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>> you going to change the way you live? >> i hope not. i don't think steve would want that. he was not about hiding in the shadows. i am not going to let him have died for nothing, and i will find a way to make him proud. >> no one can say for sure exactly what set off dwight jones. after the bloodshed was over, some videos surfaced that jones had posted before the murders. >> hello, youtube, welcome to my channel. >> in them dwight raged against his wife and the professionals who worked on the custody case. >> you've ruled i have a psychiatric problem based on some piece of -- that she hired? >> the videos underscored some troubling questions. dwight jones was obviously disturbed, so why wasn't he stopped? did the legal system fail everyone?
and i have to pay for the supervised visitations because he is a threat. >> what did this cost you financially? >> well, what he got was over $650,000. >> there came a point where connie couldn't afford my services or anybody else's. i couldn't walk away. >> because you think if you're not there, she's going to get killed? >> you don't need to be dr. pitt to come up with a determination of what would eventually happen. >> their worries only increased in 2013 when connie's final protective order against dwight expired and he was able to legally purchase a gun. >> he told me he would wait until my defenses were down and then he would get me. >> by then connie had started carrying a gun of her own. rick trained her how to use it if and when the day came that dwight confronted her. >> i prepared her for it mentally, physically, and
>> like a shield. he was inconsolable. i mean, as a mother to see your child in that distress, it's pretty devastating. >> dwight was arrested. and connie filed for divorce. often, that means the end of something. instead, it was just the beginning of the worst chapter in connie's relationship with dwight jones. coming up -- connie reaches out for help. >> i had people full-time on the school where the son goes. if connie went to work, there was somebody with her while she was working. but would even that be enough to protect her from dwight? >> he told me that he would wait until my defenses were down and then he would get me. >> when "dateline" continues. sng at it's best taking metamucil everyday can help. metamucil psyllium fiber, gels to trap and remove the waste that weighs you down. it also helps lower cholesterol
inside was a gun. >> however, that gun was a 22-caliber -- not a 40. >> that gun was not a match for any of the four homicides? >> it was not. >> meaning that if it's dwight jones, he still has that gun with him? >> right. and meaning they don't necessarily have enough yet to link dwight jones to these four murders. >> but there was still the dna. a detective who flew late sunday night to get dna samples from dwight's family now rushed those swabs back to the lab and -- >> within about four hours, we had a positive hit on mr. jones. >> we at "dateline" cover a lot of murders, some of which take years to solve. this case was not one of those. less than 84 hours after this homicidal rampage began, investigators were confident they had id'd their killer. >> we knew who was our suspect and murderer. >> at the same time the dna was
police later learned it belonged to the fountain hills couple. mary and bryon had been killed with their own weapon. there were now six dead, and dwight jones was still not in custody. but investigators had a good idea where to find him. coming up -- finally, a killer surrounded. >> they carefully and quietly started to evacuate the hotel. >> he began firing at them. somewhere between seven and eight rounds were fired. >> when "dateline" continues. hi susan! honey? yeah? i respect that. but that cough looks pretty bad... try this robitussin honey. the real honey you love... plus the powerful cough relief you need. mind if i root through your trash? now get powerful relief with robitussin elderberry. wondering what actually goes into your multivitamin? at new chapter, its' innovation, organic ingredients, and fermentation. fermentation? yes. formulated to help you body really
terrorist. >> connie was on summer break from college in 1984 when she started dating a young soldier named dwight jones. dwight was stationed at fort bragg, north carolina. you were 18, he was 22. >> correct. young. too young. >> your first boyfriend? >> yes. he told me he wanted to be an attorney. so he seemed to have aspirations. >> they married in 1988 after her first year of medical school. dwight left the army after three years. and soon connie realized that while she was working hard to become a doctor, dwight was doing nothing. >> i don't recall him ever working more than two or three days because every job that he would get, there would be some issue. so we lived in medical school on my financial aid. >> that's probably not how you grew up, is it? >> that is not. my family has the best work ethic you can think of. >> after medical school, connie
>> no, not necessarily. >> allie bones is the former ceo of the arizona coalition to end sexual and domestic violence. >> they've had no problem whatsoever taking a position, a strong position, around duis or driving under the influence. but for some reason, we have had a very hard time over the years making the same argument with regards to domestic violence. >> habitual drunk drivers are quickly and legally separated from their car keys. but dwight jones, a documented domestic abuser, did not lose his right to own a gun. after holding his son captive in that standoff with police in 2009, he was allowed to plead guilty to disorderly conduct, which did not prevent him from legally buying the handgun he used to kill. and there was the mental health treatment strongly recommended by dr. steven pitt and ordered by the court. dwight didn't go. >> but the court did not follow up with that. there was no consequence for that. >> just before his death, steve pitt was proposing a story 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. and that he would do whatever he needed to do. >> so connie stayed. and, in 1997, she gave birth to
people. >> if she had to live all those years terrorized, we failed her as a society. and i think as a physician with the resources she had, i wonder how many other women and families that we're failing as a society. >> most people can't take the steps to cover their tracks the way connie did. >> does the court system, both criminal and family court -- do those systems understand domestic violence? do they react to it in the right way? >> no, not necessarily. >> reporter: allie bones is the former ceo of the arizona coalition to end sexual and domestic violence. >> they've had no problem, whatsoever taking a position, a strong position around duis or driving under the influence. but for -- for some reason, we have had a very hard time, over the years, making the same argument with regards to domestic violence. >> reporter: habitual drunk drivers are quickly and legally separated from their car keys. but dwight jones, a documented domestic abuser, did not lose his right to own a gun. after holding his son captive in that standoff with police in
dwight was stationed at fort bragg, north carolina. you were 18, he was 22. >> correct. young. too young. >> your first boyfriend? >> yes. he told me he wanted to be an attorney. so he seemed to have aspirations. >> they married in 1988 after her first year of medical school. dwight left the army after three years. and soon connie realized that while she was working hard to become a doctor, dwight was doing nothing. >> i don't recall him ever working more than two or three days because every job that he would get, there would be some issue. so we lived in medical school on my financial aid. >> that's probably not how you grew up, is it? >> that is not. my family has the best work ethic you can think of. >> after medical school, connie began a residency in psychiatry, but soon found it hit too close to home. her own husband, she came to