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00:10I was at the New Haven Police Department when I heard our dispatch taking a call from a frantic
00:15caller. I immediately got in my car, alerted Officer Shaneybrook. We activated our lights
00:28and sirens, and proceeded to the scene. It was a little after four in the morning.
00:33He's not responding. Okay, I'm going to have help on the way to you. They'll be there in just a
00:37few
00:37minutes, okay? As we approached the house, I see who I later found to be Allison Davis out in the
00:46front yard waving me down. I asked where the victim was. She directed me in through the kitchen.
00:58By the front door, I could see a male laying face down with a large pool of blood around
01:03his head. What's your name? Kevin Davis. Kevin Davis. Did Allison attempt to talk to Kevin?
01:11No, sir. Not that I ever saw. Kevin, can you hear us? Kevin. Just stay here, Kevin. Ma'am,
01:18is there anybody else in the house just so we're aware? Just my dog. Okay, when did you find him?
01:23Just now, I woke up. I was sleeping on the couch. He was sleeping upstairs, and all of a sudden,
01:31I woke up to a loud bang, and I was like, what is that? This just doesn't look like a
01:37fault.
01:39After I got the prognosis from the paramedics, I went up and let her know that he is extremely
01:46critical. Right now, we're treating this as a crime scene due to his condition, okay? I inform
01:53her that at this point, she cannot go back into the house. Like, why is it being treated as a
01:58crime scene? Just due to his condition, okay? He's critical right now. All right? The crime scene
02:05part really surprised her. She doesn't have a normal reaction from me telling her her husband's
02:09critical, right? I think she's still in shock. You think so? I had Detective Kruger paged out.
02:15I get the call. It's about 5 in the morning, so I get dressed, show up on the scene. Allison's
02:21staying outside, relatively very calm. She says they're out drinking at East Haven Tavern.
02:31We got home. He had some more beers.
02:37And she said that she had slept on the couch.
02:41And then I woke up to a loud noise, and when I came over, I saw him face down.
02:46She said he had fallen down the stairs, and there was blood everywhere. I asked her if I could
02:52search the home. She said that she wanted to cooperate. Signed my consensus search paper,
02:58and I go into the home. I verify. There's a blanket and a pillow on the couch. The TV's on.
03:06Someone was just
03:07sleeping there. Checks out. She said that they had a couple of beers when they got home. There's beer
03:12cans lined up. Everything seemed to be normal. My alarm had just gone off for work, and I get a
03:20phone call
03:20from Allison. My name is Casey Clem, and Allison Davis is my best friend. There was an accident,
03:28and Kevin had fallen, and he was on his way to the hospital. I said, say no more. I'm on
03:33my way.
03:35She, like, just fell apart in my arms and just started hysterically crying.
03:40They had pronounced him brain dead.
03:43When I was sitting next to Allison at the hospital, Detective Krueger called.
03:47I said that the scene is released. You can return home, get clothes, whatever you need to do.
03:51And he suggested that we have someone come clean this up, and that there was a lot of blood.
03:56In hindsight, I would have held the scene for longer after the autopsy. That's when it started
04:03to change. This is no accident. She didn't do this. She never would have done this.
04:08It's a homicide. Did Allison Davis murder her husband, Kevin?
05:01August 12, 2023. New Haven, Indiana.
05:07Shortly before morning broke, in the home he rented with his wife, Allison, at the base
05:13of a steep stairway, Kevin Davis' blood seeped onto the floor.
05:20Where's that blood coming from?
05:22Right through his nose.
05:25The amount of blood was, it was alarming. It was, it was everywhere.
05:31Allison had already given Detective James Krueger permission to search the house.
05:35All right. If you do agree to that, I need you to sign there saying that you understand
05:39it. But she warned them about the bedroom, where their pit bull, Willow, would sometimes
05:44growl at strangers who approach. She's up in the bedroom, and she's a guard dog.
05:49Okay. And I don't know if she'd do anything, and I don't want anything to happen.
