Law&Crime Sidebar - Boyfriend's Shocking Confession to Burning His Girlfriend's Body

Episode Date: March 11, 2026

Twenty-five-year-old mother of three, Megan Bodiford, was shot and killed by her boyfriend Jarrett Davis after an argument outside their home. He then set her car on fire with her inside. For the first time, newly obtained interrogation footage shows what Davis tried to tell police -- as investigators confront him with GPS data, phone records, and the chilling final text message Megan sent warning he might kill her. Davis later pleaded guilty to murder. Law & Crime’s Jesse Weber breaks down the full interrogation.PLEASE SUPPORT THE SHOW: If you used DoorDash between 2023 and 2025, you may be entitled to $1000 or more. Visit https://www.forthepeople.com/sidebardoordash to submit a claim now.HOST:Jesse Weber: https://twitter.com/jessecordweberLAW&CRIME SIDEBAR PRODUCTION:YouTube Management - Bobby SzokeVideo Editing - Michael Deininger, Christina O'Shea, Alex Ciccarone, & Jay CruzScript Writing & Producing - Savannah Williamson & Juliana BattagliaGuest Booking - Alyssa Fisher & Diane KayeSocial Media Management - Vanessa BeinSTAY UP-TO-DATE WITH THE LAW&CRIME NETWORK:Watch Law&Crime Network on YouTubeTV: https://bit.ly/3td2e3yWhere To Watch Law&Crime Network: https://bit.ly/3akxLK5Sign Up For Law&Crime's Daily Newsletter: https://bit.ly/LawandCrimeNewsletterRead Fascinating Articles From Law&Crime Network: https://bit.ly/3td2IqoLAW&CRIME NETWORK SOCIAL MEDIA:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lawandcrimeTwitter: https://twitter.com/LawCrimeNetworkFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/lawandcrimeTwitch: https://www.twitch.tv/lawandcrimenetworkTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lawandcrimeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Why would she tell someone you're about to kill her? And then she died that night. I don't know. I didn't kill her. That's what y'all don't understand. I didn't kill her. That's Jared Davis. Adamant, insistent, yelling at detectives.

This is just days after his girlfriend, Megan Botaford, was found burned inside a car on a rural South Carolina road. But the thing about this is, right before she disappeared, Megan sent a text to her a best friend saying she was afraid that Davis was going to kill her. And now we have the interrogation footage. And for the first time, we are seeing exactly how Davis tried and ultimately failed to talk his way out of it. Welcome to Sidebar, presented by Law and Crime. I'm Jesse Weber.

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And if you do, you may be entitled to compensation. So you can visit for the people.com slash sidebar door dash or click the link in the description. For a free case review, it takes just five minutes or less. Megan Botaford was 25 years old, a mom to three little girls. girls, the kind of person who was always on the go, always hanging with friends, living life out loud. Her family says that her greatest joy was those little girls, her daughters. But in April of 24, she sent a text message to her best friend that would end up being a prediction of her own death. If you don't hear from me in 30 minutes, call the law, redacted. Jared's about to kill me.

Now, within days, authorities found her car, burned, abandoned off of a dirt road in rural South Carolina and inside where human remains. And inside the home that she shared with her boyfriend, their four-month-old baby, alone, unharmed, but without a mother who would never come back. That boyfriend's name is Jared Davis. And for the first time since his arrest, we are getting to see what he told police. Across three separate interrogations, Davis tries to talk his way out of this. And at first, he's calm, he's cooperative, he's got a story that they went to a baseball game, stopped at Walmart, then went home. She got upset. She left.

He says he stayed behind, changing the baby, end a story. But the thing about that is investigators already had something that Davis didn't realize existed. GPS data, placing him near the remote road where Megan's burned car was later found. Health data from his own phone showing him walking more than a mile and a half that night, not pacing in a yard, but moving. And then there's the chilling and heartbreaking text that Megan sent to a friend just before. she disappeared. Now, as I mentioned, we obtained that interrogation, some of the most compelling evidence you can ever have in a case. And over hours of video, you can watch the pressure

build until eventually Davis is left with nowhere to go, because the version of events that finally emerges is even more disturbing. That baby was there in that car, in that car seat, while Megan's body was in the driver's seat. Now, luckily, that baby was taken out of that car. before it was set on fire. Now, to understand what happened to Megan, you got to start on the night of Thursday, April 25th, 2024. You have this small city. It's called Denmark, South Carolina. It's not far from the Georgia line. Megan was 25 years old, a mom to three girls, seven, four, just four months old. Those were the ages. And around 948 that night, police say Megan sent a text message to her best friend. And that text would end up being a prediction of her own death. Jared's about to kill me. If you don't hear from me in 30 minutes, call the law redacted

Jen's Branch Road. Now, Jens Branch Road, that is where Megan lived with her boyfriend, Jared Davis. He was 28 years old. He was the father of at least one of her children, that four-month-old baby. Her friend called her immediately, and around 9.50 p.m., she could hear Davis in the background, arguing, saying something nasty to Megan. This is according to what she later told investigators. And then the call ended. That was the last time anyone hurt. heard Megan Butterford's voice. 30 minutes came and went, then an hour, then the whole night. When police eventually got involved, by the time law enforcement got involved,

and they were called, Mega was already gone. On Saturday, April 27th, so this is two days after Megan vanished, the Bamberg County Sheriff's Office and SLED, this is the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, they went to the home on Jen Spranch Road, and cell phone location data led them there. They were doing a wellness check.

