"2010-10-08"^^ . "Ross Raymond"@en . . "In 2002, Todd Manning hired Ross Rayburn to help him kidnap his children, Starr and Jack, who were with their mother Blair Cramer in Hawaii. However, the plot went awry after Todd's ex-wife T\u00E9a Delgado tipped off Blair, who returned with her kids to Llanview and divorced Todd. Todd, Ross and Tea ended up shipwrecked on a deserted island. Ross and Todd both vied for T\u00E9a's affections. After Todd spied T\u00E9a kissing Ross, he decided to leave the island alone. When T\u00E9a told Todd she had always been in love with him, Todd admitted he wanted to be with her and the two made love for the first time. Afterwards, however, T\u00E9a realized Todd was still in love with Blair and gave her blessing for Todd to return to Blair. Todd got on a makeshift raft and rowed to safety, while T\u00E9a and Ross stayed behind. "@en . . . . . . . . "Ross Rayburn"@en . . . . "Tahiti, French Polynesia"@en . . "In 2002, Todd Manning hired Ross Rayburn to help him kidnap his children, Starr and Jack, who were with their mother Blair Cramer in Hawaii. However, the plot went awry after Todd's ex-wife T\u00E9a Delgado tipped off Blair, who returned with her kids to Llanview and divorced Todd. Todd, Ross and Tea ended up shipwrecked on a deserted island. Ross and Todd both vied for T\u00E9a's affections. After Todd spied T\u00E9a kissing Ross, he decided to leave the island alone. When T\u00E9a told Todd she had always been in love with him, Todd admitted he wanted to be with her and the two made love for the first time. Afterwards, however, T\u00E9a realized Todd was still in love with Blair and gave her blessing for Todd to return to Blair. Todd got on a makeshift raft and rowed to safety, while T\u00E9a and Ross stayed behind. Once Todd returned to Llanview, a search party was sent out and rescued Ross and T\u00E9a. In 2009, after Tea had returned to Llanview and renewed a relationship with Todd, a jealous Blair hired Rex Balsom to investigate what T\u00E9a had been up to in the years since she was rescued from the island. It turned out that both T\u00E9a and Ross had vanished after being rescued, although Rex discovered that Ross was living in Tahiti under an assumed name and had been living with an unknown woman until shortly before T\u00E9a resurfaced in Llanview. T\u00E9a, meanwhile, was shaken when Ross' attorney Elijah Clarke came to town and threatened to expose a secret that T\u00E9a had been hiding. T\u00E9a told Elijah that she refused to give into Ross' blackmail demands and give him what he thinks she took from him. Blair flew to Tahiti and came face to face with Ross, who told Blair that he and T\u00E9a were married. When T\u00E9a called Ross, demanding a divorce so she could marry Todd, Blair told Ross to sign the divorce papers but to make sure they were never filed. Blair then talked Ross into coming back with her to Llanview, promising that she would drop the kidnapping charges against him once they exposed T\u00E9a's lie to Todd. Ross was attracted to Blair and kissed her, but Blair's only interest was in making sure T\u00E9a and Todd didn't marry. Blair stashed Ross in the cabana on Dorian's property. Dorian discovered Ross there and offered Ross a substantial payment to keep Blair from disrupting Todd and T\u00E9a's wedding, since Dorian wanted Blair to give up her obsession with Todd. Ross initially resisted the offer, but on the day of Todd and T\u00E9a's wedding, Ross managed to get Blair aboard a boat in Llantano Bay before she could interrupt the wedding. Ross called Blair out on being in love with Todd, and she admitted that she still had feelings for him. When Ross realized he had lost the check Dorian had given him, he went to Dorian to get another check and Blair overheard their conversation. She called them both out for lying to her and then told Todd that his newlywed bride was already married. When Blair later told Ross what she had done, Ross said T\u00E9a was hiding another secret and that he would tell Blair if she proved she was over Todd by kissing him. But Blair said she was tired of his games and threatened to have him arrested if he didn't leave -- adding that she had \"forgotten\" to drop the kidnapping charges. In a moment of weakness, T\u00E9a revealed to Blair her other secret: that she was a mother. T\u00E9a said she discovered she was pregnant after leaving the island and had married Ross, although the marriage later fell apart. When Blair realized that the child was actually Todd's, she and T\u00E9a got into a struggle and Blair fell out of a second-story window, losing her memory about what T\u00E9a had told her. Ross, meanwhile, was desperate to find out where T\u00E9a was keeping the child, which Ross believed was his. He snuck into Todd's home and almost stole T\u00E9a's briefcase, which had details on the child's location, but was discovered and arrested. Ross called on Elijah to help him get out of jail, and it was revealed that he and Elijah were brothers. After getting released from jail on bail, Ross pressed Elijah to find out the location of his child, a teen-age daughter named Danielle. Elijah hired a private investigator to go through T\u00E9a's phone records and tracked down Dani at a London boarding school. When Elijah told Ross that he