The Death of Jaleayah Davis
Jaleayah Rose Davis was born on November 2, 1991 in Colorado Springs, Colorado to mother Kimberly Nolan Davis. Eighteen months after Jaleayah was born, her mother gave birth to a second daughter named Taubianna, known as Taubi. Not much is publicized about Jaleyeah’s childhood, however her family said that she was a sweetheart. Jaleayah was soft-spoken and seemed to make friends easily. Her family said that Jaleayah didn’t have any enemies. The three Davis girls, Kim, Jaleayah, and Taubi were very close. They were a tight-knit family, and Jaleayah and Taubi were also very close to their grandparents, Kim’s parents, Roger and Cynthia. Jaleayah graduated from Marietta High School in Marietta, Ohio in 2009. She also worked at a local Hollister store with Taubi, while she tried to figure out her next step in life.
While the whole Davis family was close, Jaleayah and her younger sister, Taubi, were inseparable. They described each other as their best friends. Jaleayah was very protective of Taubi. The two often hung out with each other and confided in one another. Taubi said that she recalled her sister having dreams of being a cosmetologist. Jaleayah and Taubi loved spending time at the pool. Her mother said that Taubi always wanted to lay out and Jaleayah loved being in the water. Jaleayah would always tell her that they needed their own pool in the backyard so she could be the little mermaid. As a joke, Jaleayah’s grandmother once bought her a child’s inflatable pool for the backyard. When the girls were little, they’d fight, like most sisters, and Kim would tell them to make up. Jaleayah never wanted to, but in the end, the girls would always end up back as best friends.
12 Hours ‘Til Death
On Friday, November 18th, 2011, Jaleayah left her home in Marietta between 3 and 4 PM to meet a friend, Kristin Bechtold. Jaleayah drove to Kristin’s house so they could get ready together for a night out. After getting dressed and doing their makeup, they headed to another friend’s home. They met up with several other friends and finally, the two girls, along with three others, headed to a nearby bar and pool hall in Parkersburg called the Nip n Cue. Jaleayah didn’t know the others, but appeared to be enjoying herself.
Earlier in the evening, Jaleayah was texting with her mother and Taubi and everything seemed normal. Kim said that her last text to her daughter was around 9-9:30PM. She told her to be good and that she loved her.
At 3:28AM, Taubi received a call on her cell phone from her sister. Jaleayah asked her to pick her up at a gas station. Taubi was with a friend and said that they’d come pick her up. Taubi could hear her sister asking Kristin to give her her keys. She could hear Kristin’s voice in the background. At 3:33AM Jaleayah called Taubi back again and sounded angry and upset. She asked Taubi to meet her at a different location, a rest stop along the highway that was a bit closer to home. Taubi asked her sister what was wrong. Jaleayah told her that she’d tell her when she got there. She was calling Kristin names and saying that she was a bad friend. Jaleayah indicated that she was on the interstate at this time. Taubi was about a ten minute drive from the rest stop. Jaleayah was begging her sister to hurry, screaming about how Kristin was terrible. Taubi told her that she’d be there soon.
As Taubi and her friend headed down I-77, they came around a corner to see several cops blocking the road. They pulled over and a police officer told them that a woman’s body had been found on the highway. They would only tell her that it was an African-American female wearing a white pea coat. Taubi knew it was Jaleayah. She called her mother and the rest of her family who all quickly arrived on scene, near mile marker 181. The police confirmed with the family that the body found on the interstate was Jaleayah. She had been decapitated, and pieces of her body were scattered across the lanes of the highway. Her vehicle was nearby and there was a small mound under a white sheet nearby that police said was most of Jaleayah’s remains. They were in shock. Taubi couldn’t believe that she had JUST been speaking to her sister on the phone. What had happened in such a short period of time that had led to her sister’s brutal death?
What in the Hell??
