This is the most disturbing, heartbreaking news story involving Spice that we have ever had to post. abcnews.go/US/wireStory/kids-missing-sc-foul-play-suspected-25389545 A man is suspected of killing his five children in South Carolina and then driving for hours before dumping their bodies, wrapped in individual garbage bags, on a dirt road in rural Alabama, authorities said Tuesday. Timothy Ray Jones Jr., 32, led investigators to the site where the bodies of the children were found, off a two-lane highway near Camden, Ala., said Alabama Department of Public Safety spokesman Sgt. Steve Jarrett. Jones has been charged with child neglect and police expect to lodge additional charges against him in connection with the childrens deaths, authorities in South Carolina and Mississippi said. The children ranged from 1 to 8 years old and were reported missing by their mother on Sept. 3, authorities said. Wilcox County, Alabama, District Attorney Michael Jackson told The Associated Press that Jones is suspected of killing the children in South Carolina before bringing their bodies to Alabama. This is a very tragic situation, Jackson said. These kids lives were snuffed out before they had a chance to enjoy life. Justice will be served. Police have not released details on how the children died. Lexington County Coroner Earl Wells was arranging for the childrens bodies to be taken back to South Carolina for autopsies and identification Tuesday night, sheriffs officials said. At the scene where authorities said the bodies were found, investigators could be seen late Tuesday working in a clearing at the top of a hill lit by floodlights. Jones was being held in Smith County, Mississippi, awaiting extradition to South Carolina, the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation said in a news release. Jones was detained in Smith County on Saturday after being stopped at a motor vehicle checkpoint near Raleigh, Mississippi, and charged with drunken driving, Smith County Sheriff Charlie Crumpton said in a news release. Crumpton said Jones became agitated when a deputy questioned him about an odor of chemicals coming from the Cadillac Escalade he was driving. The deputy found what were believed to be chemicals used to manufacture methamphetamine and a substance believed to be the street drug Spice, a form of synthetic marijuana, Crumpton said. A sheriffs office investigator was called and found what appeared to be bleach, muriatic acid, blood and possible body fluids, he said. During a background check, police discovered that Jones was wanted in South Carolina regarding a welfare concern of his children, who were on a national missing persons list, the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation said in a statement. Investigators from several departments and the FBI started looking for the missing children on Monday, Crumpton said. He said the childrens decomposed bodies were found in individual plastic garbage bags. Jarrett told a news conference that authorities were not sure why Jones drove through Alabama. Jones had joint custody of the children and is divorced from their mother, police said. They said he told neighbors that he and the children were moving to another state. Marlene Hyder and her husband, Johnny Hyder, said Jones and his wife moved into a house next to them about seven years ago in Batesburg-Leesville, South Carolina, 25 miles west of Columbia. They said Jones told them he worked in computers. Two years ago, the wife moved in with a male neighbor and Tim Jones moved away with the children, the Hyders said.
Posted on: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 16:06:16 +0000
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