05:52Right now, what I won't do is, I won't go in that room. Okay.
05:57He's critical right now.
05:59Kevin had been rushed to Parkview Regional Medical Center. After speaking with first responders,
06:05and breaking the tragic news to her loved ones, Allison also headed to Parkview.
06:10So you go to the hospital?
06:12Yes.
06:13Steve Krause watched his daughter try to will Kevin back to consciousness.
06:18Their favorite phrase for one another was, babe. And Allison's up there, hey, babe, you're
06:24going to be okay. Hey, babe, you know, I'm here with you. Hey, babe, I love you.
06:30She had like blood on her fingernail cuticles and on her phone. I could tell her she had
06:38been crying, but she kind of just looked like in shock. Her best friend, Casey Clem.
06:45They had her in like a little small waiting room with a chaplain. And I was trying to calm
06:50her down to ask questions, you know, like what was going on. Back at the house, Detective Kruger
06:56lifted restrictions and cleared the bloody scene. It was horrific. But at this point,
07:03he believed it was an accident. Maybe he took a head plant down the stairs. I don't know. I wasn't
07:08there. The detective said, I think we're done here. Allison stayed at the hospital. But back home,
07:16all that blood needed to be cleaned up. You don't think about that, right? Like who cleans it up?
07:22I said, well, I will go do it. You had permission to do this?
07:27Correct. Permission from the lead detective in this case?
07:30Correct. How upsetting was this process of cleaning?
07:34Well, it's very upsetting. Sometimes I'd become overwhelmed and need to gather myself
07:43to finish what I'd come to do. Including tending to Willow, who had been left upstairs in their
07:51bedroom with the door closed. Allison was concerned that the dog hadn't been left out.
07:56They had no children. So the dog was like a child. Throughout that frantic morning,
08:03Allison and her family quietly prayed. I'm praying, Kevin, just, you know,
08:07wake up. You know, wake up. You look like you're sleeping. Just wake up.
08:12Kevin and Allison were part of a tight group of friends who were regulars at the East Haven Tavern,
08:19where Jody Espy and Jessica Eckwright take care of the crowd.
08:23Our customers become our family around here.
08:27The news that Kevin was in critical condition hit hard.
08:31Everybody was just talking like, oh my gosh, he was just here. That's so sad.
08:36Kevin and Allison had been at the Tavern just hours earlier.
08:40It was hard not to be a friend of Allison's because she just made everybody feel like you mattered.
08:46Kevin, a skilled landscaper, had a big personality that matched his big heart.
08:53Kevin Davis was just a nice guy, always hardworking, ready to help anybody out at any time.
09:00Close friends Todd Spessart and Jason Young scrambled to see Kevin.
09:05We all met at the hospital. Yeah.
09:07We talked to Allison and her parents.
09:10Plenty she had been crying, but she was holding back.
09:12She was a mess. She was devastated. Yes.
09:15Yes.
09:16The scene was overwhelming.
09:18Yeah, he's brain dead. There's nothing left in there.
09:21God, just a few hours earlier, he was sitting right over here, right?
09:25Correct.
09:26Do you say anything to Kevin?
09:27Oh, yeah. I told him, I was like, I feel really bad about this, and it shouldn't have happened, and
09:35wish you were still here.
09:37And did you have a chance to say goodbye to your friend?
09:41Yeah, I said goodbye there. Yep.
09:44Yeah, then they were talking about, you know, donating his organs and stuff. I was like, wow.
09:51Wow. He was an organ donor, correct?
09:54Yes. Yes, she was very proud of him for that, too.
09:57His life support would be disconnected. Soon, 40-year-old Kevin Davis was gone. At 33, Allison was a widow.
10:09They were just happy type of couple that would dance in the kitchen to music together, just the two of
10:15them. Like, that's just who they were. They were great together.
10:20It shook their friend, Deontay Bristol.
10:23I was just holding back tears because we were just hanging out. Like, I was just hanging out with this
10:28guy.
10:29It's devastating, not just because he's no longer here, but the circumstances surrounding it are traumatic.
