Teen Girl KILLS To Be With 33 Year Old Predator "Boyfriend"
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A 14-year-old girl, Kaitlyn Coons, was sexually abused and groomed by a 30-year-old man, Jonathan Jones, during her time in the foster system. Despite being a victim of severe childhood trauma and abuse, Kaitlyn developed a pathological obsession with Jonathan, leading to escalating abuse and control. After turning 16, she confessed to killing her mother, Nicole Jones, 53, in a fit of rage over being denied access to Jonathan. She also admitted to setting two fires and attempting a drive-by shooting, claiming it was to "blow off steam." Her confession, which showed no remorse, was corroborated by Jonathan’s identical statement during police interrogation. Both Kaitlyn and Jonathan were arrested, charged with murder, human trafficking, and other crimes, and later pleaded guilty to life sentences. Despite being a minor, Kaitlyn was tried as an adult. The case highlights systemic failures in child protection, especially the lack of monitoring and safeguards for minors in vulnerable situations. Nicole Jones’s body was never recovered and was reportedly disposed of in a dumpster, underscoring the tragic and irreversible consequences of unchecked abuse and manipulation. The case remains one of the most disturbing examples of a young person turning from victim to perpetrator due to prolonged trauma and emotional exploitation.
This case begins with a child in foster care being preyed on by a man in his 30s,
over double her age. This morning the border patrol stops him in Douglas, Arizona. Okay.
With a missing juvenile. When they both went missing and a chilling message was made claiming
that one of them had committed murder, investigators were certain that this predator abducted his
victim and possibly murdered someone in the process. When police finally found this missing
child and got her away from this monster, they were chilled to discover that this innocent
looking girl sitting in front of them was the killer that they were looking for.
I went on a killing spree. This is going to be a wild one. My name is Brianna and I'm hot on the case.
Kaitlyn Coons was born on January 21st, 2006 and she grew up in Ohio but was bounced around a lot.
Kaitlyn's parents were very abusive. Exact details on this abuse is unknown and she does not really
like to talk about it.
But it was severe enough that Kaitlyn was removed from their custody and placed into the foster
system. And according to Kaitlyn, growing up in the foster system was no better. The foster system
in America has a lot of problems where I'm sure a lot of people go into this kind of care with
the best intentions. A lot of them certainly do not. A lot of children that grow up in the foster
system say that in most of the better foster homes, you're still not even looked at like a
person, more like a paycheck. There's really no care, no support, no care, no care, no care.
There's no support. And the second you start to feel comfortable, you're just on to the next home.
But in the really bad foster homes, that's where you see the overcrowding, the neglect, and sometimes
really, really terrible abuse. Kaitlyn was an extremely troubled girl. As you can imagine,
being a young girl suffering abuse at the hands of her own parents and then being raised in the
foster system, knowing everything that we know about it. For a young child, this is not the
environment that someone can easily learn emotional maturity or learn how to control and express your
feelings in a healthy way. In the foster system, a lot of kids experience it being like a dog-eat-dog
world where it's better to attack first than wait to be victimized later. So Kaitlyn would act out
a lot. She wanted to grow up way too fast and she definitely thought that she was older than she was.
There was more than one adult.
That preyed on Kaitlyn while she was a young teenager. Even before the events of this case,
when she was 13, 14 years old, she was out running around with a guy that was
definitely over the age of 18. And even after that man got in trouble, he would still always
stay around. And she said that he would send her harassing text messages and still always
try to control her life. Kaitlyn would act out a lot,
getting in trouble and always getting in fights with the other kids in the foster system.
And because of this, no foster home really wanted to house Kaitlyn for very long.
And she was bounced around from foster home to foster home, foster family to foster family
constantly. So on top of everything that Kaitlyn had already gone through in life,
she never had stability to be able to work on those things. And she could never really get
close to anyone in any of these foster homes because before she knew it, it would be time
to go on to the next home.
So this definitely caused a lot of abandonment issues and some anxious attachment.
Kaitlyn would have a really tough exterior, but by 12 years old, she was already really
struggling with her mental health. She was self-harming and developed a very severe eating
disorder. At one point, she just stopped eating for several days. It was almost a week and she
had to be hospitalized. She would also often be placed by the state into inpatient treatment for
her eating disorder, which she never really liked.
