But Brandy, as her friends called her, was, in general, a kind, loving young girl who got good grades, did sports, and hung out with other girls.

Angela Metzger, whose life had been torn apart by grief and depression since her daughter’s death, died five years later from cancer, aged just 51. To advance the notion that the goddess of reason is able to answer to the darkest questions of the human heart is a conceit and fantasy civilization would do well to avoid. Any astute historian will tell you that “reason,” as the handmaiden of truth and morality, was ground into the mud of the trenches at the Somme and Verdun in World War I. Too often in history, “reason” has been utilized to rationalize the most hateful and vile of human actions. Reason and logic, without wisdom, have advanced and served the darkest lies and outrages of the twentieth century. Reason, in and of itself, is a tool that may be used and may also be misused in the name of the law. At about 6:00 PM, Ginny received a call from Rebecca Fincham. Like she had done with Sue, Fincham asked if Ginny's husband was home; Ginny said he was not. The prosecution countered by playing a tape-recorded confession to the jury, in which Davis described the murder of Ginny May in gruesome detail - detail, the prosecutor said, that only the killer could know. At 8:26, the executioner administered the second drug, pancuronium bromide, to stop Davis' breathing. Davis' lips twitched and his eyes fluttered, and the rise and fall of his chest slowly came to a stop.Ginny mostly ignored Davis' public displays of lewdness, but Davis did not relent. In fact, Ginny's repudiation of Davis' advances only served to further arouse him.

While in prison, Davis was described as a "model inmate" by correctional staff. He successfully went through an alcoholism treatment program and earned special privileges. He also spent a lot of time writing and putting personal ads in newspapers. At about 8:00 PM that night, Gary May returned to his home from a marketing strategy meeting in another part of the ranch. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary for him, and he expected to soon have dinner with Ginny and their children. Frank Vigil, the youngest of the defendants, was convicted of capital murder in 1998 for his role in the killing of Brandy Duvall. At the age of 16, Vigil was too young to face execution in Colorado, so the court sentenced him to life without parole. He is currently incarcerated at the Arkansas Valley Correctional Facility in Ordway, Colorado. In 1990, the Colorado Supreme Court denied Davis' petition for a new trial, and set Gary Davis' execution date for January 5, 1991. Claiming that he would rather die than spend the rest of his life in prison, Davis decided to drop his pending federal appeals and not fight his execution.The verdict came after only three hours of deliberation. On July 21, 1987 - one year to the day after the murder of Virginia May - the jury found Gary Lee Davis guilty of of kidnapping, rape, and first-degree murder.

On the scheme of this barbarous philosophy, which is the offspring of cold hearts and muddy understandings, and which is as void of solid wisdom, as it is destitute of all taste and elegance, laws are to be supported only by their own terrors, and by the concern, which each individual may find in them, from his own private speculations, or can spare to them from his own private interests. In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows. [8] Since their marriage two years earlier, the sex life between Gary Davis and Rebecca Fincham had withered, and Davis was once again setting his sights on new targets. And, while he was working on the ranch in Byers, other women had the misfortune of falling under his predatory gaze.ONE GANG MEMBER STILL AWAITS TRIAL OF 7 INVOLVED IN DUVALL CASE, 4 PLEADED GUILTY AND 2 WERE CONVICTED Angela Metzger, Brandy’s mother, heard on the news about a young girl’s body being found in the mountains. Her daughter had been missing for over a day, and she drove to the morgue to identify the body. Between a glass partition in the morgue, she saw her daughter Brandy’s body lying on a slab. “Wake up, baby!”, she wailed as she pounded on the glass window. “Wake up!”.