Mary Lee Dawson

[almagata]

May 26, 2024 5:46:08 GMT cleopatra said:

Jan 11, 2024 22:30:41 GMT almagata said:

LeslieMoore01 posted an article from the Washingtonian about the murder of Mary Harding.  Mary's husband was convicted of her murder but that conviction was recently overturned due to prosecutorial misconduct by the investigator encouraging witnesses to lie.  Mary Harding had been abducted from her home in Weems.  Her body was found in the Belle Isle area of the Rappahannock. She had been tied to a cinder block and weighted down with a chain typically used on fishing boats. 

In that article, it mentions a man by the name of Richard Dawson was considered a suspect in the Mary Harding murder.  Richard's wife had recently died. 

I pulled the death certificate for Mary Lee Dawson and she died in her home by a gunshot wound to the chest at close range by a small pistol.  The death was not ruled a homicide.  It was categorized as undetermined. 

You have to wonder if the Mary Dawson death was a failed abduction given all these other cases. 

www.washingtonian.com/2019/06/27/murder-on-the-rappahannock-river-emerson-stevens-mary-harding-innocence-project/#Part-Two

Mary Lee Dawson was murdered.  There was an investigation into her murder.  Her  husband, Richard Dawson, was a suspect.   

I can't find any information on her or on the murder. 

If it was not deemed a murder, newspapers tend not to publish stories on suicides. 

People who commit suicide rarely shoot themself in the chest.  Woman tend to use poison rather than guns for suicide. 

I would be really curious to see the crime scene photos, autopsy report and case files on this death. 

[cleopatra]

May 27, 2024 7:10:21 GMT almagata said:

May 26, 2024 5:46:08 GMT cleopatra said:

Mary Lee Dawson was murdered.  There was an investigation into her murder.  Her  husband, Richard Dawson, was a suspect.   

I can't find any information on her or on the murder. 

If it was not deemed a murder, newspapers tend not to publish stories on suicides. 

People who commit suicide rarely shoot themself in the chest.  Woman tend to use poison rather than guns for suicide. 

I would be really curious to see the crime scene photos, autopsy report and case files on this death. 

So would I. 

That idiot detective Riley said Dawson was under investigation for his wife's murder.  

I would like to read anything at all about this death, the shooting, etc... even a comment.  But I cannot even find her obituary or any info on her parents. 


It's all so strange.  These names come up together alot:  Dawson, Wilmer.

[mustangman]

May 27, 2024 7:10:21 GMT almagata said:

May 26, 2024 5:46:08 GMT cleopatra said:

Mary Lee Dawson was murdered.  There was an investigation into her murder.  Her  husband, Richard Dawson, was a suspect.   

I can't find any information on her or on the murder. 

If it was not deemed a murder, newspapers tend not to publish stories on suicides. 

People who commit suicide rarely shoot themself in the chest.  Woman tend to use poison rather than guns for suicide. 

I would be really curious to see the crime scene photos, autopsy report and case files on this death. 

I read years ago that most women who shoot themselves, do so in the chest, they are thinking of their mother and allowing her to have an open casket viewing. 

[almagata]

May 27, 2024 18:13:37 GMT mustangman said:

May 27, 2024 7:10:21 GMT almagata said:

If it was not deemed a murder, newspapers tend not to publish stories on suicides. 

People who commit suicide rarely shoot themself in the chest.  Woman tend to use poison rather than guns for suicide. 

I would be really curious to see the crime scene photos, autopsy report and case files on this death. 

I read years ago that most women who shoot themselves, do so in the chest, they are thinking of their mother and allowing her to have an open casket viewing. 

The data supports what you say.  "women were 47% less apt than men to shoot themselves in the head."

From this article.  pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19298146/

[almagata]

May 27, 2024 10:20:27 GMT cleopatra said:

May 27, 2024 7:10:21 GMT almagata said:

If it was not deemed a murder, newspapers tend not to publish stories on suicides. 

People who commit suicide rarely shoot themself in the chest.  Woman tend to use poison rather than guns for suicide. 

I would be really curious to see the crime scene photos, autopsy report and case files on this death. 

So would I. 

That idiot detective Riley said Dawson was under investigation for his wife's murder.  

I would like to read anything at all about this death, the shooting, etc... even a comment.  But I cannot even find her obituary or any info on her parents. 


It's all so strange.  These names come up together alot:  Dawson, Wilmer.

It's a small place and those families had been in the area for generations. 

I'll look tonight and see if I can find anything on Ms. Dawson's parents. 

[almagata]

The only additional document I found was Mary's Dawson's marriage certificate.