Suspected Serial Killer Admits Killing Missing Ga. Hairdresser
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Serial killer suspect admits killing hairdresser
April 5, 2005, 05:17 PM
CUMMING, Ga. (AP) -- Authorities say the suspect in the death of a Forsyth
County hairdresser says he was lost, high on methamphetamine and needed to
find his way home when he met the woman.
Jeremy Bryan Jones told authorities he stopped to ask directions April 15th
at Tamber's Trim-N-Tan salon, a beauty shop on a two-lane road north of
Cumming.
He found 38-year-old Patrice Endres alone inside. Authorities say that's
when Jones decided to kidnap her. They say he raped and killed her, dumping
her body off a bridge in Douglas County.
The details of the random violence come from Jones' confession to the
Forsyth County Sheriff's detectives. The new information comes as
authorities continue to build a case against Jones, who is charged in the
deaths of three other woman in three states and is a suspect in several
others.
The 31-year-old Jones is being held without bond in Mobile County, Alabama,
where he awaits trial on a capital murder charge in the death of a woman
there in September 2004.
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Man Remains Jailed in Alabama
POSTED: 5:47 am EDT April 5, 2005
UPDATED: 12:57 pm EDT April 5, 2005
CUMMING -- A suspected serial killer has told authorities he raped and
killed a hairdresser, who has been missing for nearly a year.
The details come from Jeremy Bryan Jones' confession to Forsyth County
sheriff's detectives.
Jones, who is a suspect in killings across several states, told police he
was driving around Forsyth County and stopped at a hair salon to ask for
directions. There, he found Patrice Endres, 38, alone and decided to kidnap
her, police said. Authorities say he then raped and killed the woman,
dumping her body off a bridge in Douglas County.
"He said his only intent was to get directions to get back to Douglas
County," Forsyth County Sheriff Ted Paxton said Monday. "After he went in,
he realized she was there by herself and seized the opportunity. For all the
work we've done, the only time he ever set foot in Forsyth County was that
morning."
Jones, 31, told investigators he got high on methamphetamine that April 15
morning last year, got in his red Jeep Cherokee and drove without any
destination in mind. He said he remembered driving through Canton, and then
became disoriented. He stopped at Endres' salon on a remote stretch of Ga.
369 in north Forsyth County. There he met Endres, who resembled some other
women Jones is suspected of killing.
Paxton said Endres was forced to leave with Jones, who was armed with a
weapon police declined to describe.
Based on Jones' confession in January, the Douglas County Sheriff's Office
began searching for Endres' remains at a creek near the Chattahoochee River.
They used dogs trained to find cadavers. The cadaver dogs have at least
twice indicated that a body was once there.
Because of rain and floods, the body may have washed downstream and any DNA
may have been flushed away as well. Divers also have not been able to find
Endres.
Paxton and Douglas County Chief Deputy Stan Copeland said they are not
certain whether Jones will be charged in Endres' disappearance and alleged
death.
"He's been very forthright in three different interviews, but it's been hard
to confirm it," Paxton said. "To some degree he's already told us things
only the person involved would know, things we haven't shared. But you just
don't charge someone based on a confession. There has to be corroboration.
Sometimes people confess for the notoriety or just to play games."
Jones is being held without bond in Mobile County, Ala., where he awaits
trial on a capital murder charge in the death of a woman there in September
2004. He also has been charged in the murders of a Douglas County teenager
who lived near his mobile home, and a Louisiana woman. He is suspected in
seven other killings in his native Oklahoma and in Louisiana and Georgia.
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Kris Baker
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> Remember her? She's been missing about a year now.
>
>
> Serial killer suspect admits killing hairdresser
> April 5, 2005, 05:17 PM
>
> CUMMING, Ga. (AP) -- Authorities say the suspect in the death of a Forsyth
> County hairdresser says he was lost, high on methamphetamine and needed to
> find his way home when he met the woman.
>
> Jeremy Bryan Jones told authorities he stopped to ask directions April
> 15th
> at Tamber's Trim-N-Tan salon, a beauty shop on a two-lane road north of
> Cumming.
>
Yes! Thank you!
Kris
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Suspect Gives Jailhouse Confession
Web Editor: Sean Rowe
Reported By: Jon Shirek
Last Modified: 4/5/2005 7:18:53 PM
The husband of a hairdresser who vanished last year from the roadside
salon where she worked does not believe the confession by an accused serial
killer that he killed the Forsyth County woman.
Forsyth Sheriff Ted Paxton says murder suspect Jeremy Jones told
investigators that he killed Patrice Endres, who disappeared from the
Tamber's Trim-n-Tan hair on April 15, 2004.
The sheriff's office announced on March 9 of this year that they
consider Jones as a prime suspect in the Endres investigation.
Jones is a former construction worker from Miami, Okla., charged in
Mobile County with capital murder in the Sept. 18 slaying of 44-year-old
Lisa Nichols, who was raped and shot in her Turnerville home before it was
set on fire.
He also has been accused of killing Katherine Collins, 47, a
prostitute in New Orleans who had been raped and stabbed. Her decomposed
body was found in a vacant lot in February 2004.
In Georgia, Jones is charged in the death of 16-year-old Amanda
Greenwell of Douglas County, whose remains were found in April. At the time,
Jones had lived in Douglasville under the alias John Paul Chapman, the
identity of a prisoner he knew.
In the confession, Jones says he just happened to drive up to the
Tamber's Trim-n-Tan hair salon on April 15 last year to ask for directions.
Jones says he was high on methamphetamines at the time.
Endres was apparently between customers and at the salon alone. Jones
says he used a weapon to force Endres into his Jeep Cherokee.
From there, he says he drove Endres to a wooded area near his home in
Douglas County. Jones says he raped and killed Endres before dumping her
body into Sweetwater Creek near where it drains into the Chattahoochee
River.
Despite several extensive searches of the river and surrounding areas,
authorities have not recovered Endres' body. It's suspected that her body
may have been carried away by the current.
However, cadaver dogs brought to the scene in the past have come
across traces of a body having been there at some point. Also, investigators
told 11Alive's Jon Shirek they did recover what could be microscopic
evidence from Jones' jeep.
Jones' potential confession offered little comfort, or validity, to
Endres' husband.
"From what I understand, this man is a very unique psychopath and has
no values and no morals. The guy has no credibility as far as I'm concerned
and probably as far as law enforcement is concerned," he said.
"So, I would really need some corroborating evidence. For me, I need
to have some proof of what he said is true," he said.
Sheriff Paxton says he's skeptical of what Jones recently told Forsyth
County investigators, but did admit that Jones revealed details that only
Endres' killer would likely know.
"We have to be aware of the fact that he does exhibit some of the
traits of a sociopath. Yeah, we understand that he may be wanting to confess
to a crime he has not committed just to add to his own notoriety, so to
speak," Sheriff Paxton said.
"But, once again, we're very cautiously optimistic in the fact that,
yes, there are some things that he has told us that only the person involved
in the abduction or having some chance meeting with Miss Endres would know,"
the sheriff said.
Evidence taken from Jones' jeep has been sent to the Federal Bureau
Investigation's forensics lab in Quantico, Virginia to be compared with DNA
samples taken from Endres. When those results would be ready and whether
they would be made public was not made known.
If connected to Endres' death, Jones would then be charged and
prosecuted in Douglas County because that is where Sheriff Paxton said the
murder would have taken place.
