Father recalls horror after son murdered his 5 grandchildren: I knew he killed them

When Timothy Jones Sr.learned his grandchildren were missing, a deep, unshakable dread set in, and he feared his own son had killed them.“I remember I told my wife, ‘I know he’s killed them,’” the patriarch tearfully recalled to Fox News Digital.

“I just don’t know where they are.But I know he has.

I just know it in my heart.I could feel it.”Timothy Jones Jr.

admitted to killing his five children, ages 1 to 8, in their Lexington County, South Carolina, home in August 2014.He drove with their bodies in his SUV for nine days before dumping them in five garbage bags on a hillside near Camden, Alabama.Jones Jr.was later arrested at a traffic checkpoint in Smith County, Mississippi, after an officer smelled an odor of decomposition, The Associated Press reported.His case is now being examined in an episode of Investigation Discovery’s (ID) true-crime series, “Evil Lives Here: My Child the Killer.”It focuses on parents forced to confront the unthinkable, that the children they raised and loved have become capable of monstrous acts.Before the murders came to light, Jones Sr.

said he hadn’t heard from his son.Then came a call from his grandchildren’s school, concerned about their absence.When he reached out to one of his son’s friends, he learned that Jones Jr.hadn’t been seen in the previous day or two at work.“Then the police officer called me from Mississippi,” said Jones Sr.

“I tell him, ‘I just want to make sure he is OK and the children are with him.’ He said, ‘What children? There are no children with him.We found a little bit of blood in the car, and we’re having it checked.

It could be animal blood.’”Panicking, Jones Sr.begged to see his son.

At the trial, authorities testified that they allowed the meeting, hoping a face-to-face confrontation might break Jones Jr.and reveal what had happened to the missing children.When Jones Sr.

entered the interrogation room, he was stunned by what he saw.He said it wa...