Betrayal: The Brian Davis Murder Case

0:06 Welcome to Unspeakable, a true crime podcast where I tell stories of real crimes with real victims, whose cases are so shocking that many are left wondering how is this even real? I use my experiences in law enforcement corrections, and combined with my years as a criminal justice educator, dig deep into complex cases of evil acts, some so evil many feel they are unspeakable. Warning, Unspeakable as intended for mature audiences. If you are easily offended, then I'm not your girl. Listening discretion is advised. Hey y'all, it's kJ You're back for anothers of unspeakable, and I'm bringing you straight to my state, the great state of Louisiana.

1:05 Where are my people from Calcashue Parish? Where y'all at? I know I got some Calcashuians that listen to this. I know I do because they reach out to me and they talk to me. But and my stepsister lives there too, So shout out out in the Calcashue. But this parish, if you've never been here before, this parish is just one of the ones that you drive through and you feel like the people there are all just good folks. I'm dead serious too. It's like something out of the movies. It's one of those places where the bread and butter of that area is chemical and the refining industries. And one major component of that local economy there is they have an industrial airpark which does like aircraft refurbishment and maintenance, and so it's just like a bunch of hard working men and women that are earning their keep. You know, casinos too. Casinos are other large development of that area. And matter of fact, I posted some pictures on my Patreon recently of me at one of those casinos right there in Calcashue Parish, and most recently it was that Brett Young concert that I went to.

2:11 So if you're on my Patreon and you saw me on there, that's where that was. And I also may or may not. I cannot confirm nor deny whether I attended a presidential event there in the past years, and I may or may not have been interviewed by the local news station there. Out of everyone in the area, they picked me. So you know, been there a time or two. And the port of Lake Charles is there. It's only thirty four miles from the Gulf of Mexico, and Lake Charles is also the proud home of McNeese State University. So I'm trying to give you some points here if you're not familiar that maybe you could hone in on where I'm talking about. And as as you can likely imagine, there there are endless miles of rivers and streams with boating and fishing everywhere. People enjoy hunting.

2:57 Whether it's duck or dove, quail, rabbit, it doesn't matter. It's just another piece of sportsman's paradise. And this little piece of paradise was also the home of Robin Davis and her family. Now, Robin had been married to a man named Andrew Little, and the two of them produced two children, a son named Andrew and a daughter named Kelsey. Time, though, would take a toll on this marriage, and they decided to go their separate ways. Kind of. They kind of went their separate ways because Andrew had a horrible back and everyone who knew him knew how bad his back was, so Robin had carried the medical insurance for the family forever, and even with an impending divorce, they both recognized that this would have been a huge problem for him. Just because the marriage didn't work out didn't mean that they absolutely hated one another, and so his back troubles she recognized and he recognized as well, were so bad that there was no way he would be able to afford metal insurance on his own being unemployed. This is why, even though they went their separate ways sorta, they remained legally married, so Andrew would be able to keep quality insurance.

4:14 Now this would last just eight years, because Andrew would be tragically killed in a car accident in two thousand and eight. Four years prior to Andrew's death, though, Robin met a new man and she was smitten with this new guy. His name was Brian, and from the time that they met, they were inseparable. Robin, if you're looking at her, looks like every middle aged woman you see shopping at Walmart. I'm not even playing with you. And if you go look at the pictures I post, you'll say, yup, she nailed it. I don't even have to say any more than that. She looks like every single woman shopping at Walmart. She's got an average build of a woman her age. She has this yellow blonde hair and it's in that really short, kind of stacked back haircut with a little bit of a longer bang in the front and she kind of pulls down those two little side pieces in front of her ears. She has these blue eyes, and her skin looks a bit weathered from the sun my opinion looking at her, which is just my opinion, but it's probably from time spent fishing and swimming and someone who's just been raised in the South and been outdoors a lot. And she also has kind of a little bit y'all, don't come after me when I say this.

5:25 I'm just being honest, okay, But she has a little bit of a neck waddle that kind of dangles a little bit, and it's not huge, but it is pronounced enough for me to mention it so you can get the full picture of what Robin looks like now. Brian, Brian's a big dude, and when I first saw him, I almost thought that he was similar to Jerry Springer's bouncer back back in the day in his show. You remember Steve Wilcos, y'all remember him, He kind of made me think of him. Brian is completely bald and a solid dude. If you're looking at him. He too had blue eyes. He often sported a goat facial hair, and he had nice straight teeth, but he had a prominent gap between the top two on the top. Nothing wild, just noticeable when he smiled. And he was ten really tan actually, and you can just tell by looking at him that he is an absolute outdoorsman. They were both in their forties and that's not old. I'm learning that, you know why, because I just turned forty, and I'm like, man, looking back on this. When I was younger, looking forward, I thought it would take forever, and hell, I just popped right up at forty. But they were both in their forties two and definitely adults, but they had a whole lot of life left to live. They dated for four years when Brian finally popped the question to Robin and she happily said yes. So they got married in two thousand and eight, after the death of that first husband that she was still legally married to. Now this was Brian's third marriage, Robin's second. Both Robin and Brian

