Crime Scene Investigators (2025) Season 1 Episode 2
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00:00The body was floating in a large body of water, so we don't really have that traditional crime
00:17scene.
00:18Her face was badly decomposed.
00:20What evidence can we get based on what we have?
00:23Not what we wish we had, but what we have.
00:25She had a post-mortem fracture to the back of her skull, but what caused this post-mortem
00:30injury?
00:31She was a missing 16-year-old girl from Dover, Delaware.
00:35You filed the facts.
00:36How does it result in her being found 3.3 nautical miles off the coast of Kitnay?
00:46When homicide investigators collect evidence from a crime scene, they hold the pieces of
00:50a puzzle.
00:52Only by connecting those pieces back together can they catch the killer.
01:00Cape May is about 50 minutes from Atlantic City.
01:05The streets are lined with old Victorian homes and hotels that have been there forever, so
01:11it's beautiful.
01:13Cape May is the town that time forgot, a beach town with a country vibe.
01:19It is the oldest seaside resort in America.
01:23It's a town for surfers.
01:24It's a town for fishermen.
01:29Early in the morning, Wednesday, October the 8th of 2003, there was a couple that were
01:35out on their boat fishing off the coast of Cape May.
01:39They observed something floating in the water.
01:43Their initial thoughts were that it was some type of debris.
01:49As they approached the debris, they realized that it was something more, that it was actually
01:53a body.
01:56So they stopped their boat, and they immediately contacted the U.S. Coast Guard.
02:00Well, the Coast Guard arrived on scene, and they proceeded to retrieve the body from the
02:05water and transport that body back to the dock in Cape May.
02:11I was assigned to the Criminal Investigation Office at the Port Norris Station, and I would
02:16respond to any kind of criminal or major incident at any of the marine stations in that general
02:22area.
02:23I received a call that there was a body at the Cape May Coast Guard Station.
02:29I arrive on scene.
02:32I walk up, and I'm looking at what appeared to be a female body, long, dark hair.
02:38It was severely decomposed.
02:41And then I immediately noticed that the hands and the feet are bound together.
02:48What looks like some type of tape, and then around the tape is some type of chain.
02:55This obviously isn't an accidental type drowning.
02:58This is something more nefarious in nature.
03:02At a regular crime scene, we will have a crime scene area, which will be secured to make
03:07sure it's unaffected by outside influences.
03:11This case was a little bit different.
03:13The body is our crime scene at this point.
03:17So we call our crime scene unit.
03:19Detective James Thistle from the New Jersey State Police Crime Scene Unit arrives and
03:23help us in our investigation.
03:25When I got to the dock, they were just pulling in.
03:27So I followed the body back to the morgue, because now we're worrying about identification.
03:32We have nothing without identification.
03:36At the time, I only had a couple of years in the crime scene unit, but I really had
03:41a good interest in how the human body decomposes under different circumstances.
03:46So working with decomposed bodies was nothing new to me.
03:50I knew that she had been in the water for a pretty good period of time.
03:53I couldn't tell how long, however, I knew it was probably at least a week, only in the
03:58fact of how her skin looked, how bloated she was.
04:03I could tell by her body type that it was a female, however, her face was unrecognizable.
04:09So I'm trying to figure out how exactly I'm going to ID this body.
04:14She had chains wrapped around her ankles.
04:17There was duct tape intermixed with the chain.
04:19I could see that there were ripped trash bags that were within the chain.
04:24She had jeans on and some sort of a t-shirt or blouse.
04:29That was about all she had with the body.
04:33One of the things that was removed from her was a rock crab gnawing on the inner thigh.
04:37So we know she sunk to the bottom of the ocean because rock crabs are known to be bottom
04:42feeders.
04:44During the autopsy, we found that her hyoid bone was fractured.
04:47It shows that there could have been strangulation.
04:50So the hyoid bone is just a really thin bone that's within your neck that it just kind
04:55of cracks really easily under force.
04:58So if somebody is choking you or you're being strangled, the hyoid bone can crack.
05:05Also she had a post-mortem fracture to the back of her skull.
