound with tape and beaten. Their throats were slit.
[...]
Five days later, police acting on a tip went to a working-class neighborhood a mile from the Harveys' home and found three more bodies. Like the Harveys, Ashley Baskerville, 21, her mother, Mary, 47, and stepfather, Percyell Tucker, 55, had been tied up before being slain in their home.
There's more:
The men have told police they slashed the throat of an Arlington man [who survived] on New Year's Eve, and police suspect they robbed a Chesterfield County [ south of Richmond] couple in their home three days later. In addition, Gray is a suspect in the death of his wife of barely six months, Treva Terrell Gray, whose body was found in November in a weedy lot south of Pittsburgh.
What caused this to catch my attention is that victim Bryan Harvey was a semi successful musician in a two man group, House of Freaks (best CD is Tantilla, named after the Richmond dance hall, dear to my heart, torn down in 1969). Another rock and roll victim of senseless, vicious crime.
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 11:41 AM 