6:57 were working class people. They both held which both actually were in the insurance business. Robin, though, had been fired a year after getting married because she got wrapped up in a situation that she didn't actually take part in per se. But hm, I'll tell you what happened, you decide what you think about it. So she worked for Union National Life Insurance where her best friend, also named Robin, but I will refer to as Cissy because that was her nickname. She worked there too. Now, if you've heard this story before, I want you to know that every other person in America apparently never looked at any of the actual documentation of this crime because both women in this In this case, both women were named Robin. A lot of times you'll hear Sissy referred to as Carol, but I'll let you know that they both were legally named Robin. But in this story, when I'm telling it to you, I'll call Robin as the wife and then Cissy, which was Robin's best friend, and they enjoyed working together, and everyone knew these two ladies were tied at the hip okay, best friends of life BFFs. It was discovered though, by the company that Cissy was believed to be embezzling funds, and after a thorough investigation, she was fired in March of two thousand and nine. Now, while Robin was never accused of embezzlement herself, Robin was terminated just one week

8:29 after Cissy because the company believed that Robin knew about Cissy's embezzling but just failed to speak up. So you can say what you want about it, but considering how tight these two women were, I personally feel like she knew about it too and just wasn't saying anything, And I think that being fired for that is a reasonable, a reasonable, reasonable thing to do. After her firing, Brian was still working. He never quit working, and he was the one that was making ends meet for the couple. Now, Brian worked as an insurance premium collector from Union National Life in Lafayette and made a decent living there, but it wasn't anything extravagant. Basically, Brian's role was to physically go door to door or go to homes of the policyholders and collect their payments. So they would hand him cash or check or money orders, but he would physically go collect those premiums. And this did have him in sketchier parts of town, but he could handle himself. He was a bigger guy. He felt confident in what he did, and he was also known to carry a weapon with him, either on his person or in his car. He always had that weapon should some type of safety issue arise.

9:41 Brian originally was born in New Orleans, but he grew up in Independence, Louisiana. And if you are kind of looking on a map, this is going to be near Hammond, Louisiana and the Tickfall area if you're not from here, but maybe you know those areas. And he turned out like damn near every man that I know. I'm not kidding. He was an age an avid fisherman. He loved the great outdoors and in his spare time, he liked to sing karaoke, He played golf, and he participated in competitive shooting. I mean shit, if I had not already told you this man's name, I'm telling you right now. The description sounds like my own dad. Okay, my dad's name is Chuck, though, so whew, he's not in my story. There's no Chuck in this story. So shout out, daddy if you're listening.

10:24 But this story ain't about you. Now. Robin and Brian were living their days and living their lives day to day, yet they always made time to spend with one another when they could. When Brian wasn't working, they did like to go spend some time together. So where they were in life. When this story really takes place is that Brian was hoping in the really really near future to buy a boat of his own. He was already shopping around and he could not wait to make that jump into being an owner of a boat. So in the morning of Monday, June twenty ninth, two thousand and nine, Brian and Robin had big plans. He left for work early that morning, and he drove their Trailblazer to work because they also had a Honda, but the Honda was having wheel trouble, so he left early around or he went to work, I'm sorry, he went to work early, and then he left work early as well and came back home around eleven am to pick up his wife Robin, where they went boat shopping together in Lake Charles. And this was something Brian was ecstatic to be doing. I mean, that's why he played hooky and left work early to really go pick out this boat. Then they went to a second place called Jerry's Marine in Sulfur, Louisiana. The two of them got back home around two or three that afternoon, where Brian decided to switch back from the Trailblazer into the Honda before heading to Beaumont to keep boat shopping. So when they came back from boat shopping

11:57 and switched the vehicles, Robin had a bunch of airin that she needed to run. So the plan was for him to go continue boat shopping, and she jumped in the Trailblazer to head off, you know, in the safer of the two vehicles, since that Honda was supposedly having that wheel trouble. So she went in the Trailblazer out to go do her thing, and he left in the other car to go to Beaumont. Her errands that she was running were very small, practical errands. She had to go grocery shopping. She said she was going to go get an oil change, and when she got home, she just waited for Brian to get back from his shopping trip. But that day turned into evening and Brian wasn't back at the house, so she got a little nervous, you know, where is he? She kind of was pacing back and forth, and then evening turned into night and Brian still was not back home, so she attempted to call Brian, but the call went straight to voicemail. Now he was talking boats and there was also some bad weather that had hit the area, So maybe he left for home and he had hit some bad weather and then that had him delayed. So in her mind, you know, maybe he was talking boats so he wasn't answering, and then when he got back in the car, like I said, bad weather, so it slowed him down a bit. When he never came home though, into the wee hours of that next morning, Robin got really upset and so she decided to call police and report him missing. Unfortunately, though we all know this,

13:29 Brian's an adult, and because there were no suspicious circumstances following his disappearance or her thinking he was missing, she was going to have to wait until that twenty four hour mark to make the report. So up all night and stressed out. The first thing the next morning, which would have been a Monday, Robin jumped on the phone with Brian's work and was asking his coworker and district manager. His name was David Gizardo. She asked him, Hey, have you seen Brian? Last taw him going out to the boat shop. He never made it back home? Did he just drive into work? But no one had seen him and he hadn't called into work either. David was like, I haven't spoken to him, he didn't call in, which is weird, and really he was of no help to Robin.

