Death and Questions /// Kevin Davis /// Part 1 | Forensic Files

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true crime. [Music] Come back to me. [Music] Come back to me. [Music] It was after midnight when 33-year-old
Allison Davis picked up her cell phone and called 911. Her voice carried panic. Her words
rushed and loud. She told emergency services that her husband had fallen down the stairs.
New Haven Indiana police and EMTs arrive on the scene quickly. And if needed, they were prepared to run into the home
and save this man's life. Once inside the home, they find Allison Davis's husband, Kevin Davis, at the bottom of a
stairwell with blood pooling beneath him. He is very badly hurt and in far worse
condition than expected. The 40-year-old man was barely hanging on, clinging to life.
But blood just wasn't on the floor. It was splattered on the walls. After a night out with friends at a local
tavern, tragedy strikes the Davis home, leaving one person dead and the other with a lot of questions to answer. This
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>> Tonight we are going next door on the map to a state that we have been many times to the hooer state, Indiana. This
is New Haven, which is immediately northeast of Fort Wayne, Indiana in Allen County. New Haven with an ever
growing population of just over 16,000 residents. And New Haven is known for its direct connection to the River
Greenway. New Haven is a nice central location in between our state of Ohio and Fort Wayne. The community there
enjoys the overall small town feel with big city access. Tonight's true crime story is a recent one. So, let's start
off on August 11th, 2023. This is a Friday evening. Oh, how we love a Friday evening after a work week.
For some, that means it's time to cool off and relax. For others, it means it's time to go out and blow off some steam.
On this night, 40-year-old Kevin Ray Davis is sitting with friends who he bumped into at the local tavern. Kevin
is into landscaping and a designer and reported to be a hardworking, reliable, nice, generous dude. It is also said
that he is what the tavern staff and patrons would call a regular to this bar. This is the East Haven Tavern. And
from what it sounds like, most of the folks that were there on this evening were regulars. Everyone knew everyone.
This is my kind of joint right here. The East Haven Tavern. This is a place with
good reviews and good food. They have a chicken gizzard and fries basket there, Captain.
>> Yum, yum. Give me some. >> Not me. Give me the jalapeno burger. So this is a place where you don't need to
arrive with friends or schedule to meet up with friends. Here you can walk in on
any weekend night and know many of the people that came there to hang out. And that is exactly what is going on here on
a summer night in Indiana. Kevin is there after work. He's sitting with some other regulars that he knows.
Kevin is a big personality type with a big heart kind of guy. He's there with his fellow regulars. They are talking,
catching up. He's also waiting for his wife to meet him. His wife is Allison Davis. She arrives at the tavern around
900 p.m. This does play a role in the overall story here. This next part here, Captain, it's reported that Kevin was
drinking beer and had some vodka shots. >> Yeah. his wife Allison, she was drinking
cocktails. Now Allison works in retail. She works at Victoria's Secret and has been working up until the time that she
arrived at the East Haven Tavern. So, let's zoom ahead a couple of hours. It's just before 1:00 a.m. Allison takes off
and heads home. Kevin not far behind. All reports state that the couple left the tavern around 1:00 a.m. and they
arrived home around 1:00 a.m. So, the Davis's live at 1728 Douglas Lane in New Haven. This is just one mile from the
tavern, about a 4-minute drive. All right. It sounds like a fun time was had on that Friday night. They go home.
Presumably, they will go to bed and at some point wake up on Saturday and start their weekend.
>> Yeah. >> But what really happens on this night is after a night out with friends at a
local tavern, the married couple, the Davises, they head home. Then less than 4 hours later, tragedy strikes the Davis
home, leaving one person dead and the other with a lot of questions to answer. So now we are still in the small hours.