As the Davis family tried to process what had just happened, more details emerged about Jaleayah and the scene of the “accident.” A truck driver had been the initial caller from the scene. His call came in to dispatch at 3:48AM. He told dispatchers that he saw what he believed to be a dead human body in the road. He stayed on scene, waiting for police. Other passersby stopped and helped to try to stop traffic. (We’ll come back to the phone calls) The sheriff’s department arrived soon after and blocked traffic completely.
Jaleayah’s four-door sedan was found about a quarter of a mile from her body, abandoned and idling, with the keys still in the ignition and the car still in gear. The doors were locked and the headlights were on. There didn’t appear to be any other cars involved. Jaleayah, in addition to being decapitated, had one of her legs broken in half and her right breast was missing. She was completely nude from the waist up, still wearing her underwear and jeans. Her clothes were not near her body. They were stacked neatly on the guardrail. Her bra, shirt, then pea coat on top, IN THIS SPECIFIC ORDER. The truck driver who first called in to report a body said that he didn’t touch her clothing and didn’t go to her car.
Taubi called Kristin several times, as she sat on the interstate, waiting for the rest of her family to arrive. The calls were somehow “disconnected”. After the family left the scene on the highway, and after police had cleared out, Jaleayah’s grandfather returned to take photos. He meticulously inspected everything he could in the area where Jaleayah and her car were found. He even found a shoe print in the gravel.
The following day, the sheriff’s department wanted to question everyone who had been with Jaleayah that night. They were unable to locate Kristin Bechtold. Finally, her father answered the door at her home and said that Kristin didn’t feel like talking, and that she would be obtaining an attorney. Within 12 hours of Jaleayah being found dead, Kristin had hired an attorney. She was the only one involved in the case who obtained representation so quickly. The Davis family was immediately concerned at learning this. They didn’t understand why Kristin wouldn’t want to help, and why she would be so quick to hire a lawyer if she didn’t have anything to hide. Kristin finally gave her statement to the sheriff’s department, three days later. She told them that Jaleayah had been extremely intoxicated and that after they’d driven her back to her car, they made her promise to wait for her sister and to not drive herself. Kristin said that was the last time they’d seen her. (We’ll come back to Kristin’s full statement)
Not unsurprisingly, the Wood County Sheriff’s Department called the death suspicious and decided to launch an investigation.
The Statements
As the sheriff’s department questioned all of the people who’d been with Jaleayah on the night she’d died, the Davis’ felt like there were a lot of inconsistencies. Once they were released to her, Kim scoured the statements and found many things that left her with even more questions.
Kristin: Kristin Bechtold, the friend that Jaleayah was supposed to be spending the night with, is also the granddaughter of a former Wood County Sheriff. Kristin’s account of her night with Jaleayah began at 7PM. She said that Jaleayah came over to her house around that time. The two made cookies, showered, and got ready for the night. After they were ready, the two headed over to Brian Sapps’ house in Parkersburg in Jaleayah’s car. Kristin said they got to Brian’s house around 9:30 or 10PM. She said that there were a few people she didn’t know there, along with Brian, Freddie, and Jordan. Kristin knew Freddie and Brian, but said she didn’t know Jordan very well. She estimated that she and Jaleayah were at Brian’s for about two hours. Kristin said that she, Jaleayah, Freddie, and Jordan left the house “probably around 11. I think it was 10, like 10:15 maybe…” to pick up her friend Katy Nelson. They picked her up from a nearby Hardees on 7th Street. She said that her friend, Freddie Scott, was driving. Before they picked up Katy, they stopped at the North End Market so Freddie could get another bottle of vodka. (later in Kristin’s statement, she said she didn’t remember which they did first: picked up Katy or went to the market) After this, the group of five returned to Brian’s house.
