Jonathon Jones: Suspect, Victim or Both?

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 11 July 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

17-year-old Kaitlyn Coones is a runaway from a group home in Canton, Ohio, and is staying with Jonathon Jones, 33, at his mother's residence. Nicole Jones, 53, mother of Jonathon Jones, is unaware that her son has snuck a teen into his bedroom. Days later, Kaitlyn Jones calls a case worker at the Canton group home informing her she has done something terrible and is on the road with Jonathon Jones. Canton Police call for a welfare check and officers discover Nicole Jones has vanished. Jones car, her son Jonathon, and Kaitlyn Coones are also missing.

In this episode of Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan, Joe explains what evidence, recovered by investigators, lead police to say Nicole Jones is dead Dave Mack goes behind the headlines explaining the relationship dynamic between Jonathon Jones and Kaitlyn Coones to determine if the teen is a victim, a suspect, or both.

Transcript Highlights

00:00:03 Introduction – teen kidnapped, mother missing, convicted son being sought

00:04:47 Discussion of missing mom’s car tracked to Arizona and New Mexico

00:07:52 Talk about attention focus when child is involved

00:11:47 Discussion of 33-year-old man sneaks teen into his bedroom

00:16:59 Discussion of Jonathon Jones and Kaitlyn Coones

00:22:29 Talk about Nicole Jones being murdered in kitchen

00:27:18 Discussion of circumstantial evidence

00:32:30 Discussion about rock used as murder weapon

00:36:44 Talk about Kaitlyn Coones giving Jonathon Jones 5 hours to kill

00:40:03 Discussion of using GPS to track movement of suspects

00:42:03 Discussion of blood and hair evidence

00:44:02 Discussion of Jonathon Jones failure to disarm GPS tracker

00:45:51 Talk about focus on Kaitlyn Coones being underage victim and suspect

00:46:56 Conclusion Nicole Jones body will never be found, Jones and Coones are in prison

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0:00.0	Body Facts with Joseph Scott Moore.
0:04.0	It's an understatement nowadays in particular
0:10.0	to say that we have a problem in this country relative to children who are being
0:21.2	kidnapped or trafficked or that just simply vanish into thin air.
0:30.8	As a parent, daddy, a papa, it sends a chill up my spine. Every time one of these cases appears in the news.
0:46.5	And I think that for most of us, we take at face value what the media might tell us about a particular case and about a
0:56.2	child that has gone missing. However, as in life, things are not always as they seem. We're going to have a discussion about one of the more disturbing cases that I've come across in some time relative to a missing teen and an older man who has allegedly taken her and fled to Mexico. Oh and by the way, this is
1:42.0	body bags and of course there's a death that we have to talk about.
1:46.7	The death of that man's mother that turns out to be a homicide.
1:57.3	I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is body backs.
2:09.0	I have been plagued throughout my life as a parent and I think a lot of this has to do Dave with the profession that I was in. I've been plagued by fear, fear that something was going
2:17.4	to happen to my kids, that some great harm was going to come to them.
2:22.6	You know, we were recently at CrimeCon Dave and we got to see Mr. Walsh up on stage and the stuff that you know that catalyst for him you
2:36.2	know that started his his journey boy what a journey when his son you know went missing Adam and you know kind of you know the whole
2:47.7	That's foundationally that's what his organization has been built upon in America's most wanting,
2:54.8	looking for these kids that are out there that have seemingly vanished into thin air
3:00.5	or trying to track down these folks that have done great harm to members of our fellow
3:07.5	citizens.
3:10.6	And you know you hear that that theme that runs over and over again, but you know, today, this case, this case, it put us, you and I kind of on a twisted path from a narrative and I'd really like to get into
3:25.0	this and kind of discuss first off the victim in this case because the victim is and it's kind of overshadowed by some of the
3:34.4	other circumstances the victim is is a mother she's a mother to a man that
3:41.9	still lives at home with her. He's in his 30s and she's
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