14:14 So that day came and went, and finally that twenty four hour mark hit. So Robin did as she was told. She called the police back again and they came out around four point thirty that afternoon, and that's when Officer Chatman, not to be confused with Chapmen like producer Jimothy, this is Officer Chatman. He took the report. Brian was not located and no one was able to get in touch with him. So, you know, at this point, it really did seem like there was a problem, and all Robin really could do was hope and pray. That's all that was left to do. Not many knew this next little tidbit of information though, and it was definitely something that was in the back of Robin's mind. Brian had made an indiscretion in their marriage. Previously, Robin had learned just a few months earlier, in about the month of March, that Brian was having an affair. The woman's name was Fanny Deets and she was a coworker of Brian's. Now, both Fanny and Brian were married, So you can imagine the total frickin' shit show that erupted whenever this little rendezvous came to light. Well, not someone just to take it on the chin. Robin, when she found out, was pissed, and she went up to the workplace and she confronted Fanny right then and there and told her you better stay away from my husband. Her words, though, were nothing compared to Fanny's husband's words, because when he found out, he was much more aggressive in his response. He not

15:47 only showed up to the place of business, but he was threatening to beat Brian's ass in front of everybody. It got pretty heated. He also made it very clear that he had plans to do everything in his power, anything that he could to get Brian fired from his job. So Robin wasn't sure in the back of her mind if Brian had really run off with Fanny, and she wasn't sure should I be mad right now or should I be scared? Because if Brian is seriously missing, then I want to be sad. But if you ran off with this other woman, I'm fucking mad, you know. But she's kind of in this little midway of not quite knowing what to do and then another day and night would pass with no word from Brian. But on Tuesday, July first, a dead body would shake up the people.

16:36 Near Big Lake Road. Someone was out testing the off road capabilities of a jeep and they were driving in this not so common area of this Big Lake Road where he came upon the body of a deceased white male next to a Honda Accord. So deputies were called out and when they responded to that scene, they sure enough found the victim deceased on the ground next to the vehicle. So at first glanced when they were looking at the scene, it looked like the man was in the midst of changing a tire when something happened. The car's trunk was popped open, the doors were all open, and the car was jacked up on a jack. So it was clear that this man was in no way dead by because of being hit by a car while he was changing the tire. Nor was this natural causes such as a heart attack. No, that wasn't the case either.

17:33 This had to be the result of foul play because the victim had been shot four times. No one shoots themselves four times in a suicide, and certainly not in the middle of changing a tire. The man had been shot three times in the chest and one time in the head. His clothing was amiss too, and the detectives took note of this. His belt was unbuckled and his shoes were off, and then one sock was also off, So the question became, had he been getting undressed while he was killed? Investigators just weren't sure about it. So detectives looked around and they were able to locate one live round next to the vehicle. Live round meaning it had not actually been shot out of the gun, if you're unfamiliar with that terminology. So the bullet was on the ground, but it was not a fired bullet, and it wasn't a casing of a bullet. It was a live round. And this spoke to the investigators at the scene who were trying to reconstruct what happened. Detectives felt like this meant maybe the shooter wasn't very familiar with the firearm that they were using. Why did they think this?

18:48 I want to explain this to you. If someone isn't familiar with all of the safety functions of a particular weapon, it's likely that a person might pull a trigger to shoot but it it clicked or you know, nothing happened. So the shooter then racked the weapon and then it ejected a live round. They realized the issue, then fixed it quickly, and then began actively shooting. Well, this is America, and I'm gonna tell you something, I don't care what's written in a report. I still think we as individuals have a right to look and scrutinize and think about a situation. And it just didn't sit right with me.

19:29 I didn't like the thought process that the investigators had on why that live round was there, and it bothered me so much. Now, granted, I'm gonna tell you this, I'm not a crime scene expert, but I do know basic weapons function, okay, And I just the way they were explaining it in the report, I just didn't agree with it. And I think that we all have a right to disagree. And I wanted to think about it more. If if the gun was racked, okay, and the person who racked the gun was so unfamiliar with it that they had to figure out the issue, then Brian, who's known to shoot his own weapons and to always carry a weapon, he would have heard that. He would have heard the weapon rapped, and they're just to me, would not have been enough time to assess how to fix the weapon and then shoot him again before he turned around and noticed or heard what was happening. They just didn't make sense to me. So someone pointed a gun at him, maybe he was down changing the tire. They tried to pull the trigger, it didn't work, so they racked the gun. The live round came out. Then they were able to look and then fix the safety and then start shooting. I don't know, it just didn't play out to me like that. So I did what I would hope anyone who maybe had some questions did, and that is I'm just not going to be the podcaster who repeats what she reads. I refuse to do that.

20:48 I try to think and really assess information about crimes. So I called a good friend of mine in law enforcement who has worked many homicides and is a firearms a really good firearms person, and we discussed it, and this is what we came up with, and we both agreed that this is what we think happened. We don't think a safety was on I think there was never a safety that was on on the weapon. The shooter thought the gun didn't have a round in the chamber. That's what I think happened. So the shooter grabbed the gun, wrapped it real quick, but that expelled the unspent round that was already in the chamber, and then started shooting upon the realization, before Brian could even realize what happened.

21:32 That would just take seconds, and you wouldn't have to be familiar with the weapon, you know what I'm saying. You wouldn't have had to go think through this whole process, regardless, And I hope I've explained well what I'm trying to say, but regardless, that is my opinion based on the things that I saw and the things that I read. But it's up to you. You can believe what you want to believe. None of us were there, So regardless of whatever you or I think or believe, none of us were there. The consensus was that the shooter was standing over the victim that was over when the shooter shot him in the back, and then as a natural reaction, the man would have turned and faced the source of being shot, and then two more times in the chest he would get at boom boom, and then a kill shot directly into the head. This would have taken mere seconds, but seconds filled with brutality and murder on the mind.

