Can you imagine what this little boy may have seen?

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" NORTH CANTON, Ohio (June 18) - A pregnant woman vanished from her home, leaving behind broken furniture, a pool of bleach on the floor and just one witness - a 2-year-old son who told police, "Mommy's crying ... Mommy's in the rug." Investigators would not elaborate on the meaning of the child's statement, but a bed comforter was missing from Jessie Davis' home. Authorities said Monday they had no suspects in the disappearance of Davis, 26, who is nine months pregnant. Davis' mother, Patricia Porter, was the last person to have a conversation with Davis when she spoke to her daughter Wednesday by phone. Police and 60 to 70 volunteers searched over the weekend but found no leads. "You just feel absolutely numb," Porter said. "I see her picture on television and I think, 'Oh my God, what a beautiful girl.' And then it hits you, 'That's my girl.'" Porter, 60, discovered the toddler alone when she went to check on her daughter Friday morning. The home's sliding patio door was unlocked, and Davis' car was still at the duplex. Investigators said the father of both the boy and Davis' unborn baby is a police patrolman who is estranged from his wife. Rick Perez, chief deputy at the Stark County Sheriff's Department, would not comment on the relationship between Canton police patrolman Bobby Cutts Jr. and Davis. Perez said Cutts and his estranged wife are among those cooperating with investigators. Cutts, 30, and his wife also had at least one child together. Porter said that when she didn't hear from her daughter Thursday, she went to Davis' home near this northeast Ohio city and found her grandson, Blake, wearing a dirty diaper. The mattress in Davis' bedroom was partially off the bed, a night stand and lamp had been knocked over and bleach had been poured on the bedroom floor, Porter said. Davis' son later told detectives: "Mommy was crying. Mommy broke the table. Mommy's in the rug." Items from Davis' purse were scattered on the kitchen floor. Davis' cell phone also is missing, investigators said. "Knowing my daughter, she was so immaculate that anything out of place in my mind seemed like shambles," Porter said. Porter, who is now caring for her grandson, said her daughter planned to name her baby daughter Chloe. "She was in good spirits," Porter said. "She was excited about the baby. She was getting ready to pack a suitcase for Chloe and for herself. You could see she'd been hanging up the baby clothes." Davis is employed by Allstate Insurance at a call center in nearby Hudson, company spokesman Mike Siemienas said Monday. Co-worker Dianna Piltz sent Davis a text message at 8:15 a.m. on Thursday that wasn't returned. "We freak out when she's a couple minutes late. She's pregnant, and you always worry about pregnant women," Piltz said. Neighbors reported they did not notice anything suspicious before the disappearance, Perez said. A neighbor on Davis' leafy, middle-class street said Davis lived a low-key life. "Every now and then we'd see her out and about," said Jeff Midkiff, 46. "She would wave, or whatever. She seemed like a very quiet person." North Canton is south of Cleveland in northeastern Ohio. In 2000 in nearby Ravenna, a pregnant woman was killed and her baby was cut out by a woman who claimed she was pregnant and took the victim's baby as her own. She killed herself five days later. "

http://news.aol.com/topnews/articles/_a/woman-vanishes-shortly-before-baby-due/20070618113709990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001

6/18/2007 10:02:58 PM

That chick's the rug doctor

6/18/2007 10:10:26 PM

I have never heard a 2 year old say anything that sounded like coherent English. I'll be surprised if they find out Mommy was ever in a rug, because I think it's more likely they are hearing this kid say what they think happened.

6/18/2007 10:10:33 PM

plenty of 2yr olds can form very coherent sentences - maybe you have just been around shy/slow 2yr olds

6/18/2007 10:13:23 PM

what he said

6/18/2007 11:16:34 PM

So what is that suppose to mean?

6/18/2007 11:34:10 PM

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"So what is that suppose to mean?"

6/18/2007 11:43:15 PM

I think I heard the kid say it in the Today show story this morning.

6/18/2007 11:51:53 PM

maybe like someone rolled her up in the rug? therefore she would be "in" the rug?

6/19/2007 12:43:50 AM

my two year old can speak simple sentences.

and him being a boy, his language has developed much slower than girls his age. many of the girls were speaking in full, complex sentences by 18 months.

6/19/2007 12:47:12 AM

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"So what is that suppose to mean?"

i mean, he's 2, but it seems pretty obvious that mommy got rolled up into a rug and taken away...no?

6/19/2007 1:03:31 AM

perhaps. possibly. maybe even probably... but not "obviously"

language skills are incomplete at that age. the grasp of prepositions is not automatic. theres a huge developmental gradient between 2 and 3 years. is the kid 2 yrs. 1 mo.? or 2 yrs. 10 mos? it makes a difference.

in any event, this whole thing sounds terribly tragic.

i hope she is found safe. if one is a believer in prayer.. now would be a good time.






