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Foul play could be involved in the case of a missing pregnant woman, Ohio police said Monday, as they subpoenaed her cell-phone records and those of her married boyfriend officer Bobby Cutts Jr. in order to determine what happened to 26-year-old Jessie Marie Davis.

"We feel that there possibly is foul play, however we're still investigating it as a missing person," said Stark County Sheriff's Chief Dep. Rick Perez at a news conference Monday.

Investigators are working to piece together a timeline for the missing woman, who was last heard from on Wednesday night when she spoke to her mother around 9:20 p.m.

"At this time we have no persons of interest, we have no suspects," Perez said.

Porter reported her daughter missing Friday after finding her daughter's 2-year-old son, Blake, home alone on Friday morning.

"I said ... 'Where's Mommy?'" Porter said. "And he just said, 'Mommy broke the table, and Mommy's in the rug.'"

The toddler told the police the same thing when they interviewed Blake, Perez said.

Davis' house showed no sign of forced entry, but her cell phone, comforter and sheets were missing from the residence, Stark County Sheriff Tim Swanson said. Her purse and vehicle were found at the home.

"The mattress was partially off the bed and the nightstand was knocked over and the lamp was knocked over and somebody had poured bleach all over the floor," Porter said.

The woman's sister, Jane Davis, told FOX News on Sunday it appeared her sister had been missing for a day to a day and a half before her mother discovered the 2-year-old. Porter said it was unlike her daughter to leave the boy alone.

"He was her whole world. She wouldn't even shut the bathroom door with him out there, let alone walk outside," Porter said. "She would never leave him. The only way that he was left was if something happened."

That Blake was left home alone was the prime reason police suspected that foul play may be at work, Perez said Monday.

The father of Jessie Marie Davis' toddler and unborn child is Officer Bobby Cutts Jr., a Canton, Ohio, police officer. Both Cutts and his wife, from whom he separated in February, have been questioned and are not suspects, police said.

Officer Cutts was among the 60 to 70 people who helped search for Jessie Marie Davis on Sunday.

Authorities have canvassed Davis' neighborhood several times and used a canine unit to try and pick up her scent, but until they get new clues, the search has been suspended.


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CANTON, OHIO - The boyfriend of a missing pregnant woman was arrested on two counts of murder Saturday, and a body believed to be hers was found a week after she vanished from her home, authorities said.

Jessie Davis, 26, was due to deliver a baby girl on July 3. Her mother found Davis' 2-year-old son alone in her home, where bedroom furniture was toppled and bleach spilled on the floor on June 15.

The boy gave investigators their first clues. "Mommy was crying. Mommy broke the table. Mommy's in rug," the boy said.

Thousands of volunteers had searched for Davis over several days, while investigators continued to question Officer Bobby Cutts Jr., 30, a Canton police officer, who is the father of Davis' son. Her family says he also is the father of the unborn child.

Investigators were mum on many details of their work until they announced Officer Cutts was taken into custody Saturday and was to be arraigned on charges of murder in the deaths of Davis and her unborn child.

The police department had tried to fire Cutts in 2003 when authorities conducting a drug raid on his cousin's home found Officer Cutts' handgun hidden under a mattress. Canton police officials said Cutts gave the gun to his cousin for protection and said Cutts was lying when he reported the gun stolen. A federal arbitrator ordered the city to reinstate the officer, saying police had not proved the allegation.

Cutts was criticized heavily by his ex, model and actress Nikki Giavasis on Fox News on Tuesday.

Giavasis told Fox that Cutts once kicked down her door when he broke into her house after their relationship ended because he was upset that she was dating someone new. She had taken several restraining orders out against him, she said, including one in 2007. He also hit and verbally abused their daughter, who no longer sees him.

"He was very volatile during the relationship," Giavasis told Fox News. "He threatened to steal my daughter continuously ... He frightened me horrifically, my daughter, my family. It's been an ongoing ordeal since meeting him." She added that Cutts is manipulative and has been convicted of perjury several times. She believes he is responsible for Davis' disappearance.