22:22 This was no accident for any reason, and an astute investigator also noted something else. The victim's hint of accord wasn't muddy. It was not muddy at all, matter of fact, and this was really important to investigators because that would mean the vehicle had to have arrived at the scene where the man was killed before it had begun raining on that Sunday, and this was important to investigators. The meteorology report from the Lake Charles Airport confirmed that the rain began around three forty five pm and it lasted until seven pm that night, so this helped to establish a relative timeline of the latest he could have arrived at the location before being shot. There was no way on this road where this car was parked that he would not have mud all over it if he had started driving it after the rain had started. So once the outside of the scene was processed, detectives then decided to move inside of the vehicle, so pulling the registration from the vehicle, the owner of the Honda was listed as none other than Robin Davis, who, after a brief check was found to have just reported her husband, William Brian Davis missing just a day prior. Police were also able to locate a driver's license in the car and it was in fact Brian's driver's license. Now, he couldn't be identified one hundred percent as her husband Brian exclusively until further testing was done, but for sure the IDs matched and it sure did look like it was Brian.

23:53 But until then, the coroner was called and he would come to pick up the body, and eventually an autopsy was done by doctor Terry Welke, and he estimated that the body's time of death was sometime after twelve noon on Sunday, June twenty ninth. Reports would eventually come back and based on the dental records as well as some unique tattooing that were on the body, that this was in fact Brian Davis. Whoever did this meant business and never wanted Brian to walk or talk again, So doctor Welkee ruled it actually could be doctor Welk as well. But I've heard it both ways, So what do you all want me to say? I'm just gonna say welky and if I'm wrong, a Weelkie bad joke, all right, So doctor Welke ruled Brian's death was absolutely a homicide, and so this meant investigators had work to do. They had a lot cut out for them. But their next step was, unfortunately, to go break the news to his wife, Robin.

24:51 So a detective Brent Young, not to be confused with the concert I attended. Brent Young was there when the sad news was broken to Her response was visceral, dry heaving, eventually vomiting, lost control. Basically, the love of her life was gone and she was never going to see him again, and police looked on with pity as she processed the gravity of what had just been told to her. They gave her some time, and once she was able to catch her breath and gather herself, police needed her to answer some questions as best she could, considering the circumstances that she was under. In the emotions that she was feeling, Robin was able to power through and she was able to be helpful to those investigators asking those questions, Starting with his plans for the last day that she had seen him, Robin said that he was supposed to go boat shopping in Beaumont. She said that he had been scrounging away little bits of money here and there, and he had saved up seven hundred dollars towards this new boat.

25:54 Whenever she was asked does Brian have any enemies, she was very honest with them and she told them, Look, there had been an affair between Brian and Fanny at his work. Brian's husband was pissed. His name was Shane, and Shane was very much an enemy after the interaction that they had had. So now investigators wondered, is it possible that Brian's death was related to this affair? You certainly wonder when cheating is involved and then someone ends up debt. We all know that that's one of the biggest motives of murder is sex. So police extended their condolences, They thanked Robin for her time, and then they left her there to grieve and to process everything. They had way more work to do. They had people that they wanted to go talk to as this dragnet seemed to widen in potential suspects and people they needed to speak to, and the top of that list was obvious Fanny and her husband Shane. So through the magic of the Internet, I can tell you that I was interested in the fact that Shane looks similar to Brian in his most recent pictures. Shane is a man's man. He's a tall fella, clean shaven head, and he had a long go tee.

27:09 Fanny got a type, y'all. I hate to say that, but Fanny got a tight Fanny has short brown hair, she has really thin eyebrows, and she has a pretty smile. Both of them outward appearances, they seem to be nice people, where Fanny may have been someone who had just got caught up in a situation that should have never happened. But I guess they worked together and things had escalated. Regardless. Police had questions. As they questioned them, Fanny was completely upfront. She confirmed that she and Brian had had an affair for about a year and a half, but it had ended back in March of two thousand and nine when Robin confronted her. When asked about shame, she said, yes, he absolutely confronted Brian, but he never threatened him. That's a bit of a discrepancy from what others had said.

28:00 She was also willing to show detectives their quote unquote spot that they would often meet up when they were having their little rendezvous, which was Henry Pew Boulevard, which coincidentally runs into Big Lake Road near Calcashue Point Landing, which is where Brian's body was found. Brian's body was found less than a mile from that Calcashu Point Landing. A look at Fanny's cell phone records showed that she was in the Iota and the Crowley area on June twenty ninth, which would have been a few exits away from where Brian's body was found. Interestingly, though her phone records showed no activity between nine twenty eight am and four fifty six pm, this would have given her time to possibly be involved in this murder. The exits, though, were pretty far apart, and she would have definitely needed help to get from point O point B in all the time frames that were being set. Assumptions would be the man scorned would have been the one to help her too. I think we could all agree that her husband would likely be the one to help her because he's the one who's pissed. Her husband, Shane's phone records showed that he was not even in the Lake Charles area at all on June twenty ninth, but again, there was a gap of several hours between any phone calls by him, and that included text messages too. He had

29:30 to call at two point fifty pm and then there was a nothing, zero, zilch on his phone until he got a text message at ten point fifty four pm. So some large gaps in these phone records. So needing more information to determine their actual locations established their alibis if they were true or not. The police went to Shane's work where he claimed to be the whole time, and lo and behold, Shane was telling the truth. Shane's boss even verified that Shane was at work the entire day in question and was never Ever he would have never had the opportunity to go and come back and to have committed this crime. So while this path to Brian's murder started out looking like the typical affair turned murder, it simply wasn't the case. It couldn't have been because of their respective locations and the time frames and some other things that were just really detailed down into the minutia.

