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Forum Name: Ladybug's Missing Children
Topic ID: 342
Message ID: 4
#4, More
Posted by DragonFly2 on Jan-08-04 at 03:42 PM
In response to message #3
Yes, thank you, Sparrow, for that link....I've emailed several to friends, because I live about 50 miles north of Ranger, GA (I live in Tennessee)....sometimes criminals from North Georgia will cross over the state line to our area.
I am definitely on the lookout for this man, his vehicle, or anything suspicious. I wish they would publish pictures of the children, though. Anything like that would be a help.

Here's the latest:


RANGER, Ga. Jan. 8 — Three adults and a 10-month-old baby were found shot to death early Thursday in two homes in rural Georgia, and three young girls were missing and feared kidnapped.
Gordon County Sheriff's spokesman Clent Harris said an arrest warrant for suspicion of murder had been issued for Jerry William Jones, 31, identified as the father of two of the missing girls and former stepfather of the third.


"We are very concerned for the safety of the three children," Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Vernon Keenan said. He said it wasn't known whether Jones was still in the area, but authorities believe he has the girls with him.

The motive appeared to be jealousy, authorities said.

After the killings, Jones called his ex-wife, Melissa Peeler, the mother of the three missing girls and the slain infant, and told her that if she went to authorities, he would "start killing the kids one by one," Jones' former brother-in-law David O'Donnell said Thursday.

Peeler was in Oregon visiting her boyfriend at the time and had left the children with her parents, Tom and Nola Blaylock, and sister, Georgia Bradley, O'Donnell said.

The Blaylocks, Bradley, and Jones' own infant daughter Harley were all found slain Thursday morning, he said.

The murder scenes at the two homes in northwest Georgia showed that the killer was "very methodical," GBI spokesman John Bankhead said.

"This wasn't quick. He clearly took his time," Bankhead said.

A man and woman were killed at one home and a woman and an infant girl were slain at the other, he said. Some of the victims had multiple gunshot wounds, and the baby appeared to have been strangled, Keenan said.

It wasn't clear where the three missing girls had been staying.

Brittany Phelps, 10, Brandy Jones, 4, and Tammy Jones, 3, were last seen Wednesday at a home in Ranger, 55 miles north of Atlanta.

The four victims were killed the same day, sometime between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m., GBI spokeswoman Vicki Metz said.

O'Donnell said Jerry Williams Jones was constantly threatening violence and that Peeler had been trying to get away from him.

He described Jones as "a crazy person" and said Jones shot one of his horses five years ago after an argument. "He says all the time, he'll kill you, he'll kill me or whoever," O'Donnell said.

Jones had been in the county jail before, primarily for minor traffic charges, Gordon County Sheriff Jerry Davis said.