Porter had reported 26-year-old Jessie Davis missing one week ago Friday after finding the young woman's bedroom in disarray, the furniture overturned and Davis' young son home alone. The 2-year-old boy, who may be the only witness to his mother's disappearance, told investigators: "Mommy was crying. Mommy broke the table. Mommy's in rug."
When Porter was asked Friday by NBC's "Today" show if she considered the father of Davis' son and unborn baby a suspect, she replied: "Yes, he's a suspect."
"I still pray that it's not him," she said. "That doesn't mean that I don't think he's a suspect, as well."
Authorities have talked with and searched the home of the father, Canton police officer Bobby Cutts Jr., although investigators have repeatedly said Cutts is not a suspect.
Cutts, 30, says he had nothing to do with Davis' disappearance. The woman's family says he is the father of both 2-year-old Blake and of Davis' unborn baby.
On Friday, some 250 volunteers lined up for a second day to help search surrounding fields and woods for any sign of Davis. She was nine months pregnant when she disappeared, with a due date of July 3. More than 1,800 volunteers had turned up Thursday to scour backyards, vacant fields and a Christmas tree farm.
Davis' sister, Whitney, said the family was not participating Friday.
"It's too stressful every time a dog comes across something," she said.
Search dogs hit on one area of freshly dug dirt Thursday more than a mile from her home in nearby Lake Township, but it turned out to be a marijuana plot, Stark County sheriff's Capt. Gary Shankle said.
"It's very frustrating, but we just can't leave any stone unturned," he said.
Porter said Friday that young Blake was keeping everyone motivated and reminding them every day of his mother, whom she described as her best friend, a woman without enemies who "always had a big smile on her face."
Blake "has periods where he just lays his head down on the couch and has this horrible look of sadness, and then the next moment he'll have this big, beautiful smile. He really is what keeps us going," she told ABC.
Volunteers searched the area around Davis' home for about 4 1/2 hours Thursday until they were stopped by heavy rain. Groups of 80 to 100 searchers covered a total area of about eight square miles, said Tim Miller, director of Texas EquuSearch, an internationally active search group that organized the volunteer effort.
"I'm hopeful we can find her alive," he said. "If not, the second best thing we can do is be back here next week for a funeral."
During the massive search Thursday, police officer Jamie Mizer led one of 14 groups while three months pregnant.
"That's kind of what's motivating me to be out here," she said.
One woman wore high heels but gave up 20 minutes later after walking through a wooded area. Another maneuvered on crutches. "I'm here for the whole thing," said Tammy Robinson, 47.
Others prayed for Davis' safe return at a nondenominational evangelical church Davis' mother attends.
At Davis' home, several bouquets of flowers had been left outside.
On Wednesday, sheriff's investigators and FBI agents carried out more than a dozen white cardboard boxes, a few brown bags and three large black plastic bags during a search of Cutts' home.
His mother, Renee Horne, told The that agents were looking for Davis' cell phone and a quilt missing from her home. She said FBI agents questioned her son twice Wednesday, and read him his Miranda rights during the second interview.
Meanwhile, the DNA of a newborn baby found about 45 miles from Davis' home was being tested to see if the infant is related to the missing woman. The testing was not expected to be finished until next week.
What is your take on this sad and Disturbing Story?
the baby said that his mommy is in the rug... she is a river or has been buried or even worst... why does it take a woman to be missing for people to come together,
Reply:I've been following this story myself. I think it's awful. It's like Lacey Peterson all over again. I don't think that they'll find her alive and I do hope that the baby that the nurse and her husband found is at least the baby.
Reply:Oh My God! That's horrible and sad! My thoughts are that the husband didn't have anything to do with it and it must have been a planned attack aiming for that woman in particular because they would have taken the son to if it was a random act of violence. Maybe an enemy of some sort. I hope they find her soon. It's terrible
Reply:Sadly, I fear the worst for this family. It seems to me that Jessie Davis is the focus - not her son or the baby girl. Whoever struggled with her in the house obviously chose to not harm the little boy. Also, if it were a case of someone wanting to steal the unborn child, I would expect there to be blood evidence at the house and perhaps even Jessie (alive or dead), minus the baby. For her to disappear with the house in disarray and her son left behind suggests to me that she was taken away forcibly and is probably now dead. Which also means that her unborn daughter is also probably dead. It is a heinous crime. My heart already hurts for her family.
I hope that I am wrong, but I doubt it. If you look at the statistics, murder rates go up dramatically for pregnant women, and the most likely killer is the unborn child's father.
I pray for her family to have some closure soon and for whoever did this to be brought to justice. It takes a special kind of sick to kill a baby, and there is no punishment too severe.
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