Photos of Timothy Ray Jones Jr.’s dead children were displayed during a news conference in Lexington, S.C. (Richard Shiro/Associated Press)
Authorities in South Carolina told reporters Wednesday that they don’t yet know why a 32-year-old man allegedly killed his five young children and dumped their bodies in Alabama, or what caused their deaths.
Timothy Ray Jones Jr. appeared under control when he took investigators to the remains of his three boys and two girls, which were found in bags off a dirt road, Lexington County Sheriff Lewis McCarty said at a press conference.
McCarty said Jones was calm as he lead investigators where he dumped the bodies of his children. #thestate — harrison cahill (@cahill_harrison) September 10, 2014
McCarty said that remains of the children, who were between the ages of 1 and 8, have been returned to South Carolina, The State reported.
According to the newspaper:
On Tuesday, Jones took Lexington County Sheriff’s deputies, FBI agents and State Law Enforcement Division (SLED) agents to a dirt road in the Oak Hill Community in Wilcox County, Ala. Jones led them to the remains of the five children, according to the Lexington County Sheriff’s Department. McCarty said the children were in an advanced state of decomposition and that the deaths took place early on in the hunt for Jones. The children were last seen in school and day care on Aug. 28, according to a timeline released by the sheriff.
McCarty said Jones will be charged with five counts of murder, the Associated Press reported.
The children had been reported missing on Sept. 3 by their mother, who is divorced from Jones. The woman told investigators that she couldn’t reach Jones, who was the primary legal caretaker, according to a news release.
Authorities in South Carolina said they didn’t issue an Amber Alert for missing children in this case because it didn’t meet the standards for the warning at the time.
“There was no reason to believe that the children had been abducted by someone who did not have custody care of those children,” State Law Enforcement Division Chief Mark Keel said, according to The State. “We also have to know at that time that there is an immediate fear of harm for those children.”
Jones was stopped in Mississippi by police who were running a traffic checkpoint.
“I’m sure everybody wants to know the answers,” Jones’s father, Timothy Jones Sr., told The Associated Press. “It’s just a terrible tragedy.”
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S.C. father detained in Mississippi. His five children were found dead in Alabama.
Autoridades estadounidenses informaron sobre el hallazgo, en una zona rural de , de los cadáveres de cinco menores de entre 1 y 8 años de edad, reportados como desaparecidos en  desde hace una semana.

Asimismo se reportó el arresto del padre de los fallecidos, Timothy Ray Jones Jr., quien confesó el crimen.

Timothy guio a los investigadores al lugar donde arrojó los cuerpos de sus hijos, tres niñas y dos niños, donde fueron encontrados a un lado de la carretera de Oak Hill Community en 

El hombre de 32 años enfrentará cinco cargos por . El departamento del sheriff de Lexington, Carolina del Sur, señaló que el pasado 3 de septiembre, la madre de los menores denunció su . La madre es  de Jones.

Las autoridades señalaron que no se lanzó una  puesto que la situación no reunía las condiciones necesarias.

El padre fue arrestado por cargos desconocidos el pasado 6 de septiembre, cargos que supuestamente no tendrían relación con los menores. El crimen será procesado en el lugar donde se hallaron los cadáveres, Carolina del Sur.