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dwight's steps, via cell phone data. he had contacted the residence of this home. and a deputy went to check on them. >> used a ladder. they got to see through an upstairs window and they 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. >> reporter: scott whiteman was the tennis coach of one of the victims, mary simmons. >> she competed like nobody else. everybody wanted to play with mary. >> reporter: and one of her occasional play-in partners was dwight jones. police believe that, for reasons yet unknown, dwight murdered mary and her boyfriend, bryan thomas, in their home. remember that .22 police
young. too young. >> your first boyfriend? >> yes. he told me he wanted to be an attorney. so he seemed to have aspirations. >> reporter: 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. >> reporter: after medical school, connie 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
responded very well to the procedure. it's the first time he's been hospitalized since becoming pope in 2013. back to "dateline" now. >> reporter: dr. connie jones spent 22 years married to a mentally ill and abusive husband. she was about to learn her personal ordeal might have led to a crisis for a whole city. >> i'll take you out to this [ bleep ] pool and drown you. >> reporter: back in 2009 after that frightening standoff with police at their home in scottsdale, arizona, dwight jones was arrested on multiple charges. but ultimately pleaded guilty to a single count of misdemeanor disorderly conduct. he was prohibited from owning a firearm during his probation just 12 months. >> it's minimal. it's like bein' a disturbance in your neighborhood. it's not holding your child
he will become increasingly paranoid, likely psychotic, and pose an even greater risk for perpetrating violence." when dwight's probation expired, connie obtained an order of protection that once again prohibited him from owning guns. >> this case is the-- scariest case i've ever been involved in. >> reporter: remember karen kolbe the therapist awakened in the middle of the night by the cops? she worked with connie and dwight's son for two years starting in 2009. >> divorces are a dime a dozen. >> this was something else. >> yeah. violence. potential violence. violence that had already been committed. somebody who was clearly on a path to commit-- more violence. >> reporter: connie and dwight's divorce went to trial in family court where karen kolbe and steve pitt presented their findings. in 2010 the judge granted connie full custody of her son. >> i'm thinkin' i'm reading through the decree, sounding pretty good to me so far. >> right where you think it
more you look at dwight jones, the more frighten he is. >> you look at the intelligence of the person, you're going to look at the resources the person has available to them. you're going to look at his ability to use electronic items, such as trackers and spy ware that night go on a phone or computer. >> did he have that? >> he had detection kits, and the last thing i'm going to look at is a violence potential. so when i piece those together and his research into violent acts, i'm looking at somebody that i need to be very careful with. >> reporter: he made sure she and her son always had eyes on them. >> i had people full-time on the school where the son goes. if connie went to the grocery store, if she had a public event, if she went to work, there was somebody with her. >> that has to be phenomenally expensive.
would say and so dwight is to have no more contact -- >> contact. >> with you or your son ever. >> yeah, yes. >> instead it says what? >> it says that it is mandated that he have-- supervised visits with him. that he has a parental right the see him. >> what'd 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. >> reporter: what's more under arizona law, dwight was entitled to spousal support. in this case, $6,000 a month. >> he threatens you, he hits you, he says he's gonna murder you, he says he's gonna murder your child. you have to pay him spousal support. >> yes. >> and you're on the hook for his attorneys. >> yes. yes. and i have to pay for the supervised visitations because he's a threat. >> what did this all cost you financially?
clock and the 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. >> reporter: 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. >> reporter: at the same time, other investigators were on the hunt for dwight. >> we had a vehicle description for mr. jones. it was a 2001 gold mercedes
pitt's murder, his experience told him -- >> it had to be related to his work. >> reporter: anglin knew pitt worked on criminal cases, so the universe of suspects was vast. then he heard about the murders of the two paralegals in scottsdale. and suddenly, that universe shrank. >> once they announced on the news that it was elizabeth feldman's office, i was certain who it was. >> you knew. >> i knew. >> knew exactly how steve pitt and the feldman law firm were connected, and who was behind the murders. rick knew because, years earlier, he'd taken on the case of a scottsdale doctor named connie jones. >> yes. i had my own terrorist, my own personal terrorist. >> reporter: 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.
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. >> reporter: but there was still the dna. that detective who flew in the middle of the 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. >> reporter: we at "dateline" cover a lot of murders, some of which take years to solve. this case was not one of those. >> this was a homicide investigation, kind of, in overdrive, wasn't it? >> it was. >> reporter: less than 84 hours after this homicidal rampage began, investigators were confident they had id'd their killer. >> we knew that he was our suspect and murderer. >> reporter: at the same time the dna was being analyzed, detectives were retracing
>> well, when the life of your child is at risk, money can't be the final decision maker. >> reporter: anglin moved connie and her son among three remote safe houses. >> well, this is like a chess game. >> very much like a chess game. i have to anticipate 10 steps ahead of him. >> reporter: it was during the battle for custody of their child that dwight and connie met with a forensic psychiatrist. his name, dr. steven pitt. steve videotaped his interviews with them as part of the custody case. >> um can you do me a favor and say and spell your full name? >> connie jones, c-o-n-n-i-e j-o-n-e-s. >> i thought he was exceptional. his report i thought was-- very detailed and accurate. >> reporter: dr. pitt's report matched what rick had come to believe about dwight jones. "without psychiatric intervention and treatment, mr. jones' mental state is going to continue to unravel.