He was supposed to pick up Blake the following day, but said he couldn't reach Davis on the phone so he never did. on June 13, the last night her family talked to her. He was also the father of the baby Davis was carrying, her family said.Ĭutts said he last spoke to Davis at 8 p.m. Cutts, who is married, has three children: one with Davis, one with his wife and another with a pinup model he met nearly a decade ago while attending Walsh University in North Canton. Patricia Porter, Davis' mother, said she prayed he wasn't involved.īut many blamed him from the start. Until his arrest Saturday, investigators had denied Cutts was a suspect. Cutts was searching with them, she said, adding, "I don't know how anybody could be that completely evil." Our heart breaks for that whole family, especially Blake," said Lisa Ackerman of East Canton, who brought a stuffed lamb and a card that read "Jessie and Baby Chloe rest in peace."Īckerman, who works with Davis' aunt, said she helped searchers look for Davis last Sunday. Some people just dropped off tokens and drove away, but others lingered in prayer and disbelief. Investigators announced Cutts' arrest at 6 p.m., and by 8 p.m., the front steps of Davis' duplex were filled with plastic-wrapped flowers, stuffed animals and rosaries. "I think he felt that he was on the sidelines and that if he let this go, they were going to arrest him anyway," Dimoff said. And he was probably worried about what investigators had learned from his 2-year-old son, Blake, who was left alone at the duplex when his mother disappeared, Dimoff said. Cutts saw thousands of people looking for Davis, he said, and he knew police had his cell phone records. Timothy Dimoff, president of SACS Consulting & Investigative Services in Akron, said the pressure on Cutts has been building all week. "I don't know what they were looking for, but they took plenty of it." With the criminal case coming together so quickly Saturday, a former Akron police detective said he believes Cutts must have confessed. "They totally filled up a trunk of a sheriff's car," said the neighbor, Justin Lindstrom, 27. Which can destroy DNA evidence - splattered around Davis' bedroom. The woman who lives there graduated with Cutts from GlenOak High School.Ī warrant obtained by the Canton Repository newspaper showed investigators were looking for DNA evidence that would show the 29-year-old woman obstructed justice.Īmong other things, the warrant said investigators sought gallons of bleach at the apartment. Saturday evening, Stark County sheriff's deputies used a battering ram to smash through the door of a Canton duplex, the upstairs neighbor said. They provided few details Saturday because the murder case is still unfolding. What led investigators to the site just south of Blossom Music Center in the Summit park is unclear. It was a grim end to a 10-day search for Davis, whose disappearance gripped a nation and prompted thousands of people to scour Stark County cornfields, garbage dumps and an abandoned strip mine looking for the 26-year-old Lake Township woman.Ĭutts faces two charges of murder - one for the death of Davis and the other for her unborn daughter, whom she had already named Chloe. on Saturday after they found the body of his pregnant girlfriend, Jessie Davis, in a Summit County park. Investigators arrested Canton police officer Bobby Cutts Jr.
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