The South Carolina father arrested for killing his five children said he feared that the kids would murder him, court documents released Wednesday state.
The 28-page arrest warrant obtained by WIS read that Timothy Ray Jones Jr. told the investigators that he believed his children would "kill him, chop him up, and feed him to the dogs." He apparently made the confession to police Aug. 28 near Walmart in Lexington County, S.C. He then told them that he forced his children, aged between 1 and 8, to the backseat of his car, reports the New York Daily News.
However, six days later the mother of the children reported them missing from Jones' Lexington County home. Authorities at a traffic checkpoint stopped Jones in Raleigh, Miss., Sept. 6. The investigators found "a large amount of blood and hand written notes with directions to kill and mutilate bodies" inside the SUV, Lexington County sheriff's deputies stated, reports NBC News. Three days after the arrest he led police to Oak Hill, Ala., where he allegdly dumped their bodies.
The prosecutors did not say whether they planned to seek the death penalty for Jones, who is detained in South Carolina Department of Corrections after waiving his right to a first court appearance last week due to "intense media scrutiny."
