GUILTY SC - Five Jones children, ages 1-8, Lexington County, 28 Aug 2014 *Father Arrested*

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Tim Scott‏ @TimScottTV 4h4 hours ago
Court is back in session, and the prosecution calls Lt. Jesse Laintz of the Lexington County Sheriff's Department to the stand. Lt. Laintz starts off by talking about the welfare check performed at the Jones home.


Caroline Hecker‏Verified account @CHecker_WIS 3h3 hours ago
Jesse Laintz, an investigator with the Lexington County Sheriff's Office, is now testifying on the stand. He's explaining how the initial welfare check and subsequent missing persons report unfolded. @wis10


Tim Scott‏ @TimScottTV 3h3 hours ago
Laintz goes into more details about the initial investigation and how the missing persons reports were filed. Says that Jones previously served in the military and through NCIS, they were able to obtain his military records.


Caroline Hecker‏Verified account @CHecker_WIS 3h3 hours ago
Testimony is back underway this afternoon. Here are some photos taken inside the courtroom before the lunch break. @wis10

 

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Caroline Hecker‏Verified account @CHecker_WIS 3h3 hours ago
A woman named Linda Watkins is on the stand now. She was working at a gas station in Alabama that Timothy Jones allegedly stopped at. "When he walked inside there was this smell that came in behind him, I got a whiff of it, that was awful, it was awful." @wis10


Tim Scott‏ @TimScottTV 3h3 hours ago
Next up on the stand is Linda Watkins, who worked at a gas station in Greenville, Alabama. Jones came by that gas station before he was arrested at a public safety checkpoint in Mississippi on September 6.


Caroline Hecker‏Verified account @CHecker_WIS 3h3 hours ago
CONT: Watkins says Jones purchased close to a carton of cigarettes, a bottle of water, a gallon of water and a Starbucks energy shot. @wis10


Tim Scott‏ @TimScottTV 3h3 hours ago
Watkins says when Jones walked into the gas station, he came in with a distinct smell that had an "awful" scent. She says he kept looking out the windows and asked if she knew of a place he could camp out for the night.


Tim Scott‏ @TimScottTV 3h3 hours ago
Watkins continues to talk about the smell that Jones carried with him when he entered the gas station, saying it was like the "worst smell of BO...almost chemical...and would burn your nose" if someone took a whiff of it.


Tim Scott‏ @TimScottTV 3h3 hours ago
Prosecution now showing surveillance video from the gas station in Greenville, AL, where Jones visited that day. He smoked a cigarette before coming into the store and then went back to his car for a "good five or six minutes."


Caroline Hecker‏Verified account @CHecker_WIS 3h3 hours ago
This is surveillance video of Tim Jones wandering around inside a Alabama gas station on September 6, 2014. The attendant testified the smell that followed was “absolutely awful.” @wis10

(video clip: Caroline Hecker on Twitter )


Tim Scott‏ @TimScottTV 3h3 hours ago
Here’s a glimpse of the surveillance video of Jones inside the gas station. Even with the smell, Watkins says he was very polite and proceeded to sit in his car for a few minutes.

Tim Scott‏ @TimScottTV 3h3 hours ago
Watkins: Jones did not appear drunk when he came into the gas station; he "was not jittery or jumpy...he was calm."


Caroline Hecker‏Verified account @CHecker_WIS 2h2 hours ago
Johnson testified he found two bags of "spice," a form of synthetic marijuana inside the car as well as paraphernalia. He placed Jones under arrest for DUI and possession of paraphernalia. @wis10

 

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Tim Scott‏ @TimScottTV 3h3 hours ago
After a fifteen minute break, the prosecution calls Charles Johnson of the Smith County (Mississippi) Sheriff's Department up to the stand.


Tim Scott‏ @TimScottTV 3h3 hours ago
Smith County is the location of the public safety checkpoint where Jones was arrested on September 6.


Tim Scott‏ @TimScottTV 3h3 hours ago
Johnson says when he pulled Jones over, he could smell marijuana coming from the vehicle. The more he talked with Jones, he noticed another smell, which Jones quickly said was garbage.


