NEW: Dad guilty of killing 5 kids faces possible death sentence
1 / 8Five Children KilledIn this Monday, June 3, 2019 photo, Timothy Jones Jr. sits during closing statements in his murder trial at the Lexington County Courthouse, in Lexington, Ky. Jurors are again deliberating whether the South Carolina father is guilty of murder in the deaths of his five children. COLUMBIA, S.C. — A jury found a South Carolina father guilty of murder Tuesday in the deaths of his five young children, allowing prosecutors to seek the death penalty.
Jones' lawyers are expected to argue he was a doting, single father whose mental problems piled up until stress and drug use drove him over the edge. Jones would eventually strangle 8-year-old Mera and 7-year-old Elias with his hands and, in his confession, said he used a belt to choke 2-year-old Gabriel and 1-year-old Abigail because his hands were too big, prosecutor Rick Hubbard said in his closing argument Monday.
Jones dumped the bodies after putting them in garbage bags on a hillside near Camden, Alabama, and was arrested a short time later at a traffic checkpoint in Smith County, Mississippi, after an officer said he smelled the horrible odor of decomposition from the SUV. In his closing argument, Boyd pointed out autopsies on the children showed they were not malnourished and despite other witnesses, who testified about frequent spankings, showed no signs of regular abuse.
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