"I think definitely he'd be the only suspect," she told said.

Officer Cutts pleaded no contest to a disorderly conduct charge in 1998 after he was accused of breaking into the home of a former girlfriend. He was sentenced to three years' probation.

The Stark County Sheriff's Department also said a woman's body was recovered in Summit County at 3:30 p.m. Authorities did not give a location but said they believed it to be Davis.
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CANTON, Ohio - A day after authorities arrested a pregnant woman's boyfriend on murder charges, one of the man's former classmates was jailed for allegedly hindering the investigation.

Bobby Cutts Jr. and Myisha Ferrell were scheduled to be arraigned Monday. Cutts, a police officer, faces charges of murdering 26-year-old Jessie Davis and her fetus. His friend, Myisha Ferrell, faces one count of obstruction of justice.

The Stark County sheriff's office said Ferrell, 29, was arrested and jailed Sunday, but declined to release other information, including whether she had a lawyer.

Sheriff's deputies and FBI agents with a search warrant broke down the door of Ferrell's apartment Saturday night, agent Scott Wilson said. She was not home during the search.

Davis' body was found Saturday in Cuyahoga Valley National Park, still carrying her dead, nearly full-term fetus. The Summit County medical examiner confirmed the identity Sunday.

Davis, of Lake Township near Canton, was reported missing June 15 after her mother found her 2-year-old grandson, Blake, home alone, with bedroom furniture toppled and bleach spilled on the floor. Blake gave investigators some of their first clues, saying: "Mommy was crying. Mommy broke the table. Mommy's in rug."

Thousands of volunteers searched for Davis for several days, while investigators questioned Cutts, a Canton police officer who has an estranged wife.

Cutts, 30, is the father of Davis' son. Her relatives have said they believed Cutts also was the father of the fetus Davis was carrying. Davis' mother had said Davis planned to name the baby Chloe.

Davis' family members and Cutts' lawyer did not return calls for comment Sunday. Cutts' pastor, the Rev. C.A. Richmond, declined to comment as he entered services in Canton.

Justin Lindstrom, 27, an upstairs neighbor of Ferrell's, said officers spent two hours searching the woman's apartment Saturday night before leaving with several full, brown paper bags and bottles of bleach from the basement.

Authorities would not describe what the deputies seized.

Ferrell worked at a Denny's restaurant until quitting her job Friday, Lindstrom said. A manager at Denny's confirmed that Ferrell had worked there as a dishwasher.
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More shock in Ohio today, after investigators made their grim discovery this weekend, finding the body of missing 26-year-old Jessie Davis.

Davis, who was nine-months pregnant, was found in Cuyahoga National Park. Her boyfriend, Canton Police Officer Bobby Cutts, Jr., has been charged with two counts of murder - and is set to be arraigned at the Canton Municipal Courthouse today.

And just two days after the mother-to-be was found dead, Cutts is telling investigators he did not kill her, but instead found her dying.

"The information is: he went to the scene, he saw Jessie Davis, she reached for his trousers, her eyes rolled back, and she died, thereafter," says Avery Friedman, Canton Police Union attorney. "He panicked, he called a friend, the friend came over and assisted him in the removal of the body."

Cutts faces two counts of murder - and that friend, Myisha Farrell, is now charged with obstruction of justice. Police searched her home over the weekend.

"So they start bringing out multiple bottles of bleach - she doesn't even have a washer and dryer down there," Farrell's neighbor says.

The smell of bleach inside Jessie Davis' home is what first tipped-off police that a crime had been committed. Davis's body was found Saturday, after a massive search. She was just days away from giving birth to a baby girl.

Cutts, who is married, is the father of Davis' 2-year-old son. And her family believes he is the father of her unborn fetus. A former girlfriend tells ABC News Cutts has a violent history, having stalked and attacked her. She says she had to get a restraining order against him.