Both Kristin and Jaleayah had been taking shots of liquor together prior to leaving to pick Katy up. After the group returned with Katy, Kristin said that Jaleayah continued taking shots. Kristin said that she had stopped drinking and Katy wasn’t drinking, and she was trying to take the shots away from Jaleayah, because she “realized that she was going to be like really drunk,” but was unsuccessful. Kristin estimated that Jaleayah took a total of 16 shots at Brian’s that night, and that she had taken probably 14 or 15. Kristin said that she wasn’t really that drunk and didn’t think Jaleayah was that drunk either. She also said that she didn’t know who provided the alcohol, but it had been there when they got there. **Important to note that Jaleayah was a small girl, weighing about 125 pounds**
Kristin said that at some point, she, Katy, Jaleayah, and Freddie decided to leave Brian’s and head to the Nip n Cue. They drove in Freddie’s car and left Jaleayah’s car at Brian’s. She estimated they arrived sometime between 12 and 1AM. When they arrived, Kristin said the girls just hung out inside. “Katy’s ex-boyfriend (Chris Lattimer) was there and Katy still talks to him and I was realizing that Jaleayah was pretty drunk because she was like dancing up on Katy’s ex-boyfriend and….they were like talking really close and Katy was getting aggravated with the whole thing. I was trying to take Jaleayah’s wristlet while we were there because I was afraid she was going to lose it and she wouldn’t give it to me.” Still Kristin said that Jaleayah didn’t seem overly intoxicated. She wasn’t falling over or stumbling. She then went on to say, “Katy was like fine with her doing that because she doesn’t really like conflict so she just wasn’t trying to fight about it.”
Kristin said that they left the Nip n Cue at 3:10AM. Freddie was driving, Kristin was in the passenger seat, and Jaleayah and Katy were in the back. Kristin said they drove back to Brian’s house, but didn’t go inside. “We were sitting there in the car trying to figure out what we were going to do, if we were going to go inside or if we were going to go home. Jaleayah was talking to (redacted) on the phone and I think she was trying to go hang out with him or whoever he was with and she couldn’t find her wristlet.” Kristin said that Jaleayah was angry about not being able to find her wristlet and that she was blaming it on Kristin. She said that she found it and her keys because Jaleayah needed to get something out of her car.
She said they all decided they were going home. “We thought that Jaleayah was going to come with us, but she ended up calling her sister…and asked her to come pick her up and she said she needed a ride.” When officers asked Kristin if she overheard where Taubi was going to get Jaleayah from, Kristin said she didn’t think so. “She went to get out of the car and she said ‘Taubi I need you to come pick me up and I will explain what is going on when you get here.’” **Remember that this is what Taubi said that Jaleayah told her in her last phone call. It’s strange that Kristin heard this if she wasn’t with Jaleayah**
Kristin said that she asked Jaleayah multiple times if she was planning on driving and she said no, that she was waiting for her sister. Kristin said that she wouldn’t have left her there if she felt as though she was going to drive. The group left Jaleayah in front of Brian’s house around 3:40AM. Kristin said that Taubi called her around 3:50AM, saying that she couldn’t find her sister. Kristin said she told her where Jaleayah was (at Brian’s) and how to get there. Kristin tried to call Jaleayah, but got no answer. Freddie took Kristin and Katy through the McDonald’s drive thru and back to Kristin’s house.
Freddie: Frederick “Freddie” Scott is the son of a former Parkersburg Police officer and detective. Freddie said that he’d first met Jaleayah on the Friday night that she and Kristin had come to Brian Sapp’s house. He said that he’d gotten to Brian’s house a little after 11PM that night, before Kristin and Jaleayah arrived. He also said that he’d driven the girls to pick up Katy, who he knew before that night. Freddie said that in addition to driving the girls to the Nip n Cue that night, his friend Jordan was also in the car, and that they arrived around midnight. Freddie is very unclear as to whether he believed Kristin and Jaleayah were drunk when they arrived at Brian’s. Once at the bar, Freddie said that the girls went off to do their own things. He said that he saw Jaleayah arguing with a white male sometime that night, but didn’t know who he was.
