Ex-Cop Guilty Of Murdering Pregnant Lover

Jury Finds Bobby Cutts Jr. Guilty On Most Charges In The Deaths Of Girlfriend, Fetus

(CBS/AP)  A jury has reached a guilty verdict in the trial of a former police officer accused of killing his pregnant lover and their unborn child.

Bobby Cutts Jr. was found guilty on nearly all the murder charges related to the deaths of Jessie Davis and her near full-term fetus.

Cutts was convicted of aggravated murder in the death of the nearly full-term female fetus, which carries the possible death penalty. The jury found him not guilty of aggravated murder in Davis' death, a count that includes intent to kill with prior calculation. But they convicted him of a lesser charge of murder in her death.

Cutts also was convicted of abuse of a corpse, burglary and child endangering.

The couple's 2 1/2-year-old son, Blake, who was found home alone, gave investigators their first clues to his mother's disappearance when he said, "Mommy's crying. Mommy broke the table. Mommy's in the rug," and later, "Daddy's mad."

For more than a week, Cutts, then an officer on the Canton police force, denied knowledge of her whereabouts as thousands searched in the area. He finally led authorities to the body, wrapped in a comforter and dumped in a park about 20 miles from her home.

Cutts, 30, testified for four hours Monday, saying tearfully that he accidentally killed Davis as he was trying to leave her house and she did not want him to go. He said he then panicked.

His attorneys said his actions in dumping the body and leaving the little boy alone did not prove he intended to kill Davis.

"Does that cause you to feel that he's a liar and a cheat and he's going to lie about everything else?" defense attorney Fernando Mack asked during his closing argument Tuesday. "None of that will tell you whether aggravated murder was committed on the morning of June 14th."

Defense attorneys also stressed that there was no forensic evidence linking Cutts to the death and that a medical examiner could not determine how Davis died because of decomposition from nine days of exposure in the summer heat.

But prosecutor Dennis Barr told the jury that Cutts' story made no sense and said a police officer would not hide a body unless he was covering up a criminal act. He noted Cutts' testimony that he sprayed down his truck after getting rid of Davis' body because of bugs on his windshield.

"Is that reasonable?" Barr asked. "Or is it more reasonable to think that he stopped and washed that truck to get rid of trace evidence?"

The prosecution's key witness, Cutts' longtime friend Myisha Ferrell, testified that Cutts picked her up in his truck the morning of June 14 with Davis' body in the back and help up his right arm to demonstrate how he killed her.

Jurors in the case against Cutts in the death of Davis worked with a five-page list of trial exhibits that they had requested from the judge. Jurors, who have been sequestered in a hotel at night, deliberated for four days.

Jurors didn't indicate why they needed the list detailing DNA evidence, crime-scene photos, investigation reports and phone records for Cutts and Davis. They expressed specific interest in what was inside Davis' purse found on the kitchen floor of her northeast Ohio home.

In an after-hours request Wednesday night, jurors asked the judge what might happen if they had all signed off on a verdict in one of the most serious charges - an aggravated murder count accusing Cutts of intentionally causing Davis' death.

[bb19631]

Good- the cop gets what he deserves!! I feel sorry for the little boy left behind with NO parents. The sick ***!!

[offtheback]

An all black jury won''''t convict a black man of anything. Doesn''''t matter what he did. He could have killed 15 people. They''''ll think to themselves, "No way I''''m putting another brutha in prison. The police probably planted evidence or forced him to confess. You can''''t trust white people."

Posted by Keithle1

All of you get off the racism rant. Do you not see you are part of the problem?

[offtheback]

Birth control means you don''''t have to murder your pregnant lover.

Can you say "birth control"?

Posted by Keithle1

His insurance wouldn''t cover it.

[keithle1]

An all black jury won''t convict a black man of anything. Doesn''t matter what he did. He could have killed 15 people. They''ll think to themselves, "No way I''m putting another brutha in prison. The police probably planted evidence or forced him to confess. You can''t trust white people."

