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Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

Dead at Daddy's Hands

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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True Crime

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

A South Carolina dad drives his five children around the deep south for nine days.

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0:00.0

There's no Bible verse that talks about a man whose quiver is full, is truly blessed.

0:28.2

I've always taken that to mean that a man that's been blessed with children is a man that throughout his days will be happy and whole.

0:38.2

In this case, we have a man that took those arrows out of the quiver and literally snapped them into, discarding them, like they were nothing more than rubbish.

0:49.2

I'm Joseph Scott Morgan, and this is Body Bags.

0:57.2

I'm joined today with my good friend Jackie Howard, executive producer of Crime Stories, with Nancy Grace.

1:06.2

Jackie, what can you tell us about this case?

1:09.2

This is a particularly difficult case to talk about. Timothy Jones Jr. had five children, children treated very poorly.

1:18.2

Jones killed his children one at a time, and then traveled with their bodies across the South.

1:25.2

Let me lay out for you the order that these children died. Jones, 37 years old, exercised his six-year-old boy, Natan, until he died.

1:36.2

It began with a broken electrical outlet in the home. The father, again, Jones 37, made the boy run around their home until he collapsed.

1:47.2

The oldest child, eight-year-old Mara, and then there was seven-year-old alliance strangled to death by their father.

1:55.2

Then he choked two-year-old Gabriel and one-year-old Abigail as well. After the children were dead, Jones wrapped the bodies in plastic,

2:05.2

and then drove around the southeast for nine days before dumping their bodies.

2:12.2

It's hard to understand how someone can hurt another human, let alone their five children.

2:19.2

Give me an idea. This poor child, the six-year-old, ran, was made to exercise. Tell me what was going on with his body.

2:29.2

Jackie, we've covered cases like this in the past where we have individuals that just absolutely collapse as a result of total and physical exhaustion.

2:38.2

When you begin to think of the physiology of, say, a young child, you think that they can go on forever and ever.

2:46.2

I'm not going to say necessarily bulletproof, but their young bodies are not inhibited by some of the factors that come along with age.

2:53.2

There's a potential for a terminal event with any child, whatsoever.

3:00.2

When you begin to press a child into this constant state of movement, and he actually did this, Jones actually described how he would make this child run in place, run around the exterior of their mobile home,

3:16.2

and then do something called wall sits, which is where he makes the child sit with his back like he's sitting in an imaginary chair with his back placed against the wall,

3:28.2

and it puts incredible strain upon the skeleton and the muscles, and not just that, but you have to also fact-run this idea of fear.

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