George Lamar Jones
George Lamar Jones (1945 – April 30, 2012) was an American serial killer who killed at least three women in Mississippi and Wisconsin from 1972 to 1997, with his latter murders occurring at the same time as those of Walter E. Ellis, another unrelated serial killer. For his respective crimes, Jones was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment, remaining behind bars until his death in 2012. First murder Little is known of Jones' personal life prior to his first major crime, that being the murder of a woman named Correne Jones on June 10, 1972. He was initially indicted for murder by the circuit court in Greenwood, Mississippi under the alias 'George Lee Jones', which meant that he faced a possible sentence of 20 years imprisonment. In order to avoid this, his attorney presented evidence that Jones suffered from epilepsy from birth and that this affected his behavior at the time of the crime. Because of this, prosecutors offered a plea bargain that allowed him to plead guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter and be sentenced to five years in prison instead. After serving out his sentence in full, Jones was released and later moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. While