Where Is Zachary Davis Now? His Appeal Attempts
Zachary’s life changed when his father died of ALS in 2007. Melanie noticed that the customarily withdrawn Zachary was deteriorating mentally, so she got him mental health assistance. During one of Zachary’s sessions with a therapist, Zachary said he could hear his father’s voice.
Melanie pulled Zachary out of therapy way too early and moved the family to Sumner County, Tennessee. Reddit user u/innocentacquitance posted an AMA on his experience with Zachary in school. The user alleged that Zachary was ‘100%’ mentally ill. They continued:
“He was viewed as a social outcast, from what I saw nobody made fun of him. You either ignored him or you tried and tried again to connect with him which nobody ever managed to do.”
Zachary spent a lot of time on his phone, which had an app listing torture devices and another about serial killers. His notebook’s featured disturbing quotes, including ‘you can’t spell slaughter without laughter’.
The mayhem in his head manifested outwardly when he bludgeoned his mother to death and attempted to burn his brother alive. Zachary said in a jailhouse interview that he struck Melanie 20 times because he ‘wanted to make sure she was dead’.
Zachary said he didn’t feel anything when he killed Melanie and opined that he should have used the same weapon to kill his brother. Judge Gay said:
“The thing that bothers me is that you have shown no regrets, no remorse, in murdering your own mother at age 15. You became evil, Mr. Davis; you went to the dark side. It’s that plain and simple.”
