The Blotter
By: Freeman Klopott
Examiner Staff Writer
November 17, 2009
Former Army counterintelligence worker Larry Bill Elliott is set to die in Virginia's electric chair for gunning down a Woodbridge couple in an effort to win the heart of a former stripper who became an escort. In January 2001, Elliott gunned down 30-year-old Robert Finch and 25-year-old Dana Thrall in their Woodbridge home. Months earlier, the 60-year-old Anne Arundel County man met Rebecca Gragg on the Internet after she placed an ad looking for a "sugar daddy." Prosecutors said he became obsessed with Gragg and spent about $450,000 on her in 18 months. She was involved in a bitter custody battle with Finch. Elliott, prosecutors said, killed Finch and Thrall to help the woman and win her love.
Woman beaten to death in NortheastPolice say they found a 55-year-old woman beaten to death in her Northeast Washington home and another person critically injured. Rosay May Fludd-Ross was found dead a little after 7 a.m. Sunday in her home at 3901 35th St. A second person whom police did not name was taken to the hospital and remains in critical condition.
Chain saw cuts man who falls 30 feet to his deathA 35-year-old man trimming a tree from the top of a 30-foot ladder fell to his death after he dropped a chain saw and it sliced into his body, Montgomery County police said. Hector Cupil died Saturday while working at a home in Bethesda.
P.G. police officer indicted in bank robberyA former Prince George's County bank robber was indicted on bank robbery charges for allegedly driving another man to rob a bank in his marked police cruiser, prosecutors said. Eddie Lee Smith allegedly was sitting in his police car while police say Earl Blake tried to saw open a Temple Hills SunTrust Bank safe in June.
Compiled by Freeman Klopott
