Shania Gray Killed to Silence Rape Testimony: Interview of Killer's Confession Released (VIDEO)
Controversial footage of Franklin B. Davis' confession to the murder of Shania Gray has been released, drawing mass media attention to the teen's murder. Davis has insisted that he is innocent.
Franklin Davis, who stood accused of raping 16 year-old Shania Grey, will now face charges for capital murder on Sunday after confessing to police that he murdered the teenage girl to keep her from testifying.
Using social media, Davis posed as a teenage boy and persuaded the girl to meet him outside her school. After Gray arrived, Davis kidnapped her and drove away to a secluded area near the Trinity River where he proceeded to shoot and kill then teen after threatening her about testifying.
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The crime took place in Irving, Texas a suburb of the Dallas area where Davis was a resident. Davis had met Gray after she agreed to babysit his two children. Following several later attempts by Davis to convince Gray to babysit again, Gray confessed to her grandmother that she had been raped, according to the Associated Press. It is not clear why Gray proceeded to get into the car with Davis after recognizing his face.
Davis, however, maintains that he is innocent and was only looking to speak to the girl because the stress in from the trial was taking a toll on him.
Davis claims to have looked after the victim as though she was a sister of his. He referred to Gray's "lies" as a type of cancer that took over his life.
"I didn't believe it, because of the relationship we had," Davis sated in the interview. "She even admitted to me that it wasn't her story, that someone else told her to say it."
Davis stated that Gray denied the information that he brought up in the police report. He also claimed that Gray gave a different account of the rape to his Facebook pseudoname- evidence he planned to use against her in court.