30:26 It's boring and I didn't get into it, but they didn't do it. They couldn't have. On July ninth, about a week later, police were no closer to solving this case than they were when they started, and that has to be a sick feeling. I mean, within the first forty eight you want to have a really, really good lead. So detectives asked Robin for permission to search their home as well as the vehicles, just to see what's going on in there, and she said absolutely, you can check whatever you want. Even her son Justin helped police and they were able to locate a box of brian ammunition in the Trailblazer. That wasn't strange though, because this was the car he usually used, and the ammo that was in there was nine milimeters hydra shock rounds, and this is one of the most popular self defense ammunitions on the market, used by law enforcement and gun enthusiasts. I'm not saying it's popular amongst just the average joe, but certainly people who like to shoot a lot and law enforcement they'll use those hydra shock rounds. So it made sense because Brian was an average shooter that this he would carry those rounds because a nine milimeter again is also a popular weapon of choice for people who carry I mean I personally carry a Compact nine, a little small one. Her name's tiff By the way, if you're curious, her name's Tiffany because she's that Tiffany blue. We call her tiff. I name my weapons. I don't know if you do, but it's personal. She's gonna save my life.

31:49 We might as well be friends. But nothing much else was found in terms of evidence or obvious red flags. And Robin also gave her formal stay that same day, and she basically repeated the same thing that she had said days before. She mentioned that they went boat shopping together. She said that they stopped at a Kroger to get Brian's daughter, her name was Bailey, to get her some soup because she was sick, and that she needed to get something to eat and drink. Now, Robin's best friend, who I told you, was also named Robin, but people call her Carol, but her nickname is Sissy. To be specific, she went by the name Sissy. She was Robin Saltzman versus Robin Davis. Now, she was there absolutely one hundred percent supportive of her best friend who was clearly dealing with a lot. A cheating spouse now a dead spouse, murdered by God knows who, and Sissy herself. She felt like she had lost a good friend and Brian. They were all really, really close. Sissy had even previously lived with the Davises for three years. That's how tight this.

32:56 This group was very tight knit group, always helping you each other out during good times and bad. She had also been with Robin whenever she went to run errands. That day of Brian's disappearance, they had ridden together. Robin picked up Sissy and they chatted it up while they were just running their errands, just trying to make it more fun than it would be by yourself. The thing about detectives, though, is that it's their job to not only listen to what people tell them, but also to challenge everything that people tell them, and not an accusatory way. I don't want to seem like that, more like in a confirmation type way. So they decided to follow up with other family and friends about the knowledge of Brian and his whereabouts on his last day. A lot everyone they spoke to, for the most part, echoed the same thing Robin said, except for one small, tiny detail. Catherine Davis, this was Brian's sister. She said that Robin told her Brian never returned from Kroger. Robin told the detectives that they went boat shopping after returning from Coger from Kroger, So this definitely was nothing big per se, but it was gonna be noted as a discrepancy between what had been told. Detectives also spoke to a woman named Amy Davis.

34:20 This was Brian's sister in law, and she validated much of what Robin said as well, and she even added to the fact that she herself decided to call the boat dealership in Beaumont where Brian was headed whenever he never returned back home, and the boat dealership remembered that Brian called to say that he was on his way, but they verified he never made it there. So the timeline matched everything detectives knew up until this point. So, deciding to take a different approach, a detective Young followed up with phone records to see if cell phones matched the shopping trip of Robin and Cissy. They wanted to really clarify this timeline. In the records, a call was made by Robin at three point fifty PM. Now that call pinged off of a tower on a road called Elliott Road in Lake Charles, which was very curious to this detective. It was curious and that that particular tower that it was pinging off of was actually south of the area where Robin claimed to be running errands. It just wasn't the tower that they would have expected her cell phone to ping off of. Detectives. I mean, it could have been just an issue in I guess you could say, in the science of it all, but it was something that they wanted to write down because it just was a little too far south from where she should have been pinging from. Detectives then decided, well, let's

35:55 look into their financial records. We got nothing else to look at, and let's see if there's any obvious issue was there. Robin had been already honest with detectives though, and told them, look, our financial situation isn't very good. Specifically, their account was overdrawn by almost eight hundred dollars. She also told them we haven't paid our house notes since March, and their financial stresses were so bad. She said, we even canceled our car insurance because we couldn't afford it. Robin said that she also had an inkling that Brian was gambling more than he admitted and that he was wasting more money than she actually knew about. But she said, I don't have any proof of this. It just seems like that's what's going on. So now they're wondering could Brian have been killed for a gambling debt or did he owe the wrong person money and didn't pay up.

36:45 But then it begs the question, why would you go boat shopping if you're that broke, knowing you can't afford it, why would you spend all this time looking at boats? Well this was answered in an interview with Daryl Pettif, who worked at Jerry's Marine. That was the second place where Robin and Brian had gone boat shopping the day's disappearance. According to him, Brian and Robin were looking at a thirty thousand dollars boat, and Brian, in talking with the salesman, explained that he planned to pay for the boat with a lump sum of cash that he was getting in the near future. Okay, well, you have to kind of ask yourself, was this truth or was this just bs of a man wanting, you know, to talk with the salesperson, the salesperson taking seriously and given the time of day, or was it just kind of bs. People lie all the time about money, but it just doesn't seem necessary if you were just looking and not planning to buy.

