Posted on 06/24/2007 4:33:37 PM PDT by blam
New Arrest in Death of Pregnant Woman
Published: 6/24/07, 7:25 PM EDT
By JOE MILICIA
CANTON, Ohio (AP) - A former classmate of the man suspected of murdering a pregnant woman was arrested Sunday on an obstruction of justice charge, the FBI said. Myisha Ferrell was arrested in the death of 26-year-old Jessie Davis after sheriff's deputies and FBI agents broke down the door of her apartment Saturday night, agent Scott Wilson said.
The Stark County Sheriff's Department refused to discuss the arrest, saying any information made public would hurt their case. Ferrell was to be arraigned Monday, Wilson said.
The Summit County medical examiner on Sunday identified a body found in Cuyahoga Valley National Park as that of Davis. The dead, nearly full-term fetus was still in her womb.
Davis, of Lake Township near Canton, was reported missing after her mother found Davis' 2-year-old son, Blake, home alone, with bedroom furniture toppled and bleach spilled on the floor. Blake gave investigators their first clues, saying: "Mommy was crying. Mommy broke the table. Mommy's in rug."
Thousands of volunteers searched for Davis for several days, while investigators questioned Bobby Cutts Jr., 30, a police officer who is Davis' boyfriend and has an estranged wife. He is scheduled to be arraigned Monday.
Davis' relatives have said they believed Cutts, of North Canton, was the father of both Blake and the fetus Davis was carrying.
Justin Lindstrom, 27, an upstairs neighbor of Ferrell's, said officers spent two hours searching the woman's apartment before leaving with several full, brown paper bags and bottles of bleach from the basement.
Wilson would not describe what the deputies seized or say how Ferrell might have been involved.
Lindstrom said he had not seen the downstairs tenant over the weekend and rarely spoke to the woman, except to ask her to turn her music down. He said he didn't notice anything out of the ordinary around the time Davis disappeared.
"I heard loud noises in the middle of the night, every night," he said.
There was no immediate response to messages seeking comment Sunday from Davis' family members and Cutts' lawyer. Cutts' pastor, the Rev. C.A. Richmond, declined to comment as he entered a services in Canton on Sunday.
Davis' body was found in an area known as Top O' the World because of its elevation. The area contains a dirt road, a small dirt parking area and a couple of benches overlooking a grassy field.
The body was found in that field, said Roger Riggins, an investigator for the medical examiner's office.
Just down the road, someone posted a sign that said, "God bless you Jesse and Chloe, forever in our hearts." People had placed flowers and red and yellow ribbons just below a sign identifying the park.
Sad, very sad. This animal and his cohorts should get the death penalty. BTW...isn’t this a ‘hate-crime’??
Perhaps the saddest thing of all is that the child might have seen his father kill his mother.
Speculation about Myesha is that she might have been the one assigned to clean up the blood, but we’ll see at arraignment, I would suppose.
Not in the least. A hate crime by definition is committed by a tyrannical majority against an oppressed minority.
I'm guessing that he's not sad to see her carted away.
Huh?
I was looking at her picture. She looks like IMO the type of woman, that a guy in trouble would run to. A protector.
I wonder if the relatives referred to the baby as a ‘fetus’ or if that was an editorial change inserted by the news people.
What is it with Bobby Cutts and women? He looks hostile, arrogant and mean to me. He obviously has been, since someone in his harem had a restraining order against him.
What happened to that poor woman and her baby is a hideous tragedy. I’m not criticizing her, though I’m sure it sounds that way. My issue is with women who get into competitive nonsense over loser men. That’s another kind of tragedy all its own.
My hunch, “that was an editorial change inserted by the news people”.
I have seen it written that the two most dangerous times for a woman is when she is leaving a relationship and when she is pregnant.
I don’t know how much time Mr. Cutts spent with his pastor if he was fathering children all over the place with women to whom he wasn’t married. Sad story all the way around.
Perhaps his pastor is of the same denomination as the Rev'rend Jackson?
It is what it is.
“Davis’ relatives have said they believed Cutts, of North Canton, was the father of both Blake and the fetus Davis was carrying.”
That is the first thing I noticed in the article as well. Unbelievable. I don’t know anyone who referes to a baby as a fetus.
“I don’t know how much time Mr. Cutts spent with his pastor if he was fathering children all over the place with women to whom he wasn’t married.”
A sweet but naive statement.
A fetus means it’s still in the womb.
Being an LEO,he may have had something on her.Help me and I will make it go away.She will be turning states evidence faster than a 78 RPM record.
OK, I am going to put on my flame suit after this one...
What happened to this woman is horrible and should not happen to anyone. However, after finding out this guy was married, she should have run to the nearest exit. After getting pregnant the first time—and he was STILL married, she should have run to the nearest exit. And finally, after getting pregnant a SECOND time with a married guy, she should have run to the exit.
I am no bible thumping whack job. I am not the perfect person. However, I used this case as an example to my two teenage daughters why getting hooked up with a married guy is ALWAYS a bad idea. I know there are exceptions out there. But there are rules for a reason.
It is no excuse for what he did for her. But do you think she would still be alive today if she followed those oldie but goodie rules? My bet is that she would.
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