05:10During the autopsy, there's a time when the skull is exposed and you could actually see
05:14then any bruising because that's the body trying to heal itself.
05:18In this case, there was definitely damage to the back of the head, however, there was
05:22no indication that the body was trying to heal.
05:25So the doctor, of course, said that that was post-mortem.
05:29So it was baffling at the time for sure.
05:32There's only a couple ways that that could have occurred.
05:35One it was either a hard object striking the back of the neck, maybe a baseball bat, a
05:40pipe, something heavy, or a fall from a significant height.
05:44Could it have been thrown over a bridge or some type of high embankment?
05:49Because if a body hits water from a significant height, it's almost like hitting concrete.
05:55So that's something that could have caused that type of injury.
05:59There are almost insurmountable challenges in investigating the murder of a Jane Doe or
06:04a body with no known identity.
06:06You need to know who this person is and where they came from in order to begin any semblance
06:10of a real investigation.
06:12At this point, the investigative team has only a narrow range of evidence to answer
06:16some critical questions.
06:17Who was this young woman?
06:19Where did she come from?
06:21And who killed her?
06:22Her face is nonexistent, so we don't have facial features that an artist could make
06:26a rendition of.
06:27We could see her teeth.
06:29There was no real clear visible dental work.
06:31That didn't look like that was going to be a potential option to identify her.
06:35With no other means of identification, investigators hope to somehow run prints on the deceased
06:41female's shriveled fingertips.
06:43The challenges in trying to recover a fingerprint from fingers in this state is that they just
06:49don't yield the type of what we call ridge detail.
06:52The skin is not taut and tight enough to recover the type of ridge pattern necessary
06:57in order to render a definitive identification.
07:02I had read about another method where I could inject some saline solution underneath the
07:06first finger pad and basically blow it up like a balloon and then roll her finger itself.
07:14It's very painstaking work for him to be able to secure that skin to the point where he
07:18can get an inked impression that would match up with an inked fingerprint.
07:23It took me about two or three attempts, but I started getting an identifiable fingerprint.
07:30We have a system which is called APHIS, which anybody that's been fingerprinted goes into
07:35this APHIS system, and when you submit prints, it does a check against those prints.
07:41So the prints come back to Kimberly Holton.
07:45She was a missing 16-year-old girl from Dover, Delaware.
07:50At this stage, all detectives know about Kimberly Holton is she's a Caucasian girl with brown
07:55eyes and brown hair who was reported missing by a family member in Dover, Delaware, 130
08:00miles northwest from Cape Main, New Jersey.
08:03That was shocking to say the least, and I felt a lot more pressure because I have a
08:06daughter that's right around that age.
08:09So it was a little tough at first when I first heard that she was 16 years old.
08:15Typically juveniles aren't fingerprinted, but there were three instances that she came
08:19into contact with the Delaware State Police.
08:21It wasn't serious offenses, but it was offenses that required them in Delaware to obtain fingerprints.
08:29I placed a call to the Delaware State Police Homicide Unit, and I explained exactly what
08:34we had.
08:35Kimberly was reported missing from Dover, Delaware, by her foster mother, Elena Kingsley,
08:41on September 30th.
08:43As a matter of protocol, family notification is typically done in person.
08:47So New Jersey State Police traveled to meet with Kimberly's foster mother in Dover, Delaware.
08:53Dover, Delaware is a quiet town, and where Kimberly was residing with the Kingsleys was
09:00a mobile home park.
09:04So we speak to Ms. Kingsley.
09:06We notified her that we recovered Kimberly's body, and she was unfortunately deceased.
09:12She was obviously emotionally upset, crying, very distraught.
09:17We learned that Kimberly didn't have a typical home life.
09:20Her biological mother had her own challenges in life.
09:23She wasn't able to care for Kimberly.
09:27Elena Kingsley was, at this point, what we believe to be the last person to see her alive.
09:32So we're trying to develop a timeline.
09:34What Elena tells us is that she goes in to check on Kimberly about 9 o'clock on the 29th
09:40of September, 2003.
