Lakeside staged car crash

MAN WHOSE WIFE, MOTHER-IN LAW WERE FOUND DEAD IN STAGED ACCIDENT HAD LONG CRIMINAL PAST

 

 By Miriam Raftery

July 3, 2010 (San Diego’s East County) – Michael Eugene Richardson, whose wife and mother-in-law have been identified as homicide victims in a staged car crash in Lakeside, has an extensive criminal past, investigations reveal.  Court records in North Carolina indicate Richardson was convicted of robbing and shooting a cab driver in 1976. He served six years of a 30 year sentence before escaping while out with a roadside work crew.


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