But here's what they didn't know, until they arrived. Jared Davis already had an active warrant out for his arrest. Domestic violence out of nearby Barnwell County. Another warrant accused him of possessing a shotgun, which is a problem, because Davis was a convicted felon. He wasn't supposed to have any weapons at all. He was also on probation. When law enforcement pulled up, they spotted Davis coming out of a shed in the backyard, and they took him into custody right there. But Megan, she wasn't anywhere to be found. They went inside the house, And that is when they found that four-month-old baby alone in the living room, thankfully unharmed, but alone. Megan's other two daughters weren't there. They were with their father, a different man.

But that baby, that was Davis's child. And she was just sitting there without her mother, without anyone. Law enforcement got a search warrant. They seized an iPhone, security cameras, a laptop, a baby monitor, a deer camera. They believed that this evidence might help locate Megan. Maybe it could be stored on those items. But for days, there was nothing. No Megan, no answers. Then you go to April 30th. So this is five days after she disappeared. And that is when the Bamberg County Sheriff's Office called Sled about a burned car found outside of the Denmark city limits. You have this dark gray Ford Explorer, same make and model reportedly that Megan drove. It was off of her dirt road near some power poles in a rural part of the county,

only about two miles from her last known location. And deputies said it appeared there were human remains inside. Take days to officially identify that this was Megan using DNA and dental records, but it was clear. Megan was gone. And the way that she was found inside her own car burned beyond recognition, this wasn't an accident. And to make this even more horrifying, at one point there was an arson expert who examined her body and revealed that this was the worst burned body he had seen in nearly two decades. According to court records, prosecutors charged Jarrett Davis with murder, possession of a weapon during a violent crime, a lawful possession of a firearm, arson, and desecration of human remains. Here's the thing. They didn't have a confession. Not yet. They had evidence, right, the location data, phone records, that chilling text message, the baby found the loan, the burned car, but they didn't have Davis telling them what happened. That would come later. Because, again, across three separate interrogations recorded on video, Davis would try to sell them a story. and then another story.

And then finally, it seems the truth came out. We got our hands on those interrogations. We want to play them for you. Now, the first one starts simple enough. Davis is calm. He's cooperative. The detectives sit him down, read him his right, standard stuff. And then they ask him to walk them through the last time he saw Megan alive.

So I want to go back into detail the last time you saw Megan. just we're going to try to retrace everything and let's let's start let's start there I want you to think back do the best you can and let's let's see if we can recreate what all happens and let's see we can tie this thing together okay so what day was the last day you saw her Thursday I don't that Thursday? Thursday night Thursday night I think it was Thursday Thursday? Okay, and that's fun. Just doing that you can and don't remember.

We're going to take a few little notes. And just for your memory, I guess you were picked up Saturday morning, so if that helps at all with your days. Saturday morning is when you were picked up. Still seem right Thursday night. Probably about what time Thursday night? Do you remember last seeing her? I don't remember time.

She walked out, I was changing the baby. All right. Was it daylight? It was dark. It was like 12 o'clock at night. Past 12, I don't know. so after midnight yeah so we talking after midnight Thursday night going into Friday morning okay so midnight Friday morning you think it was after midnight so it was late

um tell me about the conversation tell me about what what was going on between y'all two that day Thursday but you and Megan and your baby were went and watched it all right Y'all watch the game. Did he win or lose? You lost? Bad? Bad? Yeah.

Okay. All right. After the baseball game, what'd y'all do then? We went to Walmart and then try to fly. All right. What my friends came over later at night? Was this? About what time, what are you thinking here?

Probably nine-ish, nine-time. About nine-nine? Between nine and ten. Nine and ten. Who came over? Bubba Brack. Bubba? Yeah.

Will Brack. Bubba Bryant? came over. How long was he over there for? Two, 15 minutes. Okay. What do you stop by? Any particular reason? He did something to get a converter from him. He did what now?

Still got a converter from me. Oh, okay. Like a power converter? No, like a catalytic converter. Oh, catalytic converter. Yeah, yeah. Being honest, I'm telling everything. So according to Davis, that Thursday night was just a normal night. Baseball, Walmart, hanging out.

He even mentions a friend named Bubba stopping by. to pick up a stolen Cadillic converter. But then the conversation takes a turn. Because Davis starts talking about what happened after Baba left. And according to him, things between him and Megan, they were fine. Until they weren't. Listen to how he tells him. All right.

So, so Bubba comes over, pick some catalytic converter from you. Then he leaves. Yeah. 10, 15 minutes. And we're between 9 and 10 p.m. that night. Megan's still at the house. Yeah. All right.