Tim Scott‏ @TimScottTV 2h2 hours ago
Johnson: Jones had "red, glassy eyes" and his speech was slurred. Johnson started to search the vehicle, and he saw various forms of marijuana (referred to as "Scooby snacks" and "spice") in the car.


Tim Scott‏ @TimScottTV 2h2 hours ago
Johnson says he arrested Jones for driving under the influence and possession of paraphernalia. He also saw a Starbucks energy drink can with holes poked inside (which some people use as a smoking device).


Tim Scott‏ @TimScottTV 2h2 hours ago
When looking at pictures of Jones's Chevrolet Escalade, Johnson said he had a feeling "it was a meth lab" due to all the chemicals and smells coming from it. Noticed bleach stains on the floor.


Caroline Hecker‏Verified account @CHecker_WIS 2h2 hours ago
Jamie McClellan, a deputy with the Smith County Sheriff's Department in Mississippi, said when he asked Tim Jones how many kids he had at the police checkpoint, he replied, "I don't have any children." Moments later, he told them he had three. @wis10


Tim Scott‏ @TimScottTV 2h2 hours ago
After Johnson leaves the stand, an investigator with the Smith County Sheriff's Department takes the stand. Says Jones told him he didn't have any kids initially, but then told him they were in South Carolina. Says the crime lab is an hour away from Raleigh, MS.

 

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Tim Scott‏ @TimScottTV 1h1 hour ago
After a break, Undersheriff Marty Patterson of the Smith County Sheriff's Department (MS) noticed the "smell of death", spots where bleach was poured onto the car's carpet, and a spot behind the driver's seat where blood once was.


Tim Scott‏ @TimScottTV 1h1 hour ago
Undersheriff Patterson backs up one of his investigator's testimony in saying Jones told him he only had three kids and they were in SC. At this point, Patterson said "many red flags" (smell of death, 5 kids unaccounted for) went off in his head.


Tim Scott‏ @TimScottTV 1h1 hour ago
When they were beginning the booking process, Undersheriff Patterson asked Jones once again about the children. Jones said all he needed to know about them was inside the car.

 

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Timothy Jones Trial Day 2 pt 1

(starts @ 07:51:05)

 

[emmalee0621]

Does anyone have a working link of the dcf file and divorce documents? I tried all the ones posted in this thread from a few years ago and they are no longer on their site.

 

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Does anyone have a working link of the dcf file and divorce documents? I tried all the ones posted in this thread from a few years ago and they are no longer on their site.

I couldn't find the files either. I don't know why you are looking, but there was this:

"...A messier divorce

Amber and Tim Jones separated and a custody battle was raging by summer’s end.

On one side: Tim Jones, who accused his wife of being unfaithful with a next-door neighbor. According to divorce papers, Tim Jones returned home unexpectedly to find the other man, 19, hiding in the closet of the master suite.
“I am looking into moving to Mississippi with the children, where I have a large family support system,” Tim Jones wrote in a 2012 affidavit. “I will search for a job in Mississippi. I am employed and I am capable of caring for my children ...”

On the other side: Amber Jones, who was now six months pregnant with the couple’s fifth child. Several months earlier, she had walked into the Lexington County Sheriff’s Department and reported a string of threats made by her husband, including one to snap her neck. She declined a DSS caseworker’s referral her to Sistercare, a nonprofit for survivors of domestic abuse.

Tim Jones had the upper hand in the court case, including his $71,000 job at Intel, a divorce attorney and a glowing affidavit from his therapist who described him as a “highly intelligent, responsible father who is capable of caring for his children as the sole custodial parent.”

Amber Jones had none of those things — only an isolated existence along a lonely stretch of road and the pressures of caring for four young children in cramped quarters.

The divorce papers displayed her supposed sins.

But not Tim Jones’. There is no mention of his 2002 prison stint in the Big Muddy Correctional Center in Illinois, where he served time for cocaine possession, car theft, burglary and passing forged checks on his father’s account. The 20-year-old paroled out in about a year in a case of a“typical teenager doing stupid stuff,” according to Tim Jones Sr. in a 2014 interview with The Associated Press.

And so it was ordered on Oct. 14, 2013 by a family court judge. Tim Jones was granted physical custody of all five children, including baby girl Elaine, who would be born in December. Amber Jones reconciled herself to every other weekends and holidays.

