This Verdict Was a No-Brainer...

(CNN) -- A jury in Canton, Ohio, found former police officer Bobby Cutts Jr. guilty of murdering his pregnant girlfriend, Jessie Marie Davis, and their unborn child.
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Grasping tissues and moaning, Bobby Cutts Jr. testitfied he never meant to hurt girlfriend Jessie Davis.

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The jury of six men and six women reached the verdict after more than 21 hours of deliberations.

Jurors found Cutts guilty of aggravated murder for the unlawful termination of Davis' pregnancy and the aggravated murder of a child under the age of 13.

But the jury found him guilty of a lesser murder count in the death of Davis.

Davis was nine months pregnant when she disappeared. She had chosen the name Chloe for her daughter.

Jurors found that baby Chloe was killed during the commission of another crime, making Cutts eligible for the death penalty.

The penalty phase of the trial is set to begin February 25. Cutts will face a sentence of either 25 years to life with the possibility of parole, 30 years to life with the possibility of parole, life without parole or death.

As the verdicts were read, Cutts remained stoic, a stark contrast to his tearful testimony on Monday. watch the verdicts

His and Davis' families left the courthouse without comment.

Jurors began deliberations late Tuesday afternoon. They had been sequestered, spending nights at a nearby hotel, cut off from exposure to the media and other potential influences.

According to testimony, Cutts, 30, rolled Davis' body in a comforter and dumped it in a park, leaving their 2½-year-old son, Blake, alone.

Cutts also was found guilty of aggravated burglary, two counts of gross abuse of a corpse and endangering a child, Blake.

Cutts sobbed on the witness stand as he admitted killing Davis and their unborn child. But Cutts insisted that their deaths were an accident.

"I didn't mean to hurt her," Cutts testified, clasping a handful of tissues. "This isn't real," he said he kept telling himself.

Prosecutors discounted Cutts' story, claiming he buckled under the financial pressure of child support, killed the mother of his child and then created a cover story to try to get away with it.


On the stand, Cutts said he went to pick up his son Blake and became agitated when Davis, 26, wasn't moving fast enough to get the boy ready. He said he tried to leave her house but she grabbed him to keep him from leaving, and he accidentally elbowed her in the throat.

Cutts told the jury he performed CPR on Davis and then tried to revive her with bleach. When he realized Davis was dead, Cutts said he panicked and put her in the back of his truck, so Blake wouldn't have to see his mother.

Myisha Ferrell, Cutts' longtime friend, testified for the prosecution that Cutts appeared at her home at 6 a.m. after Davis died.

She said she could tell he was distraught. When they left her home in his truck, she found out why.

"We drove off and he said something was wrong," she said. "He said, 'Something bad.' "

"He said something was wrong with his baby's mother."

Ferrell told the jury Cutts started speaking erratically as they drove, then blurted out, "She's in the back."

Ferrell admitted she helped dump Davis' body in a field and said Cutts later coached her on what to say to police.

Ferrell was sentenced to two years in prison after pleading guilty to lying to authorities and complicity to gross abuse of a corpse.

During closing arguments, prosecutor Dennis Barr said Cutts strangled and killed Davis and her unborn child because of his mounting debt and child support for what would have been his fourth child.

Cutts' own actions following Davis' disappearance were a clear indications of his guilt, he said.

"His reaction is the reaction of person who committed a crime and is trying to cover it up," Barr said.

Davis disappeared in June and the search for her attracted national attention. At that time, Cutts repeatedly denied he had any involvement. But Cutts eventually led police to her body.

"For nine days he kept the location of [Davis' body] a secret and went on about his life, every day knowing that Jessie and Chloe were laying there rotting away, destroying the evidence," Barr said.

Prosecutors also reminded the jury of the testimony of one of Cutts' friends, Richard Mitchell, who claimed the former police officer threatened to kill Davis one month before she disappeared.

"I'm going to kill that [expletive] and throw her in the woods," Mitchell quoted Cutts as saying.

In their closings, Cutts' attorneys acknowledged their client's poor judgment after Davis' death, but said the prosecution had not presented any witnesses to support their claim that Cutts was in financial distress.

They urged the jury to find Cutts not guilty on the basis that the prosecution did not prove their case that he intentionally killed Davis.

Fernando Mack, a defense lawyer, admitted Cutts' judgment lapsed when he wrapped Davis' body up and went to dispose of it, leaving their toddler alone with the bleach-soaked rug.
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But he cautioned jurors against deciding Cutts' fate based on an emotional response to ugly facts. "Will it outrage you? Absolutely. But, Blake being left home alone doesn't tell you about aggravated murder."

"You don't know what happened in that house," defense attorney Carolyn Ranke said
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There was sooo much info on this story-it was impossible to post all of it.
He buckled under child support pressure, but he refused to take measures to guard against pregnancy, namely not committing adultery.
He was definitely a psychopath, considering how he treated his 9 yr old daughter...glad he's off the streets.

but it was his son's' words ...mommy's in the rugwords that put him away.
smh




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I Would Love To Get Pulled Over By This Cop!!!

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I hope I can find a workplace that I'm happy to go to as this police officer has!!

I'll have what he's having:

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In This Case, Unfortunately It Looks Like I'm Right :(

On November 7 th I posted an article on Police Officer Drew Peterson and his missing wife-much younger wife #4 Stacy.
My words at the end of the article were, and I paraphrase- I had a feeling dude killed Stacy and his 3rd wife.
November 7 post

Remember he said wife #3-Kathleen Savio "drowned in the bathtub."
We all may not be police officers but we do know 2 +2 does not equal 7!