Saturday, August 12th, 2023. We have a frantic call to 911 coming from the Davis home. Here is part of the
transcription. The dispatcher says, "911, what's the address of your emergency?" The caller is a female. In
fact, it's Allison Davis who says, "My husband just fell down the stairs and there is blood everywhere. I don't know
if he's alive or dead." The dispatcher says, "Okay, what happened to your husband?" To which Allison Davis says,
"Um, he fell down the stairs just now. I was sleeping downstairs. All I heard all
of a sudden, I heard a loud noise." So, she's indicating here on the 911 call that the her husband, she presumes,
has fallen down the stairs of their home. They live in a two-story home. And from what she's saying is she hears this
loud noise. This is what woke her and then she finds her husband at the bottom of the stairs. She goes on to say that
she attempted to move him or wake him or communicate with him. Yeah, I think she
says she tries to roll him over, but she can't. >> And so she calls in to 911 hoping that they can get out there and
help her husband. >> And this is going to be a very interesting crime because we're going to
have body cam footage of the police officers arriving on the scene and watching Kevin's wife interact with the
EMTs and the firefighters and the police officers. >> Yes. When you get these types of
situations, emergency situations, when you have police arriving with other first responders,
the benefit that we have when we analyze these types of stories is we get that extra
evidence of that body cam footage. So many of these jurisdictions these days, it's a requirement that they are
equipped with a body camera. So, let's go to the report here, Captain. The report here, Captain, and starts off at
0438 hours. So, we're at 4:38 a.m. in the morning. And it states that the East Central Fire and EMS along with
the New Haven Police were dispatched to a residence. So, they live at 1728 Douglas Lane. That's the home of the
Davis's. The New Haven dispatch aired that the husband had fallen down the stairs, blood everywhere, and was not
responding. We have two officers that arrived on the scene. They're on the scene. This is a this is a quick
response time here. 3 minutes. So, at 4:41, we have police on the scene. The police
are sent to assist EMS, but they actually arrive on the scene prior to EMS getting to the house.
>> Right. >> So, the officers, remember there's two of them, say that when they arrived on
the scene, they met Allison K. Davis. She's standing out by the curb. So, she's out by the street to flag down,
help, I guess, greet the first responders, presumably to get them to her husband, ASAP. So, she takes them
inside and the officers say that they observed the husband, who they learn is Kevin Davis. He's at the base of the
stairwell in a pool of what is presumed to be blood. >> Yeah. And he's laying flat. flat on his
uh front side, >> laying flat on his belly. They say that his breathing appeared to be agonal.
Now, I hope that I'm pronouncing that >> correctly. In layman's terms, he had shallow breathing.
>> Yeah, a gnonal breathing is abnormal gasping or snorting breathing pattern that is common a common sign of severe
medical emergency, most often cardiac arrest. The East Central Fire and EMS arrived on the scene and started
performing lifesaving measures to Kevin and transported him to Park View Regional Medical Center. He is listed in
critical condition. So, the the hospital is approximately 19 minutes from their residence.
Allison, the wife, reported to one of the officers that she was sleeping downstairs. Remember, it's a two-story
home. She's sleeping in the ground level. >> Yeah. >> And heard a loud noise and reported that
Kevin fell down the stairs. >> She also tells the officer that they had an argument before they went to bed.
That's why she was sleeping downstairs and Kevin was upstairs sleeping, I believe, in their master bedroom with
his dog. >> The officer would later state that he did not think the injuries were consistent with a fall down the
stairs. >> Yeah. You see on the body cam footage the officers talking to each other.
There's two major officers that are at the scene first. And the one officer says, "One, I don't think she's acting
correctly. She doesn't seem like she's in a panic. You know, I'm telling her that her husband's in critical condition
and she doesn't seem to be acting appropriate." And the other officer, you can hear on the body cam footage saying,
"I think she's just in shock and she doesn't know what's going on and she doesn't know how to help her husband.