09:43She sees Kimberly asleep, and she goes about her business.
09:55She doesn't realize until the following day on September 30th, 2003, that Kimberly is
10:00not inside the house.
10:03She had called around the neighborhood and some family and people in the area to see
10:07if anybody had seen her, and no one did.
10:09So she decided to report her missing.
10:12We asked her questions about why she may go missing and who may have wanted to harm her.
10:18Elena tells us that she has another daughter by the name of Nora, and that Kimberly and
10:23Nora do not always get along.
10:25There's some tension there.
10:27It's important, but it's not earth-shattering information because they're two teenagers
10:31living in the same house.
10:32That's pretty consistent behavior.
10:35As we were interviewing her, she did reveal to us that her husband, Gavin Kingsley, was
10:44accused of sexually assaulting Kimberly.
10:50So that was kind of a shock to us, and that was kind of like a mic drop at that point.
10:56This causes a rift, obviously, in the marriage between Elena and Gavin, and Elena tells him
11:02he has to leave.
11:03So he's staying in another location.
11:06The police are contacted, they investigate, they charge Gavin with a crime.
11:13The family's obviously upset.
11:15Kimberly's upset, Nora's upset.
11:17It causes a lot of strain on the family.
11:20Kimberly reported the sexual assault on the 16th of September.
11:24Her foster father, Gavin, was arrested on the 19th of September.
11:28She knew she was scheduled to appear on the 30th of September for an arraignment hearing.
11:34That same day, Kimberly's foster mother reported her missing to the Delaware State Police.
11:38So we immediately believe Gavin to be a possible suspect.
11:44It could be something where he is so mad and upset that he just wants her out in the picture
11:49and is just in rage against her, and he fit her age, killed her.
11:53So there's definitely motive there.
11:55There's incredible motive there.
11:57We need to figure out if he was involved in the death of Kimberly.
12:04New Jersey State Police explore the possibility that Kimberly Holton's foster father, Gavin Kingsley,
12:10could be responsible for strangling his 16-year-old foster daughter and dumping her body into
12:15the Atlantic Ocean.
12:17At the autopsy, it was fairly obvious that there was a fracture of the hyoid bone.
12:21The hyoid bone is a very delicate bone in the throat.
12:25And when there's enough pounds per inch, it can be crushed.
12:29And for that reason, it's commonly associated with manual strangulation.
12:33Gavin Kingsley is our prime suspect.
12:36He's our only suspect at this point.
12:41So we bring Gavin into the state police office for an interview.
12:46He was staying with an ex-girlfriend.
12:49Gavin Kingsley was a security guard.
12:52He tried to portray himself almost as if he was a member of law enforcement.
12:56He was a bit of an authoritarian.
12:59He had already known that Kimberly was found deceased.
13:03He is adamant that he had nothing to do with Kimberly's death.
13:07He's also adamant that he was not involved in any type of sexual assault of Kimberly.
13:14So how does the relationship between her foster father, her, result in her being found 3.3
13:19nautical miles south of Cascade, Maine?
13:22Given that the victim's body was found floating in the ocean, investigators ask Gavin Kingsley
13:26if he has access to a boat.
13:29We can't connect him to Cape May.
13:31He doesn't have a boat.
13:32He doesn't have friends with boats.
13:33He's not a boating person.
13:36So we ask him where he was on the night that Kimberly was reported missing, September 30th.
13:43He tells us that he was at home with the friend that he was staying with, gives us the time,
13:48her name, all her information.
13:51So while he's still in our interview room, we send detectives over to interview this
13:56friend.
13:58She gives us the same exact story that Gavin does, that he was there this specific time
14:03to this specific time, which matches up exactly what he said.
14:06So if that is in fact true, he wouldn't have been in the area where Kimberly was at that
14:12time.
14:13The team of detectives came away from that interview with a feeling that he certainly
14:18wasn't necessarily the person we should be looking at.
14:25So we're thinking at this point, maybe it was a boyfriend who could have caused that
14:31type of injury.
