[bird caws]
- A respected town elder
Is found murdered in his home.
- He had a broken neck, several broken ribs,
Contusions to his head.
- The realization sets in pretty quickly
That someone has done a very evil thing.
- A killer captured on camera...
- We were able to see the unknown individual driving.
The visor was obscuring the individual's face.
- Shady neighbors who flee town in a hurry...
- He had a prior conviction for an attempted murder.
She had financial charges on her record.
- And a wild chase 800 miles from the scene of the crime.
- When I looked through the binoculars
And saw him riding that bike,
That's when my adrenaline started going.
- We were dealing with somebody
That really didn't have anything to lose.
[siren wails]
[bird cawing]
["just another ghost"]
- ♪ oh, child ♪
♪ come home to the gallows pole ♪
- On the sultry shores of the gulf coast of mississippi,
Life is savored like a sweet daiquiri.
It's a peaceful haven, where evil has no home.
- Bay st. Louis is an absolutely wonderful town,
A little gem within the gulf coast community.
[seagulls crying]
[suspenseful music]
- But yet it's here that 83-year-old maurice colly,
A faithful churchgoing businessman
With deep local roots,
Is about to meet his maker.
[bird cawing]
♪ ♪
- The last time I talked to my uncle
Was just before he went missing.
[line trilling]
My uncle and I talked about once a week.
I tried calling him and...
Was unable to get him.
[telephone ringing]
I'd left a voice mail.
He would always call me back within a day or two.
♪ ♪
And never got a response.
[insects chirping]
- Lifelong bachelor maurice colly
Has a local friend, charlotte,
Who also hasn't heard from him in a while.
♪ ♪
- She went to his apartment to check on him.
And the apartment was locked.
She knocked on the door and banged and yelled
And got no response.
♪ ♪
- But then she spotted maurice's car
Through a window into the garage,
And she knew he never went anywhere without it.
- She knew something was very wrong
And contacted the police.
[indistinct chatter over police radio]
- We got a call
To go and do a welfare concern
On north 2nd street.
The complainant says that she has not seen
Maurice colly in several days.
♪ ♪
We get there, and we notice
That the door to the stairwell
That leads up into the apartment was open.
So we go up the stairs.
We start calling his name...
Looking around.
I walked through the living-room area
And noticed a display case.
And the display case had a little dust on it,
But it had areas where items used to be...
♪ ♪
That didn't have dust.
♪ ♪
I walked through the kitchen
And noticed that there were keys on the counter.
Also on the counter was a-- what appeared
To be a fresh bowl of oatmeal
With some milk in it.
- Charlotte tells officer armentrout
That this is strange.
Like any good southerner, maurice was partial to grits.
- Seemed kind of odd
Because somebody would have been there
Or would have been there recently,
Because it hadn't started to curdle or anything.
- Detective gary hudgens arrives to aid in the search.
- I then went down to the garage.
I noticed that there was blood or what appeared to be blood
All over the inside of the garage door.
- While charlotte watches detectives search the garage,
She calls maurice's nephew wally
To update him on what's happening.
- While we were on the phone, one of the policemen
Said to her, "let's open the trunk of that car."
♪ ♪
They opened the trunk of the car...
♪ ♪
And maurice's body was in it.
♪ ♪
And she just screamed and lost it.
♪ ♪
- Maurice colly was found in the trunk,
And he was bound and gagged.
[indistinct chatter over police radio]
- His head was wrapped up in plastic...
Like a painter's tarp.
There were several abrasions on his elbows.
His hands were bound. His face was covered.
You could tell by the state of his body
That there had been some sort of struggle,
That he had been in there for a couple days,
And that he did not voluntarily get into that vehicle.
♪ ♪
- My mind was wondering
What happened to maurice colly.
- An hysterical charlotte is taken to the police station
For questioning,
And colly's home
Is now the scene of a murder investigation.
- We started collecting evidence, dna swabs,
Just anything that stood out to me as possible evidence
In the case.
When they were removing mr. Colly
From the trunk of the vehicle,
There was a lot of plastic that was laid underneath the body.