At the request of the family, former NY Medical Examiner Michael Baden performed an autopsy on Drew's 3rd wife and has determined she was placed in the bathtub AFTER she died following a struggle with her crazy friggin' husband in 2004.

Baden said, see Peterson case update, her bruises were consistent with those from a beatdown. Control-freak..not surprised.
Also according to a letter Kathleen wrote her family, that bully pulled a knife from around his leg and threatened to kill her.
Oh. Who did he think he was Tarzan?!


Hope he has a

on stand-by, he's going to need one.


What I don't understand is how stupid police officers who commit crimes, really are!
Here you are a police officer committing crimes, but you actually believe you won't get caught.
You're supposed to use logical reasoning as an officer, aren't you?
Well, he's not a police officer any longer-he has since resigned, and I bet it was STRONGLY SUGGESTED that he resign...what do you think??

More to follow.

Serial Husband=Serial Killer of Wives???

We Were Right On the Money!

(bolingbrook, IL)

A couple of days I posted about a police office who said his MIA 23 yr old wife left him for another man. Yeah, whatever.
jog your memory here

Now, the police are suspecting this serial husband of foul play. Stacey, his 23 yr old wife, is his 4th wife.

For this man, Drew Peterson to be a police officer-he is stupid.

EVERYONE knows the spouse is going to be suspect #1, when a spouse's disappearance is suspicious. Mix that with wife #3 who drowned in the bathtub. (what? Are we speaking of a two year old?? how does an adult DROWN IN THE BATHTUB???) He did not grant total access of the house so it could be searched. Why not, if Stacy left to be with another man?? We don't have to do the math...we already know the answer.

Fast forward to now: Wife #3's body is being exhumed for evidence.

This could work out two ways....he confesses (is arrested) and is arraigned. Or as evidence mounts, he'll eat his gun. He seems like a control freak, so I wouldn't be surprised if he ate his gun for dessert.

The biggest losers are the young children.

I pray Stacy's found so that her family can have closure.

I Suspect Foul Play-by Serial Husband Police Officer

Disappearance of cop's fourth wife suspicious, relatives say
Police officer tells newspaper his fourth wife left him for another man
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BOLINGBROOK, Illinois (CNN) -- Police are using tracking dogs, airplanes, infrared sensors and volunteers on foot Tuesday to look for a young mother who disappeared nine days ago, leaving her 4- and 2-year-old children behind.


Stacy Peterson, 23, has been missing from her suburban Chicago home since October 28.

Friends and relatives of Stacy Peterson, 23, say her disappearance is suspicious.

Her husband of four years, Bolingbrook police Sgt. Drew Peterson, 53, reportedly has told police his wife said she was leaving him for another man, and police are not treating the disappearance as a criminal investigation.

But the woman's aunt, Candace Aikin, of El Monte, California, said Stacy Peterson confided in her that there were problems during a visit to the Peterson home in suburban Chicago last month.

"She said that she was afraid because he was following her around 24/7, even inside the house," Aikin said. "He was very obsessed and stalking her, even inside her house.

"She was very, very full of stress and just not happy in her marriage at all," Aikin said. Watch the aunt's impression of the marriage »

Steve Cesare, a friend of Stacy's, said she sent him an e-mail on October 17 saying her husband was "controlling, manipulative and somewhat abusive."

"I knew they had problems," Cesare said. "But the part where it says that he was becoming abusive, that concerned me."

Drew Peterson has told police his wife called him from a cell phone late October 28 to say she was leaving him for another man.

"I believe she's not missing. She's where she wants to be," Drew Peterson told The Chicago Sun-Times last week. "I have no reason to suspect foul play."

He told the newspaper, "I believed our marriage was good, but maybe she didn't."

Drew Peterson told the Sun-Times his wife was seeing a psychiatrist, taking anti-depressants and had "mood issues" since the death of her older sister last year from cancer.

But he told the newspaper he found it "very unusual" that Stacy Peterson would leave her children and his kids from a previous marriage whom she had adopted.

"She's a very good mom. For the last year or so, she's been very short-tempered, snapping on everyone, but still a good mom," the Sun-Times quoted Drew Peterson as saying.

Police are not treating Stacy Peterson's disappearance as a criminal investigation. They say Drew Peterson is cooperating with their investigation. Watch how authorities are searching for the woman »

But local prosecutors are taking another look at the 2004 death of his third wife, Kathleen Savio, who drowned in a bathtub after the couple had divorced.

Savio's sister, Sue Doman, said Savio expressed fear of Drew Peterson.

"She told me all the time, 'He's gonna kill me. It's gonna look like an accident,' " Doman said.

Doman said she didn't believe her sister could have died in the way the investigation concluded.

"I don't understand accidental drowning. You just don't drown in the bathtub, especially a small whirlpool. You just don't do that," she said.

In Illinois on Tuesday, police and volunteers were organizing new search efforts.

State Police Master Sgt. Luis Gutierrez told the Chicago Tribune that investigators were searching nine "areas of interest" using cadaver-sniffing dogs.

The couple's home and a pond at a nearby airport also had been searched, the paper reported.

Investigators told the Sun-Times they also want to talk to the couple's children.
Meanwhile, relatives are clinging to hope.

"I'm still holding on. I'm believing that she's still with us. I'm not going to give up hope at all," Aikin said.

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He knows where she is.

He did it, and he did his previous as well.

Just a feeling.