And she would always run away from these places. Like I've mentioned, Kaitlyn was the kind of girl
that would act out before something could be done to her. She knew no foster family would want to
keep her for very long, so she would save them the trouble and just run away. Kaitlyn ran away
so many times. So many times that there's multiple missing person reports and posters of her out
there over the years. And Kaitlyn Kuhn's troubled life all came to a head when she met Jonathan
Jones.
Jonathan Jones also grew up in the Toledo, Ohio area. Growing up, he was described as like this
shy, quiet kid. He seemed nice and he seemed normal. There definitely wasn't any very obvious
red flags that I at least could find while trying to dive into his early life. At 18 years old,
Jonathan enlisted into the army and he spent a few years overseas in Afghanistan. He would get
married. He would have a few children. But once he was discharged from the army at 22 years old,
it was clear that Jonathan wasn't the same young man that he was when he left to join the army.
The things he saw and the things that he did in Afghanistan changed him. And Jonathan was
diagnosed with extremely severe PTSD. He couldn't keep a job. He was just living off of his
disability checks. His wife ended up divorcing him. He was never seeing his children. And with
nowhere else to go, with his life falling apart, Jonathan moved back in to his mother's home.
There are a lot of conflicting reports about how Kaitlyn Coons and Jonathan Jones met. One story was
while Kaitlyn was in inpatient treatment for her eating disorder, she was able to run away. And
while she was running away, she stopped into a Home Depot where she met Jonathan Jones. They
got to talking. I guess they liked each other and she gave him her number. And then another story
about how they met was on an online dating website called Mingle2. I'm pretty sure that the first
count is the more accurate one because that's the one that I saw videotape of Kaitlyn Coons saying how
they met. But it doesn't really matter how they met to me because it doesn't change the fact that
after they met, they entered into a romantic and sexual relationship. Relationship. Because Kaitlyn
Coons was 14 years old. Jonathan Jones was 30 years old, over double her age. Kaitlyn Coons was a
victim of Jonathan Jones. A lot of sources will try to make her out to be the aggressor
in their relationship. And later in this case, Kaitlyn Coons does go on to do something absolutely
terrible, but that does not change the fact that she was a 14 year old girl that was in an extremely
vulnerable place in her life and was being preyed on by an adult that took advantage of her. And
honestly, we're not that much younger than Kaitlyn was at the time that they met. Kaitlyn was
definitely 100% closer in age to Jonathan's children than she was to Jonathan. Jonathan
would have and should have knew better. And he absolutely knew that what he was doing was wrong
because he would try to hide it from every single person in his life.
After the two met in 2020 and started their relationship, which I don't even like to call it
that because it's not a relationship, 14, 30 years old. Well, after they meet and he starts
preying on this child, the two become absolutely inseparable. When they're not talking on the phone,
she's sneaking out for foster homes to go see him. Jonathan would do things for Kaitlyn that
no one in her entire life ever did for her. He would shower her in gifts and compliments. He
would give her lots of attention. He would take her places and do things with her. Now,
we know that this is textbook grooming, but for a young girl like Kaitlyn with everything that
she's gone through, she's feeling wanted and she's feeling special for probably the first
time in her entire life. And Kaitlyn becomes absolutely obsessed with Jonathan. You remember
how I said that Kaitlyn definitely suffered with some like anxious attachment issues? Well,
Kaitlyn literally thought that the world would end if her and Jonathan could not be together, which is
honestly a pretty common feeling for teenage girls to have in their first serious relationships.
But typically the 14 year old girl is having those feelings over Chad on the lacrosse team,
not by a 30 year old man with no job and no car living at his mom's house.
Speaking of Jonathan's mother, Nicole Jones was a woman in her fifties.
She worked as a nurse and people described her as being extremely sweet, kind, and thoughtful.
She loved to garden. She loved to cook. She liked to play card games. She took a lot of pride in her
home, decorating it to make it a happy place to come home to. Jonathan was Nicole's one and only
child. Jonathan didn't really know his dad. So Nicole was all that he had. And Jonathan was,
you know, all that she had. And Nicole really thought that she was doing the right thing,
letting her adult son live with her. She knew how he was struggling mentally,
especially with his PTSD. And after the divorce, she never really
imagined that when he was saying that he was out looking for a job, that her son, her adult son,
was actually helping a 14-year-old girl escape from her foster homes and taking her to shady
motels. But that's exactly what he was doing. Any chance she got, Caitlin was running away to go be
with Jonathan, and he would use whatever money he had, which wasn't a lot, to book these crappy
little hotel rooms so he could prey on her and abuse her. And this went on for a while. Soon, Caitlin
turns 15 years old, and around this point, Caitlin actually doesn't know if she wants to be with
Jonathan anymore. The feeling doesn't last long, but it was definitely there. But Caitlin claims
that Jonathan started threatening to end his own life if she would break up with him or stop having
sex with him. And sex is a way to end your life. So, Caitlin, you're going to have to go to a hospital.