Does she see Bubba that night? Did she come outside? Damn, I'm pretty sure she's stepped up. I went to watch her car waves there. Okay. All right. The Stanley Converter, was it back up in your shop or? It was in shop.

So you and both go in there? Mm-hmm. Okay. You, all right, y'all leave out. He leaves. Yeah. Well, what else we do on that night? Me and her a six later at night.

So y'all, you and her eight sets. Yeah. All right. So days were okay. Me and this point? Until, like, a toy. the day I didn't, she wanted me to . Yeah, I didn't.

And you didn't? Yeah, and that's when she started getting upset. All right. Saying that my first big mum was good enough, she wasn't. Oh, well, I was . Okay. All right, so what time do you think this was, I know it was hard for the time on, I don't know, just roughly.

I really don't know. Okay. So somewhere, so I wasn't really, I don't know. Okay. All right, so y'all had sex and then you pulled out. Yeah. She got mad. Yeah.

How'd the argument go? What was going on then? Just how just said she was saying no. First thing mom was good enough. She wasn't good enough. So that's his story. She got upset. She left.

And according to Davis, he thought she went to a friend's house. Just needed to cool off. He figured she'd be back. But when morning came and she hadn't called to check on the baby, he says he started to get worried. So there was nothing physical Thursday. It was just one side of heat, really. It was just, she was on one really upset that time. All right. How long after all this, do you think it was before she left? How long do you think she stuck around the house?

It wasn't too long. Because as she was, as the big room was going back before, she was when, was she left. Okay. Was she pack anything? Her car was state packed full of the same. Oh, really? Yeah, her car stayed full of stuff. So she had clothes and all that in the car.

Yeah, she did always in her car. So she could leave in the car at any point in time. Yeah, you can ask you about her car, stay full, I'm going to close. So she was good to go. She loved her car. Yeah. And what did she tell you when she was leaving? She said she was leading baby with me since she always ends up baby.

Uh-huh. And she, I was keeping her tomorrow for PTI for her. She had PTA, I think. And she's like, I got to come back here for PTI. Okay. Which she would, the way she left, I'm pretty sure told her to other ones this, I thought she'd come right back. Where did you, had she had been leaving, where would you have thought she would have went? I thought she was going to one of her friends' house.

Like who? I thought she just went to a little bit or came back or just left and came back. I gotcha. But she didn't come back that night. That's why the next morning when she didn't come and check on her baby, I was like 9 o'clock in the morning and I contact her mama. I asked if she talked to her at all. About 9 a.m. Yeah.

You called her mama? I texted mama. And her mama called me. Immediately whenever it started getting weird to me, I'd reach out everybody early. I started, I started reaching out. Okay. So, so far, Davis is painting himself as the concerned boyfriend. But then the detectives pivot because they have something that Davis didn't know about when he sat down in that room.

And that is the horrifying text message that we have been talking about. So they want to know what does he think about this? At what point did the sheriff's office or whoever come back and get you that Saturday? I don't know what time they got there. I don't know. Was it the next morning? It was early or nothing crazy? Were you already awake?

Yeah. All right. All right. All right. Where were you at when they got there? I was in my shit. You have a smart watch, anything like an Apple Watch or any. Megan did?

Megan did? Yeah. Apple Watch or? Apple Watch? much. Okay. You didn't have one. No. All right. So a couple things I do need to ask you about. I've got to get some specifics here. You gave us your phone so we can look through that and say if anything came up. And there were, and not just her phone, not just your phone, but we ended up getting some text messages that Megan sent some of her friends that said,

I was talking about the last interview. Okay. I think they showed you the local shot. What in the world do you think of us about? I don't know. She was very dramatic. You can't see my shoes very much. And that's about it, with everything.

I don't know. So at any point, do you have a gun to her head? No. I don't even have a gun. Oh. Actually, a lot, dude, there's a gun at the house. It's not really a gun. It's a pipe that's about his own.

It's a 12-gauge little slapstick. Oh, okay. Yeah. Do you remember who she sent that text to? Did she call her a s'r at night at all? I think she's going to be it. Okay. Do you know what she was talking about at all?

No. But the detectives aren't done because they have something else that Davis didn't account for, something he probably didn't even know existed on his own phone. Health data. According to that data, between 10 and 11 o'clock that night, Davis didn't stay home with the baby, like he said. He walked more than a mile and a half and not just pacing around the yard. They laid it out for him. Between so you got home probably, well, it said nine to ten

is when Bubba came over. He said you got home around seven. Seven-ish gear tape. Y'all just hung out of the house at that point and nine to ten or so Bubba came by, picked up a catalytic converter. He left. Did you and him go anywhere together? Y'all was just in the yard. You all here to leave. and he was only there a short period of time. And if any point, I say something that's not right, please tell me. After he leaves, you stay outside anymore? You go back in the house? I'm not really too sure how to see him back in the house.

Eventually, you go back in the house. Yeah. That's what you're making have sex. Yeah. Your bedroom? I mean, I don't know. On the couch? Yeah, all right.