10:35It had to be an accident. Nobody ever thought it was anything but a fall.
10:39And that's what Detective Krueger concluded, too.
10:43I just didn't see any need in a small department to tie up all our resources and holding the house
10:49for an accident scene.
10:51But the scene did raise questions. Despite a huge amount of blood, first responders didn't see any lacerations on Kevin's
10:59head.
11:00I was just told that he was bleeding out of his nose and mouth. There was no obvious wound on
11:05the side of his head.
11:07That same day, a doctor here at Parkview treating Kevin felt compelled to speak up.
11:13One of the doctors and the ER staff had some concerns with his injuries.
11:17The CT scans showed internal wounds, multiple skull fractures.
11:22She also noted bruising to his face and scalp and concluded,
11:27Kevin's injuries were not consistent with a fall down a stairway.
11:32That definitely raised some red flags in my mind.
11:34And she alerted the coroner's office, who ordered an autopsy.
11:40When did this accident scene become a crime scene?
11:43After the autopsy.
11:44Once they told me that he had a crushed in skull.
11:47Definitely is not consistent with a fall from the stairs.
11:50That's when I started digging a lot deeper into this case.
12:10Three days after Kevin's death, the autopsy was completed and the provocative findings turned over to police.
12:18I get the autopsy report saying that his skull is crushed in.
12:24Definitely is not consistent with a fall from the stairs.
12:27But Kruger says it is consistent with a violent physical beating.
12:32And you now are going, we may have a homicide on our hands, right?
12:36Right.
12:36You have a suspect in this case.
12:39Yeah, Allison's definitely our suspect.
12:42You have two people in a house.
12:44One is murdered.
12:46It seemed a routine step to launch the murder investigation of Allison Davis.
12:52But the New Haven Police Department had a huge challenge, created by its own decision.
12:58By releasing the scene, that meant family members could re-enter the house?
13:02Yeah, the house is back to her.
13:04But when people other than law enforcement enter a house, once it's been released, there's a problem, right?
13:11There is.
13:11There can be contamination of a crime scene.
13:14Yeah.
13:15The day after police received the autopsy, four days after Kevin's death, Detective Kruger got a search warrant.
13:23That same day and the next, he returned to the house, a body cam roller.
13:29I have a couple more search warrants here, okay?
13:31First one is I got to take your phone from you, okay?
13:34Police had been looking for more evidence, including a possible murder weapon or traces of blood.
13:40But by then, Allison's dad had already straightened up as best he could.
13:46I basically cleaned up the area that I could visually see blood and it was around where Kevin was on
13:54the floor.
13:55It's right there at the bottom of the steps.
13:58So if I can gather the phone first.
14:00Yeah, let me grab that.
14:00Allison shared with Casey a growing unease she couldn't shake.
14:05She was really upset that they took their phones.
14:08Is that password protected?
14:09Because that was a lot of their memories, pictures to look back on.
14:18All right, thank you very much.
14:19Allison would say she initially spoke willingly to investigators.
14:23All right, thank you.
14:24Have a good day.
14:24Doing all police asked of her.
14:27She would talk to whomever wanted to speak with her.
14:29Is that right?
14:30She had nothing to hide.
14:31Why would she?
14:32There's nothing that suggests there was anything other than a fall down the stairs.
14:37And for you, this was a tragic accident.
14:40Of course, it was.
14:44And as the spotlight turned to Allison Davis, here at the East Haven Tavern,
14:49there were plenty who voiced their support.
14:52There's no way.
14:53There's no way what?
14:54That she could have done that.
14:55She could have killed him.
14:56There's no way.
14:57I could not imagine in any world where she would be wanted for murder.
15:03The tavern crowd tells the story of that night.
15:06Allison was working retail at Victoria's Secret.
15:10When she finished, she headed over.
15:13As usual, Kevin was waiting for her.
15:16On that night, where was he sitting?
15:18He was sitting over here at the bar.
15:21And his mood that night was?
