Jerry Jones convicted of slaying wife
EL4
on Yahoo, gave me a chuckle
from :
Tuesday, January 30, 2001
By DAVID FISHER
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER
EVERETT -- For the second time, a Snohomish County jury has found Jerry
Jones guilty of slashing his wife to death with a fillet knife.
After 6- 1/2 hours of deliberations, a seven-man, five-woman jury yesterday
unanimously found Jones, 54, guilty of first-degree murder for his wife's
brutal 1988 death, rejecting defense claims that she was killed by a
15-year-old neighbor boy.
The verdict did not persuade Jones' family.
"It's not right. It's not right," his daughter, Beth Blood, sobbed as she
hugged her older sister for support.
Jones' daughters, along with his father, Jerry Jones Sr., 73, have stuck by
him through 10 years of appeals, media interviews and fund-raisers to raise
attorneys fees.
He was convicted the first time in 1989 and served 10 years of a 25-year
sentence. But that conviction was overturned in 1999 by a federal judge who
ruled that his defense incompetently failed to present evidence that an
intruder might have committed the crime.
The case has drawn national media attention. A "48 Hours" TV crew spent two
weeks in the courtroom filming the trial, along with a writer who's working
with the family on a book.
Jones' wife, Lee Jones, then 41, was stabbed 63 times in the bathtub of the
couple's Bothell home on Dec. 3, 1988.
When sheriff's investigators arrived, they found Jerry Jones with smeared
blood and blood spatters on his clothes, suffering from a deep cuts to the
fingers of his right hand. He apparently tried to shower, fully clothed,
before detectives arrived. His wife was dead on her bathroom floor. A fillet
knife with a long, thin blade lay nearby.
Jones told detectives that he dozed off briefly when his wife stepped into
the bathroom to take a bath, then awoke to a scream. When he ran to the
bathroom, he said he was knocked over by a young man rushing from the room
with a knife in his hand. His hand, he said, was apparently cut in the
process.
This time around, with Seattle attorney David Zuckerman, Jones' defense
hinged on the idea that a 15-year-old neighbor boy -- fascinated with one of
Jones' daughters and harboring sexual fantasies about Lee Jones -- committed
the crime, then ducked responsibility because investigators focused their
suspicions solely on Jones.
Jones' daughters testified that the boy had been banned from the Jones house
for tormenting their younger brother, then 4, and for mouthing off to Lee
Jones. Beth Blood testified that the boy wrote her letters expressing an
interest in her and her mother, and said he might have stolen a house key
from her purse before the murder.
Both testified that their parents appeared happy at the time and had never
violently fought, although they underwent a brief separation the summer
before the murder.
Zuckerman picked through the investigation, asking detectives why they
failed to search the yard with a police dog for an intruder's trail, even
though a side garage door was found open; why they failed to use chemical
means to look for a blood trail to the open door, and why they did not
aggressively check the boy's alibi.
The neighbor boy, now a 28-year-old businessman, testified that he was with
friends that night and had nothing to do with the murder. The jury was told
that he has been convicted of several thefts since then, but not that he has
been accused several times of domestic violence.
Deputy Prosecutor Ron Doersch focused on the fact that no physical evidence
of an intruder was found.
Jones opted not to testify.
Superior Court Judge Gerald Knight ordered Jones taken immediately into
custody after the verdict was announced to await a Feb. 15 sentencing date.
The law requires at least 20 years for first-degree murder, although Jones
will get credit for time already served, Zuckerman said.
"He's an innocent man," said Beth Blood's husband Chad, a Bothell minister.
"I have no faith in the system anymore."
Barry
>Old news, I know, just found it searching for a picture of Jerry's new face
>on Yahoo, gave me a chuckle
Yep homicide sure is hilarious. You must be an Eagles fan.
Barry
West Texas #1 Cowboys fan south of Lamesa to Alpine and everything west of Big
Spring except El Paso, which belongs to someone else.
BW
kill my wife, etc.
BW
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> Now, ex-Clownboys dying of heroin overdoses in Plano...now, THATS
> funny....
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