On the piece of plastic that was underneath the body,
There was three shoe prints.
And they were able to locate some fingertip prints
On the inside driver's door handle of the victim's car.
That was collected as evidence as well
And then submitted to the state crime lab.
So immediately, we had boots on the ground,
Officers on the ground, investigators going to work,
Trying to find out what happened
And who was responsible.
♪ ♪
[birds cawing]
- As news of maurice's death
Spreads through tight-knit bay st. Louis,
His friends and family
Struggle to understand this horrific crime.
Not many people are confronted with the sin of murder
Around these parts.
- I was shocked and very upset.
Realization sets in pretty quickly that...
Someone has done a very evil thing,
And my uncle was the target.
♪ ♪
- The initial crime scene,
Seeing the way mr. Colly was bound and placed in the trunk
And the injuries he had,
We don't typically have crime like that in bay st. Louis.
[siren wailing]
- At the police station, detectives interview charlotte
And try to determine if she could have had any involvement
In maurice's death.
But the mild-mannered and quite distraught elderly lady
Is determined to be an unlikely suspect
And ruled out.
Detectives then canvass the quiet neighborhood
Around colly's home,
And an apartment building next door
Provides an early lead.
- I went and spoke with the apartment manager,
Asked if she knew anybody that was maybe shady,
Had anybody disappeared recently.
At that time, she did inform us that there was two tenants,
That they had violated their leases
And had left some time in the week prior.
- The couple's rapid and recent departure
Is suspicious.
And when detectives run a background check
On the first tenant, alarm bells go off.
- Upon running his criminal history,
It was found that he had a prior conviction
For attempted murder.
- And the girlfriend isn't whistle-clean herself.
- She had financial charges on her record.
- With the crime scene looking like a burglary gone bad,
This is a red flag.
- They looked very suspicious.
- And they were identified as possible suspects at that time.
- Coming up...
- We were able to immediately determine
There had been substantial activity on his bank account.
- My wife called me into the living room,
And she had found a bag laying on the floor.
We happened to notice there was a receipt.
And when I looked at the receipt,
The date was after the date
That the coroner certified maurice as being dead.
- ♪ come home to the gallows pole ♪
- ♪ judgment day shall come ♪
[siren wailing, indistinct chatter over police radio]
- Bay st. Louis, mississippi, police
Investigating the murder of maurice colly
Have set their sights
On a neighboring couple who disappeared
Around the time colly was killed.
The pair has a checkered past,
Including a conviction for attempted murder
And financial fraud charges,
Which leads detectives to investigate deeper.
- We were able to immediately determine
There had been substantial activity on his bank accounts,
Where mr. Colly's cards had been used around the time
Of the homicide.
We also learned that somebody had called the bank
Prior to those transactions several times
To raise the limits on mr. Colly's withdrawal.
- Detectives subpoena the bank's security footage...
And they discover the exact moment
When someone withdraws money from colly's account,
And it's only hours after his body had been found by police.
- In that footage, we were able to see
An unknown individual driving.
The visor was obscuring the individual's face.
The vehicle that was used to withdraw money from that atm
Was a silver honda accord.
- But the license plate is not visible,
And there's only one mystery person in the car.
Nevertheless, given the suspicious departure
Of the neighbor couple only days before
And their checkered past,
Detectives have to go with their guts.
- Lead investigator in the case secured arrest warrants.
Those warrants were entered into ncic,
And they were listed as wanted persons
In reference to the case.
- The police released statements to the press
Saying, you know, they've identified two suspects
And believed that they had something to do with his death.
- With a bolo on the couple,
Police departments throughout the south
Are on the lookout,
And it isn't long before they're found.
- They were actually taken into custody in louisiana.
- Less than a week
After maurice colly's body was found,
Detectives travel to the bayou state,
Hopeful they have his killers.
- The feeling in town was one of relief.
Everybody here knew they had been captured,
And there was no doubt about it.
[birds screech]
- The lead investigators at that time
Went over and interviewed both of them extensively.
- The couple is pressed about their sudden departure
From bay st. Louis.