15:23Was good.
15:24He was happy.
15:25He was friendly.
15:27I was here with him.
15:28You were here.
15:29It was around 9 p.m. when Allison walked in.
15:33Typical night.
15:34There was nothing out of the ordinary in the slightest.
15:39Kevin had a second, then a third beer and some vodka shots.
15:43Allison sipped on her usual, a sweet cocktail.
15:47It didn't seem like she was drinking excessively at all.
15:50The East Haven regulars carried on.
15:54Kevin could get a little loud, his friends say, but they knew that was just Kevin being Kevin.
16:00I mean, he was just a lot.
16:02What does a lot mean?
16:03He was very opinionated.
16:05But she loved him through it.
16:08Soon, it was after midnight.
16:10Time to turn in.
16:12They were calling it a night, winding down.
16:15Allison left the tavern first, with Kevin following shortly after.
16:20I think it was about 1.
16:21Kevin and his buddy, Jason, started texting.
16:24Now, those texts, do you still have them?
16:26Mm-hmm.
16:27Can you show them to me?
16:28Yeah.
16:29You can just start here.
16:30You can just start scrolling through.
16:32So this starts at 1 11 a.m.
16:34Jason asked, you guys make it back?
16:37Kevin responding, oh yeah, sorry, lol.
16:41A moment later, Kevin confides, yeah, we are good, bro.
16:45I'm just listening to music, lol.
16:47Just being funny, you know, all that was basically going on until about 2 31.
16:54But Casey says Allison told her it was late, and she had told Kevin to quiet down.
17:00She was tired, and all she wanted was to get some sleep.
17:05She said, Kevin, I have to get up early for work.
17:08I'm going to go downstairs and sleep if you don't stop.
17:10I need to sleep.
17:12Kevin sent Jason a seemingly innocent text.
17:16And he says, I'm putting my phone on silent, left my ass off, gotta go to bed, the wife.
17:21The wife.
17:22After the autopsy results came back and Detective Kruger got Allison and Kevin's phones,
17:28he studied that text and the ones before it.
17:32He thought they didn't seem innocent at all.
17:35He was obviously annoyed at her about something.
17:38Remember, Allison had told first responders that they'd had a fight.
17:42Just now, I woke up, I've been on a fight last night.
17:45Who knows what was said.
17:47It obviously aggravated her.
17:50This is a wife that lost it and beat her husband to death.
17:53There's nothing to suggest that Allison did anything.
17:56This is just strictly an accident.
18:12With evidence showing that Kevin Davis's skull had multiple fractures,
18:18everything was being re-examined to determine if those injuries were accidental or intentional.
18:269-1-1, what's the address for your emergency?
18:32Detective Kruger's team analyzed that 9-1-1 call.
18:35And concluded Allison was acting.
18:41This is rehearsed because she wanted to listen to what the 9-1-1 dispatcher had to say.
18:44And then she went to her whole rehearsal.
18:57She never asked them to hurry up.
18:59Almost every 9-1-1 call you listen to, hey, hurry up, I need you now.
19:03You know, this call is about her. It's not about Kevin.
19:06Hey, Kevin, can you hear us?
19:08And even as their body cams rolled,
19:11Hettrick and Shaneybrook questioned if Allison was genuinely concerned as Kevin lay dying.
19:19Typically, based on your experience, how is a spouse reacting in a situation like this?
19:24Usually just absolute panic.
19:27And when EMTs lifted Kevin, bring dead into an emergency vehicle...
19:33Did she attempt to get into the ambulance?
19:35Not once.
19:36Not once.
19:38Not once. Was she crying?
19:39I don't ever recall witnessing her cry.
19:43But they say they did hear her laughing.
19:47We both noticed it.
19:48When she was also talking to the paramedics, my body camera captured her kind of laughing with the paramedics.
19:56Is there somewhere we could get clothes for you?
19:59Oh, because you can't.
20:01Oh, sure.
20:01Yeah, that's the problem right now, like I said.
