Ohio mom found dead

It ended as we thought it might, and feared it would: Ohio mum Jessie Davis, set to give birth to a baby girl on July 3, was found dead, and the reported father of her 2-year-old son and unborn child, married patrolman Bobby Cutts Jr., will be charged with two counts of murder in her death. Adding to the tragedy is the fact that the toddler seems to have witnessed at least some of the crime, as indicated by his statements.

Listening to Fox News on Sirius on the way into the newsroom, I heard the head of the search effort confirm that their teams had not found Davis' body, lending credence to rumor that Cutts or someone else had led police to the body. I also heard a racial element brought up -- initial concern from the NAACP that Jessie would be found safe, and concern that no one would rush to judgment against the African-American Cutts.

But this isn't a racial issue. It's an issue of the intimate partner of a pregnant woman usually being the first suspect in such a slaying, the man with the most emotional involvement and most to lose or gain -- either from the new life, or from the mother and child's deaths. Cutts, who is also the father of Los Angeles model and actress Nikki Giavasis' child, has had a couple of legal dust-ups, though being a policeman himself. The facts will come out in the trial, and I hope that those who would use the trial to advance any sort of agenda will refrain from doing so.