Jessie Davis, 26, of North Canton, Ohio. Davis, who was nine months pregnant, was reported missing Friday, June 15, 2007, after her 2-year-old son was found home alone and with furniture in the house in disarray and bleach poured on the floor. Her body was found June 23. A grand jury indicted her former boyfriend, a Canton police officer on murder charges in the deaths of Jessie and her unborn daughter Aug. 23, 2007.
Bobby Cutts Jr., left, talks with his attorney, Fernando Mack, after the jury recommended a sentence Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2008, in Canton, Ohio. Cutts, convicted of killing Jessie Davis and their unborn daughter last summer, was sentenced to life in prison with a chance of parole after 57 years for killing his pregnant lover and their unborn child.
Bobby Cutts Jr. is handcuffed by a deputy sheriff after the verdicts were read, Friday, Feb. 15, 2008, in Canton, Ohio. Cutts was convicted of the murder of Jessie Davis and her unborn baby and faced a possible death sentence.
Bobby Cutts Jr., stands behind a window separating him from a courtroom, Monday, June 25, 2007, in Canton, Cutts Jr., accused of murdering his pregnant girlfriend and her nearly full-term fetus , was expressionless when a judge ordered him held on $5 million bond.
Patricia Porter, Jessie Davis's mother, right, stands and stares at Bobby Cutts Jr. standing behind a glass, unseen, Monday, June 25, 2007, in Cleveland. Cutts Jr., accused of murdering his pregnant girlfriend, Jessie Davis, and her nearly full-term fetus, was expressionless when a judge ordered him held on $5 million bond. Seated next to Porter is Whitney Davis, Jessie's sister.
Authorities said Saturday, June 23, 2007, that they had recovered a body which they believe to be that of Jessie Davis in Summit County, Ohio, and they have placed her boyfriend, Bobby Cutts Jr., under arrest on two counts of murder. Davis, 26, due to deliver a baby girl on July 3, went missing on June 15.
Bobby Lee Cutts is shown in this booking photo Saturday, June 23, 2007, in Canton, Ohio. Authorities on Saturday arrested Cutts, the boyfriend of a missing nine-month pregnant woman on murder charges and said they recovered a body believed to be hers.
Myisha Ferrell is shown Sunday, June 24, 2007. Ferrell, 29, a former high-school classmate of Bobby Cutts Jr., the man suspected of murdering 26-year-old Jessie Davis, was arrested Sunday on an obstruction of justice charge. Ferrell, was arrested in the death of the pregnant Davis the day after sheriff's deputies and FBI agents with a search warrant broke down the door of her apartment.
Melody Kokochak and other volunteers search a wheat field for a missing woman near Uniontown, Ohio, Friday, June 22, 2007. Jessie Davis, 26 and nine months pregnant, was reported missing June 15. Her 2-year-old son was found home alone.
A sheriff's deputy talks with volunteer searchers near Uniontown, Ohio during a search for Jessie Davis Thursday, June 21, 2007. About 1,400 volunteers searched neighborhoods, farm fields and woods for Davis, nine months pregnant, who disappeared from her rural Ohio home last week.
Volunteer searchers leave an area near Uniontown, Ohio, during the continued search for Jessie Davis, Thursday, June 21, 2007. About 1,400 volunteers searched neighborhoods, farm fields and woods for Davis, nine months pregnant, who disappeared from her rural home last week.
Sheila Church, center, of the Springfield Township Police Department, guides the volunteer searchers through a tree farm on Cleveland Avenue in North Canton, Ohio, Thursday, June 21, 2007, as they search for Jessie Davis, nine months pregnant, who disappeared from her rural home last week.
A woman with a search dog walks past the entrance to an area in Uniontown, Ohio where the search continued for Jessie Davis Thursday, June 21, 2007. About 1,400 volunteers searched neighborhoods, farm fields and woods for Davis, nine months pregnant, who disappeared from her rural home last week.
A sign outside the Greentown Volunteer Fire Department in Greentown, Ohio, Thursday, June 21, 2007. About 1,400 volunteers searched neighborhoods, farm fields and woods for Jessie Davis, nine months pregnant, who disappeared from her rural home last week.
A group of volunteers walk south on Cleveland Avenue in North Canton, Ohio, Thursday June 21, 2007 to their staging area. Volunteers searched neighborhoods, farm fields and woods for Jessie Davis, nine months pregnant, who disappeared from her rural home last week.
Volunteers head out on their search Thursday, June 21, 2007, in a tree farm off Cleveland Avenue in North Canton, Ohio. About 1,400 volunteers searched neighborhoods, farm fields and woods for Jessie Davis, nine months pregnant, who disappeared from her rural home last week.
Tim Miller, head of Texas Equu Search reports on the search for Jessie Davis in Uniontown, Ohio Thursday, June 21, 2007. Equu Search coordinated a search by 1,400 volunteers for the 26-year-old woman reported missing June 15.
Whitney Davis speaks at a news conference at the Stark County Sheriff's Department in Canton, Ohio, as Tim Miller of EquuSearch looks on, Wednesday, June 20, 2007. Davis is the sister of 26-year-old Jessie Marie Davis, the pregnant mother of a two-year-old missing from her home since last week. EquuSearch is a private missing persons search company that joined the hunt for the missing woman.
This is a photocopy of an image from a surveillance camera at an Acme Grocery Store in North Canton, Ohio, that the Stark County Sheriff's Dept. says, shows Jessie Davis with her two-year-old son Blake, at the store on June 13, 2007. The image was shown during a news conference at the Sheriffs Department, in Canton, Ohio, Tuesday, June 19, 2007. Davis has been missing since Friday, June 15, 2007.