Timothy Jones Jr: The Wicked Dad Who Killed His Five Children

Timothy Jones is an American murderer who killed his five children in their mobile home on South Lake Drive in Lexington County, South Carolina. Jones said he wasn't guilty by reason of insanity, but the court didn't believe him. In 2019, he was found guilty and given the death sentence. He is on South Carolina's death row.

The Inside Story

Amber Kyzer is from Pennsylvania. Timothy Jones Jr. met her in Chicago. Jones and Kyzer got married in DuPage County, Illinois, in June 2004. Jones was 22 and Kyzer was 18.

Amber Jones had Merah in Pennsylvania, Elias and Nahtahn in Mississippi, Gabriel and Abigail in South Carolina, and Merah, Elias, and Nahtahn in South Carolina.

Jones got a degree in computer engineering from Mississippi State University in 2011, where he studied for four years. He moved to South Carolina so he could work for Intel in Columbia as an engineer. The couple moved into a cheap trailer in Lexington County, a suburb of Columbia. Amber Jones stayed at home to care for their children.

Jones follows the Bible to the letter. After he was arrested, the police took his religious items, including Bible verses that talked about child punishments.

Difficult Marriage

In May 2012, after a two-week separation, Jones returned to their joint residence to discover his wife was having an affair with their 19-year-old neighbor.

He also alleged that his wife had neglected the kids, which prompted the state's Department of Social Services (DSS) to launch an investigation into the family residence in 2011. Despite finding the house in disarray, the investigators closed their investigation. Timothy Jones took the kids to live with his parents in Mississippi as the marriage remained estranged.

Timothy Jones was tested to determine if he was the biological father when Amber Jones became pregnant with the couple's youngest child, Abigail, and the results showed that he was.

In October 2013, the couple reached a divorce settlement. Mrs. Jones only had visitation privileges and had to be under her husband's supervision; Timothy Jones was given custody.

In a different mobile, Timothy Jones and the kids returned to Lexington County.

The Children Lives With Their Father

In Red Bank, a section of Lexington, South Carolina, Jones lived in a trailer off on a dirt road. During this period, Jones was the subject of two separate investigations for alleged child abuse, but the investigations turned up no justification for taking the kids out of the house.

There were other reports of child abuse before he took the route of murdering his five children.

Jones Kills His Five Children

Timothy Jones picked up his two youngest children, Gabriel and Abigail, from a neighboring daycare on Thursday, August 28, 2014, as well as his three oldest children, Merah, Elias, and Nahtahn, from Saxe Gotha Elementary School. That was the last day the children where seen alive.

All five children's deaths were listed as homicides with manual strangulation as the cause of death, however the exact time of death could not be determined because of deterioration.

At Camden, Alabama, off a backcountry dirt road, five black trash bags containing the bodies of Jones' children were found.

The doctor who conducted the autopsies claimed that because the black bags were exposed to sunlight, this accelerated the decomposition process. Before they were found, the bodies had been left outside for about a week. The bodies had suffered severe decomposition.

Trial and Sentencing

Jones entered a plea of not guilty due to insanity.

The killings were not planned, according to Jones. According to Jones, a demonic gremlin voice instructed him to kill his children. Yet, the psychologist who was selected by the court eventually claimed that Jones intentionally killed his children.

On June 4, 2019, a jury found Timothy Jones guilty of all five murder charges. On June 13, Jones was sentence to death.