20:03I mean, it is what it is at this point.
20:05Okay, okay.
20:07Also strange to police was what they observed at the bottom of the stairs.
20:12This just doesn't look like a halt.
20:15He fell down the stairs. Why wasn't he more either wedged up against the doorway,
20:19not laying perfectly flat in a horizontal position?
20:23It's almost like he was laid down at that base of the stairs. It didn't make sense.
20:29Police would come to think they knew why.
20:32It didn't add up to a tumble down the stairs.
20:35What did it add up to you?
20:37Blunt force trauma.
20:39A beating, police say, several severe blows to the head.
20:44Until Kevin's skull caved in.
20:47Right now, we're treating this as a crime scene due to his condition, okay?
20:50All right.
20:53Police uncovered something else.
20:56Allison told different stories as to where she and Kevin were sleeping.
21:01Remember, first responders heard this story.
21:07And I was sleeping on the couch and he was sleeping upstairs.
21:11But that's not what investigators say Allison told Kevin's mother, Alta Beers.
21:17Alta tells me that Allison told her that they were in bed together. I said, okay, that's interesting.
21:24She had told you she was on a couch?
21:26Yeah, completely different.
21:27Krueger says Allison didn't share with Kevin's family just how critically he was hurt.
21:34She's minimizing this entire situation, especially to Kevin's family.
21:37Why do you suppose Allison minimized his injuries?
21:41Because she caused the injuries.
21:42That's why she minimized them.
21:44She's caught lying.
21:45The detectives' theories, the 911 call, faked. Allison's behavior, unnatural.
21:55Kevin's body, it had been moved.
22:00It looks to me like he's been positioned in a way that does not consistent with falling down the stairs.
22:06Prosecutor Tessa Helge teamed with Krueger and the doctors who had treated and examined Kevin.
22:12So your experts are looking at a man that they believe basically was beaten to death.
22:17That's exactly what they believe.
22:19Beaten by someone.
22:21Right.
22:21And that someone you believe was?
22:23Allison Davis.
22:25But the prosecutor sensed the investigation faced some serious challenges.
22:31Where's the murder weapon?
22:33That's a great question.
22:35And what triggered this?
22:36Between them?
22:38I don't know.
22:39I wish I knew.
22:39But Helge and Krueger became convinced.
22:43They had learned something important about Allison and Kevin's marriage that could suggest a motive.
22:50I spoke with Kevin's mother, Alta, and she informed me that there were having some marital issues.
22:57You know, a domestic relationship that has gone bad.
23:00It is on the rocks.
23:02And remember these texts from the final hours of his life between Kevin and his friend, Jason Young?
23:09He said, I'm putting my phone on silent, laughing my ass off.
23:13Gotta go to bed.
23:14The wife.
23:15Gotta go.
23:16The wife.
23:17Investigators suggested that message reflected tensions in the marriage.
23:22Jason believes that's ridiculous.
23:25Did he ever say to you, my marriage is in trouble?
23:28No.
23:29She would have told me if there was something going on and never was that hinted.
23:34Allison's supporters say she was just being honest with investigators when she mentioned the argument.
23:41But with detectives bearing down on her, Allison had stopped talking to them about her marriage or anything else.
23:48She went completely silent after that.
23:51And the cooperation stopped.
23:53Over with.
23:54Yep.
23:54Yep.
23:55On October 17th, 2023, after two months of investigation, police declared Kevin's death a homicide.
24:04And two months after that, a warrant was issued for Allison's arrest for the murder of her husband.
24:13I mean, this is unbelievable.
24:15So we get a recommendation for a criminal defense team in Indianapolis.
24:21Andrew Baldwin and Max Wiley.
24:23I spent quite a bit of time with her and she's a wonderful person.
24:28Three days before Christmas, Allison Davis walked into the Allen County Jail with her parents.
24:35She said, I'm Allison Davis and I'm here to turn myself in.
24:38Did they handcuff her right in front of you?
24:40Yes.
24:41Do you believe Allison Davis had anything to do with her husband's death?
