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Avis Banks' highly publicized murder case from 2006 is scheduled to be featured on ID's American Monster this Friday, May 19, in an episode titled With Honors. The upcoming episode will air on the channel at 7 pm ET.

Avis Banks' highly publicized murder case from 2006 is scheduled to be featured on ID's American Monster this Friday, May 19, in an episode titled With Honors. The upcoming episode will air on the channel at 7 pm ET.

The synopsis for the episode reads:

"Book smart Avis Banks always puts her career ahead of her love life, until she meets handsome teacher Keyon Pittman. But just when she's on the brink of having it all, a dirty secret tears them apart in the most brutal way possible."

Banks was five months pregnant when she was shot and stabbed multiple times in the garage of the Ridgeland, Mississippi, home she shared with her fiance, Keyon Pittman, in November 2006. The live-in couple were supposed to get married the following February. Authorities believed the mother-to-be was attacked after returning home from her work at a daycare center.

The ensuing investigation painted a particularly disturbing picture once news of Pittman's affair with his colleague at a local school surfaced. He was cheating on the victim with a teacher, Carla Huges, who wished to have him all to herself. The murder weapons linked Huges to the crime; she was then convicted of two counts of capital murder.

Avis Banks' murder: Four key details from the 2006 slaying of the mother-to-be by her fiance's jealous lover

1) Banks died of multiple gunshot and stab wounds in the garage of her home

On the night of November 29, 2006, Avis Banks was found murdered in her garage by her fiance, Keyon Pittman. Reports state that she was found in a pool of blood and was shot four times in her leg, head, and chest. The 27-year-old was also stabbed in the face and neck, and her throat was slit open.

Authorities believed she was ambushed in the garage in the evening hours after returning from work from the daycare center. Moreover, the house appeared to have been ransacked in an attempt to stage the crime scene, and a shoeprint was found on one of the glass doors, which was later used to find the killer.

2) Authorities learned about Keyon Pittman's affair with his colleague Carla Hughes

While investigating Avis Banks' murder, authorities initially suspected her fiance and the father of her unborn child, Keyon Pittman, who worked as a basketball coach at the local Chastain Middle School. They questioned his colleagues and eventually learned of his affair with a language arts teacher named Carla Hughes. The two allegedly exchanged notes via their students at school and met at Hughs' house. They even went out of town for trips together.

Hughes then admitted to the affair, which started in August of that same year, a month after Pittman found out about his fiance's pregnancy. The basketball coach later claimed that it was completely s*xual on his end, but Hughes allegedly often referred to him as her future husband.

3) Hughes was linked to Avis Banks' death using the murder weapon

Carla Hughes was initially not connected to the murder until her cousin informed authorities that she had borrowed his knife and .38 revolver from him for safety reasons just before the murder. The victim was shot with the same gun, according to ballistics.

According to detectives, Hughes killed Avis Banks on November 29 between the hours of 5:50 and 6 pm. Despite her claims that she was at home at the time, cell phone records showed that she was near the crime scene. Additionally, a shoeprint discovered at the victim's house matched the shoes found at her house. The shoes even had Banks' blood on them.

4) Carla Hughes was convicted of two counts of capital murder in Avis Banks and her unborn child's murders

Hughes stood trial in October 2009, when a jury found her guilty of two counts of capital murder for the slayings of Banks and her unborn child. Prosecutors alleged she murdered the pregnant woman to be with Keyon Pittman. Her defense, however, tried to pin the blame on Pittman, painting him as a womanizer. She was eventually handed two consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole.

The episode detailing Avis Banks' murder will air on ID's American Monster this Friday at 7 pm ET.

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