On January 1, 2006, Richmond, Virginia, lost four members of the Harvey family in a single brutal attack. Four-year-old Ruby Harvey, her nine-year-old sister Stella, and their parents Kathryn and Bryan Harvey were found bound, beaten, and with cut throats in the basement of their burning home. Ruby’s official cause of death was stab wounds to her back.

Police allege Ricky Javon Gray and his nephew Ray Joseph Dandridge entered the house through an open door that morning, subjected the family to hours of terror, stole a laptop, a wedding ring, and a basket of cookies, then set the house on fire. A friend who had come for a planned chili dinner discovered the blaze and alerted authorities. Bryan Harvey was a local musician and Kathryn Harvey co-owned a toy store in the community.

Gray and Dandridge then are said to have been involved in another triple homicide days later; that second crime led to their capture. Ray Dandridge pleaded guilty in the later killings and received life without parole. Ricky Gray was tried and convicted on five counts of capital murder; he received death sentences for the murders of Stella and Ruby and life for the parents.

Did anyone in Richmond remember seeing suspicious visitors or activity at the Harvey home around New Year’s Day 2006?