word that I definitely use lightly because we know that Caitlin is not able to consent to what
Jonathan is doing to her. Caitlin also describes the time that the two of them are together
physically as being extremely violent. Sometimes he would try to get her as drunk as possible so
she wouldn't be able to fight back. And he would also do things to Caitlin in her sleep. So this
definitely crosses the line from statutory assault to full-on assault. Jonathan also
demands nude photos of Caitlin and to film himself statutory raping Caitlin or just
actually raping her. And then Jonathan would go and he would sell these images and videos of the
15-year-old Caitlin online to other creeps. It's now 2022, two years after Caitlin and Jonathan met.
Caitlin is now 16 years old, the legal age of consent in Ohio. Towards the end of October of
2022, the state once again places the law on Caitlin. And I don't know how she keeps managing to run away from these places that should be hard for
teenage girls to run away from, but she does. Jonathan comes and picks up Caitlin and then
drives her to a Super 8 motel across the state. Caitlin is reported missing, but police find her
outside this Super 8 motel stumbling around extremely intoxicated. When Caitlin is stopped
by the police, she tries to outsmart them by giving them a fake name and a fake age,
hoping that they'll just walk away from the situation, but that's obviously not how things
work. And Jonathan was arrested that night on a long list of charges, which includes child
endangerment, contributing to the delinquency of a child, human trafficking for helping break
Caitlin out of that treatment facility and driving her across county lines. They also seized
Jonathan's cell phone and they found the CSAM of Caitlin at 15 years old and the fact that he was
also selling this online to other predators. So Jonathan was also charged with pandering
obscenity involving a minor. These were very severe charges and Jonathan was going to be
facing very serious jail time. And this is when his mother, Nicole, for the first time finds out
what her son, her only child, has been doing. And Nicole is obviously horrified and
disgusted. Jonathan pled guilty to his charges and he was going to have to register as a sex
offender. Jonathan Jones was released on bail while awaiting his sentencing hearing. He also
had an ankle monitor to ensure his whereabouts, specifically ensure that he has no contact with
minors. He wasn't allowed to be around any minors, but specifically not around his victim,
Caitlin Coons. He wasn't allowed to have any contact with her. And part of his bail requirements
was that he had to mostly remain at his mother, Nicole's house on Timbers Edge Boulevard, which I'm
sure Nicole wasn't very happy about considering the trouble that her son is now in. From everything
I've read about Nicole, she definitely doesn't seem like the kind of mother that would want her
adult son living in her home with the charges that he was facing and the absolutely disgusting
things that he was doing. Caitlin is now 17 years old and she's struggling more than ever. She is
now heavily used to being a sex offender. And she's now struggling more than ever. And she's now heavily used to being a sex offender. And she's now struggling
drugs. In February of 2023, she crashes her car while under the influence of fentanyl, a very,
very serious drug that kills a lot of young people. And this was a very serious car accident.
Caitlin suffered a traumatic brain injury. She has suffered brain bleeds and was in the hospital
for almost two entire months. And at this point, the state and her caseworkers are obviously aware
of this situation with Jonathan. And they're going to have to make sure that he doesn't have to go to
the hospital. And I do have to say
that I don't think they did as much as they could to keep him away from her. I think that they just
assumed because Jonathan was arrested and pled guilty and he was waiting his sentencing hearing
and was likely going to be put into jail for quite a few years that they just thought that
this situation was over and this was this was done. But I do have to say I think that they
were very naive of the control that Jonathan had over Caitlin. And they're going to have to make sure
Jonathan might have had an ankle monitor to ensure that he didn't go near Caitlin, but Caitlin didn't have any GPS monitoring system on her, and Jonathan was still finding ways to contact Caitlin.
And Caitlin was still sneaking out of her foster homes at night to sneak through Jonathan's window at his mother's house without Nikki knowing about it.
Jonathan's mother is named Nicole, but she would sometimes go by Nikki, so in this case, if you hear me refer to her as Nicole or Nikki, that's Jonathan's mother. It's the same person.
