A wife is accused of her husband's murder. Can she clear her name?

This story originally aired on Oct. 11, 2025. It was updated on Aug. 29, 2026.August 12, 2023, New Haven, Indiana. Shortly before morning broke in the home he rented with his wife Alison, at the base of a steep stairway, Kevin Davis\u0027 blood seeped onto the floor.OFFICER GARRETT SHANEBROOK | New Haven Police Department (bodycam video): Where\u0027s that blood coming from? CORPORAL CADE HETRICK | New Haven Police Department: His face and his nose.Det. James Krueger: The amount of blood, it was alarming. It was \u2014 it was everywhere.Alison Davis had already given lead Detective James Krueger of the New Haven Police Department permission to search the house.DET. JAMES KRUEGER (bodycam video):\u00a0 If you do agree to that, I need you to sign there saying that you understand \u2026But she warned them about the bedroom, where their pit bull mix, Willow, would sometimes growl at strangers who approached.ALISON DAVIS (bodycam video): She\u0027s up in the bedroom, and she\u0027s a guard dog.DET. JAMES KRUEGER: OK.ALISON DAVIS: And I don\u0027t know if she\u0027d do anything, and I don\u0027t want anything to happen to her.DET. JAMES KRUEGER: Right now, what I won\u0027t do is, I won\u0027t go in that room.ALISON DAVIS: OK.An accidental fall?Kevin had been rushed to Parkview Regional Medical Center in critical condition. After speaking with first responders and breaking the tragic news to her loved ones, Alison also headed to Parkview.Peter Van Sant: So you go to the hospital?Steve Krause: Yes.Steve Krause watched his daughter try to will Kevin back to consciousness.Steve Krause: Their favorite phrase for one another was "babe." \u2026 And Alison\u0027s up there, "Hey babe you\u0027re gonna be OK. Hey babe, you know, I\u0027m here with you. Hey babe, I love you."Kasey Klemm: She had like blood on her fingernail, cuticles, and on her phone. I could tell that she had been crying but she kind of just looked like in shock.Alison\u0027s best friend Kasey Klemm.Kasey Klemm: They had her in like a little small waiting room with a chaplain. And I was trying to calm her down to ask questions, you know, like what was going on?Back at the house, Krueger lifted restrictions and cleared the bloody scene. It was horrific. But at this point, he believed it was an accident.Det. James Krueger: Well, maybe he took a head plant down the stairs. I don\u0027t know. I wasn\u0027t there. Kasey Klemm: The detective said \u2026 I think we\u0027re done here.Alison stayed at the hospital. But back home, all that blood needed to be cleaned up.Kasey Klemm: You don\u0027t think about that right? \u2026 Like, who cleans it up?Steve Krause: I said well, I will go do it. Peter Van Sant: You had permission to do this?Steve Krause: Correct.Peter Van Sant: Permission from the lead detective in this case?Steve Krause: Correct.Peter Van Sant: How upsetting was this process of cleaning?Steve Krause: Well it\u0027s very upsetting. \u2026 sometimes I\u0027d get \u2014 become overwhelmed and need to gather myself, um, to finish, um, what I\u0027d come to do.Including tending to Willow, who had been left upstairs in their bedroom with the door closed.Steve Krause: Alison was concerned that this dog hadn\u0027t been left out \u2026 They had no children, so the dog was \u2026 like a child.Throughout that frantic morning, Alison and her family quietly prayed.Steve Krause: I\u0027m praying can we just, you know, wake up, you know, wake up. You look like you\u0027re sleeping, just wake up.Kevin and Alison were a part of a tight group of friends who were regulars at the East Haven Tavern where Jodi Espy and Jessica Eakright take care of the crowd. Jessica Eakright: Our customers become our family around here.The news that Kevin was in critical condition hit hard.Jodi Espy: Everybody was just talking like, "Oh my gosh, he was just here. That\u0027s so sad."Kevin and Alison had been at the Tavern just hours earlier.Jessica Eakright: It was hard not to be a friend of Alison\u0027s because she just made everybody feel like you mattered. Kevin, a skilled landscaper, had a big personality that matched his big heart. Todd Spessert: Kevin Davis was, uh, just a nice guy \u2026 always hard working \u2026 ready to help anybody out at any time. Close friends Todd Spessert and Jason Young scrambled to see Kevin. Jason Young: We all met at the hospital.Todd Spessert: Yeah.Jason Young: We talked to Alison and her parents.Jason Young: \u2026 definitely she had been crying, but she was holding back.Todd Spessert: She was \u2014\u00a0 she was a mess.Peter Van Sant: She was devastated?Jason Young and Todd Spessert: Yes.The scene was overwhelming.Todd Spessert: Yeah, he \u2026 he\u0027s uh brain dead, there\u0027s nothing left in there.Peter Van Sant:\u00a0 God, just a few hours earlier he was sitting right over here, right?Todd Spessert: Correct.Peter Van Sant: Do you say anything to Kevin?Jason Young: Oh yeah, yup. \u2026 I told him it\u0027s like \u2026 I feel really bad about this. And it shouldn\u0027t have happened, and wish you were still here.\u00a0Peter Van Sant: And did you have a chance to say goodbye to your friend?Jason Young: Yeah. I said goodbye there. Yep.Todd Spessert: They were \u2014 yeah, then they were talking about, you know, donating his organs and stuff. And I was like \u2014 I was like, wow.Peter Van Sant: He was an organ donor?Kasey Klemm: Yes, yes. She was very proud of him for that, too.His life support would be disconnected. Soon, 40-year-old Kevin Davis was gone. At 33, Alison was a widow.Kasey Klemm: They were just happy type of couple that would dance in the kitchen to music together, just the two of them. Like that\u0027s just who they were. They were great together.It shook their friend Deontae Bristol.Deontae Bristol: I was just holding back tears because we were just hanging out. Like I was just hanging out with this guy.Jessica Eakright: It\u0027s devastating. Not just because he\u0027s no longer here, but because the ...