Editing Bennett, Colorado (section)

===Colorado spam king===
[[Eddie Davidson|Edward Davidson]], known also as the "Colorado Spam King", operated an illegal spamming company, Power promotions, from July 2002 through April 2007 from a home near Bennett where he had a large network of computers and servers, according to federal authorities. The spam contained false header information, concealing the actual sender from the recipient of the e-mail. Davidson provided spammed messages for about 19 different companies, prosecutors said. Some of the e-mailed pitches were used to dupe stock investors and manipulate the market, federal authorities said. Davidson was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $714,139 to the Internal Revenue Service.{{Citation needed|date=November 2009}} On July 20, 2008, he escaped from a minimum-security federal prison in [[Florence, Colorado]]. Four days later, he was found dead with his wife and a child, both also dead, in an apparent murder-suicide near Bennett.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cbs4denver.com/crime/Edward.Davidson.dead.2.779131.html |title='Spam King' Inmate Dies Along With Wife, Daughter |website=CBS4 Denver |date=July 24, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080725102909/http://www.cbs4denver.com/crime/Edward.Davidson.dead.2.779131.html |archive-date=July 25, 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref>