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Suspect admits killing hairdresser, police say
By DOUG NURSE
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 04/04/05
Suspected serial killer Jeremy Bryan Jones has admitted to killing a Forsyth County hairdresser who went missing from her salon this time last year, police said.
Jones has told police that he was driving aimlessly along Ga. 369 in a drug-induced haze on April 15, 2004. He said he stopped at Patrice Endres' salon in Matt for directions. Seeing she was alone, he kidnapped her and then raped and killed her near his home in Douglas County, authorities said.
"He said his only intent was to get directions to get back to Douglas County," Sheriff Ted Paxton said. "After he went in, he realized she was there by herself and seized the opportunity. For all the work we've done, the only time he ever set foot in Forsyth County was that morning."
Jones, 31, is being held without bond in the Mobile County, Ala., where he awaits trial on a capital murder charge in the death of a woman there in September 2004.
He also has been charged in the murders of a Douglas County teenager who lived near his mobile home, and a Louisiana woman. He is suspected in several other killings in his native Oklahoma and in Louisiana and Georgia.
Jones told sheriff's investigators he got high on methamphetamine that morning, jumped in his red Jeep Cherokee and drove without any destination in mind. He said he remembered driving through Canton, and then became disoriented. When he stopped at the Tamber's Trim-N-Tan salon, he found Endres, a petite brunette who fit the body and hair type of other women Jones is accused of killing, police said.
Paxton said Endres was forced to come with Jones at the point of a weapon that the sheriff declined to divulge, leaving some cash and an unlocked business.
Based on Jones' confession in interviews to Forsyth County deputies in January, the Douglas County Sheriff's Office began searching for Endres' remains at Sweetwater Creek at the Riverside Parkway bridge near the Chattahoochee River. They used dogs specially trained to find cadavers. The cadaver dogs have at least twice indicated that a body was once there.
Investigators brought the state forensics anthropologist to advise them, and they set up a grid to comb through the vegetation and debris for any evidence, said Douglas County Chief Deputy Stan Copeland. They collected soil in hopes of finding Endres' DNA there, but laboratory analysis is still pending. Because of rains and floods, the body may have washed downstream and any DNA may have been flushed away as well. Divers also have not had any luck finding Endres.
Paxton said evidence at the salon is scant as well.
"In some places, you can collect hair samples as evidence, but my God, it's a hair salon, there was hair everywhere," he said. "There were fingerprints on top of fingerprints. Just the setting itself was one the biggest obstacles we faced."