A Fatality in the Stairwell

**Peter Van Sant** (0:00)
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**Officer Jason Hetrick** (0:13)
I was at the New Haven Police Department when I heard our dispatch taking a call from a frantic caller.

**SPEAKER_3** (0:20)
9-1-1, what's the address?

**Officer Shani Brooke** (0:21)
It's a bare emergency.

**SPEAKER_5** (0:22)
My helmet is on the stairs, and there's one everywhere, and I can't look all over.

**Officer Jason Hetrick** (0:26)
I immediately got in my car, alerted Officer Shani Brooke. We activated our lights and sirens and proceeded to the scene.

**Officer Shani Brooke** (0:34)
It was a little after 4 in the morning.

**SPEAKER_5** (0:36)
He's not responding. Okay, I'm going to have help on the way to you. They'll be there in just a few minutes, okay?

**Officer Jason Hetrick** (0:43)
As we approached the house, I see who I later found to be Allison Davis out in the front yard waving me down.

**Allison Davis** (0:51)
I'm sorry, I'm like in the camera, so I'm not appropriate.

**SPEAKER_5** (0:54)
You're fine.

**Officer Jason Hetrick** (0:55)
I asked where the victim was. She directed me in through the kitchen.
By the front door, I could see a male laying face down with a large pool of blood around his head.

**Peter Van Sant** (1:08)
What's your name?

**SPEAKER_5** (1:09)
Kevin Davis?

**Peter Van Sant** (1:12)
Did Allison attempt to talk to Kevin?

**Officer Jason Hetrick** (1:14)
No, sir, not that I ever saw. Kevin, can you hear us?
Kevin.

**SPEAKER_7** (1:20)
Just stay here.

**Officer Jason Hetrick** (1:21)
Ma'am, is there anybody else in the house, just so we're aware?

**Allison Davis** (1:23)
Just my dog.

**Officer Jason Hetrick** (1:24)
Okay, when did you find him?

**Allison Davis** (1:27)
Just now. I woke up. I'm going to fight last night. And I was sleeping on the couch, and he was sleeping upstairs. And all of a sudden, I woke up to a loud bang, and I was like, what is that?

**Officer Jason Hetrick** (1:39)
This just doesn't look like a fault. After I got the prognosis from the paramedics, Hey, medics confirmed C-. I went up and let her know that he is extremely critical.
Right now, we're treating this as a crime scene due to his condition, okay? I inform her that at this point, she cannot go back into the house.

**Allison Davis** (1:59)
Like, why is it being treated as a crime scene?

**Officer Jason Hetrick** (2:02)
Just due to his condition, okay?
He's critical right now, all right? The crime scene part really surprised her. She doesn't have a normal reaction for me telling her her husband's critical, right?

**Todd Spessart** (2:14)
I think she's still in the shot.

**Officer Jason Hetrick** (2:15)
You think so? I had Detective Krueger paged out.

**James Krueger** (2:19)
I get the call, it's about five in the morning, so I get dressed, show up on scene.
Allison's stand outside, relatively very calm. He said that you guys were at East Haven last night. She says they're out drinking at East Haven Tavern.

**Allison Davis** (2:34)
We got home, he had some more beers.

**James Krueger** (2:41)
And she said that she had slept on the couch.

**Allison Davis** (2:45)
And then I woke up to a loud noise, and when I came over, I saw him face down.

**James Krueger** (2:50)
She said he had fallen down the stairs, and there was blood everywhere. I asked her if I could search the home. She said that she wanted to cooperate. Signed my Consensus Search Paper, and I go into the home, I verify.
There's a blanket and a pillow on the couch, the TV's on, someone was just sleeping there. Checks out. She said that they had a couple of beers when they got home. There's beer cans lined up. Everything seemed to be normal.

**Casey Clem** (3:20)
My alarm had just gone off for work, and I get a phone call from Allison. My name is Casey Clem, and Allison Davis is my best friend. There was an accident, and Kevin had fallen, and he was on his way to the hospital. I said, St. Amor, I'm on my way.
She, like, just fell apart in my arms and just started hysterically crying. They had pronounced him brain dead. When I was sitting next to Allison at the hospital, Detective Krueger called.

**James Krueger** (3:51)
I said, the scene is released. You can return home, get closed, whatever you need to do.

**Casey Clem** (3:55)
And he suggested that we have someone come clean this up and that there was a lot of blood.

**James Krueger** (4:00)
In hindsight, I would have held the scene for longer after the autopsy.
That's when it started to change. This is no accident.