KEVIN DAVIS, ON LIFE, ON "THE DEAL" - IN HIS OWN WORDS

At the bottom of every post on this blog you have the ability to reply. But you're limited in how many words you can post. So tonight, at Kevin Davis's request, we are posting his lengthy response to my August 14th post about Sanibel's first murder being the product of a love triangle.

These are his thoughts... unedited. For more on Davis and a plea agreement reached in the Baugher case click here.


It's been 3 months since that horrific night, the night I found out my beautiful wife, Stacie, had been viciously and heinously murdered. After weeks of the unknowing, the tragic news of her demise was officially announced to me by the Lee County Sheriff's Office. My feelings, I cannot describe. Numb, angry, devastated, those are just a few of the emotions I felt, and at times still do. Life will never be the same for me and OUR two children ever again. One selfish, and cowardly individual took her away from us. I don't say "SICK" because that is just what he, and his defense would want you to think........that he's mentally sick. The bottom line is, he knew what he was doing when he picked Stacie up in the middle of the night, on April 28th. He had a plan that fateful night, and he carried it out. I've seen the stories, I've seen the "so called" motive, but I don't for a second believe any of it. Stacie was the most gentile, caring, and loving individual. Unfortunately, she was also very trusting.....too trusting as it turns out. Yes, we had our problems, we had things that needed to be corrected. But that didn't mean I didn't love that girl with all my heart and soul. In fact, as it turned out, that was the hardest decision I ever made, leaving Southwest Florida. And it also turned out to be the worst decision I ever made. If in fact what has been reported is true, I have an extremely hard time accepting the charge of second degree murder. This was premeditated from the beginning. He had a plan, his plan was to be with his old girlfriend. The same girlfriend who followed him and Stacie one evening and even showed up at my in laws house out of the blue, on a Saturday afternoon. You want possessive, you want obsessive, you're looking at the wrong girl. Stacie was killed brutally, because she trusted Baugher. She thought they were still friends from high school. She didn't think that someone she knew prior, someone she trusted, would eventually take her life. HE DID.

I write to you today, because it's time that I am heard, my family is heard. I have sat back for months and watched lie after lie after lie come out about my wife. All the while glorifying and glamorizing the perpetrator, because of who his family is. Stace had issues, I won't deny that, but she didn't have to die without respect...........AND SHE DID. Our two children will never know their mother completely. Fortunately, our daughter Cierra, had six wonderful years with her mommy. Our son, Dylan, WILL NEVER KNOW HIS MOMMY. That is cruel, and completely unfair.

As for me, I'll live forever with the unknowing. If, in fact, we had a chance to resume our lives as normal and raise our two children together. That too is unfair and cruel. We'll persevere, we'll continue to try and heal, but we'll never be the same. I personally, will forever have a huge void in my life now, all due to one selfish, and cowardly individual.
Please pray for my family, as well as Stacie's mother, father, and sister. And please, please, please pray for justice!!

Sincerely,
Kevin J. Davis