In his life, he was sufficiently linked to convicted murderer, Charles Christian Krider. Krider, who was free at the time the girls disappeared, was sent to prison for 14 years in 2004 for having strangled Judith Schrum. But though authorities compared this case to Krider’s, they found nothing. Until one day, when someone confessed to the crime…
Police searched the area in June 2005, even the abandoned mine in which Jones had confessed to having thrown the girls bodies in. The search turned up nothing and Jones eventually recanted his confession. Another serial killer named Tommy Lynn Sells also confessed to kidnapping and killing the girls, but the lead was a dead end and couldn’t be proven…