But Megan's the only one that left that house. you stayed the whole time pretty much. Yeah. Until the next morning around 11, that's when you went to the one day, grandmas. All right. So we got another thing that,

actually, Peter, I don't remember what this is called. So I want to tell you the wrong time. He's my guru. We get some fancy stuff off of phones and stuff. It's called health data. So one of the things I do is I, I'm good at tracking people on their phones and look at health data. And that tells a lot about what someone does.

And we got your health data for you that night. So that's what you just got pointed out of here. So we got a lot of, so around 10 p.m.ish, give or take, it's got you, you're doing a lot of walking from 10 to, let's just say 10 to, I mean, for a good solid hour, back, I mean, a lot of walking where we're looking at over, over a mile and a half of distance covered. Like, not just making circles in the yard, but a lot of walking, like you walk down the road and things like that.

Where would you have been going at that point? Walking where? Nowhere. No way. Went back from the shit to the house? Yeah. Well, that ain't, yeah. And here's the thing.

I went, I went through your health. at it for the whole day and analyzed it. And I can see the short distance, stuff like that. These are massive movements. This is not like you're just walking to and from the shed or even walking

to like two and from your parents probably. This is like massive amounts of walking. All right. I'm walking where? So I had a baby tonight. Jerry, what I want to know, I mean, I feel like there's more to it that you're just not telling us. And I just want to know

Did something else happen between you and Megynette? No. Did she do anything to you? No. This is our... There's nothing like that done. Like I told other people that was... I mean, I'm telling you how everything that happened at night.

I got it. And I feel like you've told me a good bit. Just feel like we're leaving out a little bit of key details because during some of this... All this walking was from 10 p.m.ish to a little after 11. and I don't think Megan's at the house at that time. I think Megan's already gone. What time?

Between 10 p.m. to 11.30 or so, you're doing a lot of walking, and I don't think Megan was there anymore. I think Megan had already left. Well, that was 11.3012 is when she left. Yeah. Well, no, I think she left before 10. No, he both was there then. Right.

And Bubba Saul and talked to Megan. I'm pretty sure she stepped up and went to guess another clock when he was there. But he was only there a few little while. And then maybe she left really close after he left. But I don't, I think at midnight at this point, I think she's been gone. It's just very odd. Something, something don't add up. And I don't know if, you know, something happened to where, I mean,

It's just a breaking point, but it looks like you were walking back from turn, right, road, and back to your house. And then, I guess, maybe through the woods or something, is there like a pond somewhere behind or some kind of body of water? I mean, where your grandparents or parents live somewhere? Oh, they see. Between them in the hospital? No, no, it's a horse field. but not a pond no body of water

because it looks like you went to a body of water also after all this walking from Turnray Road back to your house and then you went looks like you went to a pond through the woods and stuff and then I never went to Turnray Road that like You know where Turnray Road is?

Yeah that's where they found I mean you all trying to say I went to put Megan there and I didn't I'm putting you there because I believe we have some coordinates that puts you at Turnray Road, like on foot.

I mean, we're not stupid. We know what happened, but this is your time to just tell us what happened. Explain why. What happened to make this happen? No, but listen to me. Something happened that night. She might have just pissed you off, driving

your nuts. There's nothing like that. I didn't do anything to her. Here's the thing. We know what happened. We know what happened. Because I didn't do anything too far. And detectives reveal they have phone records, too. And they directly contradict everything Davis just said. The texts, the calls, both phones moving together near where her body was found. And in between, that mile and a half of walking, a straight line from where her body ended up back to his house.

So they asked him to explain it. And for the first time, you hear something kind of different in his voice. Chair, we've talked to everyone. Your story does not match anyone else's that was with you that day. So it's time to... What doesn't it match? Your time frame and everything is not matching up with anyone else we've talked to. I've talked to probably 15, 20 people around the air and everything,

and everyone you've mentioned today, I've talked to. And nothing you're saying, you know, I got to, you went to Walmart, did all that and stuff, but your time frames after, don't match. I'm going to be honest with you. You're excluding some very key points. What would exclude? Pretty much the time we're making on skill. How...

You're leaving that part out. I didn't kill her. That's what y'all don't understand. I didn't kill her. What happened? How did she die? I don't know. Why would she tell someone you're about to kill her?

And then she died that night. I don't know. I mean, that's... That's pretty damn convenient. I mean, that is... I mean, we're looking at like a less than an hour that I mean... Very less... I mean, I didn't...

I'm telling you, I didn't... I didn't kill her. I mean, if my wife sent a text to someone like that, I mean... And she found missing. I mean, geez. Yeah. I understand how to look. I mean, how would you think?

If she lived at night, I was with my child. So, obviously, we have this text, which is completely odd. Let's just say. I understand that. All right. Jared's about to kill me. If I'm not here and you don't hear from me in 30 minutes, call the law. Her vehicle is found.

