Nine days with five corpses: the escape of Timothy Jones

Nine days with five corpses: the escape of Timothy Jones: The multiple murder of Timothy Jones Jr. A father drives over a thousand kilometers through the southeastern United States with the bodies of his five children wrapped in black bags in the back seat. While searching online for how to dissolve remains with muriatic acid, he responds to text messages normally from his boss and the babysitters. How did a man who had just committed the most ruthless crime in recent South Carolina history manage to maintain a functional facade for nine days? In this episode, we explore the crack between the psychotic breakdown that Jones claimed and the digital evidence that revealed surgical premeditation: incriminating searches, handwritten notes detailing decomposition methods, surveillance video capturing the purchase of a saw and acid, and an escape route mapped cell by cell. We also investigate the institutional failure that allowed social services to document physical abuse but only obtain a written promise, while five children paid with their lives. Victim: Timothy Jones Jr. Date: August 28, 2014 Location: Lexington, South Carolina Status: Sentenced to death, June 2019 - Jones searched for "body in landfill" and "muriatic acid" while driving with the corpses in the vehicle. - He purchased a 20-inch saw, a 19-liter bucket, muriatic acid, and black bags, captured on surveillance video on September 3. - He provided three different versions about his children during a single traffic stop: denial, lie about the number, final confession. - The handwritten notes in the SUV detailed "sand bones to dust" and "burn bodies," contradictory to the narrative of reactive panic. Timothy Jones Jr., Lexington South Carolina, multiple murder, 2014, homicide, forensic, investigation, criminal minds, premeditated crime, institutional corruption, true crime SpanishTo listen ad-free and access premium episodes, start your 30-day free trial at obomedia.comOBOMEDIA presents true crime storiesa true crime podcast built on real cases.Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie