On April 27, 1986, Gray murdered civilian Linda Jean Coats, age , a student at nearby
Campbell University. On December 11, 1986, Gray abducted, raped, and murdered a second civilian, Tammy Cofer Wilson, age 18. On December 15, 1986, Gray abducted, raped, sodomized, and murdered Private Laura Lee Vickery-Clay, age 18. She disappeared from Fort Bragg. Two witnesses saw her at a local K-Mart with a man later identified as Gray. Vickery-Clay's car was found the next morning, a block from her home. It appeared to have been driven through the woods. The driver's seat was set farther back than necessary for Vickery-Clay to drive. Three of Gray's fingerprints were found on the hood of the car. On January 17, 1987, a soldier discovered Vickery-Clay's half-naked and decomposed body in the woods near Fort Bragg. She had been raped, sodomized, and shot in the neck, forehead, chest, and back. She had also suffered blunt force trauma to various parts of her body. The murder weapon, a .22 caliber pistol that Gray had stolen in November 1986, was found 60 feet from the victim's body. On January 3, 1987, Gray raped and attempted to murder Private Maryann Lang Nameth, age 19. Gray entered her barracks room under the pretense of notification of a party that he did not want to leave on the barracks notification board. Once inside, Gray grabbed Nameth, held a knife to her throat, and asked for her military field gear. Gray tied Nameth's hands behind her, removed her underclothing, and raped her. Gray then stabbed her repeatedly in the neck and on the side of her body, threatening to return and kill her if she screamed. Nameth suffered a lacerated trachea and a collapsed lung, but she survived. When Gray's photograph appeared in the news following his arrest for another crime, Nameth identified him as her assailant. Three days later, on January 6, Gray raped, sodomized, robbed, and murdered a third civilian, Kimberly Ann Ruggles, age 23. Ruggles, a local cab driver, was dispatched to Gray's address to pick up a passenger named "Ron" on the evening of January 6. In the early morning of January 7, military police officers on routine patrol discovered Ruggles' empty cab parked at the edge of the woods. Her nude body was discovered a short distance away. She had been stabbed 7 times, as well as raped, sodomized and beaten. Ruggles' mouth had been gagged with a cloth belt that matched a pair of black karate pants other police officers had found in Gray's possession hours earlier. Gray's fingerprints were on the interior door handle of Ruggles' taxi, and Ruggles' fingerprints were found on money in Gray's possession. Gray's footprints were also found at the scene of the crime.
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