37:43 So more days would pass, and it was now July thirteenth, which was twelve days since Brian was found dead. Again, Robin's story didn't change, just some additional tidbits of little bits of information were added here and there in the information. For example, detectives found that Cissy used the Honda Accord from time to time. That wasn't really mentioned before, but whatever, they shared the car with her. Robin said, the morning of Brian's disappearance, the Honda wasn't even at the house because she said Cissy had driven it home the night before. Why was this? Detectives wanted to know, and I know I wanted to know too. She explained that Cissy accidentally had left her headlights on in her own car and so her car wouldn't start when she tried to leave the night before. So after Brian left for work that morning, Robin said she jumped Cissy's car off so she could drive to the drug store. Robin then called Sissy and told her, Hey, the Jetta's good and you can come pick it up. So Cissy then went and picked up the Jetta, left the Honda back at the Davis's house while Robin and Brian were still boat shopping. Then, as Robin has already said multiple times, she and Brian split ways between two thirty and three. She said she did talk to Brian around three o'clock while driving to Cissy's house, where she had to wait for Sissy to get ready a little bit, and the two of them went to the cleaners, to Albertson's and then returned back to the Davis's residence. So, after Robin has repeated the same story

39:18 to the detectives three times, they posed a question to her. They said, if you were shopping with Cissy, which you've confirmed three separate times to us, why is your phone pinging on a tower south of the area after you have been very clear as to the places that you went. So Robin is just staring at them, not knowing exactly much about towers and all that, and she's shocked and she's like, I have never been in that area. I only went to that area after I found out that Brian was murdered there. I went there after, but I did not go there before. She just couldn't explain how this could be. She was damn near dumbfounded. So police still needed to figure out what had happened, and this was proving really difficult, so they went back to the physical evidence. The bullets recovered from Brian's body were found to also be hydro shocks, and the cartridge casings found at the scene were as well, So the evidence pointed to the likelihood that Brian was killed with his own gun.

40:30 The chances of being shot with hydroshock AMMO, carrying it in your vehicle, and being known to have it on you isn't something that detectives were just going to chalk up to chance. That seems pretty coincidental, and we don't believe in coincidences. So police also we're starting to believe that this whole crime scene was staged. It just stump of something's not right. In order to protect the tire from further damage during the towing process when they took the car into evidence, a deputy on scene had removed the damaged tire and went ahead and put this spare tire on. They didn't want to further damage the flat tire.

41:10 They then took that flat tire to Southern Tire Mart to determine exactly what was wrong with it. So the store manager took over this process. He looked it over, he assessed the tire, He looked over completely, and he found a whole bunch of nothing wrong with it. He made a point to say that if this tire had been driven in the area where you're saying this car was found, there would certainly have been damaged to this tire. It would not look like this, he said. I also refilled it with air and there's no flat, there's no hole. It's not leaking either. So they're like, nothing's wrong with the tire. He says, nothing is wrong with the tire.

41:54 They even were able to pull up records that showed that very tire had been recently purchased. It was a new tire. Someone had to have deflated that tire. There was no other explanation for it to be flat on the side of that desolate road. And there was another thing that stuck out sorely to them as well. Guess what Brian had in his trunk a compressor. So it begs the question, why would you change a perfectly good tire on the side of a rural road, You wouldn't. Okay. Also, why wouldn't you just air it up with the compressor if it went flat instead of completely changing it? You know what I'm saying, That's what you would do. This, my friends, was a staged crime scene. So the Southwest Louisiana Crime Lab examined the fingerprints that were lifted from the scene. They looked at the carjack the windows, there was an iPod in the car, a spare tire realm, the mirror, and the sun visor. To be very specific at what they looked at, and the only fingerprint that they were able to identify was Robin's. Now, I know what you're thinking, Well, they shared the car, of course her fingerprints would be in there. To say, okay, I agree with you. Makes sense. The issue that police now had was what wasn't there? There was no other female DNA recovered from the scene, meaning if the theory that they now were going to have to go to was

43:25 that maybe he had been seduced or had gone to that secluded area to have a rendezvous with Fanny or maybe some other woman. Hell we don't know, her DNA would be there, but it wasn't. There was no one else's DNA, So now you have to wonder why was he there in the first place, why was his belt undone, and why was he changing a perfectly good tire. So detectives decided then to go back and question Robin's best friend Sissy. This was on July thirteenth. Her statement was that she spent all day Sunday at the Davis residence. She then left around midnight. Her car wouldn't start at first, so then she had to go take their Honda because Brian was going to use the Trailblazer the next morning for work. The next morning, which was that Monday, again, Robin called her saying Brian needed to use the car, so she said, I went and put five to ten bucks in gas in it and then drove it back to their house. So detectives were able to actually pull video from a shopwrite which did show her there shortly after eleven. Once she got back, Robin then drove Sissy back home, where she stayed until later that afternoon, when Robin picked her up to go run errands. When they left, she said, we went straight to the dry cleaners, then we went to Albertson's, and then we went right back to the Davis residence. So we got back around five or five thirty. So this was kind of looking like the police were beating a dead horse. I'ma said, a dead hor Did y'all hear that? A dead horse? As

44:57 for the most part, because all the stories were aligning, Sissy also said that Tuesday she did go looking for Brian. So they said, okay, well where did you go when you went looking for him? And she said, well, Brian had taken both me and Robin fishing one time at a place called Calcushu Point, so I went to go check there. And so detectives kind of cocked their heads to the side and said, wow, do you think it's kind of odd that the place that you went driving and looking for him was really close to the actual murder scene? And she just kind of looked at him and said, well, I'd never really thought about that about the proximity of the two. For your knowledge, I want to make sure you understand this. Where Sissy supposedly drove was less than one mile from where Brian was found.

