Southern Fried true crime covers cases that are not suitable for young listeners,

and there may also be some explicit language used.

Today's episode involves sexual assault and serial murder,

so I would like to emphasize listener discretion.

Last week, I covered a vicious serial killer, Bobby Joe Long,

who murdered 10 women in the Tampa Bay area,

and raped more than 50 women before he began killing.

This week, we have another serial killer,

but he may not be as prolific as he once claimed.

Known as the red-neck Ted Bundy, Jeremy Bryan Jones has technically only been convicted for

the rape and murder of one woman, but he is confessed to over a dozen murders,

and then retracted those claims. He did this over and over again.

You see, Jeremy Jones loved the attention, even though he once shouted loudly to reporters,

I ain't no Ted Bundy. It would seem like he idolized him and enjoyed the comparison.

Jones was known to be disarmingly charming and was a relatively attractive man,

though his use of meth marked his once-handsome face.

But the suffering he caused so many families with his lies compounds the tragedies he is responsible for.

Family members of murder victims and missing persons live lives a vagony.

That sort of pain never goes away, and false confessions can bring false hope,

which is unspeakably cruel to those who have already suffered the violent loss of a loved one.

Jones is suspected in at least two other cases and charges were filed,

but hurricanes, politics, and the slow crawl of American justice have delayed prosecution in those

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