20 Years Cold, Case of
Vanished Woman Reopened

October 4, 2009 NicholasGrave

By Suzie Schottelkotte
THE LEDGER

FORT MEADE | More than 20 years after Fort Meade native Vickie Davis vanished from her Florida Panhandle home, state investigators are taking another stab at determining her fate.

A cold-case team is taking a new look at the disappearance, an FDLE investigator said last week.

Police and her family always have suspected Davis, who was 20 at the time, didn't just walk out on her 21-year-old husband, Douglas, and 2-year-old daughter Melissa.

That's in part because of who Douglas Davis is. Twenty-five years ago, he was accused of beating a

Joseph Baker beside the grave of his sister Joy Nicholas and her son Steven

co-worker and her 4-year-old son to death with a board at a Bartow lumberyard.

A jury acquitted him of murder charges in June 1986, DavisDouglas
though investigators maintain they had the right man.

20 Years Cold, Case of Vanished Woman Reopened

By Suzie SchottelkotteTHE LEDGERFORT MEADE | More than 20 years after Fort Meade native Vickie Davis vanished from her Florida Panhandle home, state investigators are taking another stab at determining her fate.

20 Years Cold, Case of
Vanished Woman Reopened

By Suzie Schottelkotte
THE LEDGER

FORT MEADE | More than 20 years after Fort Meade native Vickie Davis vanished from her Florida Panhandle home, state investigators are taking another stab at determining her fate.