[unbiased]

Well...it''s obvious it was an all white jury. No black person on the jury would have voted to convict a black man for murdering a white women. Just a plain sad fact.

[keithle1]

Birth control means you don''t have to murder your pregnant lover.

Can you say "birth control"?

[croft777]

Money is the fruit of all evil. This man was so worried about it that he went to the extent to kill inocent life.How many pregnant women murders have that been already? This world is on its way to destruction.

[michellem99-2009]

Dear Keithle1, Too lazy to use one. I am a woman. A person not ready to have a family must be smart to use means to not. Some males just won''t wear a condoms and they should. Ye know he will be safe in prisom.. He can''t undo that mess. I won''t be paying for his keep. Am in Seattle.

[khanghi-2009]

B''bye loser! I knew he did it when I saw his arrogant tough-guy smirking a#s on TV, thinking he would get away with it because he was so smart hip slick and cool.

oooops! gotcha! (and it wasn''t that hard, idiot!)
Enjoy the chicken on Sundays!
(and the showers!)

[keithle1]

How about a site for poor fugly women to hook up?

[keithle1]

What a surprise. I am shocked. Wow. Let me get up off the floor. Tough guy is bawling his widdle eyes out. They''ll love you in prison, homey. You being an ex-police officer. You won''t be able to sit down for a LONG time. Tee hee.

Some men don''t seem to be able to figure out how to use a condom. Why is that? Anyone know?

[ekucrew]

Save OH taxpayers $$$$.

Put Bobby Cutts, Jr. in general population and print out his bio and rap sheet to distribute among the other inmates.

[bogusbones]

these guys watch too much tv and they actually believe they can get away with these things. black, white, brown, green or blue, it doesn''t make any difference. the fact that so many people resort to violence and murder to solve their problems is disgusting. the world is topsy turvy and we need to gain some type of balance, be it moral, psychological, ethical.

[denn034]

I agree with the Guilty verdict for the murder of both his wife and unborn child. Never forget that the pro-choice people opposed extending murder to include the unborn child to begin with. It is somewhat inconsistent to prosecute murders of unborn children but, not abortion clinics and doctors that abort live fetuses and kill them with disection or drowning. Condolences to all concerned over the death of his wife and unborn child and here''s hoping that ex-cop rots forever in prison.

[hr570]

A black cop that murdered a white pregnant girlfriend will be killed in prison and justice will prevail.

[jimmyc1955]

Funny - in this article it is an unborn "child". In pro-choice articles it is a "fetus".

So - its only human if it''s killed AGAINST the mothers wishes - and it a "health issue" if its killed With the mothers wishes.


So - what we have is a condition where it is situationally dependent on the emotional status of a woman at any given moment to define a very clear legal status.

Can somebody explain this irrationality such that it isn''t rationalizing why killing babies is OK because its just not convenient?

Will this guy be charged with a double homicide?

[lynne_m1]

awww big bad man and cop is cryin(and not all cops are like this) LOSER! DEATH! How are you going to murdur a pregnant woman, or any woman, he was worried about all the kids he had too, keep your d-i-c-k in your pants if you can''t take the consequences of having children!

[wisedad]

Bobby Cutts, Jr. (while I do not have a Heaven or Hell to put him in) deserves everything coming to him. How can a police officer, who swore to protect us, display a level of emotions resulting in "accidently" killing his girlfriend in front of his 2.5 year old son? May God have mercy on his soul.

I pray for this little boy and both families healing.

But in praying for that healing I caution Ohio both Black/White to not allow others to ride the waves of your sorrow''s and frustrations in the upcoming election process by turning this into something other then what it is, there is still a child to be raised by grnadparents.

Beaware, of the "Political Ghosts" hoping play on your emotions and racism going into the 2008 Ohio Primaries!

May God be with you all!

[joedoggs1]

He will most likely be put in Protective Custody. And of course we will be paying the *** bill!

[rushlimpdrug]

He could''a got away with it had it been twelve cops on the jury.

I''m hungry, donuts anybody?