Jessie Marie Davis Found!

Family asks for peace and quiet
UPDATE: 6:32 PM, Saturday, June 23, 2007

Now that her body has been found, the family of Jessie Marie Davis is asking to be left alone to grieve.

Rick Pitinii, the attorney for the Porter-Davis familiy attended a press conference tonight, at which Stark County Chief Deputy Rick Perez announced the arrest of Bobby L. Cutts Jr. in the death of Davis and her unborn girl. Cutts is going to be charged with two counts of murder Monday in Canton Municipal Court.

The attorney asked that the media leave the family alone for the next few days.

Cutts was arrested today in the deaths of Davis, 26, and the child she was to deliver July 3.

The body of Davis, who has not been seen since June 13, was recovered about 3:30 p.m. today in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park in Summit County. Sheriff’s Chief Deputy Rick Perez said he cannot say exactly where the body was recovered or what led investigators to the site because the case remains under investigation.

Stark County Prosecutor John Ferrero acknowledged there is lots he and investigators won’t say. “This case is still being investigated and a lot of items you people want to know we can’t disclose at this time because it still under invesigation. We ask for your patience.”

Cutts, 30, has been a Canton police officer since 2001. Canton Police Chief Dean McKimm joined tonight’s press conference. He said though he’s saddened by the outcome of the case, it also proves that “no matter who you are and what position you hold, law enforcement will pursue justice.”

“ While Canton PD has kept a major distance from this investigation, we stand ready able and anxious to continue our cooperation ... through the conclusion of this case,” he said. “No one wants a quicker resolution to this than law enforcement.”

Davis family gathered at the Stark County Sheriff’s Department shortly before the press conference began at 6 p.m.

Also at the sheriff’s office were people who lead a search by EquuSearch, who for three days combed area of Lake Township near Davis’ Essex Avenue NW duplex.

Authorities questioned Cutts several times over the past week and searched his Aryshire Avenue NE home on Monday and again on Wednesday.

Cutts had acknowledged he spoke to Davis on the night of June 13, though he had said it was by phone.

He had denied he had anything to do with her disappearance.

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Authorities expected to question woman in Davis' murder case
UPDATE: 6:57 PM, Saturday, June 23, 2007
BY Todd Porter REPOSITORY STAFF WRITER

Investigators are expected to question a friend of Bobby Cutts Jr. who may have helped him take the body of Jessie Marie Davis from her Lake Township home to a wooded site in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park.

Cutts has been arrested and will be formally charged Monday with two counts of murder — that of Davis and of the girl she was to give birth to on July 3.

A source who has supported Cutts since Davis went missing on June 13 or 14 said Cutts told him he “came to the house and found her (Davis) lying on the floor. ... He called a girl he knows to help him move the body.”

The source said Cutts did not say he had caused Davis’ death, but said he moved the body because he feared no one would believe him.

The source had spoken with Cutts' mother Saturday afternoon.

Cutts told The Repository earlier this week that he had nothing to do with Davis’ disappearance.

Asked if he believed Davis would be found alive, he said, “Hopefully.”

Cutts was questioned and read his rights on June 15 by local authorities, his attorney Bradley Iams said. He was interviewed without being Mirandized by the FBI on Wednesday morning, Iams said.

The Repository spoke to a woman who said Cutts phoned her several times late Wednesday night into Thursday morning. The woman, who The Repository granted anonymity because she was romantically involved with Cutts and is married with children, said Cutts phoned her around 10:30 and asked her to join him at Champs, a bar in Canton where Cutts was seen until about 12:30.

The woman never joined him.

The woman's attorney said Cutts phoned her several times from the bar, based on background music, and then called her from his car after he left to meet with him. She said she did not hear from Cutts after 2 a.m. Thursday.

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