Although they admit breaking their lease,
They were able to prove to detectives
That they had planned to go back
To their home state of louisiana
Long before the murder.
- Them leaving bay st. Louis during that time
Was just purely coincidental.
- And the car the couple are found with
Does not match the one seen in the atm footage.
So detectives hang their hopes on dna evidence.
But samples taken from the pair
Do not match anything found at the crime scene,
Nor do the shoes they're wearing
Match the crime-scene footprints.
- It was determined that they had no involvement in the case,
And they were released without charge.
[suspenseful music]
- There was a feeling of disappointment
When they found out that these were not the right people.
- The fruitless pursuit of the wrong suspects
Has squandered a week of time
And put the investigation back to square one.
- They had arrested these two suspects
And then later on released from custody
And had the charges dropped.
So everybody was wondering what in the world is going on.
♪ ♪
- The bay st. Louis police department
Fires the lead detective.
- I was made the lead investigator
On the case at that time.
- Gary hudgens' promotion
Comes two weeks after the murder
And just as maurice colly's autopsy report comes in,
Revealing the wicked nature of the crime.
[bird caws]
- He had a broken neck, several broken ribs,
Contusions to his head,
Also with a primary cause of death of asphyxiation.
Based on the state of the body,
They determined that he'd probably died
Within the previous 48 hours prior to being discovered.
♪ ♪
- I saw that maurice died
In a very difficult way.
♪ ♪
He definitely suffered before dying.
It was shocking to read what was in that report.
♪ ♪
[bird caws]
- It just nauseated me
To know that such a horrible thing had happened
To such a decent person.
- Eager to get the investigation
On the right track,
Detective hudgens goes back to the beginning
And re-interviews everyone.
- Speaking with the tenants, we learned
That there was commotion or movement inside the apartment
During the days leading up to finding mr. Colly's body.
♪ ♪
So it appeared the suspect was still in his apartment.
- Detectives also meet with maurice's friend charlotte,
Who remembers a new detail
About the day she went looking for maurice.
[knock at door]
- Charlotte went to maurice's apartment,
And she had gone and banged on the door.
And she decided to wait, and while she was waiting,
A fedex delivery truck came.
And the fedex guy rang the doorbell.
[doorbell ringing]
Got no response from inside.
Does not leave the package and leaves.
♪ ♪
- I'd executed a search warrant on fedex
To find out what was in that package.
♪ ♪
We discovered that it was a rare coin.
I contacted the dealer in north carolina,
And they advised that an individual had called
Several times to place that order
And then to check up the status of that order.
And I asked them, you know, "why would somebody,
You know, go after a coin?"
And he said, "it's liquid assets.
"you can stick it in your pocket,
And you walk away with $15,000."
- Given that the coroner had certified colly as dead
At least two days before charlotte
Stopped by his apartment
And that the package was an overnight delivery
Leads detective hudgens to the conclusion
That it was the killer who ordered the coins.
- The fact that the oatmeal
Was sitting on the kitchen counter
In a state to be eaten but had not been eaten
Made me believe that the suspect got interrupted
At the time that ms. Charlotte was there
And the fedex package was to be delivered,
That he immediately fled the residence
To prevent getting caught.
- But detective hudgens' theory brings him no closer
To identifying the killer.
And the frustration builds as weeks go by
And every lead turns into a dead end.
- The case had kind of gone cold.
We had pretty much investigated every lead we had.
We really didn't have a whole lot at that time
On who our suspect was.
[laid-back music]
[indistinct chatter over police radio]
Approximately six weeks into the investigation,
I released the house back to his next of kin...
And get the property ready to sell.
[suspenseful music]
- The apartment was messy, but that was normal.
My wife and I began the clean-up process,
And we gradually went through the place
Room by room,
Carefully looking at things
As we cleaned.
I noticed several things were just not quite right.
There was things like a coin collection was missing.
- Colly was an avid collector
Of religious and historic heirlooms,
A passion he shared with his beloved nephew, wally colly.
- The ten commandment plates
And the civil war commemorative plates
Were gone.
Crystal goblets and other crystal items were missing.
