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A Death Sentence By Military Trial - April 27 2020 - Today in True Crime History

Morning Cup of Murder

Morning Cup of Murder

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, True Crime

4.7723 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2020

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Keep up with current episodes of Morning Cup of Murder at morningcupofmurder.com April 27th: Ronald Adrin Gray’s First Victim (1986) There is the common theory that, if someone has had a rough beginning, sending them off to the military has a good chance of straightening them out. A man named Ronald Adrin Gray enlisted in the military, after a rocky start to his life, when he was just 18. But, despite the good that the military has to offer to some, all this move did was give him a chance to unleash a sudden reign of terror in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Become a supporter of this podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/morningcupofmurder Follow Morning Cup of Murder on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cupofmurder @cupofmurder Follow MCOM on Instagram: @morningcupofmurder Have a Murder or strange true crime story you want to share, email the show here: [email protected] Morning Cup of Murder is researched, written and performed by Korina Biemesderfer. Follow Korina on Instagram: @kbiemesderfer Information for this episode collected from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Gray https://www.google.com/url?q=http://armytimes.com&sa=D&ust=1587757710650000&usg=AFQjCNGepZbHMnrSAfkP1yH-EEuKC70mVw Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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There were two more murders, 15 miles away in the silver-racement-office of a

0:04.0

We have a weird...

0:05.0

...described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird religion.

0:09.0

A cop-of-murdered.

0:11.0

There is the common theory that, if someone has had a rough beginning, sending them off to the military, has a good chance of straining them out.

0:19.0

A man named Ronald Adrian Gray

0:21.7

enlisted in the military

0:23.1

after a rocky start to his life

0:25.1

when he was just 18.

0:27.3

But, despite the good that the military can offer to some,

0:31.2

all this move did was give him a chance

0:33.4

to unleash a sudden reign of terror

0:35.6

in Fayetteville, North Carolina.

0:38.2

So, if you like your coffee hot, but your bones chilled, sit back and start your day with a morning

0:43.7

cup of murder.

0:48.1

Ronald Gray was born in Cochran, Georgia, and pretty early in his life, found himself living in a

0:54.1

public housing project in Miami, Florida. Men pretty early in his life, found himself living in a public housing project

0:55.2

in Miami, Florida. Men cycled through his life, one of which became his abusive stepfather,

1:01.6

and the family lived in relative poverty. So, when he turned 18, it seemed like a no-brainer

1:07.9

for Ronald to enlist in the military. He was assigned in 1984 to the Target Acquisition Battery, the 139 Field Artillery Battalion,

1:17.3

and had the potential to be stationed in various places.

1:20.7

Places like Fort Bragg outside of Fayetteville, North Carolina, which is where he was

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