What was in the law call that night, then? Don't know. The only person I can ask is who she didn't. message to. Don't know why I would. Vehicles found off the roadway. Burned. You were where the vehicles found. We have

you there at that spot where the vehicle was found. You don't have me at that spike? I was never on Turn rate road. Yes, sir, we do. No. I physically was never on Turn rate road that night. Whenever we turned around going to the gas station was not on turn rate road. Where that vehicle was, we have you

there. Where that vehicle? sign no way I yeah I mean it just there's so much stuff it just no but there's no there's no way because I was never on term rate road at night that's the thing I was like me physically I was never on term rate we passed it on the way to before we turn around yeah but I was never owned physically on term rate road so here let me let me do it let me let me just tell you this so I'm gonna read you a little timeline of what we have documented for So at 948, she gets that text sent out to her friend, okay? 950, she hears you on the phone, some kind of arguing hangs up, okay?

At 1020, both y'all's phones are moving together right there. And then at 1042, you send a text message, call me ASF, it's emergency. But during the 10 to 1042 timeframe, I got you walking 1.58 miles, okay? and guess what how far it is from where her body was to your house that's why

1.8 0.6 So right there straight line 1.6 miles and if you look on Google Earth it is a straight shot

to get to it to where I mean it's not like we just have one thing saying you're there I mean everything is

adding but here's the thing between 950 and pretty much 11 you're rolling. I mean, you're, you're hauling ass. You're going, you're walking. I mean, you're doing all this stuff.

All over the place, man, like, trying to get the hell out of it. And all you're saying is that you were just walking from your shed to your house. I mean, I've seen where you live. It's not that far to walk. I mean, I probably walked the hallway. And, I mean, I can see during the day you walking back and forth. And it. But I never lived in hells that night.

That's the thing. Then how did you walk 1.58 miles between 10,000. and 1042 if you didn't leave the house. You know what I'm saying? I don't know, but I didn't. I said I had my child that night. Okay. I mean, we know she was there.

And you had a baby monitor that you could hold and watch. Yeah, but it don't work one mile away from the house. I just, I'm trying to show you what we're seeing because, you know. It looks bad. There's nothing that looks. Yeah, but I'm, it just, it looks bad. There's nothing. I mean, you do not have...

I mean, everything's pointing to you right now. So if something happened... This ain't nothing happened, though. Are you scared that you're never going to see this baby again? I'm scared right now, even though I didn't do anything to her. Okay. But here's the thing. You know, this baby deserves answers. I totally agree.

I mean, right now this baby is the one that's losing everything. Now, detectives hit Davis with something else. The brutality. of what was done to make it. They tell him about an arson expert who said this was the worst case he'd ever seen. They asked Davis, who would do something like this? And he still insists it wasn't him. I mean, who would do this to her?

Who would kill her? Who would kill her down? What would I kill it? A ditch and burn the car. Well, what would I do? Let me just say, you know, we have arson experts that were out there that have been doing us for 18 years. He said that was the worst by the worst. that he has ever seen in his life.

He's been doing us for 18 years. That body was burned so bad that in 18 years that is the worst body he has ever seen. Who would do that to Megging, given that you know her the best? Who would do that? It was personal. Whoever did it, it was personal. It wasn't something random. It was personal.

They didn't want anything left, any kind of traces of anything. I don't know. I'll give you all that. Jared, you're going to go back, you can go back over to the county. You're going to lay there. Yeah. I mean, everything points to you. So the only thing we can do is an understanding on why.

I didn't do it, though. That's the thing. You don't want to be me so bad. I don't. I just want it to be whoever did it. That's the thing. The problem is it's all pointing towards you. Here's the thing.

I would never heard her like that. That's my best friend. We're together every day. But here's saying, like, I never met you. He's never met you. I live an hour and a half from here. I don't know anyone in this town. Okay?

Is it going to drink? Got any of that water anywhere? You don't see who there's water something? I don't know. No, this is in our office. But here's the thing. You know, we don't know who you are. I don't know.

I don't know if there's one in the cafeteria. Okay. But we don't know anyone around here, okay? I have nothing personal against you. When I come into these cases, you know, you know, this is now, you know, Bamberg, they're not working with this, just a sled. It's nothing personal.

I come in and I'm a hard evidence data person because that stuff doesn't lie. I understand. And I know it's hard for you, okay? We're not trying to pin anything on you. Listen, I didn't hurt her. I know. And I'm not coming here trying to be like, yep, you did it. But I'm just, you got to look at what we're looking at.

I understand. I know everything was bad for me, but I was with that baby that night. Okay. Whenever she left, I was with that baby. Whenever things started getting weird to vain, they sported, and I cough. It wasn't like I was trying to hide the fact that I didn't know where she was. I reached out the time and start getting weird to me. I've tried to open it every way possible. I wasn't trying to hide any.

Do you know what I'd have done it? So that first interview ends with Davis sticking to his story. He didn't do it. He was with the baby. But the evidence might point of him, but he says, you know what, I'm innocent. Now, investigators, they bring him back in for a. another conversation. And this time, there's a shift. Davis starts talking, and he admits that he and Megan left that night to go get cigarettes, and he admits they were arguing. And then he

tells them what happened, or at least a closer version of what happened. Hi, Jared. You know Peter, you know myself. We've talked a couple times. I just read you some warrants. You've had a brought here. You said in case you want to tell me your side. I'm just let you talk to me, okay? Tell me what happened. Well, I didn't. It wasn't a 4-10. Okay.

