My video opens with Gary Lee Davis and Becky Davis cruising around the Colorado countryside looking for victims. Tammy Beauprez was located in Wiggins, CO. Virginia May lived in Byers, CO. Here is a map showing the distance between the two towns.
Gary Lee Davis Quotes
These quotes come almost (?) entirely from Westword.
“I was molested dozens of times as a child”
“Sober, I consider myself a real nice person,” he said. “Drunk, a real live monster.”
“I’m revealing things that I have kept closed up all my life. Being I’ll never come face to face with you (a penpal) I find it easy to talk. I know some of it may seem like trash, but I’ve lived in that trash for years … I’ve always hated myself for what I’ve done.”
“At a very young age I thought it was okay to take pussy if you wanted to. Most girls or women won’t turn you in as long as they don’t get hurt.”
“When I got older, early 20s, I found myself going around showing myself to women wherever I could. I’d show myself, and after the woman would see me, I’d find somewhere to jack off. At this time I had a beautiful wife at home. I needed this excitement in my life.”
“As years went by just showing myself wasn’t enough. I had to touch. I needed some pussy by force. To hear the girl or woman scream and beg as I did. Every person I raped I enjoyed.”
“The more I drank the more I raped. When I wasn’t drinking, I wasn’t thinking of pussy. Give me a drink and I had to have it. Finally a murder took place in Byers…Please don’t hate me for this.”
“I’ve never thought about getting into trouble until it’s over. During and before it happens all I’d think about was making them do whatever I wanted … I’d just lay there with a smirk on my face yelling at them and watching them cry and beg me not to hurt them. Some of the girls were real young, some were grown women. I’d treat all of them the same. If they didn’t cry or beg it would take the excitement out of it.”
“Sometimes I’d sit there and cry and want to hold the person and tell ’em how sorry I was. The next day I’d be right back out looking again.”
Prosecutor’s closing argument
I want you to remember the phrase, “Equal Justice,” because for some in this case life must go on. For Gary May, for Brandon and Krista, for Ginny’s parents, Rod and Alice, her brothers and sister. As painful as it is, as empty and hollow as it is, the pain they have borne for this past year they must continue to bear. For them, life must go on. But for one, justice can be equal. Not in the manner, not in the same manner, but justice under the law, because Ginny in that field had no rights, she was not afforded a presumption of innocence. She had no jury. She had no trial. She had an opportunity to beg for her life, to ask for her life, and that begging was met with the butt of a rifle and 14 slugs, hideously pumped into her body. You, through this past week, and under your oath, have afforded Gary Davis his rights under the law, the presumption of innocence. You have afforded him every right that a constitutional and civilized society should afford to an individual. You now, under the law and under your oath, have the opportunity to do justice, equal justice, and that I urge you to do.
Sources
Casetext
Davis v. People
https://casetext.com/case/davis-v-people-8
The Colorado Sun
In 1997, Colorado’s first execution in 30 years marked a watershed moment. But did it change the conversation about capital punishment?
https://coloradosun.com/2019/03/04/1997-gary-davis-execution-colorado/
The Denver Post
Execution gave debate new fury
Justia
People v. Davis
https://law.justia.com/cases/colorado/supreme-court/1994/92sc788-0.html
Gary Lee Davis, Petitioner-appellant, v. Executive Director of Department of Corrections, As Head of the Department of Corrections, Ari Zavaras, Respondent-appellee, 100 F.3d 750 (10th Cir. 1996)
https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F3/100/750/475845
M.E. Grenander Special Collection & Archives – University at Albany
https://archives.albany.edu/concern/daos/wd376506q?locale=en
Murderpedia
https://murderpedia.org/male.D/d1/davis-gary-lee.htm
Suzuki’s Thoughts
Defending the Devil: Gary Lee Davis and Colorado’s Death Penalty
https://suzukisthoughts.blogspot.com/2020/02/defending-devil-gary-lee-davis-and.html
Westword
The Killer Inside Him
https://www.westword.com/news/the-killer-inside-him-5057921
Historical Weather Data
https://www.visualcrossing.com/weather-history/wiggins,%20co/us/1986-07-18
Photos Not Seen in Video
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