That's obviously why she called 911." And I think it's interesting to hear the two
different perspectives here. So what your what your protocol will be here in this situation, Captain, you get to the
scene, you get inside, you're assessing the situation. Now immediately you're going to phone in. You want some backup
because what you need here, regardless of what took place inside of these four walls, you need to get some personnel
outside that can keep the people that you want to keep outside and not let anybody in. And now us being the two
officers inside, we we can't do that. It's going to get very difficult for us to do that while we're trying to stay in
the general area where this man who presumably had fallen down the stairs or so reportedly had fallen down the stairs
is located. Your next move based off of the suspicions, right, with the one officer saying, "This doesn't look like
a fall to me. These injuries look strange." With that assessment, your next move is going to be, do I want to
get a detective here? So, a detective can assess the situation. Well, let's examine this for just a second. Most
people would assume that if you fall down the steps and it's in a tight area that a big guy like Kevin would be kind
of folded up, but he's laying flat on his stomach. Also, we have no signs of any kind of fracture to his skull that
they can see. So, we have a lot of internal bleeding. So, he's bleeding mainly through his mouth and through his
nose. They're saying, "Well, that looks suspicious because he's laying flat. He's not baldled up at the base of the
stairs." And then her story doesn't make sense. She's not acting correct in their
in their mind. But again, we we've gone over this a million times in a million cases. If somebody's too calm, then
that's suspicious. If they're too dramatic, that's suspicious. So, but I think they're doing the right thing here
to go, hey, let's let's call a detective and have them come in and examine the scene right now. We're going to take
Kevin to try to save his life, but we're going to call a detective in to examine
this scene. >> So, what you're going to have here is you have an on call detective. So, the
on call detective arrives on the scene at 5:23. Note that is less than one hour after
the 911 call came in. >> Yeah. >> So, the on call detective is now on the scene. He's meeting with the two
officers that were already there that are inside the home. Again, this goes along with some of what the captain was
saying, but also the on call detectives assessment of the situation. He too would say that he did not feel like
Allison's reaction to the situation was appropriate. Described her behavior as odd.
And then this is picked up by the body cam footage. At one point Allison was seen laughing with medics. Now, I do
want to point this out before we go too much further on with with the statement of did not seem concerned about her
husband's injuries. >> She called 911. >> She called 911. Yes. That it seems like
she has some good understanding of the injuries, but if a lot of times if you're not seeing like a big gash to the
head or or something incredibly alarming, you may not understand that person's injury. She's not a doctor.
>> Well, on top of that, he he drank excessively the night before. So, I've been at many
parties when I've been younger where somebody drinks a lot and falls and just sleeps where they fell. And you you're
not going to wake them up. You could hit them with a goddamn train and they're not going to wake up. So, I think she
saw the blood. She probably heard the shallow breathing. I got to call 911. But part of her story checks out because
we got a pillow and blanket on the couch. Now, I would argue that a lot of people have pillows and blankets on
their couch. And how many times do you fall asleep on the couch and then you wake up, especially when you've been
drinking? Oh, I fell asleep on the couch for a little bit, but now I'm going to go upstairs. But so some of her story
checks out that there's a pillow and blanket on the couch. So, let's just assume that part of the story is is
true. As the report states, it says Allison reported that her and Kevin went home around 1 a.m. after drinking at a
local tavern. Stated that they had some more beers and then they got into an argument. So stating that they had more
beers once they got home. Then they get into an argument. So she was sleeping downstairs on the couch and Kevin was
sleeping upstairs in their bedroom. >> Yeah. And this this Kevin guy reminds me of uh somebody here in the garage.
somebody that likes to keep the party going. And we can see evidence of him drinking. I don't know what their bar
tab was that night. I don't know if we even have that information, but we what we do have is the I I believe it's the
patio table that had several empty beer cans. And I think he was probably smoking. And some people smoke all the
time and some people just smoke when they they're drinking. But he he definitely had a lot to drink that
night. >> Yes. I I think that gets a little dicey to say and and I've stated that here
before. I think that is not I don't think that we can count drinks and say 110% this guy was drinking excessively or or
this person was incredibly drunk. We don't have any video footage or anything. No, I'm not saying he's
hammered, but what I'm saying is we we do have some photographic evidence of a bunch of empty beer cans. Now, you can
