Ricky Gray

Her husband, Bryan Taber Harvey (April 27, 1956 – January 1, 2006), aged 49, was the lead singer/guitarist of House of Freaks, a two-man college rock band.

Kathryn Elizabeth "Kathy" Harvey (née Grabinsky; November 28, 1966 – January 1, 2006), aged 39, was the co-owner of a popular local toy store called World of Mirth in Richmond's Carytown district and was the half-sister of actor Steven Culp.

The perpetrators were Ricky Javon Gray (March 9, 1977 – January 18, 2017) and his nephew, Ray Joseph Dandridge (born January 24, 1977).

Gray's girlfriend Ashley Baskerville assisted the pair as an accomplice until she became one of their victims as well.

Their daughters Stella Ann (November 3, 1996 – January 1, 2006) and Ruby May (July 4, 2001 – January 1, 2006) were aged 9 and 4, respectively.

Gray bound Kathryn, Bryan, and Ruby in their basement with packing tape, while Dandridge searched the house for items to steal.

As this was occurring, Stella arrived home from a friend's house.

Gray briefly unbound Kathryn so she could retrieve Stella from the upstairs.

The mother of Stella's friend, Kiersten Perkinson, had a short exchange with Kathryn where Perkinson had described her as "pale and ashen".

Kathryn did not indicate to Perkinson that there was anything amiss before she left.

Kathryn and Stella were rebound by Gray in the basement shortly afterward.

Gray ended up cutting the throats of all four of the family members and then hitting each in the head multiple times with a claw hammer shortly thereafter.

The official cause of death stated that Bryan and Kathryn died of blunt-force trauma to the head, Stella of smoke inhalation and blunt-force trauma to the head, and Ruby of stab wounds to her back, one of which punctured her lung.

Gray and Dandridge tipped over an art easel in the Harvey family's basement, poured wine over the top of it, and lit the easel on fire in an attempt to destroy the crime scene.

Johnny Hott, Bryan's friend who was the drummer in House of Freaks, called 9-1-1 after noticing that the Harvey house had been set on fire.

After their arrest, Gray and Dandridge were linked to two prior murders, including that of Gray's wife in Pennsylvania, and a near-fatal assault in late 2005.

Dandridge pleaded guilty to murdering the three Baskerville-Tucker victims in exchange for receiving a life sentence without the possibility of parole.

Gray was convicted of capital murder in connection with the Harvey family murders and was sentenced to death for the killings of the Harvey children.

On November 5, 2005, a passerby discovered the badly beaten body of 35-year-old Treva Terrell Gray in a shallow grave on Brookside Avenue in Washington, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh.

Treva had married Ricky Javon Gray, a 28-year-old ex-convict, approximately six months before her murder, and had lived with her husband in a house owned by her family.

Ray Joseph Dandridge, Ricky's nephew, had moved in with the couple following his release from prison on October 26, 2005, after serving more than ten years for armed robbery.

According to Treva's parents, the Grays fought bitterly, and claw marks were seen on Ricky's forearm on the day Treva's body was found.

While both Gray and Dandridge were interviewed by Washington police, they were not considered suspects.

Treva's mother, Marna Squires, alleged that the police assumed that Treva had died of a drug overdose and were lax in investigating her death.

Dandridge left West Philadelphia to join Gray on Christmas Day 2005.

On December 31, 2005, 26-year-old Ryan Carey was attacked by two men he later identified as Gray and Dandridge in front of his parents' home on the 5100 block of North 25th Street in Arlington.

Carey sustained extensive beating and stab wounds to the chest, neck and arms in a near-fatal assault, and spent the next two weeks in a coma.

He also permanently lost the use of his right arm.

The 2006 Richmond spree murders took place during a seven-day period in January 2006 in and around Richmond, Virginia, United States; seven people—four members of the Harvey family and three members of the Baskerville–Tucker family—were killed.

While the police ruled Treva's death suspicious at the time, no homicide investigation was launched until after Gray's confession in 2006.

Approximately a week after the discovery of their daughter's body, Treva's parents evicted Dandridge from their property; he then moved in with his father in West Philadelphia.

On December 23, Gray moved out of the Washington residence as well to stay with his maternal grandmother in Arlington, Virginia.

In the early afternoon of January 1, 2006, the bodies of Kathryn, Bryan, Stella, and Ruby Harvey were found dead in the basement of their burning house in the Woodland Heights district of Richmond, Virginia.

The family of four had been bound with electrical cord and tape, beaten with a claw hammer, and finally had their throats slit.

On January 3, 2006, a couple living on Hollywood Drive in Chesterfield County, Virginia, were robbed by two men and a woman who had gained entry to their house by pretending to ask for directions.

The robbers stole several items, including a computer and a television, as well as $800 in cash.

The husband was able to dissuade the gang from tying them up by drawing attention to the wife's disability and his need to assist her.

On January 6, 2006, the police received a call from a Chesterfield resident who was concerned about her daughter's friend, 21-year-old Ashley Baskerville.

Gray's execution was carried out on January 18, 2017, at 9:42 p.m. by lethal injection.

He was the second to last man executed in Virginia before the state abolished capital punishment.