45:49 There was another friend that investigators chose to speak with as well, and she happened to be living with the Davises when Brian disappeared. Maybe she knew something. This woman's name was Stephanie Wells, so it turns out that she was awake early in the morning that Brian was believed to be killed because she happened to be scheduled for an eye surgery, so she verified Cissy's car was parked in the grass when I left to go to the doctor. She said, my surgery was done and I was back home by ten thirty, and she said that she didn't remember the Jetta still being there. She said, shortly after she got home, Brian returned back to the house. They spoke briefly, where Brian asked her, will you mind watching Bailey my daughter? Would you mind watching Bailey while me and Robin go Brooke Boat shopping, and Stephanie said, I absolutely agreed, And she said I did try to check in with Brian around three or three thirty, but he didn't answer the phone. So a little while later, I can tell you from the phone record, specifically, at three forty two pm, miss Wells sent a text to him saying Bailey is complaining that she's really not feeling good, but Brian never her back, nor did he answer that text back. Robin did, though, Robin called her back about nine minutes later. She said they spoke briefly and Robin said, you know, I'm running errands with Sissy and when I get back, we'll take care of it. She also said that Robin returned back home around five pm. What were

47:24 the police missing. It had to be there somewhere, you know, everyone's kind of echoing the same story, but something is clearly being missed. So they're racking their brains. What are we missing? So they decided to go back to the finances and to go interview some more close relatives. This included Robin's mother, Miss Babbette Bartholomew. During the interview with Miss Babbett, she said that she had given four thousand dollars to Robin in a new bank account. So cops were like, why why did you give her four thousand dollars? She said, well, Robin told me that her bank account was frozen due to the death investigation of Brian, and so she was told not to use that account. There was a big problem with what Miss Babbett just told them, a big problem. The problem was that the money that she deposited into the new bank account was deposited the same day that Brian was found dead, before anyone was notified.

48:29 Why would Robin ask for money to be deposited for a death investigation before she even knew that her husband was dead. Robin also had two life insurance policies, one for ninety thousand dollars and one for forty thousand dollars, both of them on Brian, so she stood to gain one hundred and thirty thousand dollars in the event of his death. Now that's not necessarily a ton of money, considering you know, a million other cases that had been covered and people getting millions and millions of dollars, but it could give someone the motive to kill him. In light of the gambling issues that were uncovered, Robin's son, Justin said Brian would stop to play video video poker on the way to work in the mornings, as well as sometimes on the way home in the afternoons. He also said that Brian's gambling had escalated in the last six months prior to his death, but Justin also had a little bit more information. He added that his mother was also a big time gambler. Robin never really mentioned that much. She frequented a place called Kd's Diner in Lake Charles, and she loved those video poker machines. Their gambling debt caused a great deal of financial stress on the both of them. Beginning in February, bank records showed overdraft charges and frequent withdrawals at game ambling establishments. In particular,

50:02 on July tenth, just days after Brian's death, they saw where Robin withdrew one hundred and two dollars and seventy five cents at a casino. Then on July eleventh, she wrote four separate checks to Kd's Diner, one for two O two seventy five, one for one O two seventy five, another for one O two seventy five, and one for sixty two seventy five. So you're kind of seeing a pattern of her paying paying a two dollars seventy five cent fee, running out of money, running right back up and doing it, and doing it and doing it again. Some other evidence wasn't quite adding up either. For example, at eight fifty two in the morning of Brian going missing, both Robin and Sissy entered a local Walgreens. Throughout every single time that either of them were questioned about what they were doing. Neither one said that they went to a Walgreens together, neither one as many many times as they laid out what they did that day. That's odd, especially when you know that you're being questioned about your husband's murder. The cell phone records were also deeply looked at at this point and really scrutinized. Robin told the detectives that when she made the three point fifty pm call back to Miss Wells about Brian's daughter, she was waiting on Sissy to dry her hair so they could go run those errands. But according to the cell phone records, this call pinged off of a sprint tower south of

51:33 Country Club Road. When the besties were claiming they only went to Albertson's and Triple A Cleaner's, they're not in the same area. That same tower was used in a two second hang up call made by Brian's phone at three point forty four pm the same day. During Robin's call, the phone switched towers, indicating that she was driving somewhere, not sitting at Sissy's house. Your phone will not jump towers while you are a located stationary It wasn't making sense. Robin also told police she called Brian a bunch of times whenever he went missing. She said, I left him a bunch of voicemails. He never returned my call, so police went and looked at Brian's voicemails. There were no messages from Robin from June twenty ninth at two point fifty eight pm until July fourth at nine to twenty am.

