He had been shot multiple times in the head and torso. The next day, Davis' handcuffed body was found at the base of a snowbank in the town of Barnet, about 15 miles (24 kilometers) from his home. The caller did not provide the name of a town and police could not find a local road that matched the name given by the caller. Melissa Davis did not call police.Ībout 15 minutes before the kidnapping, someone called 911 from within a mile of Davis’ residence to report he had shot his wife and was going to kill himself. The man told Davis he had an arrest warrant for racketeering for him from Virginia.
Their 12-year-old son told investigators the man drove a white, four-door car with red and blue emergency lights on the dash. Melissa Davis described the man as having handcuffs, a rifle, and wearing a jacket that had a U.S. 6, 2018, when a masked man knocked on the door of Davis’ Danville home. After Davis’ death, his wife, Melissa, told investigators they lived off money he received from the investments.
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Sometime after arriving in Vermont, Davis took a job with an environmental waste cleanup company, but the court records and his work history indicate he was involved in a series of investment ventures. It also said he had 20 years' experience with foreign direct investment programs and that he’d advised governments across the world. Davis, his wife, and their six children, were renting a house in Danville, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) northeast of the capital, Montpelier.ĭavis’ LinkedIn page described him as the managing director of New Jersey-based Mode Commodities. Most of the details of the case are in the voluminous court documents that have been filed in federal courts in Vermont, Nevada and California.ĭavis, who was born in Englewood, New Jersey, moved to Vermont about three years before his death at age 49. He was returned to Vermont where he pleaded not guilty Tuesday to the charge of the use of interstate commerce facilities in the commission of murder-for-hire. Gumrukcu was arrested in May in Los Angeles. Prosecutors link Los Angeles biotech investor Serhat Gumrukcu, 39, to two middlemen and then to Jerry Banks - the man who allegedly made the 911 call, kidnapped and killed Davis. Within hours of Gregory Davis' body being found by the side of a snowy Vermont back road in January 2018, investigators learned of the deal that had the New Jersey native threatening to tell the FBI about his experiences with two Turkish investors he felt weren't living up to their financial obligations.įour years later, charges have been filed. A 911 call that sent Vermont State Police troopers on a search for a nonexistent man claiming to have shot his wife was a big clue that helped detectives unravel an international murder-for-hire plot tied to a potentially lucrative - yet troubled - oil deal.
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