24:47No.
24:49Wiley and Baldwin thought they knew exactly why cops hadn't found a murder weapon.
24:54Because there was no murder.
24:59What was the instrument that you believe caused Kevin's death?
25:05The bannister at the bottom of the stairs.
25:25Indiana rarely allows bail on a murder charge.
25:28Allison Davis was locked up in the Allen County Jail.
25:32She pleaded not guilty.
25:35We know Allison and we know she isn't capable of what they accused her of.
25:41Does she have a temper?
25:42No, she never has a temper.
25:44Does she have a criminal record?
25:45No, she does not have a criminal record.
25:48Her father Steve hoped he'd given Allison tools to survive behind bars and face the anxious wait until her trial.
25:58Our family is faith-based and Allison leaned on that faith.
26:05It was so hard.
26:08Casey Clem searched desperately for a way to help her friend.
26:13It's like there's nothing I can do for her except pretend to be strong and remind her that I'm here.
26:22While loved ones missed Allison, she told them that she missed Kevin.
26:27You know, she would say, I haven't been sleeping because I just keep seeing it in my head and I
26:33just miss him and I want him.
26:35And, you know, she would talk about how all she wants more than anything in the world is to just
26:39hear him call her babe again and hold her.
26:43Friends and family were denied any direct contact.
26:48No visitation.
26:49Were you able to see her on a video FaceTime kind of situation?
26:53No, we were not.
26:55Only her attorneys, Max Wiley and Andrew Baldwin, could see Allison.
27:00Through plexiglass, they got to know their client and developed a sense of her relationship with Kevin.
27:06Do you buy into this notion that it was a troubled marriage headed toward a cliff?
27:12Not at all.
27:12No one's coming to the detectives, you know, right after this happened and saying there were problems in their marriage.
27:18You need to investigate this. Nobody.
27:20But remember, four weeks after Kevin died, Detective Kruger spoke with Kevin's mother, Alta.
27:26He says she told him Kevin and Allison were having marital problems.
27:32It was looking like it was leading towards a separation.
27:34I think it's fair to say that he was concerned about the marriage and that he had shared those concerns
27:40with his family.
27:42As Helge prepared, she believed she had a compelling story to share with a jury.
27:48And it wasn't about love and marriage.
27:51This case is going to boil down to a lot of science.
27:56I'm Dr. Bill Smock. I'm a consultant to the Allen County District Attorney's Office in the death of Mr. Davis.
28:02When I brought Dr. Smock in and I provided him all our materials, I did not tell him what anyone
28:07else thought.
28:09The defense retained a medical expert of its own, Dr. LJ Dragovich, a forensic pathologist and neuropathologist.
28:18He studies brains. He studies brain injuries. He's passionate about it.
28:22The two experts would come to radically different conclusions.
28:27Mr. Davis was beaten to death.
28:30Kevin Davis died as a result of falling and striking his head on a bottom post of the stairway banister.
28:41They worked to make sense of a tragedy that started with a phone call.
28:46911, what's the address for your emergency?
28:49I have not heard the call. Would you like to hear it?
28:52Sure.
28:53You ready?
28:54I'm ready.
28:56My husband just left on the stairs. There's blood everywhere and I can't look all over. I don't know if
29:01you'll ever dead.
29:02Listen to her.
29:06And I can't believe they did this to her.
29:08It's unbelievable. Such injustice.
29:17At the East Haven Tavern, the regulars were torn.
29:22A lot of people think she's guilty. A lot of people think she's innocent.
29:27There's just not a bone in my body that thinks she could have done this.
29:31I believe that she's not guilty.
29:34What do you believe happened that night?
29:38I have no idea.
29:40In your mind, is Allison Davis a killer?
29:44I don't know.
29:48May 5th, 2025. Allison has been locked up for 17 months.
29:55The trial starts tomorrow.
29:58Morning, May 6th.
30:01Former Detective James Krueger, now Police Chief Krueger, after a promotion, heads to court.