And when we left that night, you go up to the gas station, she was still alive. Okay. When I turned around, we went back to the house, we were still in the out there by the cars. And I had a 38. Okay. And whenever we was arguing, I was going to die out of the . And then we was arguing she grabbed it. When she grabbed it, she pulled it in her and said, what about me?

And it didn't let it had it went off. Okay. And when it went off, it was just all that. so fast. I understand. Well, I told you that I felt like something happened. Yeah. It wasn't like I tried to kill her and not like when she grabbed it and pulled her. It just, it just went off. Okay. And then there was so much, but she didn't have pulse. Right. So what did you do then? I just got the car and drove and we can go straight to runway road. I went to get to hospital, but she didn't have pulse and I was scared. And I passed to hospital, went and took her right and went down

the four east, got a turn rate. Okay. So you come in and off four east to turn right? Yeah. Gotcha. And went down there, and my phone was the other house the whole time, then that's what happened. My phone was actually in the yard. Okay, this happened. And went down there, and

then I just lit all the clothes in the back. Okay. Did you've already got a gas or anything on the car? No. How did you get from turn rate on the power line back home? I walk back. You walk back? Yeah.

Okay. Nobody else helped you at all. You got to be relieved. Not as to what happened. Yeah. But trying to get down to chest. Never supposed to happen. And domestic stuff always gets tricky, but I mean, it always...

It always... You know, you can love someone with every breath you take, and then, you know, things kind of go bad. What was he grabbed you going to pull it? I don't know if she hit it or what? It just went off. Why were you going to be a bit? You wouldn't say that.

Let's back up away from there just a little bit. And during the day, kind of walked me back through that. Was what you told me the other day true about during the day? You know, y'all had fussed. I think you said you and Falcon had wrote somewhere and come home when she'd throw some stuff out of the yard. Oh, that was true. I never tried to force my way in her house. Nothing got a headicky.

Okay. With her house, we told. Everything was fine. All that was the truth. All that was the truth. After you left, y'all left her house. We went back at my house. And she took her shower and was getting ready to go to the baseball game. I went down to my grandmas. Okay.

All that was true. Went to a baseball game, that was true. With Walmart tried to spy and that, that was true. The bedroom house. Everything was fine. Bubba came. All that was true. and Bubba is Bobba Brian

yeah okay what did Bubba come for? Get a converter Bubba didn't help you do anything or see anything wouldn't see anything none of your friends

helped you none okay there's nobody else so Bubba comes to your house grabs a converter leaves and leaves

she was still alive then when did y'all start arguing again it was after we had sex so y'all have sex is that part true yeah all that was true okay

and then The reason why she was mad was true. Got a wooden out in her. All that was true. Okay. But it was never supposed to happen on that. And what did you do with her then? What did you, what did you do?

I grabbed her and I started yelling and there was some of the blood. And I checked her pulse and she didn't have pulse. And I went, went to cheat on the baby. And I went to go take her to the hospital. But she was already gone. All right. Did you take her out of the driver's seat or out of the post? How did you take her to hospital?

I just screwed it over. You just kind of slid her, slid her? Yeah. Okay. Where was the baby at then? Did you leave the baby home panicky or do you? No, the baby's already to see from us going earlier. I got you.

So she hadn't even taken the baby out of the seat in the car, okay? Well, no, the baby was inside, but it was still in the car. And that's what happened. So you grab the car seat, put it in the car, and you start at the hospital. You realize, I just panicked. And how did you get the baby back home, would you? Carried her home? Carried the baby all the way home in the car seat?

Gotcha. So when you, I'm trying to understand when you kind of slit her over in the car seat. in the car and got in and drive. She's actually still in the driver's seat. When you sitting beside her, kind of laid over, like laid over the console or laid back or, okay. So you realize it's gone, you panic, you go down,

turn right? No, go down, take her right. I can run the curb where you turn 35. Yeah. And then what? Yeah. I got it at first right. Back over the Mourdes.

So you come back? You go down to where ease, and I went down to turn right. I took her right on the turn right. Okay. I was going back to the house, but then I realized that I would want to do at the house. Gotcha.

I was just pulled off in that gun and grab a baby and just lit everything in the letter. Okay. I didn't have a gas, letting him let out, just a bunch of clothes in a car. So I lit. Gotcha.

What did you do with the pistol? Put pistol in the trash can. Which one? The house trash. Is it still there? Uh-huh. We've got the pistol for you. Nobody got a pistol for me.

I got all the trash together out of the trash cans outside and everything else. And I all took it off for me. Earl took trash off. He didn't know the pistol was in there. You didn't know anything about that. Gotcha. So here's his news story. They were arguing by the car.

She was in the driver's seat. He was at the door. She grabbed the gun. It went off. He says he checked for a pulse. Nothing. So he did the only thing that he could think of. He scooted her body over, got in, drove toward the hospital at first.

But then he passed it and just kept going. So she's only shot a single time. Is that a group? I was about 30. What one at 14? You got you. And you're standing beside her car. Yeah.

