To others, he had been Rayful Edmond III, a notorious drug kingpin whose name invoked the brutal crack cocaine epidemic that reshaped the District in the 1980s. He died within a year of his ...

Rayful Edmond III, a onetime drug kingpin who spent ... “Billy” Murphy Jr., Edmond’s lead attorney during his 1989 trial, in an interview Tuesday described the kingpin and D.C. native ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Rayful Edmond, a drug kingpin once believed to control about a third of the cocaine trade in the nation’s capital during the crack epidemic of the 1980s, has died in federal ...

Rayful Edmond, a notorious Washington DC-based drug dealer ... “I did it all,” he said in the interview. Edmond plotted and executed the distribution of more than two tons of cocaine and crack from ...