When U.S. veteran and dystopian filmmaker David Crowley began his project "Gray State", he had no idea that it would become a five-year obsession, dragging his family in too. But by Christmas 2014, the project looked doomed to fail. Soon after... he and his family were found dead. ➤ Thanks to A GRAY STATE for providing some of the imagery used in this video. ➤ A GRAY STATE can be found here: https://www.amazon.com/Gray-State-David-Crowley/dp/B076BJ7246/ ➤ Rotten Tomatoes link here: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/a_gray_state ➤ New Yorker article to "Death of a Dystopian" by Alec Wilkinson found here: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/10/death-of-a-dystopian ➤ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/coffeehousecrime ➤ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coffeehousecrime/ ➤ Twitter: https://twitter.com/coffeehcrime ➤ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/coffeehousecrime ➤ Animated Background by Featherwax Studio: https://featherwax.com 00:00 Intro 02:13 Minnesota 04:20 David Crowley's interesting history 06:54 Meeting Komel (Alam) Crowley 08:56 Obsession with The Gray State 21:06 Downfall... 24:46 January 17th 2015 (Crime Scene) 28:04 What happened? 33:21 Aftermath, sidenotes 39:00 Outro DISCLAIMER: Great effort is made to ensure all materials in Coffeehouse Crime's videos fall within the guidelines of fair use. No copyright infringement is intended. If you are or represent the copyright owner of any materials accidentally used in this video and have an issue with its use, please contact me, and I will respond as soon as possible.