Serial killings suspect in Mobile headed to mental evaluation

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) -- A judge in Mobile, Alabama, has sent suspected serial killer <b><a class="headlinelink" href="http://www.kotv.com/main/home/searchKOTV.asp?mainSearch=Jeremy Jones">Jeremy Jones</a></b>

Tuesday, June 21st 2005, 11:41 am

By: News On 6

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) -- A judge in Mobile, Alabama, has sent suspected serial killer Jeremy Jones for a mental evaluation and says he expects Jones' capital murder trial to begin on schedule August 15th.

Jones is a Miami, Oklahoma, native and is charged with murders in Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana.

He's also a suspect in killings in Oklahoma and the disappearance of two 16-year-old girls from Welch in 1999.

Craig County authorities say Jones confessed to killing 16-year-olds Ashley Freeman and Lauria Bible and dumping their bodies in a pit in Kansas after killing Freeman's parents. Jones has denied killing the girls and his Alabama attorney says he "manufactured" the confessions for his own reasons.

Jones is being held in Mobile for the September killing of a woman in Mobile County. His attorneys are asking that the trial be moved out of Mobile and the judge says he'll rule on that motion after a survey of 400 potential jurors.