Ex-Cop Testifies In Pregnant Lover's Death

Ohio Man Denies He Intended To Hurt Woman; Says He Tried CPR, Then Hid Body Out Of Fear

(AP)  A former police officer accused of killing his pregnant lover testified Monday he swung his elbow at her when she wouldn't let him leave her home.

Sobbing on the witness stand, Bobby Cutts Jr. said he was at Jessie Davis' home to pick up his son and was telling her to hurry.

Beginning to cry, Cutts said Davis grabbed him and told him he couldn't leave. He said he pulled his arm away and threw his elbow back.

He told jurors it landed in her throat area and she fell hard.

"I didn't mean to hurt her," Cutts sobbed as he clutched at a handful of white tissues.

Cutts testified that he performed CPR, then tried to use bleach to revive her - a large bleach stain was found in her room.

"She wasn't responding and I knew she was dead," Cutts testified.

He said he recalled thinking, "No way this is happening, this is not happening."

Defense attorney Fernando Mack asked why he didn't call police.

"How do you explain that?" he said raising his voice. "I just wanted to go get my son. I didn't want anybody to get hurt."

Cutts testified that he didn't want his 2½-year-old son Blake to see his mother, so he put Davis' body in the bed of her truck and went to a friend's house. Blake was sleeping.

After he picked up Ferrell, he said he drove around in a panic, not knowing what to do.

"I can't keep driving around with her body in the back of this truck," he said.

While driving he saw a dirt road leading to a park and pulled in.

"I stopped," said Cutts, then looked up to the ceiling.

"Did you leave Jessie at that location?" Mack said.

"Yeah," Cutts said between sobs.

He then spent the rest of the day trying to convince himself nothing had happened.

"This isn't real. It's not happening," Cutts said. "If I go along with my day, it'll all go away."

He picked up his daughter bought her a snow cone maker, mulched his yard and went to work that evening. He even called Davis.

"I was hoping I would call her home and she would answer and this whole thing would be over," he said.

Cutts could receive the death penalty if convicted of killing Davis, who was nine months' pregnant with his child when she died last June.

The former Canton officer has pleaded not guilty to aggravated murder and other charges.

Thousands searched for the 26-year-old Davis in the area surrounding her home in the days she was missing after her death and before Cutts led authorities to the body.

Prosecutors have said Cutts was feeling the pressure of his crumbling marriage, financial debt and supporting several children.

As defense attorneys began presenting their case earlier Monday, a witness said scientists couldn't find blood on items taken from his home.

Kylie Graham, a criminalist for Stark County crime lab, testified that she couldn't confirm blood on gloves, a sweat shirt and other clothing collected from former Cutts' house on June 20, five days after Davis was reported missing.

Investigators found a large bleach stain on the carpeting in Davis' bedroom and could not find any blood evidence in the room. Gary Rini, an independent forensic science consultant, testified that bleach won't make blood stains undetectable.

"It actually enhances the ability to detect blood because it dilutes it and spreads it in a further area," Rini said.

Cutts' attorneys told the jury during opening statements that there was no evidence linking Cutts to Davis' killing. Prosecutors warned the jury that common sense, not DNA evidence, would determine the case.

Cutts' friend, Myisha Ferrell, is the case's key witness and testified earlier that Cutts demonstrated to her that he choked Davis with his arm.

[clynnsky]

I live about 5 minutes away from Jessie''s house, and this topic is close to my heart. This man was supposed to be a trusted man, a past cop?! First of all, why is he saying that he was trying to leave when he hit her, and the bed room is messed up? A cap full of bleach doesn''t cover a large area on the floor. If you were there to get your son, why would you leave him there? If he was sleeping why would you be worried about him seeing his mother? And since he was "sleeping" how did he know that his mother was in the rug and broke the table and was crying? His story doesn''t fit at all. I hope the jurors aren''t stupid and show pity, because you don''t burn somebody''s dead body if you didn''t intend on killing them. There was to much fighting for him to have only hit her like he says. He''s a horrible man who lies through his teeth and deserves to die for what he did to an innocent mother and child. People like him don''t deserve pity or to live.

[rumboogie3]

I read this story for the first time tonight. I felt sad for both families and thought accidents do happen and his story seemed fairly reasonable. Half way through the story I stopped to watch the video of him testifying. I said to myself something doesn''t add up here. He was crying but I didn''t see tears. The expression on his face looked as though he was straining, not really crying.
What was the bleach used for. I''ve never heard of using bleach while performing CPR. And then there were the statements his son made regarding his mother wrapped in a blanket and knocking the table over. The defendent said he did it, unless he stumbled or something, its pretty hard to knock and table and lamp over. None of that makes any sense to me. I think he is guilty, his story just doesn''t add up to me. The last thing I would like to say is, it makes no difference what the color of his skin is. This could happen to anyone race

[sweetestgal-2009]

I am only 17 an i know bettter this dude is a grown man what is wrong with our society..i dont care what color he is i think that is foul there is no reason he jus didnt call the police right away and if you didnt mean to do it. he is in more trouble now then he would have been if they would have been able to get the baby out and maybe her back to life and if he had a cell fone in his truck then it would have taken a couple of seconds to get it an call them.an he was a former cop an didnt know how to do CPR so then that makes me real safe so then how many cops actually know how to do CPR an am i risking my life next time i stop breathing to rely on some cop? This is crazy it is never gonna change bc this is america!!!!