Freddie remembered that they left the bar about 5 minutes before closing. He was driving and admitted he was pretty intoxicated himself. He had Jaleayah, Kristin, and Katy in his car. (From what I understand, Jordan left the bar with another girl) He said that he drove the group to Brian’s, where Jaleayah was the only one who got out. He then said that they looked around outside for her wristlet and keys. (This part of his statement is very confusing. I don’t understand where they were, but I believe they were outside of Brian’s house.) Freddie said that they left Jaleayah sitting in her vehicle outside of Brian’s house. He said he then drove to his apartment to unlock his door for Jordan, then took the girls through the drive thru at McDonald’s, before dropping them both off at Kristin’s house.
Katy: Katy Nelson gave a short written statement to the police. Her story seemed to match the gist of Kristin and Freddie’s stories. After being dropped off at Kristin’s, Katy said that Kristin and Taubi were talking on the phone, and that Taubi said that Jaleayah had been in an accident. She said Taubi wouldn’t tell them what happened, that she just kept hanging up. Around 4:15AM, Katy said her ride came (her ex-boyfriend, Chris Lattimer, who’d been at the bar earlier) and she spent the night with him. When she woke up in the morning, she heard that Jaleayah had died.
Chris: Chris Lattimer had known Jaleayah since 9th grade. He no longer lived in the area, but he and Jaleayah kept in touch. He was at the Nip n Cue and said that he hung out with the three girls most of the time he was there. He didn’t recall any fighting or arguing between the girls. Chris said that Jaleayah was pretty drunk, that she had on heels and seemed to be having a hard time. He said that he just kind of stood around with her so she wouldn’t feel left out because he didn’t think she was feeling good. He said that she was falling all over the place. Chris confirmed that he picked Katy up from Kristin’s house between 3:20 and 4AM. He said that he’d asked Katy why Jaleayah wasn’t with them and that he thought Katy said something about Kristin and Jaleayah arguing. He added “I think maybe Kristin was like mad at Jaleayah for trying to talk to me…I think Kristin was mad at Jaleayah, because I am pretty sure Katy told me that Kristin was why are you talking to him, like Katy is right here.”
Taubi: Taubi said that the last text message that Jaleayah responded to from her was at 9:50PM that Friday night. She said that Jaleayah called her at 3:28AM on Saturday morning to ask if she and her friend could pick her up, then called back at 3:33AM to make sure they were on their way. She said during one of the calls, she could hear Jaleayah asking Kristin for her keys, so Taubi had the impression that they were either in Kristin’s car or at her house. She said that Jaleayah was angry, saying how Kristin was a bad friend and how she was a bitch. Taubi said that Jaleayah said she was on the interstate, but didn’t not say if anybody was with her. She also couldn’t hear anyone in the background. Phone records showed three calls being made from Jaleayah to Taubi at 3:28, 3:33, and 3:36AM. Taubi had all three of these calls in her phone as well, but only answered two. She said that there was no way she wouldn’t have heard it ring, that it was right beside her.
Taubi said that she made contact with Kristin at 3:53AM. Taubi and her friend had made it to Williamstown (where they were going to meet Jaleayah), but couldn’t. The last thing she remembered Kristin saying was something like, well Jaleayah was mad because…., then Taubi pulled up to the scene where her sister’s body was. She said that she called Kristin again after seeing what had happened on the highway. She said she was panicky and asking Kristin what happened to Jaleayah and told her what she thought she saw. Kristin kept asking what happened, then Taubi said she hung up on her. Those calls were at 4:07 and 4:09AM. Kristin texted Taubi at 4:49AM and asked what was going on. She texted Taubi again at 10:06AM and asked if she was awake and if everything was okay. She also had several missed calls from Kristin. During Taubi’s statement, her mother was present. They talked to the interviewers about several instances of Kristin being in verbal or physical fights with other girls at other bars in the past. There didn’t seem to be any indication that Jaleayah was in an altercation with anyone at the bar that night.
The Calls
In addition to the calls to police about a possible human body in the road, the 911 call center received a phone call at 3:41AM on Saturday morning.
- 911: What is your emergency?
- Caller: yeah, I’m calling about a car that’s broke down on 77 north
- 911: Okay, where at on I-77?
- Caller: On the 181 or so, the lights are on, it’s up against the guardrails, something’s going on there but I couldn’t see anybody, it’s pretty cold out so I don’t know what’s going on over there.
