Prosecutors also noted that after Jones’ 6-year-old son Nahtahn died, which Jones said happened after he punished the boy with exercise for breaking an electrical outlet, the father waited six hours - including a trip to a convenience store to get cigarettes and watching a prison rape scene from a movie - before he killed the other four kids, according to bank records and his own confession. In cross-examining Dorsey, prosecutors pointed out Jones made internet searches on how to destroy bodies and keep specially trained dogs from finding decomposing corpses. Jones’ attorneys will ask the jury to find him not guilty by reason of insanity because he didn’t know right from wrong either morally or legally. “It was obviously at its worst point when this happened,” Dorney said. She testified that in the weeks before the killing his calendar was crammed to 15-minute increments with items like “learn Spanish,” ″pray with children” and “learn Hebrew.”Īll that stress and a synthetic marijuana habit made Jones’ undiagnosed schizophrenia worse until he snapped and went temporarily insane, Dorney said. The stress and drug use built as Jones juggled an $80,000 a year computer engineer job and being the sole caretaker of the five children, Dorney said. The other mental health experts testified that Jones’ skull had a permanent dent after a car wreck in his teens he heard voices telling him to kill his kids and he worried he had inherited schizophrenia from his mother, who has spent decades in a mental intuition.īut before Friday’s testimony from psychiatrist Julie Rand Dorney, none of the experts testified they thought Jones couldn’t legally tell right from wrong when he killed his children, ages 1 to 8, in their Lexington home in 2014.
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