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Jurors recall haunting moment a Woody doll belonging to 6-year-old killed by his father Timothy Jones Jr began 'speaking'

Despite being damaged, the toy was still operational and was heard saying, "Boy, am I glad to see you," inside the South Carolina courthouse, which many jurors believed to be the 6-year-old speaking to them from beyond the grave.
UPDATED MAR 18, 2020
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LEXINGTON, SOUTH CAROLINA: Months after Timothy Jones Jr. was sentenced to death for murdering his five children, the jurors who were in charge of delivering the verdict opened up about the chilling details of the case, which left some of them seeking psychological counseling.

One such haunting moment came when a prosecutor in the case handed the jurors a Woody doll from 'Toy Story' which belonged to Jones' 6-year-old son, Nahtahn - the first victim of the ruthless killer. The jury was told that the little boy had loved Woody "more than anything."

Jones had shredded the doll in front of his son to torture him. However, despite being damaged, the toy was still operational and was heard saying, "Boy, am I glad to see you," inside the South Carolina courthouse, which many jurors believed to be the 6-year-old speaking to them from beyond the grave.

The defendant, a divorced software engineer, took to drinking and doing drugs after splitting from his wife and believed to be a victim of a troubled upbringing who was grappling with undiagnosed schizophrenia. 

Nahtahn was tortured the worst during his slayings, which Jones carried out over a period of several hours in August 2014. He forced his son to do military-type exercises as a punishment for breaking an electrical outlet and reporting it to his mother instead of him. The child died from fatal exhaustion. 

A 52-year-old female juror, identified only by her initials, L.A., told The State that she still thought about what she witnessed in the courtroom. "I think about it every day," she said. "Many times during the trial, I went in the jurors' bathroom and just wailed – cried my eyes out."

Others said that the horrific imagery created from law enforcement officials' testimony about "the smell of death" from the Jones children's decomposing bodies was still fresh in their memory. A 50-year-old juror said she had to seek therapy and counseling at a local Veterans Administration Center after the trial

During his trial, Jones showed no emotions. Despite his lawyer and his ex-wife urging the jurors not to give him the death penalty, on June 13, the jury unanimously passed the verdict to sentence the defendant to death. 

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