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6/19/2007 1:11:33 AM

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"i hope she is found safe. if one is a believer in prayer.. now would be a good time."

Stop acting like you give a damn.

6/19/2007 1:19:28 AM

youre so right. i dont give a fuck. im just trying to score with emo christian chicks.

6/19/2007 1:34:16 AM

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"plenty of 2yr olds can form very coherent sentences - maybe you have just been around shy/slow 2yr olds"

all the 2 yr olds ive been around have been stupid as shit

hell ive got a 4yr old cousin who still can't even say but a convoluted group of words his mom likes to call a "sentence"

6/19/2007 5:24:43 AM

They're in the computer?

6/19/2007 7:46:14 AM

I've got a 2 yr old son (he'll be 3 in August) and he can talk in sentences just fine. Granted his grammar isn't always right, but anyone can understand him. He can count from 1-10 in English and in Spanish as well as say some other stuff in Spanish (the daycare he is at has a spanish teacher that teaches them) as well as his ABC's, etc.
Now back when he had just turned 2, he couldn't do most of that

6/19/2007 7:52:04 AM

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"mommy's in the rug"

One of the things missing from the house was a comforter...

Now if mommy was in the rug... she could've been taken out, wrapped up in the comforter...

That's a really scary thought.

6/19/2007 8:50:50 AM

i feel sorry for anyone that didn't find that blatently obvious

6/19/2007 9:00:50 AM

yeah it's cool to be an asshole in a thread like this.

6/19/2007 9:02:21 AM

OR SHE'S STILL UNDER THE FLOORBOARDS

6/19/2007 9:17:42 AM

Mommy's sleeping with the fishes.

6/19/2007 12:21:04 PM

Mommy's on the rag.

6/19/2007 4:29:19 PM

Mommy sleeps with the fishes.

6/19/2007 7:02:16 PM

As a nanny, I have worked with quite a few children -- a fair number of them under the age of two.

One of my last charges was with me from 15 months until couple of weeks after his 2nd birthday. Before he was 2 years old, he was able to put together simple sentences like "Erica, that your yogurt?" or "Mommy upstairs working." or "Yesterday, I go to Bullwinkle's. See water!" Now he was not completely reliable because yesterday may have been 5 days ago, Mommy may not currently be upstairs working, or Bullwinkle's could have been any number of places with a fountain. But anyone could understand him literally and anyone involved in his daily life would be able to decipher what he meant.

With most little kids, "Mommy is crying." could actually mean that Mommy is screaming or covering her face as though she were crying. And "Mommy's in the rug." could mean that mommy is on the rug or wrapped up in something similar to a rug (like a blanket).

But I don't doubt that the two year old is making that statement and that the statement is somehow meaningful.

6/19/2007 7:54:24 PM

My daughter is 18 months and she speaks in sentences. And I believe I heard on the news that they think he confused rug with the comforter that is missing from the master bedroom!

6/19/2007 11:11:49 PM

update:

