photo by: Chris Conde/Journal-World

Aaron Michael Davidson appears at a hearing on Dec. 11, 2024, in Douglas County District Court.

The case of a Texas man who is accused in Douglas County of raping and torturing two women and killing one of their cats was delayed again on Tuesday after his attorney withdrew for nonpayment.

The defendant, Aaron Michael Davidson, 23, of Tolar, Texas, is charged in Douglas County District Court with one count of rape, one count of aggravated criminal sodomy, aggravated battery, two counts of aggravated domestic battery, one count of cruelty to animals and four counts of criminal threat, all felonies. He is also charged with four misdemeanor counts of domestic battery and one misdemeanor count of criminal restraint.

The charges relate to a series of incidents between August 2023 and January of 2024 and involve two alleged victims. Charging documents list dozens of witnesses, including staff at the Lawrence Humane Society.

According to an affidavit in support of Davidson’s arrest, Davidson and one of the women were in a long-term, violent and abusive relationship that was nearing its end. The woman told police that Davidson was not happy about the relationship ending and that he confronted her during breakfast on Dec. 31, 2023.

She told police that he dumped a plate of eggs on her and started strangling and slapping her as he sat on top of her, according to the affidavit. She said that Davidson told her she was stupid for listening to friends and relatives who had convinced her to leave him.

At one point Davidson wanted the woman to invite a friend over and said he would shoot them both, according to the affidavit.

In another incident, the woman told police that he waited for the woman to come home one day as he hid in the dark; when she entered the house, she said, he dragged her into his bedroom and choked her with a curtain rod while pointing an AR-15 rifle at her and telling her he would kill her and her family.

Davidson was also allegedly in a relationship with a second woman that he convinced the first woman to enter into a “throuple” with. The first woman told police that she did so out of fear and that she was never comfortable with the sexual encounters the three of them had, which made Davidson angry, according to the affidavit.

The second woman also reported multiple incidents of choking and slapping by Davidson and numerous incidents of rape.

During one of the second woman’s accounts to the police concerning violence she had experienced with Davidson, she told of a time that one of her cats had gone missing. When she asked Davidson about the cat he told her to check the ceiling tiles of her residence. In the ceiling, she found her cat, dead with blood coming from its nose; its neck appeared to be broken, according to the affidavit.

The first woman had told police that one time when Davidson was strangling her he threatened to break her neck, and he said that he had practiced by strangling the second woman’s cat to death, according to the affidavit.

Davidson spoke with police and denied all of the allegations prior to his arrest, according to the affidavit.

Allegations in arrest affidavits have not been proved in court.

Davidson was charged in February and has had his case delayed multiple times, as the Journal-World reported. He was unable to pay his first attorney, John Kerns, and on Wednesday, his second attorney, Michael Clarke, withdrew from the case for the same reason.

Judge Amy Hanley appointed an attorney for Davidson and continued the case again until his new attorney can be prepared.

Davidson is currently on a $75,000 bond and is on house arrest at his home in Tolar, Texas, according to court documents.