"He would exert control, physically," says Nikki Giavasis, Cutts' ex-girlfriend. "He pinned me down - also, an instance where I had to go to the emergency room because he grabbed me against my will."

And Cutts has a checkered past on the police force. In 2003, he temporarily lost his job after his weapon was found in the possession of a drug dealer. Today, he will face a judge - and so will his friend, in connection with Jessie Davis's death.


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Police Officer Bobby Cutts Jr. is going to fry! I smell bacon cooking.
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An Ohio judge has ordered a police officer accused of killing his pregnant girlfriend held on $5 million bond.

Bobby Cutts was expressionless when a judge gave the order during a hearing this afternoon, standing behind a window separating him from a courtroom.




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A look at the past of Canton police officer Bobby Cutts Jr., charged with the deaths of his pregnant girlfriend and the nearly full-term fetus she was carrying:

1998:

_Cutts accused of breaking into the home of ex-girlfriend Nikki Giavasis, the mother of his first daughter while Giavasis was inside with former NBA player Shawn Kemp of the Cleveland Cavaliers. Cutts pleads no contest to a disorderly conduct charge and is sentenced to three years' probation.

2003:

_Cutts faces criminal charges after his police supervisors alleged he had given his gun to a cousin with a criminal background. Cutts acquitted and an arbitrator orders Canton to rehire him with back pay over the police department's objections.

2004:

_March 13: Cutts shoots at and wounds a suspect driving a car toward him after the suspect tried to back into a second officer. Cutts investigated and then cleared by the Internal Affairs division of the Canton Police Department that found the shooting justified.

_May 20: Cutts receives letter of reprimand for covering the mouth of an arrest suspect with his hand after the suspect used a racial slur against Cutts, who is black.

2007:

_Jan. 17: A Los County Superior Court judge grants a request by Giavasis to temporarily suspend visitation rights and telephone and e-mail contact between Cutts and his 9-year-old daughter, citing "evidence of physical and emotional abuse perpetrated on the child."

_June 24: Cutts charged in Canton Municipal Court with murder in the deaths of girlfriend Jessie Davis and her nearly full-term girl.

_June 25: Cutts has initial court hearing and is suspended without pay from the Canton Police Department.



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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Months before an Ohio police officer was accused of killing his girlfriend and her fetus, a California court suspended contact between him and his 9-year-old daughter based on evidence that he was emotionally and physically abusive, court documents show.

Bobby Cutts Jr., 30, is accused of killing 26-year-old Jessie Davis and her unborn daughter at her northeast Ohio home on June 14. Davis was missing for about a week before her body was found in a Summit County park Saturday, still carrying the baby she was due to deliver July 3.

Cutts was arraigned on Monday in Canton Municipal Court on two murder charges and ordered held on $5 million bond.

Hours before Cutts' arraignment, Stark County Family Court Judge David Stucki dismissed an Ohio custody case between Cutts and his former girlfriend, Nikki Giavasis, over the 9-year-old girl. Stucki cited the charges against Cutts as one factor in his decision, said Jeffrey Jakmides, an Ohio lawyer representing Giavasis.

Another custody dispute involving the 9-year-old girl is ongoing in a court in Los Angeles County, where Giavasis resides.

A Superior Court judge there on Jan. 17 granted a request by Giavasis to temporarily suspend visitation rights and telephone and e-mail contact between Cutts and the 9-year-old, citing "evidence of physical and emotional abuse perpetrated on the child."

The decision followed a report by Dr. J.H. Carter-Lourensz, which was filed in court on Jan. 11.

"The things she remembered, when put together, made a very credible story of concern," Carter-Lourensz told The Associated Press on Tuesday. "She had the demeanor of a child who was very frightened."

The 9-year-old stayed with Cutts in his home outside North Canton in April 2006 and from June to December 2006, court records show. Giavasis sought the court order after the girl traveled to California to spend Christmas with her mother, Jakmides said.

