09
January
KIDNAPPED GIRLS FOUND AFTER SLAYINGS
Jerry William Jones, 31, is accused of shooting three former in-laws to death and strangling his infant daughter Wednesday before fleeing with his two older daughters and his stepdaughter. A manhunt across the Southeast ended late yesterday when a tip led authorities to the jealous former husband. The girls were found safe, and the suspect shot himself in the face after a police chase near the Tennessee line. He was hospitalized in critical condition. Jones called his former wife, Melissa Peeler, late Wednesday in Oregon and told her of the