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10 Minute Murder | Bingeable True Crime Stories

Can’t Spell Slaughter Without Laughter

10 Minute Murder | Bingeable True Crime Stories

Joe Kuner

Entertainment News, True Crime, Documentary, News, Society & Culture

4.8614 Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

What everyone assumed was a typical middle class Tennessee family, was forever changed on August 10, 2012.

Zachary Davis, then fifteen years old, killed his mother with a sledgehammer in a fit of rage, then tried to set his house on fire with his older brother inside. Even the judges couldn't completely agree on whether the young man was severely mentally troubled or just outright evil.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Discretion is advised. This is 10-minute murder.

0:07.0

Zachary Davis was a quiet kid with a history of mental illness.

0:20.0

When he was nine years old in 2007, he fell into a deep

0:24.1

depression. His father died from ALS, aka Lou Gehrig's disease. By the way, do people still call it

0:31.1

Lou Gehrig's disease? Surely not. That guy died in the 40s, and I bet he doesn't appreciate

0:36.5

his memory being associated with the

0:38.5

disease that killed him.

0:40.2

Anyway, Zach's paternal grandmother, Gail, claims that soon after his father passed away,

0:45.5

he was brought to see Dr. Bradley Freeman at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

0:50.9

Zach did, in fact, have a mental disorder, the doctor claimed. Zach was given a schizophrenia

0:56.3

and depression disorder diagnosis. And it's also worth noting that Zach claimed that he heard voices.

1:03.0

He was generally quiet, as I mentioned, but he was starting to shut down even more. Zachary

1:08.8

claimed during one of his four meetings with Dr. Freeman to have heard his

1:12.7

dead father's voice. Now, it's common for anyone, especially those who were young, to experience

1:18.6

a severe depression after the loss of a loved one, as Zachary had done. He experienced the first

1:24.2

two stages of the grieving process, but he didn't quite seem to make it

1:28.0

to the recovery stage. And this may be partly due to the fact that his mother abruptly

1:32.5

ended his counseling sessions. At his trial, even his grandmother said that if Zachary had

1:38.1

received the necessary medical care, quote, this would not have happened. Going on with their

1:43.7

lives, the family relocated to Sumner

1:45.9

County, Tennessee. Melanie Davis, Zach's mom, put a lot of effort into her paralegal profession

1:52.0

and triathlon training. She made every effort to move on from her husband's passing and maintain

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