The court issued one final judgment on supposed misdeeds: “In no event will the parties permit any paramour ... to be present during overnight visitation.”..."

Trial of SC man Timothy Ray Jones Jr., accused of killing his 5 children, could shed light

 

[stantonlore]

I wonder how his therapist feels now about testifying that "he is a highly intelligent, responsible father who is capable of caring for his children as the sole custodial parents". No doubt this carried weight with the judge who awarded him full custody. He was his kids' sole custodial killer.

 

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Live:

Watch Live: Timothy Jones on Trial in Murders of His 5 Children

Timothy Jones Trial Day 3

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WATCH LIVE: Day 3 of trial for SC man accused of 2014 murder of his 5 children

 

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Tim Scott‏ @TimScottTV 2h2 hours ago
After a slight delay for the prosecution and defense to go through boxes of evidence, Day Three of the Timothy Jones murder trial is underway.

Stacy Jones, who worked as a forensic scientist for the Mississippi Bureau of Investigations, is the first to take the stand.


Caroline Hecker‏Verified account @CHecker_WIS 2h2 hours ago
First witness on the stand on day three of the Timothy Jones Jr. trial is Stacy Jones, a forensic scientist with the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation. https://bit.ly/2JrfvjI @wis10


Tim Scott‏ @TimScottTV 2h2 hours ago
S. Jones starts talking about the process of completing a forensic investigation on Timothy Jones's car. She says the Smith County Sheriff's Department got a search warrant for the vehicle, and then the next morning, she began taking pictures of the evidence.


Tim Scott‏ @TimScottTV 2h2 hours ago
S. Jones is still on the stand, but a slight delay as the prosecution and defense are looking through photographs of the Chevy Escalade taken by Ms. Jones (no relation to Timothy Jones Jr.) and the MBI.


Caroline Hecker‏Verified account @CHecker_WIS 2h2 hours ago
Forensic scientist testifies inside of Jones car smelled like "decomposition, old blood and bleach." @wis10


Tim Scott‏ @TimScottTV 2h2 hours ago
S. Jones says the car had a very distinct smell, a combination of decomposition, bleach, and a chemical smell that would have "burned your nostrils."


Tim Scott‏ @TimScottTV 2h2 hours ago
Prosecution now showing photographs processed by the MBI of the Escalade. Some of the pictures include reddish stains on the carpet, a bucket, Clorox wipes, and other cleaning supplies.


Caroline Hecker‏Verified account @CHecker_WIS 2h2 hours ago
Trash bags, cleaning supplies, lighter fluid and blood can be seen in the backseat of Jones’ Cadillac Escalade. @wis10

Caroline Hecker‏Verified account @CHecker_WIS 2h2 hours ago
Haunting piece of paper found on a clipboard inside Jones car entered into evidence. @wis10

Tim Scott‏ @TimScottTV 2h2 hours ago
S. Jones talks about this note and others found inside Timothy Jones’s Escalade. Other notes found in the car feature to-do lists, one of which calls for the bodies to be burned and the bones to be sanded down.

Caroline Hecker‏Verified account @CHecker_WIS 2h2 hours ago
More of that note found inside the Jones car being presented in court. “Burn up bodies” and “sand down bones” can be read. ⁦@wis10⁩

 

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Tim Scott‏ @TimScottTV 2h2 hours ago
Prosecution's next exhibits include a picture of Timothy Jones's diploma from Mississippi State, social Security Cards, birth certificates, and a receipt from Wal-Mart in West Columbia, which shows Jones bought items including saw blades and muriatic acid.


Caroline Hecker‏Verified account @CHecker_WIS 2h2 hours ago
Receipt from Walmart in Augusta Road reflects purchases of dust mask, goggles, a jab saw blade, multiple saw blades and a bucket—all purchased September 3rd. It was found inside the Jones car. ⁦@wis10⁩

Tim Scott‏ @TimScottTV 2h2 hours ago
Prosecution now showing photographs of some of the items indicated on the receipt from Wal-Mart. Among the contents: saw blades, muriatic acid, and a white face mask.