- 911: Can you give me a vehicle description…?
- Caller: all I know it’s a car, he had his lights on, he’s right by the car, he’s up against the guardrail so there’s something going on over there but I couldn’t see anybody standing around, so, you know the car or the people I couldn’t see, but the lights on in the car so something’s going on over there.
- 911: Can I have your name sir? Can I have your name?
End of recording
I do not believe that they’ve ever discovered who made this call.
Another call came in at 3:48AM. (I’m just going to sum up and quote the important parts)
- Caller: I’m at the 181.6 mile marker, northbound on I-77, I cannot make a confirmation of this right now, I’m walking back, I think I just seen a human being lying dead on the highway, sir.
- I’m getting out of my vehicle and I’m walking back to where I seen the person.
- We drove by (the truck driver is referring to himself and his son who was riding with him) and you know how it’s dark and you can’t see, but I’m just pretty sure it might have been a person, gosh, I really don’t want to walk back here, you know what I’m saying.
The call taker tells the caller that he does not have to walk towards the remains if he doesn’t feel comfortable and that there are officers on the way. The caller continues towards the body.
- Caller: I’m getting closer to it, I’m hoping it’s a deer sir…in fact here’s some other people, I don’t know if you’re getting more phone calls, two other guys just stopped down here at the bottom of the hill…yes sir, confirmation, human body, oh my gosh.
The call taker asked the caller if he wanted to check if the person was still alive or breathing. The caller implies that the remains are scattered and that he doesn’t believe the injuries could be consistent with life. The call taker tells him to turn around, not to look at it (because both of these men are angels). The caller asked him to make sure the officers hurried and asked if he could start stopping traffic because he believed the scene might be a crime scene. Using flashlights, he and other motorists attempted to stop traffic, but the motorists were unfortunately all past the scene. The caller stayed on the phone with 911, telling him that this was a crime scene, that he was just about positive of that. He also told the call taker that the head was not attached to the body.
At 3:52, another passing motorist called 911 to let them know that it looked like somebody may have hit a deer on northbound I-77, just before 182. He said there were a few trucks on the side trying to keep people away from the deer, but didn’t see any officers out there yet.
Still, What the Fuck Happened?
There were so many things about Jaleayah’s death that didn’t make sense to the Davis family, and the community. Time was passing, but no charges had been pressed and no arrests had been made. There were a lot of rumors throughout the community that Kristin and Freddie had been involved in Jaleayah’s death. There were just too many things that didn’t seem to line up as a result of a simple car accident.(I’m just going to list them because there are a TON.)
The Car: Jaleayah’s vehicle was found a quarter of a mile past where her body was found. The keys were still in the ignition, the car was running, and still in gear. The doors were also locked. This was odd because Jaleayah’s car wouldn’t automatically lock. It had to be pressed from the inside to lock the doors. The location of Jaleaya’s car was not down a straightaway, but around two curves. It seemed that it would’ve been difficult for a car to maneuver around both curves without a driver steering. There was no blood found inside of Jaleayah’s car. The damage found to her vehicle was on the right front side/corner of her vehicle. There was moderate damage, with large scrape marks going down the right side of the vehicle. The damage does not appear to be obviously consistent with a vehicle accident at 70mph, that caused the ejection of the driver and such catastrophic injuries. There was also spidering of the windshield on the passenger’s side, that is often indicative of someone striking their head, or an object, against the windshield. Hard.
The Clothing: Even if Jaleayah’s death had truly been the result of a car accident, the arrangement of her clothing was very odd. If you took off your own clothes, or if they were pulled off (somehow) during an accident, one would imagine that the outer layer would come off first, then the shirt, then the under layer. However, Jaleayah’s clothing, which was found neatly hung on a post on the guardrail, was stacked the opposite: bra on the bottom, shirt, then coat on top. The hood (I believe a detachable hood) from her pea coat was found over the guardrail and down the hill into the brush, with blood on it.