All of my grandmother's silverware was gone.
- And then maurice's kin
Notices something amidst the clutter
Of the collector's apartment.
- My wife called me into the living room,
And she had found a bag
Laying on the floor.
And it was a kmart bag.
And inside the kmart bag,
They were first-aid-type items--
You know, gauze pads and tape and stuff like that.
And it was in a part of the house
Where you wouldn't expect something like that to be.
In the bag, we happened to notice there was a receipt.
And when I looked at the receipt,
The date was after the date that the coroner certified
Maurice as being dead.
[siren wailing]
- They immediately contacted me.
I immediately responded to the residence.
[indistinct chatter over police radio]
Whoever placed that bag there was most likely our suspect.
That was the boom.
- ♪ come home to the gallows pole ♪
- ♪ judgment day shall come ♪
[suspenseful rock music]
[bird cawing]
- The murder of southern gentleman maurice colly
Has baffled investigators for over a month.
But in a stroke of luck,
Maurice's nephew has discovered a shopping bag
With a receipt dated after the murder of his uncle.
- There was gloves in the bag
And various cleaning supplies...
You know, if you were to clean up a crime scene,
Sitting directly next to the bag,
And it had a receipt in it for kmart
And a package for a salt-and-pepper wig.
- The discovery of the shopping bag and receipt
Has detective hudgens hoping that the store
Has captured the killer on its security cameras.
- I immediately went to kmart
In fear that that footage might be gone or overwritten.
[suspenseful music]
- Six weeks have passed since the suspect had gone shopping.
- I met with the manager at kmart.
She stated that she did remember the transaction.
Something just stood out about him,
Enough that she took a mental note and remembered it.
We were able to go back and actually pull that footage up
And actually see the person that purchased those items.
♪ ♪
When he's at the register, he's moving around a lot.
He's acting very, very nervous.
♪ ♪
We had a white male, physically fit,
Wearing construction-type clothes.
We got good shots of who that individual was.
It was a huge moment in the case.
- Although it's hard to tell if it's the same person
That's in the atm footage, detectives suspect that it is.
♪ ♪
- We release the photos to the media
Of that individual as a person of interest,
To see if anybody recognized him
And help of identifying who that individual was.
[telephones ringing]
Within the first day,
The calls started pouring in.
It was probably 50 to 60 calls,
Identifying the person in the footage as glen davis.
♪ ♪
We ran a criminal history on him,
And he had a very extensive criminal history...
[indistinct chatter over police radio]
Burglaries, thefts, escapes.
♪ ♪
- Investigators go back to the colly family
To ask them if the name glen davis rings any bells.
And to their surprise, it does.
- A year or two earlier,
I knew that maurice had hired a handyman
To do some grass-cutting for him.
[lawn mower whirring]
Charlotte told me that it was glen davis
That worked for maurice.
♪ ♪
In the process of cutting the grass one time,
Glen davis damaged a statue of a collie dog...
That my uncle was very fond of.
- Davis wasn't willing to pay for it,
And mr. Colly was pretty upset with that
And had fired davis from the residence.
♪ ♪
- But it was the many female callers to the police tip line
Who confessed they knew davis
In a more intimate manner.
- We learned that he'd used the app plenty of fish
As his primary means of meeting women.
Most of the women described,
He had a very nice set of blue eyes
That they found very attractive.
- Apparently mr. Davis was quite the player.
He portrayed himself
As well-off and well put together.
But that he always had an excuse
To why he didn't have a vehicle.
He never had any money.
We spoke with several women
That he would take out on a date.
And then at the end of the date,
They would wind up having to pay for the meal.
Kind of lived like a transient.
He pretty much just went from lady to lady.
He was very good at manipulating people
Into getting what he wanted.
- But apparently there was no love lost
Between him and these ditched damsels.
[telephone ringing]
- I got a phone call through central dispatch.
[indistinct chatter over police radio]
A lady identified herself as renee.
- Renee reveals that she dated glen
Around the time of the murder,
And she shares his phone number with investigators.
[touch tones beeping]
But when they try to reach him,
They discover the savvy swinger
Has turned off his phone.