S. Jones says once the car was emptied out, then she could start looking for biological evidence.


Tim Scott‏ @TimScottTV 2h2 hours ago
S. Jones: There was at least one part of the car that tested "presumptive positive" for trace of blood once she started her biological examination.


Caroline Hecker‏Verified account @CHecker_WIS 2h2 hours ago
Photograph shows discoloration on the floor board, which forensic scientist says is bleach. Maggots were also detected. ⁦@wis10⁩

Tim Scott‏ @TimScottTV 2h2 hours ago
After talking about how she goes about collecting blood at a scene, S. Jones says there were traces of blood in the center console and on a pillow found on one of the seats in the car.


Tim Scott‏ @TimScottTV 2h2 hours ago
The prosecution then shows pictures of a white plastic bag with a SlimJim wrapper inside, a white mask, and a cell phone with the battery taken out.


Tim Scott‏ @TimScottTV 2h2 hours ago
The next sequence of photographs shows the interior of the car after it was emptied. S. Jones says there were several bleach stains, samples of human tissue and hair in the trunk area, as well as some maggots.


Tim Scott‏ @TimScottTV 2h2 hours ago
After S. Jones brings up that she found what she assumed was samples of human tissue and hair, the defense calls an objection. Jury is sent out of the courtroom.

 

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Tim Scott‏ @TimScottTV 1h1 hour ago
After a delay, the jury is brought back into the room.

Stacy Jones is back on the stand. She goes back on how she's looking for pieces of biological evidence, says she found a "dehydrated sample of human tissue" in the car's trunk.


Caroline Hecker‏Verified account @CHecker_WIS 1h1 hour ago
Hair and what appeared to be human tissue was collected from the back of the Jones car. It was collected and processed. In the third row seat, there were three belts found. @wis10


Tim Scott‏ @TimScottTV 1h1 hour ago
S. Jones says that a black garbage bag was also in the car on the 3rd row seat, featuring clothes, belts, and men's shoes.


Tim Scott‏ @TimScottTV 1h1 hour ago
S. Jones lists off more items found in the car, including children's clothing, glass cleaner, and socks (with bleach stains).


Tim Scott‏ @TimScottTV 1h1 hour ago
More items found in the car: Newport cigarettes, toiletries, T. Jones's passport, and medicine bottles. In the floorboard: wipes, Gatorade bottles, bleach bottles containing coins and bills, a Kindle, and hard drives.


Tim Scott‏ @TimScottTV 1h1 hour ago
More stuff from the car: a Bible, stamps, checkbooks, a plastic basket, clipboard, receipts, HP laptop, Windows laptop, multiple clothes and towels (with bleach stains), school supplies, maps, Blue Cross insurance card, Intel ID card, body spray, and food.


Caroline Hecker‏Verified account @CHecker_WIS 1h1 hour ago
We're still hearing testimony from Stacy Jones, a forensic scientist with the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation, who processed the Jones car. @wis10

 

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Caroline Hecker‏Verified account @CHecker_WIS 1h1 hour ago
Lots of evidence, including photos from inside the Jones SUV. Forensic scientist is listing hundreds of items found inside the car, including things like birth certificates, SS cards, doctor records, clothes, cleaning supplies, saw blades and much more. @wis10

 

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Tim Scott‏ @TimScottTV 1h1 hour ago
Here are some pictures of Stacy Jones on the stand from this morning. She's still listing off items that she found in the car, which has gone on for several minutes.

Caroline Hecker‏Verified account @CHecker_WIS 1h1 hour ago
With the long list of items found inside the Jones car, it is sounding more and more like Jones threw everything belonging to him into the car. Forensic scientist has spent the last 10 minutes reading an inventory list. @wis10


Tim Scott‏ @TimScottTV 1h1 hour ago
S. Jones went on for more than ten minutes listing off all the items in T. Jones's Chevy Escalade. After she completed her biological investigation, she gave the materials in the car to Lexington County investigators.

Judge calls for a ten minute break.

 

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Tim Scott‏ @TimScottTV 52m52 minutes ago
The jury comes back into the room after a brief recess.

S. Jones is still on the stand. She is now being questioned by the defense.
She says she laid everything that was in the car on multiple white tables to photograph them.


