Lexington, SC (WLTX) - We're learning more about 32-year-old Timothy Jones Jr., the Lexington County man accused of killing his five children.
"In all of my years of law enforcement I have never seen a case like this," said Lexington County Sheriff Lewis McCarty.
Jones was arrested last Saturday at a safety checkpoint in Mississippi. At the time, he was charged with DUI and other drug charges. But after two days of questioning, deputies say he revealed a much darker crime: he had killed his children, then dumped their bodies in Alabama.
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After making his revelation, deputies say he led them to a dirt road in rural Alabama where they recovered the children's remains.
"I don't understand why he did it. But yes, he traveled three states with these children in garbage bags for some period of time," said McCarty.
Smith Jr. was born in Illinois and graduated from Mississippi State University. He married his wife in 2004.
The couple had five children together. Court documents show Jones was seeing a therapist because he was concerned about his marital status and family life. When asked by his therapist what his biggest fear was, he told her he didn't want to feel unwanted and "tossed away without even knowing it."
Jones and his wife divorced late in 2013.
He went on to tell the therapist he wanted to move to Mississippi with the children so he could be closer to his family.
Documents show Jones worked at Intel in Columbia as an engineer, making more than $70,000 a year.
"We have seized his computer and it is in the process of being downloaded by the bureau," said McCarty.
McCarty says this case is far from over, but most importantly these five young children will be put to rest.
"I made a promise to these children's mother that i would bring them back home and i was not going to go back on that promise," said McCarty.
The Department of Social Service says it had received an abuse complaint against Jones last month. That case was still under investigation when the deaths took place.
