David Roland Waters
David Roland Waters, a convicted felon and former employee of American Atheists, was eventually convicted of murdering O’Hair, Jon Garth Murray, and Robin Murray O’Hair. The bodies were not found until Waters led authorities to their burial place following his conviction.

76 years (1919–1995)
Madalyn Murray O’Hair/Age at death

Deceased (1919–1995)
Madalyn Murray O’Hair/Living or Deceased

Madalyn, Garth, and Robin were cremated, their cremains were interred in an unmarked grave in an undisclosed cemetery….Madalyn Murray O’Hair.

Cast

• Melissa Leo as Madalyn Murray O’Hair, an atheist activist.
• Josh Lucas as David Waters, American Atheists’ former manager who masterminds their kidnapping.
• Michael Chernus as Jon Garth Murray, Madalyn’s loyal younger son.
• Rory Cochrane as Gary Karr, one of the Murray O’Hairs’ kidnappers.

Danny Raymond Fry (1953-October 1995) was a formerly unidentified man whose torso was pulled from the Trinity River in Dallas, Texas. Fry was involved in the 1995 kidnappings and murders of Madalyn Murray O’Hair, her son, and granddaughter.

Plot. In 1995, Madalyn Murray O’Hair is kidnapped along with her son Garth and granddaughter Robin by three men: David Waters, Gary Karr and Danny Fry.

Waters had been arrested on federal weapons and theft charges, facing lengthy state and federal prison sentences. So, in 2001, he agreed to plead guilty to a conspiracy charge in the O’Hair case in exchange for leading authorities to the bodies of the missing family. He died of lung cancer in prison in 2003.

Martin Shkreli (/ˈʃkrɛli/; born March 17, 1983) is an American former hedge fund manager and convicted felon.

He died of cancer in 2003. On Friday, U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel gave Karr the maximum 20-year sentence for each of the two federal charges. Additionally, Karr has a sentence of about 10 years in prison on charges of money laundering and interstate transportation of stolen property.

She met a gruesome end, but how did Madalyn Murray O’Hair die? The atheist activist was kidnapped, murdered, and dismembered in 1995. The story is so astonishing that the film’s star Melissa Leo couldn’t believe this was the first scripted movie ever made about O’Hair.

Madalyn O’Hair was born April 13, 1919 in the Beechview neighborhood in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. Her lower-middle class parents were Presbyterian, and so was she until she developed a strong dislike for organized religion. Upon migrating to Austin, Texas, O’Hair founded American Atheists, Inc.

Madalyn, O’Hair being the name of her second husband, Richard O’Hair, was a woman who took no prisoners if you crossed her. She was a tall woman, and “big boned” as my grandmother would say. In other words, she was not a petite woman.

Through American Atheists, O’Hair filed numerous other suits on issues of separation of church and state.