Escapee ‘Spam King’ dead in murder-suicide
Just four days after escaping a federal minimum-security work camp, "Spam King" Eddie Davidson shot his wife and child and wounded a teen-age girl before turning the gun on himself.
Sheriff's deputies responded to a report of gunfire in the small plains town of Bennett at about 11:15 a.m. today and found Davidson, 29-year-old Amy Lee Ann Hill and their 3-year-old daughter shot to death.
Davidson's most recent spam business, Power Promoters, was based in Bennett.
Arapahoe County Undersheriff Mark Campbell said the bodies were found laying near a Toyota Sequoia SUV in the driveway. Davidson's body was beside the driver's door, a pistol nearby, and his wife's body fell near the passenger side.
The 3-year-old girl was found dead in the vehicle. A boy, about 7 months old, was found unharmed in a car seat in the SUV, Campbell said.
A teenage girl, shot in the neck, escaped by running to a neighbor's home, the Sheriff's Office said.
The teenager was taken to University of Colorado Hospital in Denver for treatment for her serious wound, and the infant to The Children's Hospital in Aurora to be examined.
Ken Deal, chief deputy U.S. marshal in Denver, said that hours after Davidson's escape Sunday, his wife, Amy Hill, told Lakewood police he had forced her to take him to the Denver area in the same SUV.
Davidson had pleaded guilty to tax evasion and falsifying information about the sender of e-mail pitches for low-cost, high risk stocks.
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