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Because he had mud on his shoes.

Well, they must have been because they just came from, you know, digging my grave.

Evidently, that's probably what later I find out.

Scott Davis grew up in rural Ohio and enjoyed being and working outside from an early age.

I'm originally from Masson, Ohio. When I was 16 years old as soon as I could, I moved to the state of Florida.

I was there for 30 years. Pretty much all my life, I'm a country boy at heart. And when I was younger, we lived on a farm country.

In 2011, Scott was living with his fiancé in South Carolina, where he had a successful

landscaping company.

He was very independent, but also very devoted to his family.

Well, my mom wasn't doing the well, and she said, you know, she said she needed some help

up in Ohio. And I talked to her with my fiance and she says, well, it's wintertime. Why don't you go up there, be with your mom for a couple of months, get some of the stuff that she once done. And then, you know, come back down when the season starts, she says, well, meet in the middle or you drive the Ohio, I'll drive, well, back and forth, whatever. you know, we were really in love, you know. Well, first of all, I didn't really want to go stay with my mom, you know, being 49 years old at the time. I wanted to be out of my own, so let me find a job or see, see what's going on, you know. Scott came across an ad on Craigslist for a job that was right up his alley. The ad has said 68 acres, $300 a week, rent was paid,

utilities were paid. Then I was like, well, let me go ahead and apply for that job.

You know, see what happens.

Eventually, he heard back from a man named Jack.

He said I was down to about four or five people, and then he wanted me to send my driver's license to make sure that I wasn't wanted for anything to make sure my driver's license was good, to drive the farm stuff and all the, you know, et cetera, et cetera. So I set on my driver's license so he could check me out to make sure I was clean. I didn't expect anything but that, you know. So I guess I don't know, a week or two went by and I heard from him again. He said that I've gotten a job. I sounded like the perfect candidate, you know what I mean, etc. You know, okay sounds good. He said, well, can you be up here next Sunday? Yeah, that was possible I could you know be up there in a week in a week. But if I shut everything down, get packed up, and make sure everything was called, all my hands were covered. Scott also did his own checks on Jack. And I had my sister do some, some checking on him also, my sister Kim. Like, I want to know where the internet was coming from, you know what I mean, where the phone number was coming from. You know, we wanted to make sure that it was from the area that he said it was that all this was coming from, which was accurate. And everything came back to Akron. So we did that. We checked as far as we could. I mean, my sister Kim's like me, she's got a radar. And she just, for some reason, I don't think she felt something was right. She was really, you know, she was hesitant. That's why she kept checking and digging and seeing what she could find out, you know,

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