make an argument maybe some of them there was there was not, but I think as far as the wife's story goes, it makes a
lot of freaking sense, right? They're at the bar, they're having a good time, they come back, Kevin decides to having
a couple more drinks to start blasting some music. Nothing wrong with that at all. But sometimes when the wife is
tired, guess who gets a little annoyed? So the fight wasn't about finances. The fight wasn't about infidelity. The fight
wasn't about, you know, whatever. It was just simply it's time to settle down now. It's time to go to bed. Like we've
had a lot of fun. Let's not ruin the night by overdoing it. And that's I I think that's a fight that most people
have >> according to the one person that is there that can tell you or or make a claim of what was happening,
>> right? But I but I also think that again I think there's some evidence that her
that part of the story kind of checks out. >> Allison reported that she then woke up
to a loud noise and went to investigate and saw Kevin face down. quote, "I honestly thought he was just drunk and
fell down the stairs." End quote. She reported that she tried to lift him up but could not. All right, so we should
note here Kevin is 219 lbs on this day. After she figured out that she couldn't lift him up, she and she couldn't move
him. She says move him over. I'm guessing she's trying to turn him over. >> Yeah. And I think the issue with that is
if he was in the middle of the family room, maybe she she could get around him. But you can see on the body cam
footage where the body is laying, where Kevin's laying. And so you go, he fell down. What do I do? I can't even step
around him to try to get at a better angle to turn him over. And like I said, I mean, you hear you hear shallow
breathing and you have blood coming out of his nose and mouth. I I think you'd be pretty unless you have some medical
background, call 911, >> right? And that's what she does here. So, she says, "I couldn't move him over,
so I called 911." The detective requested permission from Allison. Okay, so we need to paint
this picture a little bit better here. At this point, they are have are now moving Kevin from the home. They're
going to be rushing him off to the hospital. She is still outside. Allison is still outside. To which now the
detective is saying, "Hey, I need permission to search your home. Are you going to allow me to do so?" She says,
in fact, this is pretty legit. Allison signed a consent to search form for the house and stated, "I want to comply. I
just want to go see my husband." upon which the officers and detective entered the home and observed where Kevin was
found at the base of the stairwell from the second floor. At the base of the stairs was a large amount of red stains
presumed to be blood. The stairwell was steep in nature. However, it was carpeted. At the base of the stairs was
a tile floor and the front entry door approximately 3 ft from the bottom stair. There was no damage or dents on
the front door or walls to indicate Kevin fell down the stairs. >> Yeah, but this is a this is a tough
situation cuz if anybody's fallen down the stairs before, sometimes it just doesn't go how you think it would go. I
think the other problem here is we don't know when he fell. Again, I I agree with the
officers. if he hit his head hard enough and and he was concussed or whatever, he'd just be folded up. But we were just
talking a couple weeks ago about an individual that's cracked on the head so hard, splitting his skull open that the
other victim at the crime scene thought a gun went off. and that individual was able to pull themselves up and go after
a passing car to try to get help. So, it's very possible that there is some kind of fall and Kevin tried to get up
on his own and then couldn't and then collapsed back down on the ground. And the other thing that's very difficult in
this case, and I don't know why it's not talked about as much, if you watch the initial body cam footage, there is no
blood on the floor underneath the air conditioner. When they show you pictures of the crime scene, quote unquote,
there's tons of blood under there. So, I wonder how does that blood get there? Was the blood draining down? What what
level was the floor at? painting. You know, was there a slight slant to the floor? Did the EMTs smear some of that
blood because of their their shoes and trying to get to move Kevin? Again, not a a small guy, so you have to move this
individual. So, how much of that extra blood uh spatter and the extra blood at the
crime scene, how much was that created by the EMT and the the police officers? When you say air conditioner, what do
you mean? >> There's a air conditioning uh AC window unit. >> Okay. Thank you. Because when when you
when I hear air conditioner, I hear out, you know, those are outside. I wanted to
make clear for the listeners that we're talking about an AC unit window rather than thermostat or a vent. But yeah, the
the pictures I've seen, there is blood that is much higher up on the wall and on that front door than I would
anticipate with a fall. However, like you're pointing out and very astutely so there, Captain, is that that blood
transfer could have come from EMS, could have come from Allison, who's trying who
says she tried to assist her husband. It could have spread in any number of ways.
