Man who murdered his wife with a bat and strangled his 4 kids sentenced to death

 

A Florida, USA man who lethally beat his better half with a bat and later choked their four children was condemned to death on Friday, April 28

At the trial, Ocala District Judge Anthony Tatti formalized Michael Jones’ destiny after a jury suggested capital punishment at a January condemning preliminary.

The quintuple murderer’s attorney stated that the client intends to appeal the sentence.

Casei Jones, Jones’ wife, checked his phone and made the accusation that he was cheating on her, which led to the deaths in July 2019.

Man who killed his significant other with a bat and choked his 4 children condemned to death

Jones later let police know that his significant other raised a bat during a horrendous battle inside their home and that he pummeled her to death with the weapon while irate.

During the beating, the four young children—two of whom he shared with his spouse—were asleep and did not awaken.

Jones told the police that he covered his wife’s body in blankets, put it in a tote bag, and put it in the closet of their house.

He then used her cell phone to post things to her social media accounts to hide her death while she was in a state of panic.

Jones took his two stepchildren, Preston Bowers, 4, and Cameron Bowers, 8, to stay with their dad and dropped off his own children, Mercalli Jones, 2, and Alyana Jones, 11 months, at their grandmother’s home.

With summer break about to end, Jones worried the kids’ absence from school would raise suspicions.

Man who murdered his wife with a bat and strangled his 4 kids sentenced to death

A week before Cameron was slated to resume school, Jones pulled him out of bed as he slept and strangled him on a bedroom floor before putting his body in a suitcase.

Jones told police he choked Preston with a zip tie the next day before drowning him in a bathtub.

Several days later, Jones said he pulled up to a local police precinct with his two daughters and considered turning himself in for the three murders.

Man who murdered his wife with a bat and strangled his 4 kids sentenced to death

But he backed out of that plan, opting instead to drown the toddlers in a bathtub.

“I don’t know, just everything mounted up and it seemed like the way out,” Jones told police after his arrest, according to police documents.

He was ultimately arrested in September 2019 after crashing his car in a minor accident.

An officer was overwhelmed with a strong smell from Jones’ car and found Casei Jones’ body in the rear of his minivan.

He later led cops to the bodies of the four children in a nearby wooded area.

Jones pleaded guilty last November, but his lawyers highlighted his dysfunctional childhood in pushing for a life term rather than the death sentence.

They told jurors Jones was molested by his father and beaten by his stepfather and that he would hear voices that commanded him to commit criminal acts.