Forty years ago, two people were killed at the Fort Worth mansion of estranged couple Cullen Davis. Two others were wounded, including Cullen’s estranged wife, Priscilla. The survivors identified Cullen as the killer, but he was later acquitted of the crimes.
The story was recounted in two of the 40 greatest stories ever to appear in the pages of D Magazine. On Friday, the Star-Telegram published an unusual update to the ongoing saga.
Jon Farr, the son of Priscilla Davis’ slain live-in boyfriend, Stan Farr, has forgiven Cullen for the murders, even though he still believes Cullen to be culpable, and even thought Cullen refuses to pay him the $1.8 million he’s owed as a result of a wrongful death suit judgment. Jon Farr has even gone so far as to have spent a night at Cullen Davis’ Colleyville home:
Jon Farr admits there was a moment, as the garage door came rattling down, when he thought spending the night in the home of his father’s alleged killer might not be such a good idea.
Farr drove down from Kansas City in March to meet with Cullen Davis, believed by many to be the infamous “man in black” responsible for gunning down four people at his Fort Worth mansion 40 years ago. Four people were shot and two were killed, a 12-year-old girl and Farr’s dad, former TCU basketball player Stan Farr.
“I came into the garage, bag in hand, and as the garage door came down the thought did cross my mind that ‘Jon, you’ve had some crazy ideas …. this may be one of the dumbest things [you’ve done] in your life,’” Farr recalls. “If he did shoot my dad and commit the crime … he could shoot me in my sleep.”
But Farr is a man on a mission. While the 43-year-old software engineer still holds a $1.8 million judgment against Davis, Farr says he came to town to look the former millionaire in the eye and tell him that he forgave him years ago and that he’s there for Davis if he wants to get anything off his chest.