14:33We received some information that Kimberly actually had a boyfriend by the name of Logan
14:38Ashford.
14:40She was dating him for a period of time.
14:45Logan had made some statements to some friends and different people that if Kimberly ever
14:50broke up with him, he would kill her.
14:56These statements are pretty incriminating, and we have to determine if Logan was involved
15:02in this crime.
15:07We bring Logan in and we interview him about these statements.
15:12He's very forthright.
15:14He tells us that, I did say those things.
15:16I didn't mean it.
15:17I was upset because she had threatened to break up with me.
15:22So we ask Logan where he was when Kimberly was reported missing.
15:28Logan tells us that when Kimberly was reported missing, he was actually away, which was also
15:35confirmed by his mom.
15:37Just pretty solid alibi.
15:40So we're just dealing with a 16-year-old emotional kid that is in love with a young
15:44lady and is worried about them breaking up and makes probably not the smartest comments
15:49in the world.
15:51We strike him off the list.
15:57So as part of our investigation, we go out to the mobile home park where Kimberly resided
16:01and we begin a neighborhood canvas.
16:05As we're walking, a young lady is approaching us.
16:08We introduce ourselves, begin asking her questions about Kimberly.
16:13She said, yeah, I know Kimberly.
16:15Maybe it was a jealous girl's boyfriend that did this to Kimberly.
16:22So I thought, that's just a weird thing for somebody to say.
16:25We asked who she was.
16:27Then she tells us that she's actually Nora, Kimberly's foster sister, which made that
16:35comment concerning.
16:40So Nora is brought in for questioning, and we begin to ask her about her relationship
16:46with Kimberly.
16:49She basically paints a picture that they were best friends.
16:53She does not indicate to us that there's any type of conflict or any type of problems between
16:59the two of them.
17:02Eventually, as we were interviewing her, she describes that she was upset with Kimberly
17:08over a sweater.
17:12She asked Kimberly if she took it, and Kimberly denies taking the sweater.
17:17Nora later on finds out that Kimberly had taken it.
17:20They actually get into an argument over that, and she said she was always causing issues
17:26like that, taking my things, borrowing things without asking.
17:31So she does kind of loosen up and kind of give some more information that it wasn't
17:35this perfect relationship.
17:38She denied any involvement.
17:40It's one of those interviews where you don't believe you're getting the full story, but
17:43you can't call her out on it.
17:46We additionally ask her, was there anybody else that you could think of that would have
17:51been involved in this, or anybody else that she was having problems with?
17:55And she said, no.
17:59At this point, we're back to square one.
18:06Fortunately for us, we have a team of detectives back in New Jersey working on the forensics
18:13part of the investigation.
18:16At the time, I'm trying to rack my brain as to what this trash bag, chain, and duct tape,
18:21what purpose they all serve.
18:23I understand the chain wading down the body.
18:25I understand the duct tape maybe to hold the trash bags in place, but I don't understand
18:30why there were trash bags, and I really don't understand why there's such a length of chain
18:35that's just dangling there.
18:38So I put down the paper that we use in case any piece of trace evidence might have fallen
18:43off of it, and I put the chain out onto that.
18:46And then I started taking just a wet rag and wiping pieces of the lengths of chain.
18:52So as I'm cleaning the chain, I started noticing a stamp on each of the links of the chain
18:58that was an M4, and as I kept cleaning them, I kept seeing the same stamp.
19:03I didn't find any pieces of trace evidence on it, so the stamp is now what we have to
19:07go with.
19:09So we asked detectives as part of assignments to research the chain.
19:14They were able to determine who the manufacturer was and where those chains were distributed.
19:19Those chains were actually distributed to Lowe's, Home Depot, Tractor Supply, and Dover
19:25Hardware in the Dover area.
19:27And one of our detectives was able to confirm with the Lowe's hardware store in Dover, Delaware,
19:33which is very close to where Kimberly lived, that the day that she was reported missing,
19:38someone purchased 14 or 15 feet of chain, six to eight quick links, got some duct tape,
19:43and two cinder blocks.
