Christopher Davis, the man charged with killing his boyfriend Barry Schmalbach in Cape Coral last summer, is finally back in Southwest Florida and made his first court appearance Thursday morning.
“Honestly shock…it brings some sort of relief,” Schmalbach’s sister Emily Scaletta said about Davis’ court appearance.
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Scaletta described her feelings, “Definitely re-hitting again because, especially with one year. It’s in a few weeks, and it’s crazy to think that time has moved so fast and so slow.”
Last July, Scaletta’s 56-year-old brother Barry Schmalbach disappeared from Cape Coral.
One month later, Schmalbach’s boyfriend Davis was arrested and booked in the Lee County Jail on a warrant from South Carolina.
It wasn’t until January that he was charged for Schmalbach’s murder, tampering with the evidence and several counts of fraudulent use of personal identification of a deceased individual.
This week, South Carolina’s governor and Governor DeSantis worked out a way to bring Davis back to Southwest Florida for court.