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her phone, i'm getting no response. >> then rick heard about the murder in therapist karen kolbe's office. and he became more concerned. after a tense hour, connie called back. she was okay. rick's next call was to phoenix police. >> explained to him who i thought was responsible, what his vehicle description was, where he was at, and how the three crime scenes were linked. >> it was just the tip the cops needed. now they had to find dwight jones before he struck again. coming up -- >> this was a homicide investigation kind of in overdrive, wasn't it? >> it was. >> closing in on a killer. >> we knew who was it. >> when "dateline" continues.
and that he would do whatever he needed to do. >> so connie stayed. and, in 1997, she gave birth to a son. >> after the child was born, he actually seemed to be better. >> being a father was good for him? >> it was. it did seem to give him a purpose. >> dwight watched their child during the day. but connie says he still left most of the caregiving to her. and soon enough, connie says dwight's emotional abuse worsened. he became obsessive and controlling. >> after i had my son, i thought it was my obligation to try to make this work. i mean, i really did not see myself in life as a divorced person. >> but how do you make things work when you have no idea who is coming home at night? >> the garage door would open. and we didn't know what we were getting. >> dr. jekyll or mr. hyde. >> right. >> dwight's good times became
being analyzed, detectives were retracing dwight's steps. they believed that sometime before he'd been placed under surveillance, dwight had contacted the residents of this home in fountain hills. they sent a maricopa county sheriff's deputy to check on them. >> they used a ladder. they got to see through an upstairs window, and they immediately recognized that there was a gentleman inside that appeared to have been shot. they forced entry, and upon doing so, found another victim, a woman, who had also been shot, and both were deceased. >> my guts just absolutely dropped when i heard this news. >> scott wightman was the tennis coach of one of the victims, mary simmons. >> she competed like nobody else. everybody wanted to play with mary. >> and one of her occasional playing partners was dwight jones. police believe, that for reasons yet unknown, dwight murdered mary and her boyfriend, bryon thomas, in their home. remember that .22 police observed dwight tossing?
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emotionally. she's trained for it. >> the court ordered that dwight get psychological help. there's no evidence he ever complied. instead, dwight isolated himself at this extended stay hotel for years. connie built a successful career as a radiologist. she even wrote a book on breast cancer screening. by 2016 dwight's spousal support had ended. so had the visits with his son. connie no longer had to see her ex-husband in court, but she and rick remained hyper-vigilant, especially about her son. >> you don't get to just say, let's go to the movies. you've got to scan the parking lot. >> in early june, when rick saw the news about the shootings of steve pitt and the two paralegals at elizabeth feldman's law firm. he came to an undeniable conclusion. >> i was certain who it was. it's dwight jones. >> his first thought was he had to find connie. >> i immediately start to text her to call me, start calling
began a residency in psychiatry, but soon found it hit too close to home. her own husband, she came to realize, was mentally ill. >> he was depressed. he would stay in the bed for three or four days. and then he became very hostile towards me. >> what form did that take? >> verbal abuse, emotional abuse. again, if he were mad he would not talk for a week to punish me. >> connie switched her focus to radiology. and she encouraged dwight to seek mental health treatment. >> i wanted to help him. i mean, who doesn't want to help their spouse? >> dwight refused. she says she endured eight years of escalating hostility and verbal abuse before telling dwight she wanted a divorce. >> and he laid on the floor for three days crying and said that it was his mental illness. that he loved me. that he didn't want to lose me.
around phoenix were racing the clock and a fast-moving killer. now, thanks to a tip from rick anglin, they were getting closer. >> i'm convinced that we're dealing with dwight jones at this point. >> rick recognized that all the crime scenes related back to dwight and connie's divorce and custody battles from nearly a decade earlier. plus, forensic analysis had already told police all four victims had probably been killed with the same weapon. and there was a critical piece of evidence that might link the weapon to dwight. that bit of dna on a shell casing recovered from the scene of steve pitt's murder. dna tests can take weeks or months. that was time police didn't have. >> we had some family members of mr. jones that were in northern arizona. with the help of the phoenix police department air unit we flew a detective up there. >> at the same time, other investigators were on the hunt for dwight. >> we had a vehicle description
his occasional tennis partner and boyfriend had been gunned down in their suburban home. investigators were confident they had tied dwight to a total of six murders over a four-day rampage. this cases was hurtling toward the end with more twists to come. here's the conclusion of "unraveled." they followed him to an extended hotel where he had been living for nine years. they carefully and quietly started to evacuate the surrounding rooms and the rest of the hotel. >> police described what happened next. >> he began firing at them. somewhere between seven and eight rounds were fired. all officers were safe and okay, and eventually in this action, they found that mr. jones had killed himself. self-inflicted gunshot wound. >> your ex-husband's dead now. >> yes. >> do you feel safe finally? >> yes. >> with a tremendous amount of courage and with rick's help, connie jones and her son had lived to see her personal terrorist's last i do this earth. >> but other people were killed, innocent people, good people, productive people, that is a hard thing to come to grips with. >> six people gone, three of whom apparently had nothing at all to do with dwight jones. just in the wrong place, at the
in 2010 the judge granted connie full custody of her son. >> i'm thinking i'm reading through the decree, sounded pretty good to me so far. >> and what would you think it would say, so dwight is to have no more contact with you and your son ever? >> yes. >> instead it says what? >> it says it's mandated that he have supervised visits with him, that he has a parental right to see him. >> what did you think when you read that? >> shocked. it didn't make sense to me they took his right as a parent even over the safety of the child. >> what's more, under arizona law, dwight was entitled to spousal support. in this case $6,000 a month. >> he threatened you, hit you, says he is going to murder you, murder your child. >> mm-hmm. >> you have to pay him spousal support. >> yes. >> and you're on the hook for his attorneys. >> yes. yes.