Jonathan's sentencing hearing was scheduled for May 4th, 2023, but he did not show up.
When tracking his ankle monitor, they found out that he left his home, left the state, and then cut it off, making Jonathan Jones a fugitive.
Then they find out that Caitlin Coons, 17 years old, has also been missing from her foster home for several weeks.
And police were heavily speculating that this predator had kidnapped his underage victim and was on the run with her.
And then right when police are discovered,
they get information from Caitlin's foster care worker that would send shivers up their spine.
This 17-year-old girl that had been missing for weeks and was believed to be with a dangerous predator had confessed to multiple murders.
After no one had seen or heard from Caitlin in about two weeks, she texted her care worker,
I just killed two people and did two arsons.
And then more disturbing information would be revealed.
It was like all happening at once, one after the other.
Not only was Caitlin missing and Jonathan was missing, but so was Jonathan's mother, Nicole Jones.
Police arrive at Nicole's home to do a welfare check, but they are already thinking the worst.
There are packages on Nicole's front porch that have clearly been there for a long time.
She wasn't home, and there were no signs of her or her adult son or the missing teenage girl that they were looking for.
And Nicole's car was also missing.
But hey, we're here with a PD right now. Let me call you back.
How you doing?
That's kind of a, I read it as I'm coming down here, it's kind of a weird one.
Christopher.Hodd, packages on the front porch, it looks like it's been there a week, so.
Okay.
H-O-D, he knows more about the details than I do.
Okay.
This lady has got contact numbers for the house here, it says she hasn't seen this lady in a long time.
But a gentleman comes in and out.
Um, so what happened was, this dude was on bond for Wood-
The son.
The son.
The son.
Right.
He was supposed to show up for sentencing or something like that.
Okay.
This morning, the border patrol stops him in Douglas, Arizona.
Okay.
With a 17 year old that's a missing juvenile.
And she's the one reporting the murder in, in Parsley.
But they also said they burned the house down too.
Right.
But obviously the house ain't burned down.
Right.
Police started this investigation thinking that Caitlin had been kidnapped by Jonathan.
But after receiving this text, and now Jonathan and his mother are missing.
They're wondering, did Caitlin kill Jonathan and his mother?
Or did Jonathan kill Caitlin and his mother?
And sent this text from Caitlin's phone to try and throw off the police.
Nothing is making any sense, and they have absolutely no clue what is going on.
But they know that they need answers.
Quickly.
They released Caitlin's photo alongside Jonathan's photo, which listed him as an international fugitive.
It has now been three weeks and no one had seen or heard from Jonathan Jones, Caitlin Coombs or Nicole Jones.
And then as soon as Caitlin and Jonathan's photos are plastered all across the country and beyond, Caitlin randomly starts spam posting on social media.
Her first post read, I am not on the run.
So stop saying I am.
I am literally in Ohio and about to be 18 and be by myself.
I don't know any Jonathan.
I'm a new person, not like before.
I've been doing really well and you guys are trying to say I ran when I didn't.
Please stop lying for one last time, please.
I'm just trying to enjoy my life and this happens?
Like, come on, stop the drama.
I'm in Ohio still and not missing.
Followed by another post.
That reads, I don't know any Jonathan Jones and you guys are putting us together.
Shame on you people.
You're telling people the danger when.
he isn't causing and that's not civil or fair. Focus on the creepers who go for the 12 and under
because they're the issue in kidnapping and trafficking. Caitlin then really tries to
convince people that she's still in Ohio with her next post. It's like almost like comical.