Carter-Lourensz, a UCLA child psychiatry professor and independent child abuse evaluator, interviewed the girl after Giavasis requested a review. Carter-Lourensz wrote in a follow-up report that the 9-year-old felt "sexually unsafe and threatened verbally, emotionally and physically by Mr. Cutts."

Carter-Lourensz found in her interview with the 9-year-old that Cutts would often hit or threaten his daughter, but would always laugh afterward and say he was kidding, the report said. Cutts also predicted to his daughter that she would one day work as a Las Vegas stripper, Carter-Lourensz's report said.

Carter-Lourensz also alleged abusive behavior by Cutts against the 9-year-old's half brother, who is Giavasis' son by another man and not related to Cutts. The boy, 6 at the time of the report, said he was "physically abused, mistreated and verbally abused" by Cutts when he visited his sister in Ohio, Carter-Lourensz said Tuesday.

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CANTON, Ohio - A grand jury indicted a former police officer on murder charges Thursday in the death of his pregnant girlfriend, whose 2-year-old son was left alone in an apartment to tell police: "Mommy was crying ... Mommy's in rug."

Bobby Cutts Jr. could receive the death penalty if convicted in the June death of Jessie Davis and her unborn child.

The murder indictments allege that Cutts killed Davis, terminated her pregnancy, and caused the death of a viable unborn child, "baby Chloe." Cutts, 30, also faces two counts of gross abuse of a corpse and one count each of aggravated burglary and endangering children.

His attorney, Myron Watson, said he would comment after he had a chance to review the indictment.

Myisha Ferrell, a high school classmate of Cutts, was indicted on charges of obstructing justice and complicity in helping dispose of Davis' body.

The indictments alleges that Cutts killed Davis at her home on June 14, and that his actions put their son, 2-year-old Blake Davis, in danger. Davis' family says Cutts was also the father of the baby girl due July 3.

Davis was reported missing after her mother went to her home and found Blake in a dirty diaper, the bedroom furniture toppled and a pool of bleach on the floor.

Blake provided authorities with the first clues, saying: "Mommy was crying. Mommy broke the table. Mommy's in rug."

Davis' disappearance drew national attention as thousands of people searched the area surrounding her northeast Ohio home. Her body was found nine days later in a remote park about 25 miles away. She was still carrying a nearly full-term fetus, authorities said.

Earlier this month, Summit County medical examiner Lisa Kohler said she was unable to determine how Davis was killed. Kohler ruled that the manner of death a homicide but offered no other details, listing the cause as "unspecified homicidal violence."

Investigators had previously stated that the advanced decomposition of the body would make determining a cause difficult. They provided no further details in announcing the indictment Thursday.

Cutts and Ferrell are to be arraigned Friday in Stark County Common Pleas Court. Cutts is being held on a $5 million bond.


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Prosecutors allege Bobby Cutts Jr. told friend he killed Jessie Marie Davis

Bobby Cutts Jr. confessed to his high school friend that he killed Jessie Marie Davis, prosecutors said in court papers.

And after a week of denials, Cutts later led police to the Summit County park where the remains of Davis and her unborn child were found wrapped in a blanket, prosecutors allege.

The revelations were detailed in Stark County court documents filed Monday. They are the most revealing accusations released by law enforcement since Davis' disappearance and death last summer.

Cutts, 30, is charged with aggravated murder in connection with the deaths. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty. He has pleaded not guilty.

His attorneys declined comment today. A gag order prohibiting comment on evidence or witnesses has been placed on attorneys since Cutts' arraignment.

Prosecutors released the information in a court filing opposing a defense motion to dismiss the death penalty specification and other charges against Cutts.

Common Pleas Judge Charles E. Brown has yet to rule on the defense motion.

Cutts was a Canton police officer when he was dating Davis. He has been jailed since leading law enforcement to Davis' body. Cutts, a married father, and Davis, 26, had one son together and Cutts is suspected to be the father of the full-term fetus Davis was carrying.