Tim Scott‏ @TimScottTV 36m36 minutes ago
The defense asks S. Jones about a series of letters found in the car. Some were written by children, while one was written to the oldest daughter, Merah, by her mother.


Tim Scott‏ @TimScottTV 33m33 minutes ago
More notes displayed by the defense to S. Jones. The lists mostly focus on budgetary items (payroll, investing in 401k's, saving for college, bills, etc.).


Tim Scott‏ @TimScottTV 19m19 minutes ago
Defense puts up the marriage certificate from Illinois for Timothy Jones and his wife, and some educational materials from his time at Mississippi State.


Tim Scott‏ @TimScottTV 16m16 minutes ago
Judge calls for a lunch break. The testimony will continue shortly before 2.

 

[Barnabas]

What a sad case this is

Thanks for posting the tweets.

 

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What a sad case this is

Thanks for posting the tweets.

 

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Tim Scott‏ @TimScottTV 30m30 minutes ago
After a long lunch break, Stacy Jones returns to the stand.


Tim Scott‏ @TimScottTV 29m29 minutes ago
Public defender Rob Madsen opens up a series of Manila envelopes filled with some Bibles. One of them had a Freemason insignia inside.


Tim Scott‏ @TimScottTV 10m10 minutes ago
The defense continues to introduce more pieces of evidence, ranging from family photographs to a shopping list made by T. Jones. S. Jones is excused.

Eric Johnson, formerly of the Mississippi Bureau of Investigations, takes the stand.


Caroline Hecker‏Verified account @CHecker_WIS 9m9 minutes ago
After more than 4 hours of testimony, forensic scientist Stacy Jones steps down from the stand. Next up is Eric Johnson, who worked with the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation. @wis10


Tim Scott‏ @TimScottTV 3m3 minutes ago
Johnson says that Ms. Jones told him to come by Smith County to examine the car for himself. Brings up the notes found in the car, specifically the ones where the defendant says he planned to "burn the bodies and sand the bones."

 

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Tim Scott‏ @TimScottTV 4m4 minutes ago
Johnson says MBI sat down with Timothy Jones Sr. on September 7. The prosecution displays a scale model of a conference room inside the Smith County Courthouse, which is right down the hall from the jail.


Tim Scott‏ @TimScottTV 3m3 minutes ago
Johnson: By having Jones Sr. in the conference room during the interrogation, he thought Jones Jr. would be more comfortable and would give more information on where the children would be.

 

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Tim Scott‏ @TimScottTV 4h4 hours ago
Judge Griffith calls for another ten minute break. Court shortly returns to session with Eric Johnson (Miss. Bureau of Investigation) still on the stand.


Caroline Hecker‏Verified account @CHecker_WIS 4h4 hours ago
Powerful testimony coming now from an investigator who interviewed Jones after he was arrested. "He said he kicked the kids out of the car onto the road between his house and the Walmart on Augusta Road." @wis10


Caroline Hecker‏Verified account @CHecker_WIS 4h4 hours ago
CONT: "He (Tim Jones) said his son Nahtahn threatened to kill him by threatening to cut him up and feed him to the dogs." @wis10


Caroline Hecker‏Verified account @CHecker_WIS 4h4 hours ago
For the first time since this trial started, Tim Jones Jr. cracks in the courtroom. He can be seen visibly crying, wiping his eyes as investigator recounts his interview with Jones in Mississippi. @wis10


Tim Scott‏ @TimScottTV 4h4 hours ago
Johnson shows the Miranda rights document presented to Jones Jr. prior to his interview with police.


Tim Scott‏ @TimScottTV 4h4 hours ago
He adds that Jones Jr. was profusely sweating during the interview. He read the form top to bottom, and Jones Jr. was willing to make a statement without a lawyer present.


Tim Scott‏ @TimScottTV 4h4 hours ago
During the interview, Johnson said Jones Jr. seemed like "he was coming off of something" and didn't seem drunk. He did not ask to speak with his father alone. A lot of the interaction, he says, was between Jones and his dad.


Tim Scott‏ @TimScottTV 4h4 hours ago
Later on, Jones Jr. (according to Johnson) said that Cindy (his mother) "put this poison on my head". When Jones Sr. volunteered to give him mental help, Jones Jr. said the only way to cure him "was to put a bullet through his head."