couldn't leave the country to go after her, Ross punched out Elijah and booked a flight to London using Elijah's credit card. Ross snuck into the school but was discovered by the headmistress and forced to leave before he could find Dani. Back in Llanview, Ross pressed Blair for information on T\u00E9a's whereabouts and revealed to her that they had a child, not realizing that Blair already knew the child was really Todd's. After Ross threatened to tell Todd that T\u00E9a had a child, Blair told Ross that T\u00E9a was in Seattle. Ross broke into T\u00E9a's hotel room in Seattle and demanded to know where Dani was, forcing T\u00E9a to admit that he wasn't Dani's father. Ross refused to believe it, even discounting the paternity test T\u00E9a showed him, and he began trashing the room and strangling T\u00E9a before Todd interrupted. When Danielle showed up, she called the cops and Todd, T\u00E9a and Ross were all arrested. Ross managed to overtake a guard and stole his gun. He located Dani at the hospital and took her hostage at gunpoint. When he came across Blair in the parking garage, he forced Blair to go with them and headed toward the Canadian border. The situation came to an end when Ross tried to lure Dani to jump off a bridge with him and Todd shot Ross, who fell into the icy water to his presumed death. A month later, T\u00E9a took Danielle back to their home in Tahiti so she could give Ross a proper goodbye and both were shocked when Ross turned up very much alive. After learning that Dani had nearly shot Todd on New Year's Eve, Ross told Dani the truth that Todd was her biological father. Ross urged Dani to return to Llanview to get to know Todd. To seal the deal, T\u00E9a said she would tell no one that Ross was alive and allow him to live in Tahiti if Danielle returned with her to Llanview. Ross and Dani shared a bittersweet goodbye, and Dani said she would come back to see him one day. After Eli and Blair got engaged in July 2010, T\u00E9a revealed to them that Ross was alive and well and living in Tahiti. The day they were to be married in Llanview, Eli convinced Blair to fly off with him to Tahiti so they could be married with his brother Ross present. In Tahiti, Ross arrived just as Blair had decided to leave before getting married, but Ross talked Blair into staying for the ceremony. Ross was shocked to learn that T\u00E9a was dying of a brain tumor. He expressed concern for Dani's welfare, but Blair assured Ross that she was in good hands with Todd. Ross snapped a photo of the pair as they were announced man and wife. Ross gathered his belongings and left the cabana, telling them to enjoy it before their flight back to Llanview. Outside, Eli thanked Ross for his help convincing Blair to stay and get married, assuring Ross that Blair would not be stepping onto the plane back to Llanview. Ross realized he accidentally left his phone inside the cabana. When Eli went inside to retrieve it, the cops arrived with an arrest warrant for Eli. Ross declared he was Eli and the police hauled him off to the local jail. When John McBain arrived from Llanview, he told the authorities they had the wrong man and headed out to Ross' cabana. Ross arrived to find the cabana ablaze, and John told him his brother was dead. Ross was taken back to the police station, and John told the local police he wanted a full transcript of Ross' interrogation. Ross was released from custody in Tahiti and returned to Llanview, where he sent a cryptic message to Danielle about coming for her before showing up at Todd's house. Ross claimed he had just learned about T\u00E9a's death after receiving in the mail a copy of her will, in which Ross was named as Danielle's legal guardian. Todd and Blair both insisted the will was a fake, but Ross assured Dani that her mother wanted Dani to live with him. A very-much alive but injured Eli called Ross to make sure everything was on track, and they recalled how they staged Eli's death and planted a look-alike body in the cabana to throw off the police. Ross questioned the timing of T\u00E9a's death, and Eli assured him that he only took advantage of T\u00E9a's illness and did not cause it. In court, Ross presented a taped confrontation between himself and Todd in which Todd threatened to kill Ross and dispose of the body. That, coupled with Dr. Greg Evans' testimony that T\u00E9a told him she wanted Dani to live with Ross, swayed the judge to give Ross full custody of Danielle. Dani disappeared before Ross could take her back to Tahiti, however. The next day, Ross was shocked when Eli showed up in Llanview at the docks and demanded that they find Dani so he could extract money from Todd in exchange for her. When Ross protested, Eli revealed to Ross the lengths at which he went to help Ross secure Dani -- going so far as to have Greg poison T\u00E9a so she would die. When Ross went to call the cops to see if there was any news about Dani, Eli pulled out a gun and shot Ross. Eli pushed Ross into the water and was shot himself during a standoff with Todd. After Eli fled, Ross pulled himself out of the water and Todd pulled him onto the docks. Ross told Todd that Eli was after Dani, then he died."@en . . . . "May 2012"@en . . . . . . . "#660000"@en . "Criminal"@en . . . "Male"@en . "Ross Rayburn"@en . "white"@en .