 Davis held various jobs before marrying Leona Coates in 1974; he was 30 and she was 17 years old.They had four children.Although Davis had a history of predatory sexual behavior, which he later admitted to in various accounts following his conviction for murder (on one occasion, he estimated that he had raped 15 women), his criminal record included only convictions for grand larceny and burglary in Kansas in 1970 and 1971, and menacing in Colorado in 1979.