The Road: There was blood, tissue, and parts of Jaleayah’s body spread across the two lanes of the interstate and the breakdown lane beside the guardrail. There are several diagrams posted on the Justice for Jaleayah Facebook page that show where everything was found. (It’s difficult to explain!) Kim does not believe that the location of everything, including what appeared to be acceleration marks, match with a scenario of Jaleayah being in a car accident by herself.
Liar, liar
In 2012, a Marietta woman named Ember Stafford came forward to police and stated that she witnessed what happened on the night of Jaleayah’s death. She said that she’d met Jaleayah at a bar earlier that evening and witnessed a confrontation between her, two black males, and a white female in the parking lot of the bar. She said she then saw Davis pull out of the parking lot and the three others followed in another vehicle. Stafford claimed that the two cars were engaged in horseplay on I-77 before the vehicle with three inside forced Davis’ vehicle off the road. She then saw Jaleayah get out of her vehicle.
In June of 2012, Stafford agreed to a polygraph, which she failed. During questioning afterwards, she admitted that she’d fabricated the entire incident. She was sentenced to six months in jail and a $500 fine.
The Police Suck
In March of 2013, the results of Jaleayah’s autopsy were released. (I’m unsure if they were just released to the public at this time or also to the Davis family at this time as well) They described her cause of death as “multiple catastrophic injuries sustained as an unrestrained driver of a car that lost control and struck a guardrail on Interstate 77. Alcohol intoxication was also a factor.” Her toxicology results were negative for illicit drugs, but her blood alcohol content was .19, more than twice the legal limit for driving. The Wood County Sheriff’s Department ruled that Jaleayah’s death was an accident. This is what the investigators determined happened to Jaleayah that night: while driving unrestrained and heavily intoxicated, Jaleayah, traveling at highway speed, struck the guardrail on her right passenger’s side, making an initial impact on the front right headlight. She was thrown across her vehicle and ejected from her right front passenger window (this was the only window that had been broken out) at the exact same time that her airbag deployed. On her Facebook page, Kim detailed what she was told by police: “Also at that exact moment her passenger door window had shattered, her body then took a slight right and at that exact moment she went out of the window of the door, hit two posts and flipped backwards over her car. Yes, that’s right, they want us to believe my daughter is a human boomerang.”
Regarding Jaleayah’s clothing, Kim said, “The shirt was badly damaged and the bra wasn’t tore at the straps, it was tore under one arm pit…You wear a bra then you know how thick that strap is and how difficult it would be to rip it in that spot. Not to mention that all of this going on with her clothing STILL didn’t slow her body down. She still, in their eyes, managed to flip backwards over her car. In doing all of this flipping, she also managed to get blood on her license plate, trunk, taillights…Going out of her car and over, wouldn’t a 125 lb body have put dents somewhere on that car? On the door or the roof of the car or hood, trunk, anywhere?” There was no damage noted to the top of Jaleayah’s car, nor was there any blood on top. Police also said there was no clothing fiber, hair, or blood noted on the glass remnants on the passenger’s front window. In addition, there was no significant damage noted to the guardrail where police said that the vehicle had hit.
Kim recalled that investigators said that Jaleayah had likely gotten distracted, which caused her to strike the guardrail. “We were told that they believe the reason Jaleayah wrecked was because she was looking for something because her dome light was on. Not true. They forget that it was dark when I drove up on the scene. They forget that it was dark when Taubi got there. Taubi remembers many things from that night, in very great detail. And I’m sure the police would say that Taubi was very upset that night and things may be cloudy to her. They don’t even need to begin to say something like that. Taubi is a very calm and very observant young lady…That dome light wasn’t on.”
Kim was also extremely concerned about the fact that evidence had been left at the scene. The hood of Jaleayah’s coat that was covered in blood was still on scene. A metal earring that Jaleayah had been wearing that night was found 18 feet prior to where her head first struck. Kim said that a detective told her father that they’d photographed the earring, but left it on scene. Her father also said that the crash investigator on scene told him to not be surprised if her death was ruled an accident.