[jetlizhan]

now wait just a minute - bleach to revive someone?? and he''s a cop? good try you creep, but it doesn''t fly. and the ''if i go along with my day, it''ll all go away'' - that''s a new one, too. cutts, you are a lying b@stard through and through.

[nikkicatt1]

Let me get this straight - 1. He din''t do it. 2. He knew where the body was - but, didn''t do it. 3. He did do it - but, it was an accident. Then he used bleach to revive her while he was giving CPR.
WOW!! This is great fiction. As a cop (even ex) he knew exactly what he was doing. The cover up, the lies and the tears.

[michellem99-2009]

A man kills and what ye want the state to do. Killing him won''t bring back that woman..

[pixelslinger]

lots of dead people, executed by their state, deserve to live. If you can''t give it to them, who the hell are you to demand who should be executed?

[michellem99-2009]

Dear Lady,
My late aunt taught me there is one race that being human. Yer skin colour is meaningless. Lass ye as a person is meaningful. We are one race. My skin white..so what..Ladies we are all colour. I met a black man and his skin was whiter than mine.. I am legally blind.. No Pebbles there are ladies that surely help ye..I am from Maine..that state never owned any slaves..no..Yes Dear I was 15 and I am white and there was a black child board our bus and HE treated in a matter that pissed me. The school bus driver hit him..I was pissed an adult hitting a child..He was my seat mate..every day, I put my peers in their love. I was called the N. word.. Yer a woman dear and that man better treat ye as a queen if not yer with the wrong man..Ladies..We are women.
We are many colours. We are sisters in Jesus..

[fuzzio]

HE WILL NOT GET OFF BECAUSE HE IS A NEGRO.THE JURY PROABLY WILL FRY HIM BECAUSE HE IS A BLACK MAN. YOU BEING A WHITE, IF YOU WERE TO KILL ME(A BLACK WOMAN) I BET YOU WILL BE OUT ON BAIL CHARGED WITH INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGTER LOOKING AT 3 TO 5 YEARS SUSPENDED, PUT ON PROBATION FOR TWO YEARS. NO TIME SPEND IN PRISON. FOR YEARS WHITE MEN HAVE KILLED THOUSANDS OF INNOCENT BLACK PEOPLE FOR THE COLOR OF THEIR SKIN AND GETTING AWAY WITH IT. PAYBACK IS A ***.

[michellem99-2009]

Yes he is black..I have met good black folk. That fool is an ex cop..people think..He has a son..thete is more to it..He can''t undo the death..Dad he laid the law down and he said no hitting he stopped us and taught us why. A child will push ye and it is yer duty to start when they are to learn right from wrong. They will attend school. If ye say no then no is no. Act up yer duty is to make him/her mind it may mean a quiet place to corrcrt . Ye are the parent..Learn.. That fool will go to prisom..

[lien2lien]

This is a sad and horrifying scenario that is being played out over and over again. It''s just unfathomable that someone would hurt or kill a pregnant woman. We need to be tough on these guys. I hope he does get the death penalty. I also think we need to start anti-domestic violence training early with our kids. Right now it is still difficult to prove domestic violence, and still difficult to get help when you''re the victim.

[michellem99-2009]

The problem is the killing in this nation..The drugs..the American family is just not here. That is both genders''blame..HANG HIM...I would not beable to live with me if I DID what he did..I was raised to care about others.

[michellem99-2009]

Ohio need to clean up her mess. They will hold his paw and feel sorry for him.Sit up as a man Bobby and stand at the plate and tell the court the truth as God Allmighty knows. Yer an ex cop and a bully..Amen..Ladies..

[incog-nito]

He tried to revive her with BLEACH? C''mon! More like he tried to clean up the evidence with it.

[gmond]

Good explanation for the bleach stain, lol.

[jegibbons]

I cannot muster up an ounce of sympathy for this Bobby Cutts Jr. However, that said, under the circumstances with the prosecution being hampered with no incriminating and established cause of death as testified to by a certified pathologist this defense attorney is mustering a BRILLIANT DEFENSE by having this Bobby Cutts Jr cry while testifying. You can bet that at least one chump on this jury will have a reasonable doubt.

[michellem99-2009]

Miss Davis yer rest in peace..That asre will suffer when he goes to the big house..

[michellem99-2009]

pity party..not here..He was not a man to hit a woman..Years ago I had a boyfriend and he used my blindess and hit me in the breasts and that hurt. I was pissed and he was history . I told him to get lost. Ayellow belly ...

[rowdytexan2]

Sorry, can''t buy this. If he swung his arm that hard, he wasn''t just trying to get loose. If it was an accident he would''ve called 911 and then tried to revive her, and save that baby.

Let justice be served.

[ralan40]

...so he gets to throw his own attempted "pity party" and the news media eats it up.....
Sounds like a guilty plea to me, why waste time with further testimony.
geez, he can''t even plead guilty like a man, how did he have the nuts to father children or even appeal to the women who let him give it to them?