9/11/22
Records reveal dysfunction, violence in home life of Olympia teen charged with murder
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Kenneth Davies said he disapproved of Olufson’s move to live with McCaw in Orting and never agreed to her move to Gig Harbor four years earlier. In both cases, he said, Olufson failed to petition a judge to adjust their court-ordered parenting plan. The father also said he was concerned about his kids’ performance in school; they both had poor attendance and grades.
Gabriel Davies faced school discipline a handful of times, according to school records filed in court. In elementary school, he was reprimanded twice for harassment or bullying and once for disruptive conduct related to a dangerous weapon.
In middle school, he was cited for violence without a major injury in 2017 and once for being a danger to himself or others in 2018, documents filed in court show. In the 2018 incident, Gabriel Davies brought bullets for a .22 rifle that Olufson and McCaw had gotten him for Christmas, his parents wrote in court filings. He was briefly suspended.
Kenneth Davies also raised concerns about McCaw. He said he displayed volatile behavior and threatened the person Davies’ daughter was dating. While waiting to speak with a school counselor, he claimed McCaw said he would go to prison if the person returned to his house because he would hurt them.
Kenneth Davies grew more worried when he visited McCaw’s home for the first time to pick up his kids. He wrote in a court filing that McCaw’s house had security cameras and signs warning about trespassing and 24-hour surveillance. A Confederate flag flew just beneath a U.S. flag in the front yard.
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MCCAW WEIGHS IN
McCaw filed a legal statement in the custody battle following the allegations against him. He admitted to owning a Nazi flag but claimed he was just a collector. He wrote he had a Japanese flag, Marine Corps flag and pirate flag as well.
McCaw had lived in Orting since about 2000, according to his court filing. He most recently worked for NC Power Systems, an industrial equipment supplier, along with Olufson, according to police records. A supervisor and vice president declined to speak with The News Tribune. Court record searches turn up almost nothing on McCaw.
McCaw wrote in a statement in the custody battle that he had a deferred speeding ticket and a negligent driving conviction from the mid-2000s. Court records show he was cited for a traffic infraction in Orting Municipal Court in 2005. Prior to beginning a relationship with Olufson around 2016, he said he dated another woman with children for 10 years. McCaw claimed he yelled at the person Olufson’s daughter was dating for sneaking into the house and allegedly stealing an iPhone charger.
“I regret the exact way it was handled,” he wrote. As for moving the kids to Orting, McCaw wrote that Kenneth Davies didn’t oppose it when he and Olufson first began discussing it. “I would describe myself as stable, professional, and well-respected within my community,” he wrote. Olufson called in a welfare check for McCaw in 2017 after his speech was slurred and incoherent on the phone. Olufson said he was known to be a heavy drinker at times.
When deputies arrived, McCaw would only speak to them through a window, citing concern about his dog. Deputies wrote he seemed “extremely intoxicated but otherwise fine.” Less than an hour later, a neighbor called 911 reporting Olufson screaming and pounding on the windows of McCaw’s house trying to get inside. Deputies called her and told her to leave. She said she was trying to check on McCaw.
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ALLEGATIONS
A judge decided to send the Davies children, 16 and 12 at the time, to live with their dad to start the 2018 school year, according to court filings. Another legal wrinkle came in the custody battle in January 2019. The Davies’ daughter confided to a guidance counselor who pulled her out of class for her failing grades that her father had been violent at home, according to court filings.
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A judge dismissed the case in March 2019, ruling there wasn’t enough evidence to prove a domestic violence incident occurred. The kids returned to their dad’s care. In January 2020, a permanent parenting plan ordered that the kids live with their dad on weekdays and their mom on weekends.
ANOTHER WELFARE CHECK
McCaw’s supervisor called 911 on Sept. 1 around 9:30 a.m. asking for a welfare check on McCaw because he hadn’t shown up to work in four days. The GPS on his work truck showed it hadn’t moved from his house. Deputies found him dead shortly before 11 a.m. About three hours later, McCaw’s supervisor called back to ask what happened, according to dispatch records. He also told dispatchers that McCaw had been dating Olufson, whose son was the subject of a missing-person search in Thurston County.
The supervisor said the relationship did not end on good terms and that, like McCaw, Olufson also had missed some days at work that week. She was out on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday.
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