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Dad accused of killing 5 kids extradited
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The man accused of killing his five young children and dumping their bodies off a rural road was being extradited yesterday to his home state of South Carolina to face murder charges.
Timothy Ray Jones Jr, 32, had been held in Mississippi since his arrest on Saturday at a traffic checkpoint. Jones eventually led authorities to the children’s bodies in neighboring Alabama, and Mississippi law enforcement officials say he confessed to killing all five of them — ages 8, 7, 6, 2 and 1.
He will face five murder charges in the deaths of his five children, officials in Jones’ hometown of Lexington, South Carolina, have said.
Jones Jr earned a computer engineering degree and worked at a US$71,000-a-year job. Then, just over two years ago, he discovered his wife was putting their children to bed in their South Carolina home and going to the neighbor’s house and sleeping with the neighbor’s 19-year-old son, according to divorce papers.
Jones moved out with the children and seemed friendly to his new neighbors, but began to withdraw to the point where the woman who lived next door thought he and his family had moved away.
Officials said the children were likely killed shortly after they were last seen in school and day care on August 28. Police didn’t say how the children were killed, or where, except that it wasn’t in their home.
Jones put each child’s body in its own trash bag and loaded them into his 2006 Cadillac Escalade, South Carolina authorities said. He drove hundreds of kilometers and crisscrossed several Southeastern states for days, apparently using bleach to try to mask the smell of the decomposing bodies, authorities said.
Stench of death
Jones stopped at an isolated hilltop in Alabama and left them near an isolated road, officials said.
He then kept driving for several more hours on Saturday until he reached the drunk-driving checkpoint in Smith County, Mississippi. An officer said he “smelled the stench of death” along with chemicals used to make methamphetamine and synthetic marijuana. There was blood, bleach and maggots in the car.
A check of Jones’ license plate showed his ex-wife had reported him and the children missing three days earlier when he failed to bring them over for visitation. He slowly acknowledged what happened to his children, and led police to their bodies on Tuesday, authorities said. Only then did authorities go public with the case.
Jones graduated with a degree in computer engineering from Mississippi State in 2011. Records from his October 2013 divorce show he was working for Intel at the time.
The company confirmed he was still employed there when he disappeared.
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