And you got the gun. How do you have the gun? I said he guns just holding it just in my hand. Okay. You told her you to go? And we were talking and just yelling back and forth, she'd just grab it and just poured it to her and says, what about, nothing, she would say, what about me? And it just went off.

Gotcha. It just went to, so I was just trying to get her to leave. What did you tell her? I told us the eliminated problem. And you felt like you were a problem? Yeah. What trucking that point? I mean, what drove you make you feel that, that, that, the back of the same?

Let everybody down. I just always let everybody down. Just be a piece of . But you're not, you know? Kind of young. I wish you could just live that night. There's a lot of folks that are in similar situations, and that's domestic's just, it's just hard.

It's hard when you love somebody, you got kids, you love your kids. Sometimes it's hard to stop long enough to look at it and say, you know, I'm a lot. and say, you know, the best that we could probably be better for each other apart. And it reaches the point that it just kind of boils over or... No, that was never intentional. No, that was never intentional? No. Was she talking to anybody?

Had she seen anybody? Anything, any message or anything that you know of? Or was she yelled anything to anybody? No. So she wasn't on the phone or nothing? No. I got you. Well, I appreciate your meeting with us, you know?

I mean, I know it's a lot, but, you know, now your kids can look at you as being an honest man. And, I mean, seriously, you got to think about that. They're going to be able to know that their dad was an honest man and did the right thing. And I think that should mean a lot to you, you know? We really should. And this is a process. There's a process that we've got to go through. when when the solicitor or whoever is handling things you know

myself and Peter could sit out and say you know listen he came forward and he did he said well what his side of things he took responsibility okay but you know there's a there's a process you got any questions you got any questions you want anything you want anything to do it I haven't asked you it's all right babe it's all right It's all right. You got anything you want to ask us?

Anything we can try to answer for you. And what you're telling us now is 100%. What happened? But even that version, the accident, the panic, the fire, it's still not the whole truth. So investigators, they bring Davis in for a third interview. And this time, they have video. They tell them straight up. The DVR does record.

They've seen what happened. They know he chased her. They know she tried to get away. They give him one last chance to get it off his chest, and finally, he starts to seemingly fill in the gaps. We've been working on this nonstop, and I appreciate you manning up and telling us what you did tell us. We've just got a couple inconsistencies we need to clear up. And I know this is weighing on you. Remember how you said DVR don't record?

Yeah. It does. Okay. What you told us don't match. You want to just get it off your chest and tell us what really happened. I mean, I can show you the video. What do you mean? What?

You chasing her down, dragging her lifeless body back to the car and fumbling and trying to get it in the car. You can shoot her in the car like you said. Yeah. I mean, it's got to be weighing on you because you've given a half-truth, but you still have to have I mean, you're human I know you love your baby I know you loved her

it's just we're at this point we just need to know the truth it's not going to change the outcome I mean you could tell no I'm not going to say nothing I mean everything still moves forward I'm giving you a chance to get it off your chest

and that way we can know exactly what happened and this stuff doesn't get all drug out in court in front of her family and, you know, you just don't want to all that. I mean, do you want to tell me what really happened?

Well, the gun did accidentally go off. I didn't. That wasn't accident. That honestly wasn't accident. But you chased her down with a gun. I mean, she knew you had that gun because she come out of that door, saw that gun and took off

running. No, she got off running because I had a keys. She was going to the neighbor's house. That's why I was leaving in the car. You left for a while and then came back with the car. Yeah. Where'd you go? That's why I was going to the hospital, but...

Why didn't you put her in the passenger seat? Why'd you put her in the driver's seat? That was just the closest, closest door. How in times you shoot her? Once. When a guy, I said it went off of it. Was it a hollow point? Mm-hmm.

What was it? Just a regular. Just a regular target ammo? Yeah. I'm called all ammo. Where did it head are? On the left side? Do we go right side?

The right side? Right there. And investigators have forensic evidence now, and they tell Davis, what they recovered contradicts everything he just said about a gun going off by accident. And they ask him about the sawed-off 4-10. They ask why he changed clothes multiple times that night. Why he put on a black ski mask? why he ran back and forth from the house to the car, and they ask the question that cuts through

every excuse he's made. Where was the baby during all this? What would you say if I told you they recovered rat shot from a brain or buckshot? I mean, it could have been from a 4-10, could have been rat-shot in the 38. I mean, we see you drop the guns. We knew you had a black handgun. You didn't mind about that. You know, everybody talks about your sawed-off shotgun. You're 4-10. Where's that at? Because I know it was there just before we got there. So I got all that up in the trash. The 410?

What number? Probably as long as that? That night. The 4-10 and the handgun got thrown out in the trash? Because I got so many telling me they saw that gun in your shop right before we arrived. No. Okay. So did you use the 4-10 at all that night?

Like after the fact, kind of. Not all. Why didn't you call us? I'm scared, honestly. I mean, if it's an accident, I mean, if my wife and I were fighting it and I had a gun and she grabbed it and went off, I'd call me. I mean, that's what's got you in a pickle. Yeah, I know.

