Escaped 'spam king' Edward "Eddie" Davidson allegedly kills self, family

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A convicted spammer who escaped from prison was found dead Thursday night, along with his wife and 3-year-old daughter.

Eddie Davidson, dubbed a "spam king," was sentenced to 21 months in prison in April after pleading guilty to falsifying header information to send spam e-mail, tax evasion, and criminal forfeiture, the Associated Press reported.

Police had been searching for Davidson since Sunday, when he escaped from a minimum-security federal prison in Florence, Colo., 90 miles south of Denver, according to the AP.

Police responding to reports of gunshots found Davidson and his family in an SUV in a driveway in Bennett, Colo., according to news reports. A baby was found in a car seat uninjured, and a teenage girl who was shot in the neck ran to a neighbor's house for help and has been hospitalized. The relationship of the baby and teen to Davidson is unclear, according to the AP.

Earlier,
Less than two months into his 21-month prison sentence, convicted spammer Edward "Eddie" Davidson, 35, decided he'd had enough and, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Colorado, "walked away" from the minimum-security prison in Florence, Colo., where he was being held.
Davidson forced his visiting wife to help him escape, the Rocky Mountain News reported. After returning to his wife's home in Lakewood, Colo., for a change of clothes, he was last seen leaving in her 2006 silver Toyota (NYSE: TM) Sequoia.

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