Investigators Wonder Whether Suspect's Wife Was the First Victim. Jan. 16, 2006
By Seamus McGraw
(Crime Library)
WASHINGTON, Pa. For months, although they couldn't prove it, authorities in Washington County suspected that Ricky Gray, one of two ex-convicts with a history of small-time mayhem, was somehow linked to the Nov. 5 strangling death of his wife.
In the days after her bruised and battered body was discovered, just barely concealed in a wooded area not far from the home she shared with Gray and his nephew, investigators quizzed Gray. He was, authorities have said, their prime suspect in the case, but they didn't have enough evidence to shake his determined denials that he had anything to do with the crime. And so Gray, a small-time criminal who had done time for robbery, and his nephew, Ray Joseph Dandridge, who had walked out of prison in October after serving ten years for a robbery and handgun conviction, remained free.
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| Treva Gray, wife of Ricky Gray |
On Tuesday, prosecutors in Washington County plan to hold a press conference, according to a report published in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, at which they will discuss possible links between Gray and Dandridge and the slaying.
District Attorney John C. Pettit could not immediately be reached for comment. But authorities in at least two states have been studying the crime with renewed vigor since Jan. 5, when Gray and Dandridge, both 28, were arrested in connection with a murderous crime spree that left at least seven people dead in Richmond and one man wounded in Arlington, Va.
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