Davis' body was discovered this afternoon in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park in Summit County. Cutts, a Canton police officer, has been in custody since earlier today.

Cutts had denied having anything to do with the killing in an interview with The Repository earlier this week. Stark County Sheriff Chief Deputy Rick Perez did not say today that Cutts confessed. A friend told The Repository Cutts admitted to him that he had moved the body, but not to killing Davis.

Investigators are expected to question a friend of Bobby Cutts Jr. who may have helped him take the body of Jessie Marie Davis from her Lake Township home to a wooded site in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park.

Cutts told him he “came to the house and found her (Davis) lying on the floor. ... He called a girl he knows to help him move the body.”

The source said Cutts did not say he had caused Davis’ death, but said he moved the body because he feared no one would believe him.