A father is suspected of killing his five young children and then driving for hours before dumping their bodies, wrapped in individual garbage bags, on a dirt road in rural Alabama, authorities said today.
Timothy Ray Jones Jr, 32, led investigators to the site where the bodies of the children were found, off a two-lane highway near Camden, Alabama.
Jones has been charged with child neglect and police expect to lodge additional charges against him in connection with the children’s deaths, authorities in South Carolina and Mississippi said.
Jones was already in custody in Raleigh, Mississippi, after being detained on Saturday on suspicion of driving under the influence.
They said Jones’ SUV was towed and upon inspection of the vehicle, evidence of a crime was found.
The decomposed bodies of the victims, aged from one to eight years old, were found stuffed into garbage bags near a logging road in Alabama.
Jones did not reveal a motive for the killings.