But, I mean, I don't honestly, was I was scared. You changed your clothes, I don't know how many times. Then the black ski mask and black clothes, what was all that for? to get back to the house and people not recognize you. Yeah. And you still want to say that you just lit some clothes and didn't use an accelerant because, mind you, Slet Arson has completed their report on the findings of the vehicle and the ground and everything else.

So what did you use to set the fire? Oh. What? Okay. I used my rule. Is that what you're getting out of the shop? It wasn't job. Like I said, the camera shows you're running back.

Yeah, but the one in the shop, it was so right. If you're looking at it from the shop, slide to the left where that grill is. Gotcha. Where's the baby during all this? Is that? Okay. Where's the baby when you took the car down,

lived the baby at the house? Yeah. Okay. That's important. You know, so like I said, you're a human, not a monster. I couldn't see the baby in a car,

but I couldn't imagine you're doing all that with a baby in a car. So I got a notebook prepared. So the time was, line. I just want to make sure I'm accurate, so you said the gun went off, dragged your body to the car,

you left. You said you're heading towards the hospital? At first of all, it was about to pull up with my grandparents. Okay. But I didn't, I didn't want to do that then. So then I went to go towards the hospital, and then

I was checking and pulse and everything, looking at her. She was, you know what I'm saying? So I turned around. Like half... Bull frog rope? No, it was a... no, I turned around on Highway 70. I said you turned past the hospital or before the hospital? It was like, turn right in the hospital.

It was right in the middle of them. It was right before you got them trailers. Then you went back to the house and tried to figure out what your next move was going to be. I should have pulled in the hospital, but I'm sure... I'm sure you're meeting yourself up about it constantly. So now, he gives the clearest description yet of what happened in those final moments. She was yelling. He was walking back toward her.

He turned around saying he was trying to calm her down, and that's when the gun went off. I want to know what this is. I'm sitting here in your hand. That long. That looks like the bell. That's when you're facing after. I had closed my hand. I had her cheese.

I had a shirt my hand. So that's, it looks like something like long. Like when you watch this video, it looks like it's long. I had a shirt my hand I had her keys my hand I had I had my phone my wallet stuff

and her keys and a shirt I was wearing a taintop like a white feeder and you had her phone or your phone I had my phone her phone she had and then

what was it in her pocket I think she was holding it she didn't have pockets but whenever it happened I grabbed it off the ground put it in the car with her.

Yeah, it's over there. So I know it's going to be hard, but I just, I need you to walk me through when you're

running over there to her, what happens? Like, how does the gun go up? I mean, are you, like, close with her?

Like, just trying to, I know it's going to be hard, just trying to walk me through a little bit of how that went down. When we were walking back,

she was yelling, and I was, was walking back, and then I turned to her, and I just, just wouldn't put my hands up. I just wanted to really would be like grab a face

until I should chill out and you got one off. How long did it take it of that? To me it looked instantly. There ain't no sounds, no nothing. So she never saw a comment. Did you have any idea we probably get footage of kind of what took place?

I mean, I know you said you couldn't get into it. Yeah. Anything else you can think of. We just want to make sure we kind of get a clear picture because, you know, it's a tough situation, but, you know, we've been honest with you. You've been honest with us. I mean, you've got nothing to lose at this point. We just want to make sure, you know, if someone knew something and someone else, you know, we just got to know everything because, you know how this community is. The rumor mills are spreading. People are trying to accuse other people of, you know, being your accomplices, you know, helping out with stuff. knowing stuff and help set it up. And it's just like, you know, I'm trying to prevent someone else from getting shot because they think that someone else helped you. So as this interview winds down, Davis talks about apologizing to his baby.

And then quietly, he says it. It was a mistake. You know what they say, the truth shall set you free. And that's why we're giving you the chance. So this is the same story. You're going to give it to God one day when you look at him. face he knows I don't because of anybody helping or knowing and that's not a big thing right now I ain't tell us whole anybody I think I'm trying to apologize my

and you know I know what happened happened but you know you're being an honest man to us and you know what happened you know that's the thing it sucks what happened but you can't take it back but it was a mistake and that you know you're not this terrible person

you know I mean so I know it's hard so but no I know the pictures are important to you I know you mentioned that last time so I wanted to print those off for you so you know we're not

I don't people think sled and the police are these terrible people, but we're just trying to figure everything out and, you know, give closure to people. So we can't take back what happened, but you can make that future. Right. So. In the end, Jared Davis didn't take his chances at a trial. According to court records, on November 10th, 2025, he pleaded guilty to murder, possession of a weapon during a violent crime, arson, and desecration of human remains.

A judge sentenced him to 43 years in prison for the murder. with additional time on the other charges, meaning running at the same time, he's going to spend decades behind bars. As for Megan's three daughters, they're left to grow up without their mother. There's a GoFundMe that has been set up in her memory to help support her three daughters. It's all we have for you right now here on Sidebar, everybody. Thank you so much for joining us. And as always, please subscribe on YouTube, Apple Podcast, Spotify, wherever you should get your podcast.

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