On New Year’s Day 2006 in Richmond, Virginia, Kathryn Harvey, 39, was found murdered in her home along with her husband, Bryan, 49, and their two daughters, Stella, 9, and Ruby, 4. The family had been planning to host friends for a chili dinner when responders to a fire at the residence discovered the four victims in the basement, bound with electrical cord and tape. They had been beaten with a claw hammer and suffered slit throats; an attempt had been made to destroy the scene by setting the house on fire.
Investigators tied the killings to two suspects, Ricky Javon Gray and his nephew Ray Joseph Dandridge, who had been reportedly looking for a house to rob and entered after noticing the front door was open. While Dandridge searched the home for valuables, Gray restrained Kathryn, Bryan and their youngest daughter. Kathryn was briefly unbound to bring Stella downstairs when she returned from a friend’s house. The perpetrators stole a laptop, a wedding ring and a basket of cookies; Kathryn’s wedding ring was later found on accomplice Ashley Baskerville’s finger.
Dandridge pleaded guilty to related murders of the Baskerville-Tucker family and received life without parole; Gray was tried on capital murder charges. Does anyone have information about Kathryn, the Harveys’ toy store, or that neighborhood from the time surrounding New Year’s 2006?