19:45Kimberly Holton was last seen by her mom on September 29th at 9 p.m.
19:50The following day, September 30th, her mother reports Kimberly missing, and then in the
19:54afternoon of that same day, September 30th, someone buys the lock, chain, and duct tape
20:00at Lowe's that are subsequently found wrapped around Kimberly's body.
20:05So Kimberly, she's found on the 8th of October, and by the 10th of October, we knew which
20:10store sold that combination of chains, and we were able to send detectives to that store
20:15on the 10th to look at their surveillance video of that purchase.
20:22We actually see two males at the checkout counter purchasing that chain, the cinder
20:28blocks, the clamps, and the duct tape.
20:31We weren't able to positively identify them through this video.
20:36We couldn't see their faces, but they looked like two younger males, probably somewhere
20:41early to mid-20s, dressed normally, nothing out of the ordinary.
20:45It was not her foster father, and it didn't appear to be Logan Ashford.
20:50We of course were hoping that they used some type of credit card, which they didn't.
20:54They paid in cash.
20:56Still, I'm excited, you know, I'm excited because we have tangible evidence now showing
21:00that these two may have, in fact, been involved in Kimberly's death.
21:05Who are these guys, and why are they buying the exact components that were found on Kimberly
21:10Holton's body?
21:15Two days after police discover Kimberly Holton's remains wrapped in chains and duct tape off
21:20the coast of Cape May, New Jersey, detectives need to identify two young men recorded buying
21:25those chains and duct tape at a Dover, Delaware Lowe's.
21:29We were able to view the store video and get good still images from that store video.
21:34About a week after we had the photograph and had been attempting to try to identify
21:38these people, we made a decision to release that surveillance video to the public.
21:43The problem with this method for police is that you're going to get dozens, if not hundreds,
21:49of false leads.
21:51Some are well-intentioned, you know, people calling in and they've misidentified somebody.
21:56In other cases, it's people just looking to maybe cash in on a possible reward or just
22:00create mischief for that matter.
22:02Either way, it's going to eat up a lot of their bandwidth.
22:07So we begin to receive a lot of tips and information.
22:11Initially, none of them are really viable or panning out, but then we receive a call
22:18from a young man who says that I'm one of the people in this video.
22:25So Caleb Fenton says, I don't know what you're looking for, but that's me in the video.
22:29And he agrees to come in and talk to the detectives.
22:35As soon as I see him, I'm like, this is the guy that was one of the people at the Lowe's
22:41Home Improvement store.
22:42So we know that he's being honest, that he was in that video.
22:47He is visibly shaking, breathing heavy.
22:53So Caleb tells us that he receives a phone call from a gentleman by the name of Jacob
22:58Jones.
22:59He's a good friend of his.
23:00And Jacob asks him to help him buy some chains, cinder blocks, duct tape in these clamps to
23:07make equipment in the backyard to use for working out, lifting weights.
23:13So those chains you use for lifting weights, do they actually make your shock a lot of
23:17the time?
23:18Does it affect you?
23:19No.
23:20It did not affect me at all whatsoever.
23:23All I know is what he's told me.
23:27He provided a scenario where they broke the blocks up at his house to create homemade
23:32workout equipment, where they were going to use a broomstick and suspend cinder blocks
23:37from chains on each side of the broomstick to create a weight bar with weights on it.
23:43They broke the blocks up at his house, and it didn't work.
23:46They weren't able to break the blocks up the right way, and that Jacob Jones left with
23:50the chain and the links.
23:52There was no conversation that came out where it had to do with it being used for some criminal
24:00harm or anything like that.
24:03So while we still have Caleb in custody, we send detectives to his residence to try and
24:08verify the story that he's giving us.
24:12If you break a cinder block apart, there should be some remnants on the ground where it was
24:15done.
24:16The detectives go out there, and there was none of that.
24:19They find no indication of anything remotely related to what we were looking for.
24:27So we knew that Caleb's story was not truthful.
24:32We confront him with that information, and he knows that we know he's lying.
24:37But then he gives us the information that Jacob Jones is Nora's boyfriend, who is Kimberly's
24:46foster sister, which is shocking news.