Now, the thing here is >> or he cracks his skull and he stands up and then he falls back down. I mean,
there there's so many unknowns. It's not like everybody that falls down the steps
falls down the same way. I fell down one time where I I missed the first step and
I skipped about seven damn steps and then went to like the first like kind of turn on the the stairwell. really racked
my arm and my shoulder and really screwed myself up. Luckily, I didn't hit my head in any capacity. But as I'm
pulling myself up, I'm like, how the hell did any of that happen? >> Well, and I think you're you're hitting
on something here that we need to point out if people don't already have an idea
of this. It's like watching the old crash test dummy videos. They can crash that car a hundred different times in
the same head-on manner at the same speed and you see those crash test dummies react differently over the
course of of those tests. They don't always they don't always fly or fall in the same way in the same direction. I
don't love this idea here because I don't think this this is it's not even that I don't think I know that this is
not an exact science. If I throw a crash test dummy down my set of stairs right now over and over again, sometimes it's
going to tumble. Sometimes it's going to bounce off the walls. Sometimes it's going to land flat on the floor below
and other times it might hit the wall or door below. The thing here though is what the detective and the responding
officers are seeing is that regardless of how they occurred, the blood is telling you that there is some type of
severe internal injury to this man. So that would imply that is it was either the fall or some type of blunt force
trauma to this man. So, while you are the detective and you are searching the home and you're looking at
the situation and assessing the blood evidence and looking at the stairs and the other officer is telling you, "This
doesn't seem right." You're going, "Okay, well, if he didn't fall down the stairs, then that means that there is
some type of object in this home that caused the blunt force injury to this man." And the detective is saying, "I
was granted permission to search the home. I did not find any such weapon that would be responsible for the blunt force
trauma." However, it is pointed out that the detective did not search the master
bedroom that night, and that is because Allison stated that her dog was locked in the master bedroom and did not want
the detective to enter that room at that time with the dog. [Music] You come back to me.
[Music] All right, we are back. Cheers, mates. To the windows, to the walls, tall cans
in the air. >> Cheers to everybody out there joining us in the garage once again. We hope you
had a wonderful Thanksgiving and happy holidays to you all. >> Yeah, but let me correct you. I I don't
think there's any evidence that the wife Allison was trying to stop them from going into that room. I mean, she signed
permission to search the house, search my car, search the property, and it was just, "Hey, my dog is in there, and my
dog will growl at uh at strangers." It was the detective's decision to not go into that room.
>> You're not wrong, but I don't know that I need correcting because here's the problem. while she signs a consent form.
Okay. I can't tell you what that did. She make a notation on that form. Do you know that? I don't know that. We've not
seen that form. She could have wrote on there. You can't go into the master bedroom. Now,
>> no, but she didn't do that. And and how do I >> Well, again, you state Wait, how do you
know that? >> I know that because the lead detective, which is now the sheriff or the chief of
police, >> the police chief? >> Yeah. He stated, "I didn't go into that room. I could have went into that room.
I regret not going into that room." Telling us that that was his decision. And look,
>> no, no, no, no. Hang on. Hang on. Again, we've not seen the form. We cannot confirm that she didn't make a notation.
What we can say from the report that that made it, this is factual information here. Mhm.
>> The detective says, "I did not search the master bedroom at this time." As Allison stated, her dog was locked in
that room and did not want the detective to enter that room at this time with the
dog. The homeowner is telling the detective on body cam footage, I do not want you to go into that room. So, here
becomes the problem for the detective. Yes, the detective could say, "Hey, I wish I would have gone in that room."
The problem is if you end up in court, that whatever you find in that room gets tossed because you have the homeowner on
video camera footage saying, "I don't want you to go in that room." So, while I am signing over consent to search the
property, I'm not giving consent to search that room. Now, she's not actually saying those exact words,
right? She's not saying I mean, it's it may not be written on the form. Don't search that room. But
>> I'm telling you, man, you search that room and you find something incriminating, it's getting tossed.
>> Yeah. But the other problem, too, is that they basically can get a search warrant for the next day and and don't
we know where the wife is. She's at the husband's side at the hospital. And so, they could have went in and they could
have double checked their work and they they chose not to. >> Again, you can't just get a search
warrant. You have to have a judge sign off on that. >> Yeah. But we at this time we have a wife
that's being cooperative with this investigation. And I commend them instead of just
going, "Hey, this kind of looks like an accident. She's telling us this story. Let's just go with this." I think they
did the right thing. Like our our good friend Cheryl told us, right? Act as if it's a homicide until you prove it's
not. >> That's what we've always said here. And that's what it appears that they're
doing. What I'm pointing out is they don't have consent to enter that room. They don't have lawful the lawful
ability to enter that room at the time. Where the mistake was made was that they
didn't secure the home. That's where the mistake was made. We can't guarantee that they would have got a search
warrant for the following day that would have guaranteed them access to that master bedroom.
