452:, he broke into the trailer of 38-year-old Daniel "Danny" Oakley, where he assaulted him and his roommate, 41-year-old Doris Harris. In the attack, Jones robbed and then shot them to death, then set their trailer on fire. In the follow-up investigation, local resident Denny Ray Hunnicutt was arrested in Miami, as he was found to be driving Oakley's vehicle. When examining the car, investigators found fingerprints that belonged to the murdered couple, Hunnicutt and some other unknown individual. Hunnicutt insisted that he was innocent and provided an alibi - it was eventually confirmed and he was ruled out as a suspect, but he was imprisoned on a drug charge. After Jones' confession, the Miami Police Department reopened the investigation and in an effort to prove his culpability in the murders, examined the fingerprints found in Oakley's car - however, they were not a match to Jones'. Hunnicutt was interviewed again, but refused to cooperate with authorities and died in 2006.
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residue and bullet casings that the gun had been fired recently, and when sent for an examination, it was revealed to be the murder weapon. The
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date and social security number as someone serving time at a prison in their jurisdiction. Sheriffs went to interview the real John Paul
Chapman and, afterwards, his mother revealed that she had sold her son's identity to a man named Jeremy Bryan Jones. After learning of this, they obtained fingerprint samples from the Miami Police Department dating from Jones' 1990 arrest, conclusively establishing that that was his true identity.
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attorney Habib Yazidi supported these claims, arguing that his client had taken advantage of the media attention and perjured himself in order to obtain privileges, such as more and longer phone calls, as well as better food. He was described as skillful manipulator with a high enough IQ that, under different circumstances, would have benefitted him greatly in various walks of life.
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involvement in
Greenwell's murder, but unexpectedly confessed to committing 20 additional murders across five states over a 12-year period. In eight of these cases, he was unable to recall the names of his victims or where exactly he had dumped their bodies, claiming that five of them were prostitutes from Atlanta and the remaining were also prostitutes from
592:, another murderer who claimed to be a serial killer, also confessed to some of the crimes Jones supposedly committed. Jones was officially ruled out as a suspect in 2018, when 66-year-old Ronnie Dean Busick was arrested. He, along with Warren Welch and David Pennington, who were deceased, were determined to be the true perpetrators.
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his story yet again, this time claiming that he had killed her accidentally. In this version, he claimed that
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Soon after his release, Jones reunited with Freeman and found work as a day laborer, but was re-arrested for drug possession in June of that year. He again pleaded guilty, and due to the court's leniency, he was given another three months at the county jail. Upon his release in early September, he
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church about 10 miles from where she was abducted, casting further doubt on Jones' confession. His guilt in the Collins case was also considered questionable, as he was unable to provide any specific details and the geographic data did not correlate. The results of the DNA test also showed
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beer and left the home with her children. At the same time, Coleman also left to visit a friend named Joel Tough Edge. A couple of hours later, Mark Bentley finished the repairs, after which the former left to go to a fast food restaurant. The nearest open restaurant at the time was a
445:, whose bodies he would dump in swamps. In regard to the remaining murders, he recounted details known only to investigators - one of these confessed murders was that of Jennifer Judd, his high school friend's wife, whose murder he had been suspected of committing back in early 1992.
293:, where he met a woman in a bar whose son, John Paul Chapman, was serving a sentence at a state prison. With his charisma, Jones won her affection and sympathy and moved in with her. Sometime afterwards, he persuaded the woman to sell him her son's papers and
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canister which he brought back with him. Jones then placed her corpse in the bathtub before dousing it with flammable liquid and setting it on fire. He then returned to the Bentley house, changed clothes, took a shower and waited for the others to return.
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Nichols. At said trial, Jones recanted all of his confessions, but was nonetheless found guilty by jury verdict for murdering Nichols. The Mobile County Prosecutor's Office sought the death penalty, while his attorneys sought a
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1225:"Dark secrets of rural backwater where teen girls vanished"
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1147:"Suspected serial killer handed death sentence"
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933:"About the victims"
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