Margaret Mary Ray
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Margaret Mary Ray (1952 - October 5, 1998) was a woman perhaps best well known for stalking the celebrity David Letterman and the retired astronaut Story Musgrave.
Ray suffered from schizophrenia, which her mother said manifested itself initially in her late teens. Mental illness had run in Ray's family. Both of her brothers also suffered from schizophrenia and also eventually took their own lives.
Ray first made the news in regard to Letterman when she was arrested after authorities found her driving Letterman's Porsche. She claimed to be his wife and mother of his child. At the time, Letterman was not married nor did he have any children. Over the next several years she would repeatedly show up at Letterman's Connecticut home. At one point he found her sleeping on his tennis court. Police arrested her several times. One of the patrolmen on the local force claimed that he had come in contact with Ray so often that they were on a first name basis. She was eventually sent to the Niantic State Prison for several months because of her harassment of Letterman.
After being released from prison, Ray seemed to lose interest in Letterman, instead preferring to focus on Story Musgrave. Before her death in 1998, Ray also served time for harassing Musgrave. [1]
In October of 1998 she committed suicide by kneeling on a train track in front of an oncoming train in Colorado. As she had stepped out right in front of the train, the driver was unable to stop the train in time to keep from hitting her.
Ray is survived by her mother, and a daughter, Anna-Lisa Johnson.