It seems like satire. Like if you were trying to make a satirical post trying to prove to someone
that you are somewhere that you're not. And this next post reads, I love smoking that good kush
especially when you have your own house in Ohio because Ohio is where you can make your dreams
come true for real. Sure Caitlin. Caitlin then posts a bunch of photos and videos of her at
David Buster's with a man named Michael Smith, an ex-boyfriend. But that guy Michael was quickly
identified and questioned by police and he was very cooperative with police and he confirmed
that these photos were not real. So Caitlin then posts a bunch of photos and videos of her at
David Buster's with a man named Michael Smith, an ex-boyfriend. But that guy Michael was quickly
identified and questioned by police and he confirmed that these photos and videos were very old,
like three years old. And Caitlin is clearly trying to post them now to try and prove that
she is still in Ohio when she's clearly not. The very next day after these spam posts online,
police get a tip that Caitlin and Jonathan were spotted at the Arizona and Mexico border trying
to flee the country into Mexico. But before the United States police could get into Mexico to
try and find Caitlin and Jonathan, the police in Mexico do that job of trying to get them to
for them the very next day. Caitlin and Jonathan are found on the side of the road in Nicole's car
trying to sell Nicole's jewelry. And without even knowing the entire situation, the police in Mexico
see this and they just get a terrible feeling. They see the age difference between Caitlin and
Jonathan and they are speculating that maybe Jonathan is human trafficking Caitlin. So they
bring them both into custody. And not only are they found in Nicole Jones's car, but they're
in possession of all of Nicole's credit cards. And once it's discovered that Caitlin is a minor
and a U.S. citizen and they're in Mexico without a visa, she's brought back over the border into
Texas where the FBI come and question her. The two female FBI agents do a really good job making
Caitlin think that they are on her side and they have absolutely no idea what is going on and that
they're only there because they're concerned that she might have been mistreated with a
knife or something like that. So the FBI agents do a really good job making sure that Caitlin is
safe and that she doesn't get arrested while in Mexico. Caitlin immediately denies that anything
is wrong with her other than the fact that maybe her handcuffs were a little too tight when she was
brought into custody by the police in Mexico and that one of the police officers were maybe a little
mean to her and she felt like some people were laughing at her while she was in Mexico. But
Caitlin tells the FBI agents that she was just in Mexico like on vacation. It was new beginnings for
Caitlin. It's not like I was on a killing spree or anything. There's nothing like deep like oh I went
on a killing spree. No it's not what happened. Okay. Interesting choice of words Caitlin. They
keep prying for more information but they do it in a very sneaky way and I say that in the nicest
way possible because I watch a lot of interrogation footage putting together these episodes and this
was some really good police work and I don't really get to say that really often. They do
such a good job getting Caitlin to open up and tell them things but without her thinking that
she's in any trouble. Specifically in the way that the officers bring up Nicole, Jonathan's
mother who is still missing. Caitlin tells them that Jonathan's mother Nicole was a really nice
mom. She was a cool mom and that Jonathan was living with his mother to help her out even though
that's not true and it was literally the other way around. Caitlin tells the FBI agents that since her
and Jonathan were going on this vacation in Mexico they even invited Nicole to come with them but
she declined but she did give them her car to use and also give them all of her jewelry to sell it
so they had money in Mexico. But as the two FBI agents are asking Caitlin questions about why she
left Ohio, why she went to Mexico and when the last time her and Jonathan spoke to Nicole was
that's when Caitlin starts to get really really anxious.
And she starts asking them when this questioning is going to be over. She feels like she's given
them more information than she has to and you know they told her that they were only questioning her
because they wanted to know if anything bad happened to her in Mexico and she told them
that it didn't so this should all be over now.
And I'm not trying to give more than I shouldn't be having to give so we went this way.
Okay so like a huge one?
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
How long have you been on the road for?
Uh for a while. Are we almost done with questioning?
Yeah. I mean because I feel like we already talked about what happened in Mexico.
I feel like I know where everything there is to be to know about if there was to be something
and I am ready to get back in there so.
Can you hear me Jake?
Yeah. I can hear you.
Okay.
So I'm going to go ahead and get back in there.
