re: This fellow will die within the next 15 minutes

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The crime worthy of death happened the day of March 14, 2010.

A year prior, Cox had been arrested when his stepdaughter confessed to her mother, Kim, that Cox was raping her. As he wasted away in jail, he often became inundated with rage when speaking of his wife.

He told his incarcerated comrades that he would kill her when he got out.

He was released from the Pontotoc County Jail in April and in May, he bought a gun. A .40 caliber and two extra magazines.

Kim and her children were, at this point, living with her sister out of fear that David might one day seek his revenge. Kim had gone as far as filing a restraining order against him.

But Cox knew where to find his wife on March 14 and shot his way into his sister-in-law’s home, restraining order be damned. While Kim’s sister managed to make it out of the house, Kim, along with two of her children, were trapped inside.

So began eight hours of hell.

Cox shot Kim once in the arm and once in the stomach. While his son hid in a closet, he proceeded to sexually assault his 12-year-old stepdaughter three times in front of her helpless mom.

Police would soon surround the home in which he was holding the three hostage. Negotiators repeatedly spoke with Cox over the phone, pleading with him to release his dying wife.

“Since you’re so interested in her... I want you to hear her beg before she dies,” Cox told one negotiator.

Kim, at one point, was handed the phone. It was not a hostage negotiator on the other end, but her father. “Daddy,” she told him. “I’m dying.”

“Cox never released Kim for medical care, satisfying his depraved desire to see Kim suffer and die mercilessly,” court documents stated.

At 3:23 a.m. on March 15, a SWAT team finally broke into the house, bringing an end to David Cox’s sadistic game. He was arrested and the children were rescued.

The SWAT team also discovered Kim’s body. She had bled to death.

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In the first letter, Cox wanted Union County District Attorney Ben Creekmore and Third Judicial District Judge Kelly Luther to know that “if I had my prefect way [and] will about it, Id [sic] ever so gladly dig my dead, sarkastic [sic] wife up of in whom I very happilly [sic] [and] premeditatedly slaughtered... [and] with eager pleasure kill” her again.

He ended this letter by writing, “Love Jesus [and] David Cox.”

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Commissioner Burl Cain told the media that the execution went as normal as could be expected.

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Body in his van, aggravated nature of the murder, he confessed to it, no appeals, why did this take 20 years?

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