S02E03: Timothy Ray Jones, Jr.'s Chilling Crimes. Illness or Greed?

In June 2004, 22-year-old Timothy Ray Jones, Jr. met 18-year-old Amber Kyzer. They were married a month after meeting, and over the course of their relationship, had five children: Merah, Elias, Nahtahn, Gabriel, and Abigail. Their marriage was rocky, as Amber was forced to be subservient to her husband due to his religious beliefs. They struggled to care for all of the children while keeping a clean home, and Tim developed some rather aggressive discipline habits where he would force the children to workout until absolute exhaustion if he felt they had done wrong. DSS became involved, but had failed to see the whole picture of what was going on, as they deemed the only problem to be with the cleanliness of the home. Amber and Tim eventually got divorced, and Tim had custody of the children. It seemed as though he was struggling to care for all of them and the home, as Amber had in the past, as well. One day, Nahtahn was accused by Tim of damaging an electrical outlet, causing him to have to endure exhausting physical punishment (running laps around the family home for hours) until he couldn't breathe. Tim went to check on Nahtahn later that night, claiming he had passed away in his sleep. Instead of getting help for Nahtahn, Tim then did the unthinkable.  Was all of this because he did not want Amber to have the children, or was it all only because he was just truly mentally ill as he claims?  Sources News19 (2021) PostandCourier (2021) USA Today (2019) Greenville Online (2019) News 19 (2019) WYFF4 (2014)  Audio: Timothy Jones, Sr. Testimony Law&Crime Network Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/dark-deeds--6216218/support.