52:33 This was days later, and he had already been found dead by that point. Why are you calling your dead husband's phone leaving voicemails? So detectives really honed in on these towers that were being used both by Robin and Sissy's phones on the day of Brian's death, and wouldn't you know, they both were pinging off of a tower called Centennial Tower, the only one right near Brian's murder scene. So in a separate interview, Cissy told detectives she had no knowledge about Brian's death. She couldn't help them, she didn't know anything about it. So detectives decided maybe they would explain to her the difference between first and second degree murder, and Cissy sat back indignantly in her chair and said, do you think I killed Brian, and the detective bluntly said that he thought, I don't know if you killed him, but I know that you have either direct or indirect knowledge about Brian's murder, and we would like some answers. And Sissy got up and stormed out of the interview and left. So Robin's daughter, Kelsey, was also questioned, but she wasn't questioned about Brian. She was questioned about her own father, her biological father, Remember Andrew Little, who died in the car wreck. She was about his death, and what she had to say about her own dad's death was very interesting. Robin told Kelsey that there was

54:07 only twenty five thousand dollars in life insurance on her dad. However, when cleaning her father's house out, she found a one hundred thousand dollars policy on her father, and Kelsey felt like that whole situation was really shady because she lied about seventy five thousand dollars worth of life insurance money. She went and bought a Trailblazer with cash. She went and bought Brian, her then fiance, a boat with cash. She remodeled her house, got new hardwood floors, bought new kitchen, appliances, hired a painter to paint the entire house, and even got all of her landscaping done so. When asked about her own mother, Kelsey told detectives that she would describe her mother as being unfair to other people. As for Sissy, Kelsey described her as a second mom to her. She said she even lived with us for four years that she was asked, well, what was that like? Oh, well, she never paid rent. She never bought groceries though, but she didn't have to if my mother was, you know, if she's around my mom, My mom always pays for everything.

55:19 So when Kelsey was asked about her stepdad not returning home, she told detectives that her mom told her Brian never returned home from work the day that he went missing. I mean, this is a complete inconsistency with what detectives had been told previously by others. One he didn't come home from the Kroger. One he didn't come home from boat shopping, one he didn't come home from work. Well, which one is it? I think I would remember the last moment I saw my beloved. So with this information in mind, detectives decided to look further into the life insurance on Brian, and they were advised on a massive bombshell that Robin never mentioned. State Farm Insurance came forward and said that there were two additional policies on Brian.

56:08 Police had no clue about. She never mentioned this. They had another one worth one hundred thousand dollars as well as another one worth two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. In total, there were four life insurance policies on Brian Brian, totaling six hundred and forty five thousand dollars. Police had enough and they knew what was up. Robin and Brian went boat shopping while Cissy was driving Brian's Honda the day of the murder. Based on the cell phone records and the locations of the towers used, the women were calling each other, not about, you know, a dead vehicle or errands that they had to run. No, that's not what they were calling each other about. They were trying to determine exactly when Robin and Brian would be leaving Jerry's marine. Casis drove the Honda to that wagon wheel road in plenty of time to sit and wait to fake a flat tire, which it had to have been done before the rain, which means it was before three pm, and she faked that flat tire, so they never went home and switched cars as Robin had claimed. Robin and Brian drove the Trailblazer straight from Jerry's marine to Wagon Wheel Road. Cissy lured Brian to the murder scene and the besties worked together to shoot him. Now who actually pulled the trigger nobody knows, but it doesn't matter. They

57:39 both were working in tandem to llure Brian to the scene. The cell phone records proved the besties were lying all about the afternoon of the murder, and it placed them both right at the murder scene. The bullets found at the scene they matched the ammunition found at the Davis residence. Along with the fact that the flat tire the crime scene was completely staged, proven by the deflated tire with zero defects. Neither woman mentioned to police that they went together to that Walgreens the morning of the murder, which also threw off their supposed timeline of when they were supposed to be together. Robin lied to the police about leaving numerous voicemails when Brian didn't return home. Combined with the statements of Brian's sister, who was told Brian never returned from Kroger to go buy that sprite and that soup for his daughter Bailey, and then Kelsey, the other daughter, being told that he never returned home from work. Robin had lost her job. She was in financial distress with an overdrawn bank account, a gambling problem, and a house note way past due. She also lied about how much life insurance she had on Brian. Here's another fun fact I forgot to tell you. She was also playing video poker instead of attending Brian's post funeral memorial. No, she was playing video poker machines, which were proven. Basically, Robin and Sissy were codependent, nearly inseparable friends, both frequent gamblers, and Sissy depended on Robin financially. Finally, Robin asked her

59:12 mother for four thousand dollars due to Brian's death investigation, tying up their funds, but it's proven by their records that she was given them money the money before Brian was ever even found to be dead. The only alibi for either woman was the other one, and this stinks of cold blooded murder. Five months after Brian Davis was murdered, his wife, Robin, and her best friend Sissy, were indicted for his murder. And something funny to me that I don't ever really see mentioned is that Justin visited his mother, Robin in jail while she was awaiting trial. And you know, those conversations are all recorded. We all know that, right, hopefully you do by this day and age. Your conversations are recorded. Not to mention the recording at the beginning that says you're receiving a call from a penal institution and your calls are monitored and recorded, maybe that would be your hint. But at one point Justin asked his mom, well, mom, what's what are other people's bonds like compared to yours?

1:00:13 And she said that they were high quote even for people who didn't kill anybody, end quote. Hmm. So, on August twenty sixth, twenty twelve, fifty year old Robin and forty five year old Sissy were both convicted of second degree murder, each given life in prison without the possibility of parole. And something else I read that really just the women were asked about their relationship now that they both have life in prison, and Robin said, our relationship has never been better. And we're closer than ever sit on that one. I'm all about having a best friend, but that's a role that should include telling each other you're crazy when the idea of murder your spouse comes up.

1:01:02 But this is what happens when two idiots become besties, and they create this echo chamber of bad ideas. But considering they both love to gamble so much, I think both women might be surprised to know that women's prisons and gambling are a lot alike, because whether they want it or not, they're still going to experience some liquor in the front and possibly some poker in the back.