be, but there is a god and god will get your attention and put new a place to get your attention. he did. 24 hours later in the middle of a burglary, i committed a horrible murder and 24 hours after that arrested irving city police in a suburb of dallas and charged with the crime of first degree murder. why did you kill the lady, robbing her house? there was i was so, when you re on meth, when you have not slept, you become emotionally unstable. and you know, i waist raised in texas with texas values you never hit a woman and you know, there was a problem there. she had spilled some paint on some boots and i had hit her and the moment i hit her i was afraid that somebody was going to find out i hit a woman and escalated from there. the murder was not a simple it was savage. yes, sir. what exactly did you do? how did what happened that day that took this woman s life. you know, mike, i honestly
attorney and what everybody else thought would be. they thought i d get the max. mike: why didn t you? you know, national tv this is not going to play good on your show. i had given my life to jesus christ. my pastor is in the audience today with my family. god delivered me from the demon of murder. this was between time of the murder and arrest and time of trial. yes, sir. at my trial, my attorney used as a defense demon possession. you can play it out in the media. you know how it played. one of the members of my jury, jury foreman, done mcdaniel, had been a police officer. or highway patrolman in california. death with that spirit to his life. he had been delivered and given his life to jesus christ. the jury members said he couldn t give truth without grace. mike: you had also been told by a criminal psychologist that you had one of the worst criminal profiles he had ever seen. dr. griggson, who was
at 18 years of age i was strung out and messed up. mike: you committed a heinous crime. yes, sir. mike: tell me what happened. what did you do? how did it come about. the day before i committed the crime my natural father came to the house and confronted me that i was selling drugs and i wasn t working. we had a horrible discussion. he left my mother when i was a little boy. he was frustrated and he said i want to tell you about god. i want to tell you something about your son you don t know. i don t think there is a god. i remember thinking if there is a god he would have done better than a daddy like you. you left us as a little boy. my dad stood up, cajun man from louisiana and began to cry and said i m not the father i should have been and i m not the christian i
and before january of 1975, had become strung out and messed up. you ended up committing a heinous crime. yes, sir. i want you to tell me about what happened, what did you do, how did that come about? the day before i committed the crime, my natural father came to the house and the trucking company working, and my dad left my mother and father when i was a little boy my mother when i was a little boy. he got frustrated and said i want to talk to you about god and i told him something that day, i never would tell my dad. i want you to tell something about your son you don t know, i don t believe there is a god. i remember thinking if there was a god he d do better than a daddy that left us, and drunk all of our lives and my dad stood up a great big cajun man, and started to cry, i know i m not the christian man i should
happen, governor huckabee. when i walked in the jail at the request of his attorney and his mother. i looked in the face of a bleary eyed, spaced-out speed freak who showed little or no remorse and manifested no guilt whatsoever for the crime that he had committed. but it was there in the dallas county jail in the earliest days of his incarceration. that he had an encounter with god and it damatically changed his life. simultaneously he was called to preach the gospel. i had the privilege of mentoring and training maury davis for ministry during his long prison years, 8 1/2 years. he came out of prison. and took a position on the staff of the church i pastor as a janitor. i will tell you, mike, i never had a finer janitor than maury davis. cleaned the carpet, carried out the trash, he did everything that the janitor is supposed to do.