>> Yeah. Again, if you have somebody that's cooperating with the investigation, why
not get consent to go back into the property? If if there's a room that somebody's telling me not to go into,
you better believe I'm going to keep going back to the scene until they tell me not to go back. Absolutely.
>> And then I can make a point, right? And then I can make a point in the court room to say, "Oh, by the way, yeah, she
gave us consent, but not to the master bedroom." which is which is the case which is is still the case
>> right but again if I can go back if I'm being if somebody's being cooperative
and I can go back time and time again but time and time again I don't get access to that room because of that
individual I can make that part of my you know circumstantial evidence at the case but they didn't go back time and
time again and they and they made mistakes and how do I know that they made mistakes because the lead detective
has said, "I made mistakes and that's on me." >> Right. And his exact words were that the
mistake was that we didn't secure that scene. >> Yeah. >> And and I agree agree 100% with what he
says. I agree 100% with what you're saying as well. >> Yeah. And I feel bad for him. And And
the reason why I feel bad for him is cuz I think they were kind of on the fence.
You got two officers, one saying she's acting funny, the other one's going I don't know if she is or not. That's I
mean all all these things are so hard to to figure out, right? Like we don't we don't know this individual personally.
We don't know how she would react or how she wouldn't react. But I think the fact
that they're like, "Okay, now we're going to investigate it as if it's a homicide." But they were kind of on the
fence about it. And I think that's where they messed up royally. And I feel bad for the detective because he knows that.
he's admitting to that and he's going to have to live with that those decisions.
And again, I think it's just cuz he was just kind of on the fence instead of just going like like what we've said a
million times and what we've heard from all the experts. Don't halfass it. Don't
be on the fence. Investigate it hard as a homicide until it you you rule that out as a possibility. As you can tell,
this case works me out. Well, but also the problem is it's it's when you when the whatever
I don't know what time they left that day, but you have to keep in mind the man that was removed from the house is
still alive for a period of time. You're not removing a a body from the home. You're removing a man that you're hoping
to save his life, >> which that in itself contaminates the crime scene. >> Definition of homicide, it cannot be if
the man is still alive. >> Exactly. >> Let's continue on. I think we're we're we're leapfrogging too far into the
story here for those that are unfamiliar. Now, sadly, Kevin Davis is pronounced deceased, but this is not until 107
on the 12th. So, this would be 12 hours after they left the bar. And this would be what about 8 hours after he was
removed from the home. A little less than 8 hours after he was removed from the home. Yeah, this gets a little
complicated because he is pronounced brain dead and then the the tough thing here is he's an organ donor. So you have
a a smaller window to to figure out all these mo moving pieces, right? >> Yes, that that is true. He's pronounced
deceased at 10:07 p.m. on August 12th. The ER staff at Parkview had concerns about his
injuries. The ER staff indicated that the injuries did not seem consistent with a fall down the stairs. An autopsy
of Kevin Davis's body was completed by Dr. Wagner at the Northeast Indiana Forensic Center on August 15th, 2023.
So here here's where your problem is with this investigation or with this story. It's not a homicide until it's
ruled a homicide by somebody that has the authority to do so. You heard the dates. He's pronounced dead on the 12th.
The autopsy took place on the 15th. You now have 3 days where the scene is not secured.
And I agree with you. We said it before Cheryl McCollum ever came on the show many, many times. You investigate it as
a homicide until you prove that it's not. The problem here is it's not a homicide until 3 days after the guy
died and was removed from the scene. >> Right. >> So, after completion of this autopsy,
Dr. Wagner found that the right side of Kevin's skull was crushed and had a depression in which a hit to the head by
a blunt object would cause the depression. Dr. Wagner stated the injury would not have come from a fall down a
stairwell. The injury was not consistent with Allison's statement and they ordered further investigation. Dr.
Wagner stated that this type of injury was, as you said here, Captain, he was brain dead upon impact when shown when
the doctor was shown a picture. So they they they took that body cam footage of the responding officers and they created
stills of what was on th those cameras on that footage, >> right? >> Showed them to the doctor who performed
the autopsy. And the the doctor says these pictures say it all. That Kevin was hit in the exact same spot where he
was found lying, explaining to the detective that Kevin would have taken a hit to his head, then collapsed in the
spot where he was found. He would not have been capable of walking around after the hit. So, the Allen County
Coroner's Office ruled the cause of death as blunt force trauma of the head and the manner of death as a homicide.
