if we, me and my sister were playing, we got too loud or anything, my mom would flip out and start yelling and screaming and grab something and hit one of us. so i stayed away from her. because i didn t know how she would act. on august 7th, shortly after they find kaylee s body in her bedroom, both thomas and his mother are asked to come to camden police headquarters. thomas enters the box. or interview room. what follows is a remarkable window into the interrogation process, from the suspect s point of view. did you argue with your sister very often? every now and then, maybe once a day. i just answered the questions. i didn t think there would be anything wrong in telling them. so i just said this is what happened in our house. this is how our house functions.
dog s leash, while her feet are bound with cloth measuring tape. the two shopping bags on kaylee s face come from walmart. i didn t know she was dead yet. i feared that there was something wrong, but i wasn t aware fully. thomas. yeah. thomas, i m with the state police, and i ve been kind of listening to some of the story that you ve been telling. and i m going to tell it to you just like it is. you re an intelligent boy, aren t you? yeah. well, we re pretty intelligent too. okay. and the bottom line is, nobody broke in that house last night. so your sister died, and there was only two people in the house that could have killed her. okay. you or your mother. but police apparently don t believe melody jones murdered
just after the 30 minute mark, detectives get more specific, questioning thomas about the circumstances surrounding kaylee s death. thomas recalls being woken up by his mother some time before noon, and told to accompany her to kaylee s room to deliver a letter from a friend. my mom woke me up and say it s for kaylee. she was like that. like what? she was tied up with bags over her head, and my mom ripped off the bags, and i went around to her other side, and she was all cold and blue. her hands and feet were tied. how were they tied? i don t know. in a knot. i couldn t get it undone. neither could my mom. the apparent murder weapons are the family s personal items. both thomas and his mother say kaylee s hands are tied with the
his mother sometime before noon and told to accompany her to kaylee s room to deliver a letter from a friend. my mom woke me up and said let s go surprise kaylee. okay? she was like that. like what? she was tied up with bags over her head. and my mom ripped off the bags. and i went around to her other side, and she was all cold and blue. her hands and feet were tied. how were they tied? i don t know. in a knot. i couldn t get it undone. neither could my mom. the apparent murder weapons are the family s personal items. both thomas and his mother say kaylee s hands are tied with the dog s leash while her feet are bound with cloth measuring tape. the two shopping bags on kaylee s face come from walmart. i didn t know she was dead yet. i feared that there was something wrong, but i wasn t aware fully.
his statement was very detailed, in my opinion. but he s wanting to hold back on you because he doesn t want you mad at him, i think. that s probably what it amounts to. he should trust me. thomas doesn t return home. on march 18th, 2008, he goes on trial for the murder of his younger sister. there was absolutely no evidence to connect thomas to this crime except his confession. my theory at the trial was that someone, not thomas, had held kaylee s head into the pillow.