♪ ♪
- We were pretty positive
That he was going to keep his phone off,
That he knew we had the capability to track his phone.
- With glen davis' picture all over the local media,
The calls from his many girlfriends
Continue to pour in.
- Over the course of a week or two,
It was probably close to 200 different tips
We got on the case.
- Most of the callers had known davis in the past
And broken up with him due to his cheap and shifty ways.
But one of them, a woman named jodi,
Not only recognizes davis
But realizes she was with him only hours
After maurice colly's body was found by the police
On March 8th.
- She stated that they went to the ip casino in biloxi,
Had a couple drinks,
And then they went to a sports bar on highway 49.
♪ ♪
She did note that he had a lot more money
Than he would normally have on him.
[engine turning over]
- Davis asked jodi if he could borrow her car
To run a short errand.
[indistinct chatter over police radio]
- It wasn't till later that night that he had not returned
And was not responding to her texts...
She realized something was amiss.
- The car that davis borrowed from jodi--
A silver honda accord...
The exact same car that was captured
On atm security cameras
Only hours after colly was found murdered.
- We knew he was on the run. We knew what vehicle he was in.
[indistinct chatter over police radio]
We put out a bolo, which is a "be on the lookout,"
Nationwide for that vehicle.
We confirmed that he had taken jodi's car,
And a manhunt was underway.
It's pretty chilling.
We were dealing with somebody that liked to manipulate,
Somebody that liked to lie,
Somebody that really didn't have anything to lose.
He thought he got away with murder.
- ♪ come home to the gallows pole ♪
- ♪ judgment day shall come ♪
[birds crying]
[indistinct chatter over police radio]
- The "love 'em and leave 'em" lothario glen davis
Is the prime suspect in the brutal murder
Of mississippi coast developer maurice colly
Two months prior.
Davis was last seen in bay st. Louis
On security-camera footage
Only hours after colly's body was found by police.
Fearing the fugitive has fled the southland,
Detectives turned to the media for help again.
- We reached out to "america's most wanted,"
And they came down and did a feature on him.
- "america's most wanted" dubbed him
The "gulf coast casanova."
It attracted a bit of attention.
- We also got the fbi involved and the u.S. Marshals involved
Because we didn't know if he might try to flee to canada.
[indistinct chatter over police radio]
- Davis' swinging ways,
Bouncing from one girlfriend to the next,
Are coming back to haunt him,
As his former paramours are only too glad
To help the police.
[suspenseful music]
♪ ♪
[indistinct chatter over police radio]
- We knew what vehicle he was in.
We had his cell phone numbers
That were provided to us by renee.
I'd already executed search warrants for location
On those cell phones.
[indistinct chatter over police radio]
We determined that those cell phones were shut off.
But he did, however, activate them
In and around birmingham, alabama...
[computer beeping]
To take a picture of a map
That led straight up to michigan...
Around grand rapids, michigan, walker, michigan.
That's where he was born and raised.
- The picture was taken in early may,
Almost two months after maurice colly's death.
It looks like he's heading home.
♪ ♪
So the walker, michigan, police are put on alert.
[indistinct chatter over police radio]
- There was information
That put glen davis in our jurisdiction.
[siren wailing, indistinct chatter over police radio]
He was on the run for a homicide.
So, inherently, he would be considered
Armed and dangerous.
- The michigan police
Are looking for the presumed killer
And watching out for the car he stole.
But back in mississippi,
A tip has led detectives to a local connection.
[bell tolls]
- Glen's father did live up in the county here locally.
Myself and the hancock county sheriff's office
Drove out to that residence and met his dad, larry.
[insects chirping]
I'd asked him if he knew why we were there,
And his response was,
I think you're gonna tell me my son did something
I'm gonna regret for the rest of my life.
[indistinct chatter over police radio]
His father was very open,
Allowed us to come in and search the residence.
♪ ♪
He led us to a room, and he stated that's where,
When glen would come to stay at his house,
That's where he would stay at.
♪ ♪
- Investigators search the room
Full of glen's belongings,
And it isn't long before they find something intriguing.
