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brother says suspect in slayings seemed rehabilitatedSIOUX CITY (AP) — The other of the man accused of I ling a Sioux City mother d five children and a local isinessman, said he thought s brother had turned his life ound.“He started to go to church. ; got a job,” said Jason oss, the younger brother of Jam Moss, who has been arged with seven counts of st-degree murder.“He was different than fore,” Jason Moss said of iam. “I sensed a change in n. He seemed to have been labilitated.”Jason Moss, 21, said his nily was shocked to- hear iam was charged with the lyings of Leticia Aguilar, her :e children and businessman nald Fish.“We want people to know w sorry we are this hap-ned. We can’t offer any swers,” Jason said. “I never uld have believed my broth-could have done something e this.”He speculated that drugs ly have played a role.“It had to be due to lgs....Drugs can causedemonic influence. ...Even though he’s my brother, he needs to answer for what he did. I love him, but I don’t love what he did,” Jason Moss said.He said he and his four brothers and a younger sister grew up in Sioux City, the children of Mary and Donald Moss, who now are divorced. A younger brother was killed in a car accident. Adam was the middle child. He turns 24 Wednesday.“When he began to reach his teen-age years, he started hanging out with his friends. He got in with the wrong crowd, Jason said of Adam. “I knew he was getting into trouble — breaking into homes and cars.”He attended an alternative school for two years, returned to West High School, then dropped out before graduation.Jason said after he bought his house in Momingside last November, Adam moved in and agreed to help make the house payments.Adam worked at Smurfit-Stone Container Co. where he met Aguilar, 31. About three months ago, Adam didn’tcome home at nights anymore. He said his brother stayed with his mother and then with Aguilar.He said Adam considered Aquilar’s children “his kids.”Adam had fathered several children by other women and had discussed paying to help Aquilar reverse a tubal ligation to have a child with her.To get the money, his brother may have returned to his old ways.“He admitted to a previous girlfriend he started back on drugs — cocaine. And, he may have been dealing cocaine to get money,” Jason said.Jason said he wasn’t aware of any problems Adam was having until mid-August, when Adam conveyed a rage Jason said he had not seen before.“I knew something was not right,” Jason said.On Aug. 22, Adam called Jason at work and they argued about a car that Adam had left parked at Jason’s house. Adam became angry and threatened Jason.“He said he would give me major problems and said hewas going to ’snap’ on me,” Jaion Moss said.After that, Jason obtained a temporary restraining order against his brother. District Judge Philip S. Dandos granted a permanent protective order last Thursday in a hearing that Adam was supposed to attend, but did not.That evening, the bodies of Aguilar and her five children were discovered in their home and Fish was found murdered at his home.Police officers contacted Jason Moss later that evening and told him he was in danger.“I guess they thought Adam might show up here. They also said my mother had to leave her house,” Jason said.That night, his mother stayed at the home of their minister and his wife. Jason said he has been staying with friends, mainly to avoid the dozens of reporters who have ] been hounding him. Neither he nor his mother have talked to Adam in jail. a“I am sure a lot of people e besides us are crying out for ^ answers,” Jason Moss said.
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Oskaloosa Herald
Oskaloosa, Iowa, US
Tue, Sep 04, 2001
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