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Warning, this episode contains graphic details of murder and is not suitable for young listeners.

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Welcome back to Crime Army. I am your host Margot and this is a True Crime podcast where I focus on crimes committed by military members and veterans.

But don't worry, you don't have to know anything about the military to listen, I promise.

You just have to be a true crime enthusiast and if that's you, welcome home.

I think many true crime warriors have come to terms with the fact that many serial killers, both past and present, have served in the military at some point.

Many of them though usually taking a bit of a hiatus while on active duty due to being quote too busy as infamous Israel keys put it.

But nothing sends chills down my spine more than coming across a serial killer who killed while on active duty.

Someone that I could have possibly rubbed shoulders with at the chow hall or someone who may have fixed my computer when it stopped working.

Today I will tell you about such a serial killer, someone who lurked for far too long choosing victims at random.

Join me today as I discuss Ronald Gray and his 10 month murder streak. Now let's dig in.

First a little shout out to Sloan from killer Queens who helped in researching and writing this episode.

The sources we used for this episode include various court opinions, including opinions by the court of appeals for the armed forces all the way up through the Supreme Court of the United States.

We also used articles in the Charlotte Observer, the Army Times, Murderpedia, the Orange Observer, WRAL and my all time favorite military justice for all.

Just a warning that this episode does contain circumstances of rape and while I will not dive into this I do want to give everyone a heads up.

On the evening of January 6, 1987, 23 year old Kimberly Ann Rughals, a local cab driver in Fayetteville, North Carolina, was dispatched to pick up a passenger by the name of Ron.

Kimberly promptly left to pick up the passenger at a phone booth near the Fairlane Acres trailer park, but oddly enough she never returned to work after picking up this passenger.

The next morning some military police officers on patrol at nearby Fort Bragg, they came across an abandoned cab.

It was parked along the edge of some woods and thinking that maybe the driver was nearby, the military police started looking around.

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