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gwen
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Wed Dec 19, 2007 2:03 pm |
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Cutts confesses to killing Jesse Davis
Atty: Cop Told Friend He Killed Woman
Prosecutors: Ohio Police Officer Told Friend He Killed His Pregnant Girlfriend
A police officer accused of murdering his pregnant girlfriend admitted to his high school classmate and co-defendant that he killed her and told authorities where they could find her body, prosecutors said.
Bobby L. Cutts Jr., 30, told Myisha Ferrell that he killed Jessie Davis and her fetus, prosecutors said Tuesday in documents filed in Stark County Common Pleas Court. Cutts has pleaded not guilty.
Ferrell told police of Cutts' admission on Nov. 4, the day before she pleaded guilty to obstructing justice for lying to authorities, prosecutors said. She also admitted to complicity to gross abuse of a corpse and was sentenced to two years in prison.
Ferrell, 30, has agreed to testify against Cutts, who is facing three counts of aggravated murder, two counts of gross abuse of a corpse, and one count each of aggravated burglary and endangering children.
Davis, 26, was believed missing for nine days in June, and thousands gathered to search for her close to her home near North Canton, about 45 miles south of Cleveland. She was nearly full-term in her pregnancy.
A day after Davis was killed, her mother, Patricia Porter, found her 2 1/2-year-old grandson, Blake, alone in Davis' home. Investigators said the boy provided them with the first clues, saying: "Mommy was crying. Mommy broke the table. Mommy's in rug."
Davis' body was found in a field in a park about 20 miles from her home.
"Cutts led police to a remote location where the badly decomposed body of Jessie Davis was recovered," prosecutors wrote. "The body was found on top of the burgundy patterned comforter."
Prosecutors filed the documents in opposition to a motion by Cutts' lawyers to dismiss death-penalty specifications in the case. Prosecutors have not provided sufficient facts to support a death sentence, Cutts' defense team said.
Judge Charles E. Brown Jr. denied the motion Tuesday.
Brown has imposed a gag order on attorneys. Telephone calls to Cutts' attorneys, Fernando Mack and Myron Watson, were not immediately returned.
Cutts' attorneys said at a pretrial hearing Tuesday that they don't believe Ferrell's statement to prosecutors contains an admission by Cutts. His attorneys also argued that prosecutors haven't given enough information to support an aggravated burglary charge.
In a written reply posted on the court's Web site, prosecutors argued that Cutts may have initially entered the home with Davis' consent. But once he "began his violent assault upon Davis, he no longer had the privilege to remain in the home and became a criminal trespasser."
Cutts is scheduled to face trial in late January or early February.
Prosecutors in Stark County, Ohio, say former police officer Bobby Cutts Jr., right, told a friend that he killed Jessie Davis, the mother of his toddler son, and their unborn child. (AP Photo)
http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/WireStory?id=4024496&page=1
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| batmanCJ
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Thu Dec 20, 2007 9:28 pm |
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Going DOWn
This guy is going down, what a scum!
He lead the investigator's to Jessie's body for goodness sakes. And to think that he killed Jessie in front of his little boy and then LEFT the CHILD there.
Makes me sick...should be interesting to hear how his attorney plots a defense case.
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| gwen
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Friend to turn on ex-cop at murder trial
CANTON, Ohio (AP) -- Prosecutors said a former police officer strangled his pregnant girlfriend, rolled her body in a comforter, stuck it in the back of his truck, and drove to the home of a high school classmate who helped him dump it.
But that friend isn't helping now: Myisha Ferrell has agreed to testify against Bobby Cutts Jr., and jurors are expected to hear from her Tuesday in his capital murder trial.
Assistant Stark County prosecutor Chryssa Hartnett said in opening statements Monday that Cutts told Ferrell he had strangled Jessie Marie Davis with his arm.
He also told Ferrell to say that he had arranged for her to baby-sit for his 2½-year-old son Blake -- part of his plan to hide his involvement in the crime, Hartnett said. Watch crime scene video »
Ferrell later told police of Cutts' alleged admission, prosecutors said. She pleaded guilty to obstructing justice and complicity to gross abuse of a corpse. She was sentenced to two years in prison.
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 after she was reported missing June 15.
Defense attorney Fernando Mack said in opening statements that Cutts knew where Davis' body was, but said he had nothing to do with her death. He also said prosecutors had no evidence tying Cutts to the killing.
On Monday afternoon,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, who was married, characterized their relationship by saying, "It was more sexual than like a relationship." He added: "Blake was born and that made things a little different."
He told Weisburn that he'd last spoken to Davis on June 13. He said he called her the next day when she didn't bring 2½-year-old Blake over for him to watch.
In one of the phone calls, he left an angry message saying, "You could at least call," Hartnett said. At the time, Blake was home alone.
Mack told jurors that they wouldn't like that Cutts knew where Davis' body was, or that he left Blake alone for 26 hours. But he said prosecutors did not have evidence Cutts killed Davis. Prosecutors hope Cutts' other actions will enrage the jurors, he said.
"They hope that you'll lose your way," Mack said.
Jessie Davis' mother, Patricia Porter, testified that she found Blake home alone with a dirty diaper June 15. She said that the 2½-year-old told her: "Mommy's crying. Mommy broke the table. Mommy's in the rug."
Blake later told police: "Daddy's mad."
Investigators found bleach dumped in Davis' bedroom, her nightstand tipped over and the mattress askew on the box spring.
Hartnett said Cutts was feeling the pressure of his crumbling marriage, financial debt and supporting several children.
Hartnett said Cutts led police to Davis' body. The badly decomposed remains were found June 23 in a park about 20 miles from her home near North Canton, some 45 miles south of Cleveland.
Mack pointed out that a medical examiner was unable to determine how Davis was killed, listing the cause as "unspecified homicidal violence."
"They don't have a cause of death; rather, they have hypotheticals," he said.
The trial is expected to last at least two weeks.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/02/05/pregnant.slaying.ap/index.html
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