CANTON — A former police officer who tearfully told jurors he accidentally killed his pregnant lover and their unborn baby has been convicted of their murders and faces a possible death sentence.
   Bobby Cutts Jr., who sobbed when testifying that he killed Jessie Davis with a blow to the throat during a disagreement and dumped the body in a park in a panic, did not react as the verdicts were being read Friday.
   Cutts was convicted of aggravated murder in the death of the nearly full-term female fetus, which carries the possible death penalty. The jury found him not guilty of aggravated murder in Davis’ death, a count that includes intent to kill with prior calculation and design. But they convicted him of a lesser charge of murder in her death.
   Prosecutors told the jury that Cutts killed Davis, 26, and the unborn baby last June at her Lake Township home to get out of child support payments for a fourth child.
   The couple’s 2½-year-old son Blake, who was found home alone, gave investigators their first clues to his mother’s disappearance when he said, “Mommy’s crying. Mommy broke the table. Mommy’s in the rug,” and later, “Daddy’s mad.”
   For more than a week, Cutts denied knowledge of her whereabouts as thousands searched in the area. He finally led authorities to the body, wrapped in a comforter and dumped in a park about 20 miles from her home.
   Cutts also was convicted of abuse of a corpse, burglary and child endangering.

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