Also, Jaleayah’s favorite keychain was missing. It was a jewel encrusted “J” that Taubi gave her. Taubi said that she never took the keychain off. It was later found that Kristin actually had the keychain. According to the Davis’, she gave several reasons as to why she had Jaleayah’s keychain.
Alibi
The people who had been with Jaleayah that night were not investigated any further. Their phones were never searched. They said that Kristin, Katy, and Freddie all had alibis. Between the second and third call from Jaleayah to Taubi, there was a surveillance video from a nearby McDonald’s, six miles away. In the driver’s seat, the video clearly shows Freddie. There also appeared to be two other people in the vehicle, one in the passenger’s seat and one in the backseat, however, the video does not show who they are. The video was timestamped at 3:32AM. (I know I read/heard/saw somewhere that the staff at McDonald’s said it was possible that this video was off by a few minutes, but I can’t recall where it was!) The staff working the drive-thru staff did not recall who else was in the vehicle.
In June of 2018, a woman named Emily Nestor released a podcast series titled “Mile Marker 181”. She appeared to be working closely with the Davis family in order to bring light to Jaleayah’s death and the likelihood of a police cover-up. She had reportedly told Kim that people had approached her about making a documentary about Jaleayah’s death. However, it was later found that this documentary was going to be centered around Nestor and her rise in the true crime community. After Nestor posted an inappropriate and offensive post on her Facebook page, attaching a video from a peaceful demonstration about the investigation into Jaleayah’s death, Kim posted on her Facebook page that she was no longer associated with Nestor or the podcast. Nestor’s post read: “Jaleayah Davis is not a martyr. Jaleayah Davis is not an example of police misconduct or cover up or brutality, or literally anything except what happens when you drive intoxicated. That’s the lesson. Not ‘cops protect their own’. The lesson is ‘this is what will happen if you make the choice to drive a motor vehicle at a high rate of speed while highly intoxicated and you crash’. It’s not a police cover-up, it’s PHYSICS. It’s not there’s something more sinister going on behind the scenes, it’s that people sympathize with a grieving crying mom-to a fault. I sure did, and it won’t even be the last time…Stop letting Kim Davis play you for an idiot. I did that grunt work for you…” After this post was publicized and the information regarding Nestor’s sudden change of opinion and intentions with the documentary, she has become widely discredited and, in many true crime blogs, is spoken of very negatively.
The general consensus in the Marietta community is that Jaleayah met with foul play that night. Though she was obviously very intoxicated, there are many things that indicate that a proper investigation into Jaleayah’s death was not performed and that she was not simply a drunk driver who crashed her vehicle. Many believe that Jaleayah was struck by her own vehicle that night. After being struck, her head hit a guardrail post, which ultimately killed her. The car continued to drag her body, striking her head on following guardrail posts. The car stopped. The driver then accelerated at a high rate of speed, with Jaleayah’s body still attached to the car, driving from the breakdown lane by the guardrail to the passing lane, where her body was left. From the first post that her head struck to the point where her body was ultimately found was more than 82 feet. This is just one of many theories. Kim Davis still strongly advocates for her daughter on the Justice for Jaleayah Facebook page. She believes that her daughter was murdered and that those responsible for her death are being protected by the authorities. PLEASE go to the Facebook page and read through all of Kim’s photos and information. If you have any further information regarding the death of Jaleayah Davis, please contact her mother, Kim, on her Facebook page.
sources for this episode
It has come to my attention that… – Justice for Jaleayah | Facebook
Stafford gets jail time | newsandsentinel.com
WV – Jaleayah Davis | websleuths.com
Jaleayah Rose Davis | lankfordh.com
Podcast Focuses on Death of Marietta Woman | mariettatimes.com
Justice For Jaleayah Davis (HELP TREND #JusticeForJaleayah) | Page 6 | Lipstick Alley.com
Jaleayah Davis’ I-77 death is ruled accidental | Mariettatimes.com
Episode 52: The suspicious death of Jaleayah Davis | CatchmyKiller.com
