Dad to be charged with murder in death of 5 kids (UPDATE!)

[Omaha Steve]

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Source: AP-EXCITE

By JEFFREY COLLINS

LEXINGTON, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina man killed his five children, ages 1 to 8, then dumped their bodies wrapped in trash bags in a secluded clearing along a rural road in Alabama, authorities said Wednesday.

Timothy Ray Jones Jr., 32, will be charged with five counts of murder, and officials believe he acted alone, Acting Sheriff Lewis McCarty of Lexington County said. Authorities think all five children were killed at the same time, but they said they don't yet know how or why. Autopsies are scheduled to begin Thursday.

Jones was stopped at a traffic checkpoint in Mississippi on Saturday and he was acting strangely, authorities said. A deputy spotted bleach, blood and children's clothes in his Cadillac Escalade, authorities said. It would be another three days before the children's bodies were discovered.

Jones was taken into custody and charged with drunken driving. When authorities ran his license plate, they discovered Jones and his five children had been reported missing by their mother, authorities said.

FULL story at link.



An investigator leads a truck near the crime scene on Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2014, in Camden, Ala. Wilcox County, Alabama, District Attorney Michael Jackson told The Associated Press that Timothy Ray Jones Jr. is suspected of killing his children in South Carolina and leaving their bodies in a rural area near Camden. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)


Read more: http://apnews.excite.com/article/20140910/us--missing_children-father_detained-3c1a67d68b.html

[Lrobby99]

1. WTF??

No speculation for now. Far more questions than facts. Just sorrow now.

[LoisB]

3. I read the article and agree there are so many questions. I, too, feel so sorry for

those poor children.

[lark]

5. How sickening and sad!

I feel so sorry for the children whose lives were disastrously cut far too short, but also for the mom who will forever be haunted by "what if's".

[Liberal_in_LA]

15. Plus 1000

[Arkansas Granny]

2. Those poor children.

[Omaha Steve]

4. Kick

For the update.

[samsingh]

6. so horrifying

[Scairp]

7. SO glad this asshole had custody of them

Whomever made that call has some questions to now answer.

[Xithras]

9. It's my understanding that the parents had shared custody.

That's a pretty standard arrangement. Unless there was some indication that he'd do something like this, it's hard to see how the call could have been any different.

[Scairp]

10. There was an open case on him

DSS had an open case for this family. They confirmed that today at a press conference in S. Carolina. The home was visited by them on August 7th and was still an open case. That is a direct quote.

[SoCalMusicLover]

11. I Guess They Can Close The Case Now

Just a little bit late.

[Scairp]

14. Not what I would have said

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Kind of callous if you ask me. Whether they were lazy or overworked or understaffed or all of the above, I'm quite sure they don't want five siblings killed by their own parents in order to reduce their caseload.

[mercuryblues]

12. The DSS

in SC if FUBAR, thanks to nikki haley.

http://www.fitsnews.com/2014/08/04/abcnews-76-children-died-sc-care/


ABCNews: 76 Children Died Under SC “Care”


REPORT TARGETS PALMETTO STATE’S CHILD “WELFARE” AGENCY

ABC World News Tonight aired a special investigative report over the weekend alleging more than six dozen South Carolina children died last year as a result of mismanagement at the state’s welfare agency.

According to the report, case managers at the S.C. Department of Social Services (SCDSS) were “pressured to create a false appearance of success” – resulting in children being returned to dangerous homes.

Read more at http://www.fitsnews.com/2014/09/09/scdss-whistleblower-memo-leaked/#MKyeHTlWqiChw2BJ.99


Specifically, it accuses the agency of all sorts of data manipulation including fixing numbers for audits “so DSS looks good.” It also questions multi-million dollar contracts awarded by former director Lillian Koller – and calls attention to a massive decline in licensed foster homes used by the agency (3,288 in February of 2011 compared to 2,541 in February of 2014).

The memo also references an “exodus” of qualified staffers at multiple levels of the agency, including “county directors, supervisors, county workers, seasoned workers, new workers and very new workers.”

“Some are forced out, some are fired, and some are getting out of the hostile environment,” the whistleblower adds, noting that “it costs taxpayers an astounding amount of money to keep re-hiring and retraining staff for the same position.”

“By the time this administration leaves, the rest of us will have a real mess on our hands and a lot of lives to clean up,” the author of the memo writes.

[closeupready]

8. I really just can't bring myself to think about this story right now.

I think it would overwhelm me on a lot of levels.

I would like to know, however, his motive was, and what factors helped precipitate this act.

[secondvariety]

13. Video of the killer's

father claiming "Little Timmy" is a really swell guy.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/timothy-ray-jones-dad-five-slain-kids-will-face-murder-n200051

[Blue_Tires]

18. Just once I'd like for them to eschew the standard "lawyer-drafted statement"

[Iamthetruth]

16. Alabama and South Carolina

Guy is going to die for this, no wiggle room for a crime like this in those two states.

[Scairp]

17. Had enough of his family too

How they can stand there and defend him as a "loving father" is revolting. Fuck them too.

[Mean Spirit]

19. Drugs

When he was stopped he was on Spice or K2. I'm seeing many reports of violent behavior with these types of drugs. They cause hallucinations and psychotic episodes among other things.