Jones is on death row in Alabama, convicted in the 2004 rape and death of Lisa Marie Nichols, 44, of Turnerville, Ala.
"I know what he told me personally,” Sooter said. "My conclusion is that he did it. We have no proof of it, but with the information he gave us, he is the only person who could have known what happened that night.”
Lorena Bible and Chandler have their doubts that Jones is the killer.
"I think he was at the Freemans’ house that night, but I think he went wacko and was kicked out of the truck or car,” Bible said. "He doesn’t know where they are, but he does know something.”
Chandler said the names of three people who have criminal histories were given to her by a private investigator who has since left the area. She thinks one or all of them were involved.
Because the three people have never been charged, their names are not public record.
The private investigator met with authorities and gave them information about the girls, but they would not work with him, Chandler said.
The private investigator was never paid because he was counting on receiving a $50,000 reward offered after the girls’ disappearance. The $50,000 reward is still available, both families said.
Bible also thinks the three were involved and visited one of the men while he was in a Tulsa jail about four years ago.
"He told me he didn’t kill the girls, but I think he knows who did,” Bible said. The man Bible spoke to is now in the federal prison at El Reno.
"We have been through all of this before and to my knowledge, we have no proof that they (the three men) were involved,” Sooter said.
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