Prosecutors say Cutts went to her home in Lake Township on June 14 and ''began a violent assault upon Davis.''

The next day, Davis' mother found the apartment empty, except for Cutts' 2-year-old son, Blake, who was crying and walking about in a heavily soiled diaper. The boy told his grandmother that ''Mommy's in the rug'' and ''Mommy was crying,'' ''Mommy put on couch,'' and ''Mommy go to sleep.''

Davis' bedroom was in disarray and bleach was poured over the carpeting.

Davis was missing for more than a week and a national TV audience tuned in nightly for updates on a massive search. On June 23, prosecutors say Cutts, after several public denials of any involvement, ended the mystery by taking police to the Hampton Hills area of the Metro Parks in Summit County.

Davis' badly decomposed body was found wrapped in a burgundy blanket similar to the one that was discovered missing from her bedroom.

The next day, Myisha Ferrell, a longtime friend and high school classmate of Cutts, was arrested and charged with abuse of a corpse and obstructing justice. A prosecutor has previously said that Ferrell helped ''deposit'' the body in the park.

On the day of her trial in November, Ferrell, 30, agreed to a plea offer. In exchange for a prison sentence that could last about a year, the Canton woman agreed to testify against Cutts.



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Photo offered as evidence in Bobby Cutts Jr. trial. Shows stain on carpet in Davis bedroom


Officer Bobby Cutts


CANTON, Ohio — A key prosecution witness testified Tuesday that a longtime friend picked her up one morning last summer and told her the body of his son's pregnant mother was in the back of the truck they were riding in.

Myisha Ferrell testified that former police officer Bobby Cutts Jr. looked nervous that day, like she'd never seen him before.

"He said something was wrong. Something bad," Ferrell said at Cutts' capital murder trial.

Ferrell said she asked Cutts what happened.

"He just said he kind of used his arm," said Ferrell, then held up her right arm at the level of her neck, re-enacting what she said Cutts demonstrated for her.

Cutts is accused of strangling Jessie Marie Davis, who was pregnant with his child. Prosecutors say Cutts, who was feeling the pressure of his crumbling marriage, financial debt and supporting several children, strangled Davis in her home and disposed of her body with Ferrell.

On cross examination, defense attorney Myron Watson asked Ferrell if Cutts had ever been violent or used his position as a police officer to intimidate anyone. She said he hadn't.

Cutts, 30, a former Canton patrolman, has pleaded not guilty to aggravated murder, aggravated burglary and other charges in the death of Davis and her female fetus. Thousands searched for Davis in the area surrounding her northeast Ohio home in the days she was missing after her June death. Her decomposed remains were found June 23 in a park about 20 miles from her home near North Canton, some 45 miles south of Cleveland.

Defense attorneys say there is no evidence linking Cutts to the murder.

Ferrell has pleaded guilty to obstructing justice and complicity to gross abuse of a corpse. She was sentenced to two years in prison.

On Monday, the jury heard two audio recordings in which Cutts denied any knowledge about what happened to Davis, who was about two weeks from delivering their second child, according to prosecutors.

Cutts told Sgt. Eric Weisburn that he didn't know if the child was his because Davis also was seeing someone else.

Cutts characterized their relationship by saying, "It was more sexual than like a relationship." He added, referring to their 2 1/2-year-old son: "Blake was born and that made things a little different."

The trial is expected to last at least two weeks.
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CNN -- A jury in Canton, Ohio, found former police officer Bobby Cutts Jr. guilty of murdering his pregnant girlfriend, Jessie Marie Davis, and their unborn child.

The jury of six men and six women reached the verdict after more than 21 hours of deliberations.

Jurors found Cutts guilty of aggravated murder for the unlawful termination of Davis' pregnancy and the aggravated murder of a child under the age of 13.

But the jury found him guilty of a lesser murder count in the death of Davis.

