about to be married to the baby s father. the day before the wedding he called it off. carla hughes was a door mat for men, her cousin did tell me that whenever she fall for a guy, she fall hard and most guys just take advantage of her. investigators believed carla saw keyon pittman as the answer to her problems. carla wanted to be where avis was, she wanted to be the one who was getting married, who the man truly loved her and they were going to have a family together. but that wasn t the case. prosecutors believe carla hughes wanted to eliminate the only person standing between her and keyon. avis banks. so she borrowed her cousin s gun and knife. and went to the home avis and keyon shared. she attempted to break into avis home late in the afternoon
we had the witness statements. but this again was independent verification through a separate source that he was in fact at basketball practice. and he was miles away from the crime scene at the time we believe the crime occurred. but carla s cell phone records showed something else. those records show that a little after 5:30 and then again at roughly 6:05, that ms. hughes was in that area. that she was in the area at the same time that the murder occurred. and who was she calling? keyon pittman. [ man ] look how beautiful it is. honey, we need to talk. we do? i took the trash out. i know. and thank you so much for that. i think we should get a medicare supplement insurance plan. right now? [ male announcer ] whether you re new to medicare or not, you may know it only covers about 80%
knife to stab avis repeatedly and cut her throat. after the murder, carla got rid of the knife and her bloody clothes. and placed a second call to keyon shortly after 6:00 p.m., again, no one knows what was discussed. just leaving practice, i can t really talk. what shocked me the most, this woman has a child. how could a mother do that to another woman, and knew she was expecting? as for keyon pittman, he claims he played no part in planning or instigating the murder, and carla never implicated him in the crime. some speculate he learned about the murders after they happened, but, before he found avis body. we felt like there was probably some conversation that night prior to keyon going home that led keyon to know that
at first, investigators thought the motive was robbery but that theory was discarded when police realized that despite the killer taking time to open drawers, nothing had been stolen. to us, the scene itself appeared to be staged. we didn t find anything of value that was missing from the house. when police interviewed avis fiance, keyon pittman, they found blood on his shirt. dna tests showed that the blood was avis . and the neighbor told an interesting tale. that keyon always parked his car at the front of the house and entered through the front door. but the night of the murder was different. this particular day he raised the garage door, we believe he knew that avis was laying in the garage. and the background check revealed keyon was a player.
out of her car. the point of entry was the back door where police found two high-quality shoe impressions. the prints on the glass door were fairly good prints, good clarity. there were two dimensional impressions in dirt on the glass door. analysts estimated the prints were made from a man s size 8 1/2 shoe. it appeared the killer tried to kick the glass in. when that didn t work the killer kicked through the door jamb. we were surprised that the glass didn t shatter. the dead bolt was still engaged. so we know the door was locked when entry was made. several rooms in the house had been ransacked. immediately suspicious police performed a gunshot residue test on keyon s hands. we did discover particles of gunshot residue on mr. pittman, mr. pittman very well may have