30:09I'm anxious.
30:10What's at stake today is either Kevin Davis gets justice for what was done to him or we let a
30:18murderer walk free.
30:19And I just, you know, kept thinking, what evidence do they have to say that Allison murdered him?
30:23And there just wasn't anything.
30:26Krueger admits the investigation was flawed, but he isn't making any excuses.
30:33I was responsible for gathering the evidence, making sure everything was completed.
30:38If something got messed up or I missed something, that falls on my responsibility.
30:44That's my baby.
30:45He knows there are challenges, starting with a most basic issue.
30:50He was a big guy.
30:51You know, the jurors may have a hard time believing that she was even capable of causing this injury to
30:56him.
30:57And if the chief was a betting man?
30:59I'd give this one a 50-50.
31:01I believe that there's a very good possibility that this jury will hang and there won't be a verdict.
31:07At the Allen County Courthouse, both sides are set to go.
31:12The prosecution has no murder weapon.
31:15The prosecution has nowhere to hide from this paltry evidence that it's about to present to you.
31:21There's no doubt that Kevin was murdered.
31:23And like Krueger, Helge knows this case is a tough one.
31:28So many people think Allison Davis simply could not be a killer.
31:33That's not Allison. That's not who she is.
31:35She had no reason. Kevin was her world.
31:38Are you convinced that Allison Davis murdered her husband?
31:43I'm 100% convinced. Yes.
31:55Fort Wayne's historic courthouse.
31:58Allison Davis is on trial charged with murder.
32:01No cameras inside. 48 hours is allowed a sketch artist.
32:07Investigators, doctors, loved ones testify.
32:12But all eyes are on Allison.
32:16And what do you see on her face?
32:19I see love.
32:22But it isn't love. It's forensics that define this trial.
32:26Dr. Smock and Dragovich and their radically opposing theories.
32:31Mr. Davis sustained blows to the head, not just on one side, but on the back and the left side
32:39as well.
32:40At trial, Smock presents this CT scan highlighting Kevin's injuries, the multiple fractures to his head.
32:48What that says is that Mr. Davis sustained multiple blows to multiple areas of his head.
32:55I told the jury that Mr. Davis was the victim of a homicide.
32:59He did not fall down those stairs.
33:03He believes Allison wielded a weapon that was never found.
33:07For example, a kettlebell, a weight.
33:11It certainly could be the end of a baseball bat.
33:14Kevin Davis was not killed as a result of impacts by baseball bat.
33:20He suffered only one, one impact to the head as his head slammed into that post of the banister.
33:30That one impact, Dragovich says, led to multiple fractures.
33:35He says the same impact then caused Kevin's brain to ricochet inside his skull.
33:43The shattered bone fragments acted like shrapnel, tearing Kevin's brain.
33:48They claim that Kevin was beaten. They got it wrong.
33:52I would say Dr. Dragovich got it wrong.
33:56Dr. Smock says, just look at the police body cam video.
34:00The banister post appears clean. There's no evidence Kevin's head struck it.
34:06There was no blood, no tissue, no hair on the top of that banister.
34:12But remember, Dragovich argues the post is clean because Kevin's injuries were internal.
34:20Kevin never had any open wound anywhere on his body.
34:25Blood that was found by first responders was on the floor beneath Kevin's body.
34:30It came from his nose and mouth.
34:34According to the defense, his skull hit this. And if you want to follow me down here, Peter.
34:38Chief Kruger tells us what he believes happened to Kevin.
34:43I believe that he made some comments to Allison who was laying down here on the couch.
34:47And he's walking away from him.
34:49He's walking away from her. And Allison grabs an object. He takes a blow to the back of the head.
34:55Legally intoxicated and immobilized by more blows.
35:00And somewhere in this area is where he loses it and falls.
35:05Investigators believe Allison dragged 219-pound Kevin across a portion of this floor.
35:12Ms. Davis sees these stairs and says, well, this is my scapegoat. I can make it look like this is
35:18an
35:18accident. And he was pulled just enough to make it look like he fell down the stairs.