she says that this is all news to her she had no idea that nicole was missing she has no idea if
nicole is dead or not the last thing that she knew was when they left nicole's home to go to
mexico nicole was perfectly fine she was laying in bed scrolling on her phone but then out of
nowhere caitlin says so she's dead did you guys find the body and now the agents know that they're
getting somewhere so they keep pressing and this is when caitlin coons gives possibly one of the
coldest murder confessions that i have ever seen and it all started with an ultimatum on april 16th
2023 caitlin ran away from her group home and went to nicole's home and snuck through jonathan's
bedroom window where he hid her in his mother's home for three entire days caitlin was really
really angry she felt like jonathan's mom
i don't know if you've heard this story or not but caitlin was angry at nicole for trying to keep
her away from the love of her life because nikki didn't want her adult son being with a teenager
shocker but caitlin was mad because nicole was trying to keep them apart and she thought that
the only way her and jonathan could be together was if his mom was out of the picture so that's
when caitlin 17 years old gives jonathan 33 years old an ultimatum you have five hours to kill your
or i guess she would break up with him so caitlin who's 17 years old tells jonathan 33 years old
that he has five hours to kill his own mother and when jonathan refused and the five hours were up
caitlin decided that she would just do it herself so early in the morning on april 19th 2023
remember nicole has no idea that caitlin is even in her home or has been for the last three days
while nicole has her back turned trying to get something out of her fridge i believe it was like
a flavored water caitlin comes up from behind her and then says that she flipped her around
so they would be face to face while caitlin 17 years old starts to strangle nicole caitlin also
went outside and got a big rock that she used to bash nicole's head in
then she went back to strangling nicole jones to death nicole was only 53 years old and during
this entire confession caitlin is showing no remorse she has absolutely zero emotion for what
she did to nicole she looked this woman in the eyes while she strangled her with her bare hands
and she has no emotion it's some of the coldest things i've ever heard in my entire life
and the fact that it's coming out of the mouth of a
17 year old girl is absolutely terrifying at one point caitlin even imitates what nicole sounded like
while she was choking and coughing up her own blood caitlin claims that after his mother was
dead jonathan was so disgusted that he threw up and went outside to chain smoke cigarettes
and that he was so upset that his mom was dead and his girlfriend murdered her but he didn't do
anything to help his mother or ever tried to turn caitlin in
jonathan was nicole's only child that she did absolutely everything for and when she needed
him most he he turned his back on her caitlin also makes up absolutely disgusting lies about nicole
to try and explain why she killed her telling the fbi agents that she also wanted to kill nicole
because she thought that nicole was obsessed inappropriate flirty and handsy with her own son
jonathan caitlin is so young and immature
that she's jealous of her 33 year old boyfriend's mother when in reality all of the evidence that caitlin has that nicole was obsessed with her own son
was just nicole not wanting her adult son preying on a child if anything i bet that nicole was trying to look out for caitlin
and the reason why i killed her is because she literally wouldn't let us together and she was so
weird about him and i did not like that i didn't and i remember when he was in jail and i was texting
her and she was like well i'll see about if you guys can get back together i'll post it down and
talk about it once you turn 18 i was like i'm not about to do that i will literally show up and be
with her no matter what the agents asked caitlin if she feels bad about killing nicole and caitlin
says no they then asked caitlin if she thinks nicole deserved to die and caitlin says yes she
goes on to say that everyone dies at some point and nicole was close to dying anyways because she
was so old so it didn't matter if she killed her or not again nicole was only 53 years old
just listen to how cold this teenage girl is when she's talking about this now like do you feel
bad about killing her or are you just going to like whatever
i don't feel bad about it because she was inappropriate towards him and she wouldn't
let us be together and you know what they say like you know let people do them let people be people i don't feel bad about it because she was inappropriate towards him and she wouldn't let us be together and you know what they
say like you know what people do them let people be people like say like you know what people do them let people be people like
don't interfere with somebody's life don't interfere with somebody's life
because it's going to come right back on you because it's going to come right back on you
do you think she deserved to die yeah i do do you think she deserved to die yeah i do
and i mean it's not like she was about to and i mean it's not like she was about to
die anyways die anyways
so it's not like us literally like we all die anyways so it's not like us literally like we all die
so it's not like us literally like we all die at some point it's not like she was
at some point it's not like she was
at some point it's not like she was literally about to die she was literally
literally about to die she was literally
literally about to die she was not like i'm meeting it as like
not like i'm meeting it as like
