00:00A teenager sits down with police and casually shares how he killed his own mother and what he
00:06did to her body will keep you up at night. Well, I tried to work with a cord, ripped cord from a
00:14video game console controller. That didn't work, huh? This one is incredibly disturbing and once
00:21you hear it, you won't forget it. I'm Amy, let's recap.
00:30Imagine opening your front door to this.
00:40That's the scene on the morning of March 27th, 2014 in Robstown, Texas. The teenager at the door is 18
00:48year old Kevin Davis and his victim isn't a stranger. It's his own mother, 50 year old Kimberly
00:55Hill. Police head to the small two bedroom apartment Kevin shares with her in Corpus Christi,
01:00about 18 miles away. And when they step inside, whatever they expected, it's not this. It started
01:06on the couch in the living room. A Wednesday night, Kimberly's watching TV, nothing unusual,
01:12just a normal evening doing a very normal thing until her son comes up behind her with a cord
01:18ripped from a video game console and tries to strangle her. Clearly assuming this will be quick,
01:25simple, easy. It isn't. He's been thinking about this for years. The moment had been mentally rehearsed,
01:32but real life is different. Kimberly screams loudly. She fights back. She grabs onto the cord.
01:39Kevin runs into her bedroom, opens a drawer and takes out a hammer she keeps there.
01:43The living room? Well, you kind of get the gist from there. And uh, she was out pretty quickly.
01:49Kind of tried to play dead at first, then I finished it. He hits her over the head again and again,
01:54at least 20 times until she's dead. Now later, during a psych eval, he calmly describes what he did to her
02:02brains afterward. He felt them with his hands. He tasted them. He's obsessed with the art of murder,
02:11but only killing women. Men aren't his thing. He told detectives he had an ideal crime in mind and
02:17in it, in this fantasy, he's wearing a nice suit. He breaks into a woman's apartment. Now there's
02:22usually a boyfriend, so that problem gets dealt with first. For a long time, he imagined strangulation,
02:27thought it was elegant, easy. But after killing his mother, he admits that part didn't quite pan out
02:33in real life. So now in his fantasies, a knife is better. He says he'd bring clothes with him,
02:38something nice, something pretty. He'd dress her in them himself. And what follows in his words would
02:44be a night to remember. Jesus, take the wheel. And mom isn't the only family member on his kill list.
02:52His half-sister is on it too. The only reason she survives is because she's not there that night.
02:58She lives with her boyfriend. Kevin bounced between his place and hers, staying with her off and on,
03:04usually when things at home with mom weren't going well. And on March 26th, they definitely
03:08weren't going well, even before the murder. Now earlier that night, Kimberly texted her daughter.
03:14She said Kevin was being disrespectful, calling her names, but not necessarily doing anything else
03:20shocking. Nothing that would make anyone think this is it, because Kevin had always been difficult.
03:26Even as a kid, he had issues, but there were no violent outbursts, no big warning signs. He just,
03:32he was just a little bit weird. He just didn't really have friends. There was
03:35just a sense that something about him was off, but they just don't realize how off he really is.
03:41That part only gets clear later, once he starts talking to police and then keeps talking. And the
03:47more he says, the more horrifying it is. Now back at the apartment, they follow the drag marks leading
03:53straight into mom's bedroom. And there she is, undressed from the waist down, posed. Kevin tells
04:01investigators, he lost his virginity with his mother's body after he murdered her.
04:08He also left notes at the scene, chilling, crazy notes. One says, don't lose your head. She may yet
04:19live, although I doubt it. Hurry. Signed, sincerely, your brother. Another one is titled life resignation
04:26notice. And it's a step-by-step murder plan for his mom and sister, telling them he always fantasized
04:32about their deaths, pointing out how funny it is that you never really know someone, not even your
04:37own son or brother. And P.S., he killed their cat one day when he was bored. Now, based on his plan,
04:43after killing mom, he was going to go by a hardware store to pick up an axe and then go to his sister's
04:49apartment and kill her and anyone else who got in the way. In the end though, he decided against it
04:54because I had my fill of killing. He says, it seemed a little much. No one deserves that kind of violence,
05:00ever. But if you're tempted to rank the unfairness of the universe, and this case really does
05:06do that to you, Kimberly sits high up on that list of unfair. She worked as a hospice caregiver,
05:12which means her job was taking care of people when they were at their most vulnerable,
05:17sitting with them, comforting them, making sure they weren't alone or scared at the end.
05:22That was her work. That was how she spent her days. Before that, she served 10 years in the Marines,
05:27reaching the rank of corporal. And she was killed just two days before her 51st birthday. And when
05:32police ask her son the obvious question, what did she do to deserve this? His answer is honest.
05:41She did absolutely nothing. He calls himself a terrible, disgusting person. But he says he wouldn't
05:47take back killing her. And then in the very next breath, he says he loved her. She was the best mom.
05:53After the murder, he takes off on his bike and rides through the nights, trying to put as much
05:57distance between himself and the apartment as he can. He makes it about 20 miles. And then something
06:03changes. He stops. He leaves the bike and his backpack near some train tracks. And he walks over to a
06:09nearby house where he asked the couple inside to call 911 on him. A few months later, the case goes to
06:15trial and the jury hears that police interview. And I mean, what else is there to say after that?
06:23Because once you hear him describe what he did in his own words, I mean, it really convicts itself.
06:28The defense doesn't call a single witness. Kevin keeps the same casual demeanor he had with detectives,
06:33even waves at people in the courtroom when they're asked to ID him, smiles at the jury like he's at a
06:38school assembly, not a murder trial. His attorney asked for a lighter sentence pointing to the kid's mental
06:43health issues. But here's the thing. He's not crazy. He's legally sane. He knows right from wrong,
06:51according to the psychologists that evaluated him. And even Kevin doesn't argue that point.
06:55He says it himself. He knows exactly what he did and he would do it again. Luckily,
07:00he won't get the chance. It takes the jury less than an hour to send him to prison for life.
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