- We located shoes that were very consistent with the shoes
Described by the crime lab...
That contributed to the shoe prints
That were on the plastic underneath mr. Colly's body.
- The shocking discovery
Has to be confirmed by the crime lab,
But there's little doubt in detectives' minds
That the shoes belong to colly's killer.
♪ ♪
Detective hudgens presses davis' father
For more information.
But he states that he doesn't know where his son is.
- He was very cooperative.
He was very emotional, which is very understandable.
And he told me that he didn't know
What he could do after that.
- The shoes are sent to the lab for testing.
And sure enough, they're a match with the prints
Found at the crime scene.
♪ ♪
And then on June 14, 2012,
Detective hudgens gets a call from the u.S. Marshals
In grand rapids, michigan.
♪ ♪
- They inform me that they had located a bag...
♪ ♪
That belonged to glen davis.
- Coming up...
- Within 30 seconds, there was a sighting of him.
There's innocent civilians everywhere in that area.
I opened up the passenger door.
I just jumped out of a moving vehicle.
[engine revving, tires screech]
- ♪ come home to the gallows pole ♪
- ♪ judgment day shall come ♪
[suspenseful music]
- On June 12, 2012, michigan police receive a call
About a suspicious bag found in a homeowner's backyard.
[indistinct chatter over police radio]
- Located inside that bag were three sd cards
That appeared to be from cell phones.
Once they opened up the sd cards,
One of the very first things they saw
Was a text message in there that said,
"I'm on the run from the u.S. Marshals in mississippi."
Lots of pictures of items
That were taken from the victim's house,
Pictures of the victim,
And we were able to determine
Via the phone numbers and the content on the cards
That they belong to glen davis.
Also located inside that bag
Was a police badge and two handguns.
We realized that davis might be
A lot more desperate and dangerous
Than we first thought.
- The discovery of the bag has investigators laser-focused
On the grand rapids' area.
But davis is in deep hiding,
And there are no signs of him.
♪ ♪
On July 20, 2012, four months after the murder,
Davis' one-time girlfriend renee reaches back out
To police to inform them that davis has just emailed her.
- He began to extensively talk to her
And tell her how sorry he was and how much he loved her.
Through those emails, we were able to figure out
The ip address that they were sent from.
We were able to determine that they came from a library
In the walker area.
- Local michigan police coordinate with renee
To try to catch glen at the library,
Where he's actively emailing her.
But davis is nowhere to be found.
- Mr. Davis somehow escaped capture at that time.
- Judgment day is coming.
While investigators continue to follow up on every lead,
Less than a week later,
An anonymous tip leads them to an abandoned car,
The very same one from the atm footage.
It's parked behind
A grand rapids apartment complex,
And a search reveals a trove of evidence.
- We located the ten commandment plates,
Still in a box with mr. Colly's handwriting on it,
And a couple other items that were identified
As belonging to the victim.
- A forensics team combs through the car for clues
To davis' location,
But nothing is found.
And then on August 5, 2012,
Only days after the car is found,
A crucial phone call comes in to the crime stoppers hotline.
♪ ♪
- We received a tip--a female in the grand rapids area
That had had contact with davis.
She was put in contact with the u.S. Marshals,
And she set up a time to meet davis.
- Davis had set up a rendezvous with her
At a fast-food restaurant
And told her he would be arriving on his bike.
♪ ♪
She tells police
Exactly where he would be going and how.
- He was going to be riding
His bike through a parking lot
At a specific time.
- Local police and u.S. Marshals
Set up a stakeout for the fugitive,
Hoping that this time they will get lucky.
♪ ♪
- The shopping district at that time of day
Was one of the worst places
That we could have tried to arrest glen davis,
Considering the high volume of traffic and pedestrians.
♪ ♪
You're worried, if this does go to a situation
Where deadly force is needed,
There's innocent civilians everywhere in that area.
[indistinct chatter over police radio]
- We got parked.
And probably within 30 seconds,
There was a sighting of him.
♪ ♪
We knew that he'd probably be in some sort of disguise
With a wig.
