People Started Dying within Days of Ray Dandridge's Release
By Steve Huff (Crime Library)
Luckey was looking for love.
On an early version of his Prison Pen Pal page, prisoner #235473 wrote:
"I'm still missing that special lady in my life and maybe she's you, but everything starts with friendship and I would love to be your friend if you let me in. Your age, size, race and place does not matter to me, because it's what's in your heart that counts with me and what's on your mind..."
Prisoner #235473, who called himself Luckey (sic), followed up with a poem. Though he'd written that race, among other things, didn't matter, his poem was a paean to Black Women. Titled, "A Standing Ovation for a Black Woman," it read, in part:
"Black woman, you were put to the test like silver and gold burned by the fires of time. You came through unblemished. You were blessed by the gods to be a strong Black Queen of Queens. You have been the backbone of our nation for many centuries. You have sustained the life of our Black Nation through our hell fires and troubles in history. My Black Queen, you had to endure much and continue to endure much. Our survival would not have been possible if it were not for our strong Black Nubian Queens..."
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| Ray Dandridge |
Luckey — real name Ray Dandridge, now one of two men charged in connection with the brutal slayings of at least seven people, including rocker Bryan Harvey and his entire family — was a heavily-muscled 6'0" tall 28-year-old. He was in for 10 years on armed robbery charges, and self-described as having "brown skin with baby brown eyes (smile)," on a different Prison Pen Pal page, posted in May of 2005.
Luckey was released from prison at the beginning of November 2005.
Almost immediately, it seems, people began to die.
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