>> If I'm correct that this autopsy is saying that there's not just one hit to one side of the the skull, but there's
actually uh multiple hits on multiple sides. >> The ER doctor, so this is a different
doctor than the Dr. Wagner who performed the autopsy. Okay. So, this is the emergency room doctor that is there
trying to save Kevin's life when he arrives at the ER. She states that Kevin's injuries are quote very
unusual. This is Dr. Pentinger stated Kevin's injuries were not consistent with a fall down a stairwell and felt
the need to report. The doctor stated that the injuries were isolated to the head,
multiple skull fractures, and orbital fractures. The good doctor also stated that she was not clear on how soon
medical treatment was provided to Kevin and said that he had profound brain injury. Okay. So, a profound anoxic
brain injury and the his core body temperature was down as he was hypothermic. Okay. So, what this means here is that
this is going to be a severe lack of oxygen to his brain. Okay. Which which would cause him to be brain dead. So
Kevin had such a lack of oxygen in his brain that he had been brain dead for a period of time, possibly hours. Okay,
follow along here. So remember Allison stated when she heard the fall, the thud, she called 911 immediately at 4:38
that morning. EMS arrives at 4:44. So 3 minutes after 4:38, police are on the scene. Three minutes after police
are on on the scene, EMS is there and the doctor at the ER stated in their report that when Kevin arrived, he had a
breathing tube. He arrived with a breathing tube which would have provided oxygen to Kevin's body. And so what the
doctor is simply stating here is if everything happened as said, she calls immediately after the thud. We assume
the thud was Kevin hitting the floor, falling down the stairs. Within 6 minutes of her 911 call, EMS are there
and very quickly providing oxygen to Kevin Davis. This should have prevented him from or
slowed him from going brain dead. What the ER doctor is saying, remember 19-minute drive from the house to
hospital, but breathing tube already inserted, the good doctor is saying here, he could have lied there for a
considerable amount of time before that breathing tube, before that oxygen was being administered to his body.
>> And this is a tough thing because I think this is something that points to Allison's story not making much sense.
It's like it makes somewhat sense, but the time frame could be way off. But it makes you wonder too, how much did she
have to drink? What state was she in? Because you ever have those moments you you wake up, it's 7:00 in the morning
and you check your phone and you're scrolling on your phone, you're kind of up for about 10 minutes and then all of
a sudden you just kind of pass back out and you wake up again. It's 9 something.
Is it? I mean, she doesn't say any of that in her story. She says, "I I heard a noise. I woke up, found my husband,
called 911." But that doesn't make sense with the science. >> Dr. Pentinger stated this timeline was
not possible and care was not provided as reported and goes on to state that she has had drowning victims with more
oxygen in their brain. Dr. Pintinger stated she has 13 years of trauma experience.
[Music] All right, so much more to get to. Stick around for part two. Until then, be
good, be kind, and don't litter. [Music] [Applause] [Music]

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Alison Davis called 911, her voice frantic as she reported her husband had fallen down the stairs. Police and EMTs rushed to the New Haven, Indiana home, prepared to save a life. Inside, they found Kevin Davis at the bottom of the stairwell. His injuries were far worse than expected - he was barely clinging to life. Just hours earlier, the couple had returned home from a night out with friends. By morning, tragedy struck: one person was dead, and the other faced difficult questions.

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Brief Summary

Kevin Davis dies after a suspicious fall at home, raising questions about his wife's involvement and the police investigation.

Key points

Tragic Fall at Home. Allison Davis calls 911 after her husband Kevin falls down the stairs, leading to a critical situation.
Autopsy Reveals Blunt Force Trauma. An autopsy shows that Kevin suffered from multiple skull fractures, indicating foul play.
Injuries Not Consistent with a Fall. Doctors find Kevin's injuries unusual and inconsistent with a simple fall down the stairs.
Timeline of Events Raises Questions. The timeline of Kevin's fall and subsequent medical treatment raises doubts about Allison's account.

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Episode quotes

I honestly thought he was just drunk and fell down the stairs.

Allison's perspective on finding her husband.

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