When I looked through the binoculars
And saw him riding that bike
In a wig underneath that ball cap,
We had glen davis in our sights.
That's when my adrenaline started going.
[siren wailing]
[indistinct chatter over police radio]
Glen davis began pedaling his bike very quickly,
Going through parking lots and changing direction,
Going up over curbs.
He turned onto a roadway right in front of my partner and I.
[siren wailing]
[engine revving]
I told the u.S. Marshal next to me
That if he got into that apartment complex
Right ahead of us, we would probably lose him.
U.S. Marshal lally told me he was going to hit the bike
And cause glen davis to crash.
So I opened up the passenger door
And prepared to jump out as soon as he hit that bike.
- ♪ come home to the gallows pole ♪
- ♪ judgment day shall come ♪
[siren wailing]
[suspenseful music]
- Glen davis has left a trail of sin
As wide as the mississippi river.
He's been on the run for five months,
And now the net is closing in.
[siren wails]
- I remember the moment he hit that bike...
And glen davis had gone over the handlebars.
And I jumped on top of his back
And secured him in handcuffs.
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We were able to take a dangerous criminal
Off the streets that day, and it was my pink handcuffs
That he felt when he was arrested.
- Prior to davis going on the run,
All the photographs we had of him, he was a very fit,
Well put together individual.
At the time he was caught,
He had lost approximately 45 pounds
And essentially looked like a homeless person
That had been living off of canned beans and hot dogs.
You could tell that he was living a very, very hard life.
- Glen davis is brought back to the mississippi coast,
Where he wrought so much evil,
And he faces the man who tracked him down.
- I walked in the room, showed him who I was.
He immediately dropped his head.
I had a folder with me with a picture of the victim.
And I just opened it up and sat it in front of him
And informed him, you did that.
And he just started crying, and he closed the folder.
I got up and left the room, and he continued to cry.
I was just happy to have somebody like that
Off the street.
He thought he was better than
And that he was smarter than anybody else
That he came in contact with.
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- When I got word that he had been apprehended
In michigan...
Big relief, big relief.
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- It was a tremendous moment, to see him in handcuffs
And know that the chase was over and all that hard work.
You know, now it was time to get ready for trial.
- Prosecutors have assembled a mountain of evidence
Against glen davis,
And he's charged with murder, grand larceny,
And vehicle theft.
He pleads not guilty.
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It takes three years
To prepare the case against glen davis
And make sure that the jury that hears it
Will have no doubt as to his guilt.
The fact that glen davis and maurice colly knew each other
Is critical to the case.
- Glen davis had access to mr. Colly's apartment.
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Due to the injuries that mr. Colly sustained,
It definitely appeared that some kind of struggle
Had taken place.
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We did have fingertip prints
Located on the inside of the driver's door handle
Of the victim's car.
We were able to confirm that those did belong to glen davis.
The gauze and the tape that were used to bind mr. Colly,
The dna evidence on that returned
As a mixture of mr. Colly and mr. Davis.
The evidence spoke for itself.
And there was never any evidence
In this case that led to anybody else
Other than glen davis.
- While the perpetrator's clear,
The motive for the murder is never determined.
But it doesn't matter to the jury.
- The jury was out for approximately two hours.
The jury came back,
And he was found guilty of first-degree murder--
Life in prison without the possibility of parole.
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It was a huge sigh of relief.
- It felt great.
I love it when all pieces of the puzzle come together
And a jury of their peers
Finds them guilty.
- Maurice colly was a nice gentleman who opened his home
To glen davis and provided a job for him,
And it got him killed.
- Maurice colly's life was stolen
By the sin of greed.
The punishment for the sinner
Is that he must spend the remainder
Of his earthly life behind bars,
Contemplating his evil ways.
- There's no cure for stupid and no cure for meanness,
And that's what this guy was.
He was just pure mean and pure stupid,
And he got what he deserved.
- This murder...
Hurt quite a few people.
This gives glen davis
A very long time to think about what he did.
Now, maybe he'll never admit to himself even
That he did something very terrible,
But he's got a long time to think about it.
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