Maleah Davis

“I ain’t no killer, bro,” Derion Vence said.

The remains of a child found in Arkansas last week are those of a missing 4-year-old Texas girl, Maleah Davis, a medical examiner said Monday.

“They’re doing an autopsy to determine the cause of death. I think it’s going to be impossible.”

A little girl with a gap-toothed smile and curly pigtails walked into a Houston apartment in a pink tutu a month ago — and has not been seen since. Maleah Davis was in the care of her mother’s boyfriend, Derion Vence, when she was captured on surveillance video following him into the home they all shared […]

Authorities found the remains of a child in southwest Arkansas Friday during a search for evidence in the Maleah Davis case, police said.

The man who was representing the mother of missing 4-year-old Maleah Davis said that he’s dropped her as a client. Quanell X was representing Brittany Bowens, the mother of the girl, who went missing in early May. When asked why he wasn’t representing Bowens any longer, Quanell X told KPRC that Bowens’ story about what […]

“The evidence shows that we believe she has been murdered.”

It has been weeks since little Maleah Davis went missing and the man overseeing the search for the Houston girl has no hope searchers will find her alive. “We really believe we have a little girl that has been murdered,” police Chief Art Acevedo told reporters on Thursday. “We believe she’s out there somewhere and […]

The allegation against Brittany Bowens came after protesters confronted her at court, saying “she let it happen” and “knew all along.”

Brother of Suspect in Maleah Davis Disappearance Says He’s a ‘Good Man’

Crowds gathered Wednesday night, May 15, in Sugar Land, Texas, to honor Maleah Davis as the search for the missing 4-year-old girl expanded to an area that the man suspected in her disappearance allegedly described as a good place to hide a body. Well-wishers released pink and white balloons into the dusk sky following a series of emotional speeches at Oyster Creek Park.

Teams continued searching for 4-year-old Maleah Davis, who has been missing since May 4, spending time looking along the old mail route once worked by Derion Vence, the ex-fiance of Maleah’s mother. Vence, described by police as the girl’s stepfather, said he was with her and his 1-year-old son in Houston when he was forced […]

Once Again, Police Suspect a Caretaker Disguised a Crime by Claiming a Child Went Missing

The mother of a missing 4-year-old Texas girl was heckled outside a courtroom on Monday by people who questioned if she had done enough to protect her daughter before her disappearance.

Derion Vence, the ex-fiance of Brittany Bowens, mother to Maleah Davis, will likely be charged with murdering Maleah

Trained dogs detected the scent of human decomposition in the vehicle of a man arrested in connection with the disappearance of Maleah Davis.

Trained dogs detected the scent of human decomposition in the vehicle of a man arrested in connection with the disappearance of a 4-year-old Texas girl, according to a prosecutor. Derion Vence, 26, remained jailed Sunday on a $1 million bond after being arrested a day earlier on a charge of tampering with evidence, specifically a […]