Rayful Edmond III, the iconic D.C. drug-kingpin-turned ... office prosecuted Edmond and his 10 co-defendants, said in an interview and text messages that eliminating Edmond’s organization ...

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 ...

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 ...