not like i'm meeting it as like she was older already
she was older already
she was older already and people every i mean all of us all of
and people every i mean all of us all of
and people every i mean all of us all of us people in general we all die at some
us people in general we all die at some
us people in general we all die at some point she was literally close to that
point she was literally close to that
point she was literally close to that age of dying so i feel like it doesn't
age of dying so i feel like it doesn't
age of dying so i feel like it doesn't matter if i killed her or not
matter if i killed her or not
matter if i killed her or not and
and
and i killed her because she gave me really
i killed her because she gave me really
i killed her because she gave me really too good reason she wouldn't let us to
too good reason she wouldn't let us to
too good reason she wouldn't let us to be it be together and she was very
be it be together and she was very
be it be together and she was very inappropriate
inappropriate
inappropriate inappropriate towards him
inappropriate towards him
inappropriate towards him and it's like she didn't have friends
and it's like she didn't have friends
and it's like she didn't have friends she didn't have family so it's not it's
she didn't have family so it's not it's
she didn't have family so it's not it's like
like
like it's like i killed nobody it's like i
it's like i killed nobody it's like i
it's like i killed nobody it's like i killed a nobody that's what she says
about a loving mother a great person she
about a loving mother a great person she
about a loving mother a great person she says
says
says that she's a nobody and it doesn't matter
that she's a nobody and it doesn't matter
that she's a nobody and it doesn't matter that she killed her
that she killed her
that she killed her after killing nicole caitlyn and jonathan
after killing nicole caitlyn and jonathan
after killing nicole caitlyn and jonathan steal all of nicole's belongings they
steal all of nicole's belongings they
steal all of nicole's belongings they take her bank cards
take her bank cards
take her bank cards they go to an atm multiple atms at
they go to an atm multiple atms at
they go to an atm multiple atms at multiple different banks and
multiple different banks and
multiple different banks and caitlyn withdraws as much money of
caitlyn withdraws as much money of
caitlyn withdraws as much money of nicole's as possible
nicole's as possible
nicole's as possible they then go to a walmart where caitlyn
they then go to a walmart where caitlyn
they then go to a walmart where caitlyn buys a bunch of cleaning supplies and
buys a bunch of cleaning supplies and
buys a bunch of cleaning supplies and things to wrap nicole's body up in and
things to wrap nicole's body up in and
things to wrap nicole's body up in and they use nicole's own money
they use nicole's own money
they use nicole's own money to buy the things to clean up her own
to buy the things to clean up her own
murder. After cleaning up the scene, Caitlin throws all the evidence away in a trash can and
then she pulls the trash can to the front of the yard so that the garbage trucks will come and pick
up all of the evidence. She then wraps Nicole's body up in saran wrap and a black tarp. Jonathan
puts his mother's body in the trunk of her own car and then they drive it over to an apartment
dumpster and Caitlin says that she's able to move Nicole's body by herself and throw it in the
dumpster by herself like she is trash. They then go on the run, try to flee to Mexico with Nicole's
car, her credit cards, and all of her jewelry. The agents ask Caitlin about the arsons and the
second murder that she also confessed to in her text messages with her caseworker. Caitlin said
that before going to Mexico,
while in Arizona, she committed two arsons and a drive-by shooting. She said that she was so angry
and she just felt like she needed to blow off steam and she already killed someone so might as
well kill another person. She claims that she shot a woman that was just sitting at a bus stop on her
phone minding her own business. What about the lady that was shot in Arizona? I don't know about
that person. I did not know. I just wanted to blow off steam and I didn't even think about that.
I. you know, loaded the gun and stuff and shot the person and I left real fast and then after that I walked off the rest of the road the gun and powder.
Okay.
Are you certain that there was a thief?
I don't know that. I just remember pulling out the gun out of the window and shooting.
Was it a male? Woman? Old? Young?
I think it was a woman.
Woman.
Do you remember how old she was?
She looked old and she had glasses and she was by and she was at a massage.
Is there a reason, like, that person needed it, that needed you at the. I don't know. I was like, "Well, I killed someone so I might as well kill another."
But Caitlin said that it happened so fast she didn't really see if she even shot the girl, like, she might have missed.
And even when they were at a hotel. She tried to use a computer to look up if there were any shootings or attempted shootings in Arizona and she didn't see anything.
And because I could find literally no information about a second victim, I'm assuming that either Caitlin's lying, which I don't think she is,
so I'm assuming that Caitlin thankfully missed and did not actually commit this drive-by shooting, even though she tried to.
But the fact that this 17-year-old girl committed one murder. And then decided that she was going to randomly shoot an innocent person that she didn't know, someone that did nothing to her, just because she was upset and wanted to blow off some steam is absolutely horrifying.
