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Convicted killer denied new trial in AlabamaMIAMI, Okla. — Suspected serial killer, Jeremy B. Jones, was denied a new trial in connection with the rape and murder of an Alabama woman, court officials said Friday Jones’ attorneys wanted a new trial saying Mobile County Circuit Judge Charles Graddick erred when he refused to move the trial because of publicity surrounding the case, said Nancy Dixon, Graddick’s secretary The attorneys also argued Jones gave incriminating statements to investigators while they supplied him with extra telephone privileges and food when he was in jail.Jones, 32, formerly of Miami, Okla., was convicted of murder and is on death roll for the rape and slaying of Lisa Nichols, 45, of Turnerville, Ala.He also is charged with killing a Georgia teenage girl and Louisiana woman.A suspect in 10 other deaths, including eight unsolved homicides in Northeast Oklahoma, Jones is said to have confessed to killin Danny and Kathy Freeman, of rural Welch and setting their mobile home on fire, over a drug debt. He said he took their daughter, Ashley, and her ; friend, Lauria, to Kansas, shot them and threw their bodies : into an abandoned mine. iA search of the mine area turned up nothing. Jones is denying to news reporters that he confessed anything.
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Sat, Feb 04, 2006
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