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 drug lord best known for catalyzing a crack cocaine epidemic in Washington, D.C. in the 1980s, has died. He was 60. According to The New York Times, Edmond’s death was ...

Rayful Edmond III, the notorious drug kingpin who once ruled Washington, D.C., during the height of the 1980s crack cocaine epidemic, has died from a heart attack. Edmond, whose legacy is deeply ...

To others, he had been Rayful Edmond III, a notorious drug kingpin whose name invoked the brutal crack cocaine epidemic that reshaped Washington, D.C., in the 1980s.