general | March 08, 2026

‘Ninja’ Murder Suspects | New York Post

In an image made from a video surveillance camera released by the Escambia County Sheriff's Office, an identified man dressed in what the county sheriff called "ninja garb" heads towards an unlocked utility door in the back of Byrd and Melanie Billings' home in Beulah, Fla. Authorities made three arrests over the weekend, but the mystery around town only deepened Monday July 13, 2009, when Sheriff David Morgan said that as many as eight people in all may have been involved in the shooting death of the Billings' and that the crime appeared to have "numerous motives," though robbery was the only one he would mention.