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" Baby Found Near Where Woman Disappeared By JOE MILICIA Associated Press Posted: Today at 6:10 p.m. Updated: 1 minute ago CANTON, Ohio — A newborn girl was found in a basket on a doorstep 45 miles from where a pregnant woman vanished, authorities said Tuesday. A DNA sample was taken from the infant and given to authorities investigating the disappearance. Thomas Maurer, sheriff in neighboring Wayne County, said a doctor determined that the baby was less than 24 hours old. He said he didn't believe the baby was related to the missing woman, Jessie Davis, but that officials were using "every caution we can" to eliminate that possibility. Davis, 26, who is due July 3 with a baby she planned to name Chloe, has not been heard from since Wednesday evening when she spoke to her mother by phone. A couple discovered the newborn on the porch of their rural home south of Wooster on Monday night, Maurer said. The baby was dressed in a sleeper. The wicker basket contained a blanket and a bottle of formula, but there was no note, he said. Don Redman said the infant's umbilical cord had been tied off with a rubber band, and she was sleeping when he and his wife returned home from dinner. He speculated that the baby was left by someone who knew his wife's background as a nurse and board member at a local free clinic. "My wife has been a school nurse and has dealt with young females in a confidential manner over a number of years," Redman said. "We don't feel at this point that there's any connection (with the missing woman)." The baby was taken to Wooster Community Hospital, where DNA from the girl was taken using a mouth swab, said Maurer, who drove the sample to investigators in Stark County on Tuesday. Davis was reported missing on Friday when her mother, Patricia Porter, went to Davis' house in nearby North Canton to check on her and found her grandson, 2-year-old Blake Davis, alone, wearing a dirty diaper in a home with furniture askew. A pool of bleach was on the bedroom floor, and the contents of Davis' purse were scatted in the kitchen. Her cell phone and a comforter were missing. Blake told investigators: "Mommy was crying. Mommy broke the table. Mommy's in the rug." The father of Davis' son and unborn girl is Canton police patrolman Bobby Cutts Jr. Authorities searched his northeast Ohio home over the weekend and again Monday night. Officials say they have no suspects in the disappearance. A fellow officer said Tuesday that Cutts had an amicable relationship with Davis. Cutts has refused to talk about the case with reporters and is now on leave from his job. Cutts shared the parenting duties for their 2-year-old son with Davis, said John Miller, president of the Canton patrolman's union. Cutts, also the father of Davis' unborn daughter, juggled parenthood with the demands of his patrol job on the midnight shift, Miller said. "He's a good officer. He's got no problems at work. He treats people well," Miller said. In 1998, he pleaded no contest to a disorderly conduct charge and was sentenced to three years' probation after a former girlfriend accused him of breaking a door jamb and forcing his way into their home, causing her to fear for her safety, according to a police report from nearby Jackson Township. About two years after his conviction in the disorderly conduct case, Cutts was hired by the Canton Police Department. His personnel file also shows he won an appeal to overturn his firing in 2003 when authorities conducting a drug raid on his cousin's home found Cutts' handgun hidden under a mattress. Canton police officials accused Cutts of giving the gun to his cousin for protection and said Cutts was lying when he reported that the gun had been stolen. A federal arbitrator ordered the city to reinstate the officer, saying Canton police had not proven the allegation. Davis' family has declined to talk about her relationship with Cutts. Her father, Ned, held back tears Tuesday in an interview, saying he's trying to block out all emotion and focus on his daughter's safe return. "I'm a dad that wants his daughter back," he said. Miller accused the Stark County Sheriff's Office of waiting too long to retrieve Davis' cell phone records. The sheriff's department has not discussed whether any clues have been found in cell phone records. "

http://wral.com/news/national_world/national/story/1514711/

6/19/2007 11:24:04 PM

sounds like she went insane.

6/19/2007 11:32:51 PM

Women are most likely to be murdered when they are pregnant, then with newborn.

You'll never guess who does the killing!

6/19/2007 11:41:46 PM

i was just waiting for some skeletons in the husband's closet to start coming out...

6/20/2007 4:56:50 AM

cadaver dogs have hit on a scent

searchers instructed to stay put on a nearby hill

6/21/2007 1:47:49 PM

the word of the day is mulatto

6/21/2007 1:50:59 PM

oh shit

the baby daddy is black?

how did i miss that?

6/21/2007 1:53:01 PM

6/21/2007 1:59:07 PM

cops have just announced they are holding a press conference at 5pm

i'm betting the dogs found her

6/21/2007 2:03:31 PM

where did you see that?

6/21/2007 2:18:04 PM

FoxNews has been airing it on TV but i've yet to see it posted on CNN website

FoxNews has it up on their website though

6/21/2007 2:26:45 PM

"mommy's in the rug" could have implied that she bled on/in the rug.. that would explain the bleach on the floor..

just a thought.

6/21/2007 4:21:08 PM

i dont think kids think that deeply and/or are that bizarre. the mistaken comforter theory is the most logical.

6/21/2007 4:25:10 PM

if you read the article on fox news.....the area the cadaver dogs found has a green and white rug by it.

6/21/2007 4:38:05 PM

^They said that rug looks like it may have been there a while, though.

6/21/2007 4:43:28 PM

yeah, but the rug hasn't undergone any testing or anything. It was found by a 10-year old boy and appeared to have been there for a long time. Depending on the weather and stuff, sight can be deceiving.

6/21/2007 4:51:49 PM

That's true. I hope they can figure out what happened to her.

6/21/2007 4:53:55 PM

im betting 10 to one on suicide. rolled her self into the rug and chucked her own corpse in the woods.

6/21/2007 5:14:52 PM

She's dead Jim.

6/21/2007 5:16:38 PM

you know there are cases where a pregnant woman close to delivery is kidnapped by another woman who wants a baby, and cuts it out of the womans belly.

id be more afraid its something like that, than the father of the child.

6/21/2007 6:50:06 PM

^That case you are referring to happened in a town very close to North Canton a couple years ago.

6/22/2007 7:20:15 AM

^^that's really sad. Women like that should just get pregnant themselves or adopt!!!!

but I have heard stories like that. Really scary.

6/22/2007 9:09:57 AM

^ "women like that" (that would cut someone open to steal their baby) dont need to be raising kids

6/22/2007 11:11:56 AM

^, ^^ "Women like that" usually can't have kids or have had miscarriages or something and have developed severe mental problems.

6/22/2007 11:17:39 AM