this is a scary scary girl when Jonathan was questioned by police in El Paso he tells the
exact same story as Caitlyn so it really does seem like it was Caitlyn that murdered Nicole
all by herself I mean obviously Jonathan is just as guilty but the FBI agents were really thinking
for a while that Caitlyn was taking the blame for Jonathan and they believed that because they
thought they kept catching her like mess up during the interrogation which is the her entire
interrogation is on YouTube if you want to go and watch it it's like over an hour long maybe close
to two hours I watched the entire thing it's really insane definitely if you guys are interested
definitely go watch it but during the interrogation Caitlyn like seems to slip up and she'll say
something like when Jonathan killed his mom or when me and Jonathan killed his mom so the FBI
agents were kind of thinking that Caitlyn was being manipulated by Jonathan into taking the blame but
it really doesn't seem like it because even Jonathan tells the same story so unless they
planned like if they got caught that she would confess the entire thing it really does seem like
this was all Caitlyn she was the mastermind and the one that actually did it with her own hands
with their own bare hands both Jonathan and Caitlyn were brought back to Ohio to stand trial
and Caitlyn was going to be tried as an adult despite being 17 years old at the time of the
murder they both decided to take a plea deal and they both pled guilty and were sentenced to life
in prison with the possibility of parole after 25 years Nicole Jones's body was likely brought to
the local landfill after her son her only child and this teenage girl put her body in a dumpster
like she was trashed and unfortunately very very sad to say Nicole's body has never been found and
because it's been over three years it's been a long time since she's been found and it's been a
very very good chance that Nicole's body will never be found just knowing that that happened
to her and that then she will never be buried properly I'm sure that's really really hard
to live with all of my love goes out to everyone that truly loved Nicole I'm extremely interested
to hear all of your thoughts and opinions on this case I'm sure they're going to be
really really really strong on this one this is such a twisted
twisted
case and all at the hands of a predator and then this teenage girl who seems to have absolutely no
remorse or soul it's a very very very twisted twisted case so I'm really interested to hear
all of your opinions on this one but that is all I have for this week's episode and I will see you
guys all next Friday when we are hot in the case once again
again.
Podcast Summary
Key Points:
Kaitlyn Coons, a 14-year-old girl with a history of severe abuse and instability in the foster system, was groomed and sexually abused by 30-year-old Jonathan Jones, who exploited her vulnerability and lack of trust.
After Kaitlyn turned 16, she became increasingly desperate and threatened, eventually confessing to murdering her mother, Nicole Jones, and setting two arsons, driven by jealousy and a desire for control over her relationship with Jonathan.
The case reveals a disturbing pattern of manipulation, abuse, and violence, where both Kaitlyn and Jonathan were ultimately convicted of serious crimes, with Kaitlyn pleading guilty to murder and both receiving life sentences, while Nicole's body remains unlocated and presumed disposed of improperly.
Summary:
A 14-year-old girl, Kaitlyn Coons, was sexually abused and groomed by a 30-year-old man, Jonathan Jones, during her time in the foster system. Despite being a victim of severe childhood trauma and abuse, Kaitlyn developed a pathological obsession with Jonathan, leading to escalating abuse and control. After turning 16, she confessed to killing her mother, Nicole Jones, 53, in a fit of rage over being denied access to Jonathan.
" Her confession, which showed no remorse, was corroborated by Jonathan’s identical statement during police interrogation. Both Kaitlyn and Jonathan were arrested, charged with murder, human trafficking, and other crimes, and later pleaded guilty to life sentences. Despite being a minor, Kaitlyn was tried as an adult.
The case highlights systemic failures in child protection, especially the lack of monitoring and safeguards for minors in vulnerable situations. Nicole Jones’s body was never recovered and was reportedly disposed of in a dumpster, underscoring the tragic and irreversible consequences of unchecked abuse and manipulation. The case remains one of the most disturbing examples of a young person turning from victim to perpetrator due to prolonged trauma and emotional exploitation.
FAQs
Kaitlyn, who was 14 at the time, entered into a romantic and sexual relationship with Jonathan Jones, who was 30 years old. This relationship involved grooming, abuse, and statutory rape, with Jonathan exploiting Kaitlyn’s vulnerable position in the foster system.
According to Kaitlyn, they met when she ran away from a foster home and stopped at a Home Depot where she encountered Jonathan. Another version claims they met online on a dating site, but the Home Depot story is considered more reliable based on her own account.
Jonathan was charged with child endangerment, contributing to the delinquency of a child, human trafficking, pandering obscenity involving a minor, and statutory rape. He pled guilty and was required to register as a sex offender.
Yes, Kaitlyn confessed to strangling and murdering her 53-year-old mother, Nicole Jones, in April 2023 after being frustrated that Nicole had tried to keep her and Jonathan apart.
Kaitlyn claimed she killed Nicole because she believed she was inappropriate and overly involved with Jonathan, and because Nicole refused to let them be together. She stated she saw the act as justified due to Nicole’s age and the belief that all people eventually die.
Yes, Kaitlyn confessed to two arson incidents and a drive-by shooting in Arizona, claiming she did it to vent anger after killing Nicole. However, no confirmed victim was found, and investigators suspect she may have missed or lied about the shooting.
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