Philadelphia Police Dept. via AP Ricky Gavon Gray, 28, left, and Ray Joseph Dandridge, 28. Click photo for larger image.

Two men charged in a series of murders in Virginia are wanted for questioning in the suspicious death of a Washington County woman who was married to one of the men, police acknowledged yesterday.

Washington, Pa., Police Chief John Haddad said Ray Joseph Dandridge and Ricky Gray, both 28, were wanted for questioning in the November death of Treva Terrell Gray, 35, of Washington, Pa.

The body of Ms. Gray, who was married to Ricky Gray, was found Nov. 5, covered with leaves and twigs near a cliff on Brookside Avenue in Washington, Pa. Police said there were no visible signs of trauma, but they considered the death suspicious. The Washington County coroner's office said autopsy results hinge on toxicology and tissue tests that are incomplete.

Mr. Dandridge and Mr. Gray were arrested in Philadelphia Saturday and sent to Virginia yesterday to face murder conspiracy charges in the deaths of seven people in two Richmond, Va., families.

Police said they found evidence linking the two to all seven murders. The victims, including two children, all were bound with tape and their throats were cut, police spokeswoman Cynthia Price told The Associated Press.

The bodies of Percyell Tucker, 55, his wife, Mary Tucker, 47, and her daughter, Ashley Baskerville, 21, were found in their ransacked Richmond home Friday.

The murders in the Tucker home came less than a week after the slayings of rock musician Bryan Harvey and his family. Mr. Harvey, 49, his wife, Kathryn, 39, a businesswoman, and their daughters, Stella, 9, and Ruby, 4, were found with their throats cut on New Year's Day. Their house was set on fire.

Police in Washington, Pa., and Ms. Gray's relatives said the arrests in the Virginia killings heightened suspicion about the suspects' possible involvement in Ms. Gray's death.

Mr. Gray, who lived in Washington, Pa., for several months, left town a month after his wife was found dead about a quarter-mile from her Duncan Avenue home.

"Obviously, now Mr. Gray is a person of much greater interest," said Chief Haddad. "We have been looking at him all along."

John Squires, Ms. Gray's stepfather, said Mr. Gray was married to his stepdaughter for only several months before she disappeared in November. He said the couple lived in a home that once belonged to Mr. Squires and his wife.

He said Mr. Gray frequently asked for money and inquired about ways to make money. He said Mr. Gray refused to let his wife out of his sight and if she happened to be away from him, "he would call her cell phone every five minutes."

Trouble began in the household after Mr. Gray's cousin, Mr. Dandridge, moved in shortly after being released from prison in Virginia, Mr. Squires said. Mr. Dandridge had served a 10-year sentence for robbery.

Mr. Squires said Mr. Gray told him his cousin was trying to turn his life around.

	KYW-TV via AP Police officers escort Ricky Gavon Gray after he was apprehended in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/ Click photo for larger image.

He said the two men kept late hours. Neighbors said the house seemed always to have visitors.

"It would be 4 a.m., but the traffic in and out of that house was like it was noon," said David McMurdy, who lives across the street.

Mr. Squires said the night before his stepdaughter was found dead, several witnesses saw her and Mr. Gray out in downtown Washington, Pa.

Several days after Ms. Gray's body was found, Mr. Squires and his wife, Marna, confronted Mr. Gray about several gashes lining his forearms.

Mr. Gray initially refused to show them his arms, but later relented, telling them the gashes were "passion marks."

Mr. Squires said police did not adequately question Mr. Gray or Mr. Dandridge.