Davis was nine months pregnant when she disappeared. She had chosen the name Chloe for her daughter.

Jurors found that baby Chloe was killed during the commission of another crime, making Cutts eligible for the death penalty.

The penalty phase of the trial is set to begin February 25. Cutts will face a sentence of either 25 years to life with the possibility of parole, 30 years to life with the possibility of parole, life without parole or death.

As the verdicts were read, Cutts remained stoic, a stark contrast to his tearful testimony on Monday. Video Watch the verdicts »

His and Davis' families left the courthouse without comment.

Jurors began deliberations late Tuesday afternoon. They had been sequestered, spending nights at a nearby hotel, cut off from exposure to the media and other potential influences.

According to testimony, Cutts, 30, rolled Davis' body in a comforter and dumped it in a park, leaving their 2½-year-old son, Blake, alone.

Cutts also was found guilty of aggravated burglary, two counts of gross abuse of a corpse and endangering a child, Blake.

Cutts sobbed on the witness stand as he admitted killing Davis and their unborn child. But Cutts insisted that their deaths were an accident.

"I didn't mean to hurt her," Cutts testified, clasping a handful of tissues. "This isn't real," he said he kept telling himself.

Prosecutors discounted Cutts' story, claiming he buckled under the financial pressure of child support, killed the mother of his child and then created a cover story to try to get away with it.

On the stand, Cutts said he went to pick up his son Blake and became agitated when Davis, 26, wasn't moving fast enough to get the boy ready. He said he tried to leave her house but she grabbed him to keep him from leaving, and he accidentally elbowed her in the throat.

Cutts told the jury he performed CPR on Davis and then tried to revive her with bleach. When he realized Davis was dead, Cutts said he panicked and put her in the back of his truck, so Blake wouldn't have to see his mother.

Myisha Ferrell, Cutts' longtime friend, testified for the prosecution that Cutts appeared at her home at 6 a.m. after Davis died.

She said she could tell he was distraught. When they left her home in his truck, she found out why.

"We drove off and he said something was wrong," she said. "He said, 'Something bad.' "

"He said something was wrong with his baby's mother."

Ferrell told the jury Cutts started speaking erratically as they drove, then blurted out, "She's in the back."

Ferrell admitted she helped dump Davis' body in a field and said Cutts later coached her on what to say to police.

Ferrell was sentenced to two years in prison after pleading guilty to lying to authorities and complicity to gross abuse of a corpse.

During closing arguments, prosecutor Dennis Barr said Cutts strangled and killed Davis and her unborn child because of his mounting debt and child support for what would have been his fourth child.

Cutts' own actions following Davis' disappearance were a clear indications of his guilt, he said.

"His reaction is the reaction of person who committed a crime and is trying to cover it up," Barr said.

Davis disappeared in June and the search for her attracted national attention. At that time, Cutts repeatedly denied he had any involvement. But Cutts eventually led police to her body.

"For nine days he kept the location of [Davis' body] a secret and went on about his life, every day knowing that Jessie and Chloe were laying there rotting away, destroying the evidence," Barr said.

Prosecutors also reminded the jury of the testimony of one of Cutts' friends, Richard Mitchell, who claimed the former police officer threatened to kill Davis one month before she disappeared.

"I'm going to kill that [expletive] and throw her in the woods," Mitchell quoted Cutts as saying.

In their closings, Cutts' attorneys acknowledged their client's poor judgment after Davis' death, but said the prosecution had not presented any witnesses to support their claim that Cutts was in financial distress.

They urged the jury to find Cutts not guilty on the basis that the prosecution did not prove their case that he intentionally killed Davis.

Fernando Mack, a defense lawyer, admitted Cutts' judgment lapsed when he wrapped Davis' body up and went to dispose of it, leaving their toddler alone with the bleach-soaked rug.

But he cautioned jurors against deciding Cutts' fate based on an emotional response to ugly facts. "Will it outrage you? Absolutely. But, Blake being left home alone doesn't tell you about aggravated murder."

