Jones’ final victims were Mary Simmons and Byron Thomas, who did not have an apparent connection to the divorce case. Kolbe, too, was out of the office when Jones attacked. His fourth victim was Marshall Levine, a psychiatrist who shared office space with Karen Kolbe, the counselor Connie had hired for the couple’s son. His next victims were Veleria Sharp and Laura Anderson, paralegals at the law firm of Connie’s divorce attorney, Elizabeth Feldman, who was out of the office at the time.
His first victim was Steven Pitt, a well-known forensic psychiatrist who had testified during the divorce that without mental help, Jones “will become increasingly paranoid, likely psychotic, and pose an even greater risk for perpetrating violence.” Investigators have not offered a reason for why Dwight Jones struck when he did. She said she never stopped being afraid, recalling that he had told her “he could wait for a long time before he got his revenge, that he could wait years until my defenses were down.” He apparently never got the mental health treatment ordered by the court, and Connie was unable to obtain protective orders after four years. During the divorce proceedings, Dwight would sometimes try to track Connie, or show up at the child-visitation facility parking lot when she was there, Anglin said.Īt one facility, he tried to kidnap their son, Connie said, and at another, he arrived with a sun visor in his car that said, “Love kills slowly.”Ĭonnie was afraid that he would snap when the money she’d given him from the divorce - more than half a million dollars - ran out. She got custody of their son in the divorce, but Dwight got monitored visitation sessions. They became friends, and, eventually, more: They got married, and Anglin became her protector for life, and a new father for her son.Ĭonnie Jones never actually saw her ex-husband again she only communicated with him through lawyers.
The pair spent a lot of time together, talking. “I don’t know that I can go out and not look and see who’s around me.”Īnglin also gave Jones “extensive” training with guns and defensive driving in case her ex-husband came for her. “It has become my personality,” she said. It was as if she had to become a different person. When Jones went to the movies, she sat in the back of the theater to watch out for her ex-husband. Connie Jones, who worked at a hospital, rotated through rental cars and switched up her driving routes so she would be harder to pin down.Įven going to the grocery store required planning, in case of any unexpected encounters. The family cycled through three safe houses to avoid Dwight Jones, who had moved into an extended-stay hotel. “We basically had to de-program them from what they would normally do.” “Any personal habits they had, their favorite place to have a birthday dinner or Christmas Eve dinner, all this had to be changed,” Anglin told reporters at Tuesday’s news conference. “I felt that I had a personal terrorist.”Īfter she filed for divorce, Connie Jones hired an investigator, Rick Anglin, a retired Phoenix police detective, to protect her and her son. … I knew that one day we would be in a situation where he was trying to kill me,” she said at a televised news conference. “I really have been on high alert for the last nine years.