[1] In the early 1970s, his father resigned from the Marine Corps and became addicted to alcohol and gambling, as a result of which he lost the family's life savings.

In the mid-1970s, Jones' parents divorced and his mother moved the children to San Diego, where they lived in a housing estate on 51st Street, near the El Cajon Boulevard, an infamous red-light district at the time.

Once in San Diego, Jones began attending a local school, but was soon forced to drop out due to academic failures and truancy.

[1] In the early 1980s, Jones graduated from the Job Corps as a welder and worked for various local businesses, where he was well regarded by superiors and characterized positively by friends and acquaintances.

Davison later claimed that her reason for leaving him was that in the early 1980s, Jones got addicted to watching and collecting pornographic videotapes and reportedly attacked her, including an instance where he attempted to strangle her.

[2] After stealing $65 from her, Jones put Bertha in his car and drove her to the outskirts of San Diego, where he forced her to perform oral sex on him before releasing her.

[1] The victim said that she was forced to drink a large number of glasses of whisky that made her pass out until she was discovered by Wilsie's daughter, Marjorie, who called the police.

[1] Deputy District Attorney Jeff Dusek said the work to expose Jones was part of a task force that aimed to solve the murders of at least 43 women killed in San Diego County from 1985 to 1990, most of whom frequented El Cajon Boulevard.

[4] His attorneys argued that the women's testimonies were questionable due to the fact that they were drug addicts and prostitutes, and that one of them suffered from anterograde amnesia.

Jones and his mother claimed that in August 1985, after his initial rape charges were dropped, Maria appeared with two others to apologize for falsely accusing him, but the two other women were never identified.