"You don't know what happened in that house," defense attorney Carolyn Ranke said.

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A former Ohio police officer was sentenced to at least 57 years in prison today for killing his pregnant lover and her unborn child, after a jury voted to spare his life.

Bobby Cutts Jr., 30, was sentenced to life in prison without parole for 57 years. He had faced a possible death sentence for murdering Jessie Davis and her unborn child, who was to be named Chloe.

"Bobby Cutts took my sister from me. You took a chunk out of my heart," Stephanie Davis said, reading from a letter she read for her cousin, Caylon Davis, Jessie's adopted brother, at a hearing before Stark County Common Pleas Judge Charles Brown Jr.

Cutts, who appeared to choke up at times during his sentencing, did not speak. During a hearing earlier this week, he pleaded for his life, telling the jury in a quivering voice that he accepted responsibility for his crimes. "Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I'm asking you to spare my life," Cutts said, according to The Associated Press.

Cutts cried on the witness stand during his trial as he said he accidentally killed Jessie Davis by elbowing her in the throat during an argument. He hid her body in a park, finally leading police to her body after a nine-day search that generated national attention.

A jury convicted Cutts of murder for Davis' death and of aggravated murder for the death of her fetus.

Cutts, 30, told the jury that he swung his elbow at Davis during a confrontation in her bedroom when she refused to allow him to leave her home. The blow to her throat, which he testified happened after she bit his finger, knocked her back, killing her as their 2-year-old son, Blake, slept, he said.

Davis' sister, Whitney Davis, said Cutts' only regret was getting caught. "When I hear Blake cry, I hate you," she said at today's sentencing. "You have not lost someone. You got rid of someone who was an inconvenience for you"

When police arrived at Davis' condo, they found Blake alone. Police said he told them, "Mommy's in the rug."

Cutts, who as a cop had emergency response training, said he performed CPR and then searched for rubbing alcohol to use as a smelling salt to revive the woman. When he couldn't find any, he said, he retrieved a bleach container and tried bleach, knocking the container over and spilling bleach on the floor. Davis did not respond.

"This can't be happening," Cutts recalled thinking as he wrapped her body in a comforter. "This is not real. This is a bad dream."


http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=4355338&page=1
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Cops that lie, need to die!

(Terrorism) noun: the use of violence (or threat of violence) by a person or an organized group against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear. Doesn't that sound like what our government does to its own citizens?

"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty." - Thomas Jefferson

[WaTcHeR]

I believe the jury did the right thing, They will have fun with this cop in prison. Bobby Cutts is going to wish he got sentence to death.
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Cops that lie, need to die!

(Terrorism) noun: the use of violence (or threat of violence) by a person or an organized group against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear. Doesn't that sound like what our government does to its own citizens?

"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty." - Thomas Jefferson

[WaTcHeR]

CANTON, Ohio - Attorneys for a former Canton police officer convicted of killing his pregnant lover have filed a notice of appeal.

The paperwork filed Friday in Stark County Common Pleas Court says the appeal will be based on inconsistent verdicts and lack of sufficient evidence.

Bobby Cutts Jr. was convicted in February of killing Jessie Davis and their unborn daughter at her northeast Ohio home. The 30-year-old Cutts was sentenced to life in prison.

Prosecutors argued that Cutts intentionally killed Davis and the fetus last summer to avoid making child support payments for the child.

Jurors convicted Cutts of aggravated murder in the death of the fetus. They found him not guilty of aggravated murder in the death of Davis but convicted him of a lesser charge of murder in her death.



http://www.wtol.com/Global/story.asp?S=8155778
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Cops that lie, need to die!

(Terrorism) noun: the use of violence (or threat of violence) by a person or an organized group against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear. Doesn't that sound like what our government does to its own citizens?

"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty." - Thomas Jefferson

[wolfie]

He may as well skip the appeal. If it was an accident, he should have called for help when it happened.