In january 1993, four days before his trial for the unrelated charges of aggravated assault and rape was set to begin, charles crawford broke into the home of kristy ray, kidnapped her, left. Charles ray crawford was convicted of burglary, rape, sexual battery, and capital murder in the death of kristy ray. Crawford was then sentenced as a habitual offender to death Mar 12, 1998 · he stuffed a sock in her mouth and stabbed kristy ray once with a blade seven inches long, with such force that the knife caused a wound four and a half inches deep,. Jurors in his 1994 trial cited.
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