35:22And Kruger says there's more evidence of Allison's guilt. Kevin's cold body temperature.
35:29Core body temperature was 91 degrees. Dr. Smock says he knows why.
35:35Kevin Davis was lying there for at least two hours before 911 was called.
35:41Kevin, can you hear us? But in his testimony, Dr. Dragovich counters.
35:46Kevin's low temperature is due to something else. The impact with the post destroyed a key part of
35:54Kevin's brain. It's called the hypothalamus. That part of the brain is the actual thermostat for the
36:02body. The result? Your body temperature is out of control. It's kaput. There are so many inconsistencies
36:12with that theory. So I came up the stairs. Kruger took us upstairs to that bedroom Willow the pit bull
36:18shared with Kevin and Allison. She's up in the bedroom and she's a guard dog. Allison had warned
36:25Kruger Willow might attack. Right now what I won't do is I won't go in that room. Okay. Did you
36:31ever get into
36:32this room? I never did. Not on that morning. I 100% wish I would have gotten into this room
36:38on the morning
36:39of the 12th. Because? The murder weapon could have been in there. Chief Kruger has been at the house
36:45several times. This is the first time Allison's lawyers were able to get inside.
36:53Wow. Oh my goodness. That's the staircase right there. And there's the post. So you hit that and you
37:04you end up you know your feet over here. Let's see how steep these stairs are. They are
37:09really steep aren't they? And narrow. Yeah and narrow. It's powerful to be in this house. And to picture
37:18what they believe were the final fatal steps of Kevin Davis. It's an intoxicated guy that fell down
37:27the stairs and hit his head on that post right there. The trial lasts four days. Allison does not
37:34take the stand. The jury is now out. They just heard closing arguments for about two hours. Which story
37:42will the jury believe? The courthouse is dark except for the jury room. Some 21 grueling months have
37:55passed since the heartbreaking death of Kevin Davis. Kevin can you hear us? If convicted of his murder,
38:03Allison Davis could spend the rest of her life in prison. At 11 pm, word comes a verdict.
38:13Allison's family and attorneys emerge. Allison Davis not guilty.
38:24Just moments before, Steve had locked eyes with his daughter as her verdict came down.
38:30She was crying with joy and it was a wonderful moment. That family over there,
38:36that's why we do this work. That's exactly why we do this work.
38:44Kevin's mother, Alta, doesn't want her son to be forgotten. He's my son. I've always loved him and always will.
38:51She accepts the verdict. Um, okay. I'm dealing with it. She stole my daughter-in-law no matter what.
39:02But where is Allison? Back in jail, waiting for her release paperwork.
39:08Can you see that again? A cold but joyous crowd stands vigil. Then, at 2 12 am, the jailhouse door
39:17cracks open.
39:19Allison comes out and everybody just erupts with joy. Oh my gosh.
39:25It was a group hug of the ages. Yes. Tears saying, Allison, we missed you so much. It's so good
39:33to have you in our arms again.
39:35It's a lot of emotions, really.
39:37There is no joy for those who believe the jury got it wrong.
39:43I was like, ugh. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. You were stunned by that? I was. Yeah.
39:5148 Hours spoke with this juror who asked us not to show her face or use her name.
39:57Well, the prosecution didn't have a strong case. Like, there was no weapon. There was no,
40:05this is where she did it and how she did it.
40:07The prosecution's theory had a lot of holes. And the jury believed the theories of Dr. Dragovich.
40:14He explained everything in very clear terms that we could understand. And it just made sense.
40:21It made sense to the injury. For the family at East Haven Tavern,
40:28a bittersweet celebration. And for Kevin's family, what would you have to say to them?
40:34Just I'm so sorry for your loss. It's so devastating. What do you hope for her?
40:40I hope that she can find her place and to get back to that smiling, happy person that she was.
40:48She didn't deserve a year and a half of her life taken away, sitting in jail. So I was
40:54really happy for her.
41:22I hope for her.
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