24:49Now we know that there's a direct connection between Jacob Jones and Kimberly herself.
24:57So this could be motive, because we're going back to some type of animosity between Nora
25:03and Kimberly.
25:04Then it all starts to paint a picture that maybe Jacob did this because of a conflict
25:10between Kimberly and Nora.
25:14Based on the interview of Caleb Fenton, we didn't find any information that allowed us
25:18to hold him or charge him for any offenses.
25:20They had to release him.
25:26So we bring Nora in for more questioning.
25:31Now we want to know why she didn't tell us that Jacob Jones was her boyfriend or she
25:35even had a boyfriend.
25:37She tells us that he is a student at Delaware State University.
25:42We show her pictures and the video at the Lowe's store, and she is trying to tell us,
25:49well, I don't know if that's really him or not.
26:12We are questioning her further.
26:36She begins to express that she was actually upset with Kimberly for causing a lot of the
26:42issues that were occurring within that family household.
26:45At this point, she's forthcoming about that she doesn't like Kimberly.
26:49Her involvement couldn't be ruled out, but they didn't get anything from her that clearly
26:53suggested she was involved in this.
26:56At this point, we had nothing to hold her on, but we knew that we had to find Jacob
27:00and bring him in.
27:04We knew that he was a student.
27:07As we look into Delaware State University, we find out that he is in the aeronautics
27:13program and very bright.
27:16He seems to be doing very well for himself.
27:19So it's confusing to us why he would be involved in this situation.
27:24So then we learned that he actually is a flight instructor.
27:30The fact that he was a pilot certainly changes the dynamic of what we're looking at.
27:36Prior to that, we were looking at people that possibly had a boat.
27:39We found no connections to a boat, but now you introduce this issue of a plane.
27:45Because of his status as a flight instructor, he has access to go and rent and obtain planes
27:52for his own pleasure or teaching lessons.
27:56Once we realized that he has access to planes, basically as he pleases, somebody brings it
28:02up.
28:03We threw her out of a plane, and we're kind of like, well, is that even possible?
28:14As amazing as it was to me to hear, it all made perfect sense to me.
28:19Postmortem, we have a basal skull fracture, most likely from a high altitude.
28:25And we're thinking it's starting to make a little more sense now.
28:29If Kimberly was killed, thrown out of a plane over the ocean, and that's what caused that
28:33fracture, as crazy as it sounds, it's starting to kind of make sense.
28:38A team of detectives went out, they were able to locate Jacob Jones, and he agreed to come
28:43back to the state police headquarters in Delaware to be interviewed.
28:48Jacob Jones comes in, he is in almost a defensive posture.
28:53He's slumped over, staring directly down at the floor, not making any eye contact,
28:59no emotion whatsoever.
29:01Jacob, will you talk to us?
29:04Jacob?
29:05Jacob gives us the same version of the story that Caleb gave us earlier about using the
29:11items that they had purchased at Lowe's for workout equipment.
29:16What configuration did you have in mind to exercise with the chain and these couple of
29:21center blocks?
29:22Well, the chain and the center block was the weight.
29:30I've never come up with a configuration after that.
29:36Do you know where the center blocks are again?
29:42I have honestly no idea how that chain got around her ankles.
29:48We ask him about his relationship with Kimberly, his relationship with Nora, and he knows that
29:54he can't answer these questions without implicating himself in this crime.
29:59How was I placed under arrest?
30:01You're not placed under arrest.
30:03Oh, s**t.
30:04Now, hold on.
30:05You're being detained right now.
30:07We have no charges filed.
30:09Like you're not under arrest, we're just trying to have a conversation here.
30:12Jacob, we're trying to help you out here, and what we need is you to still cooperate
30:15with us, okay?
30:17I want to cooperate, but I want to have counsel present.
30:23He terminated the interview by asking for legal counsel.
30:27At this point in the investigation, we don't have enough to hold Jacob Jones.
30:31We don't have enough to charge him.
30:33So, unfortunately, we have to let him go, and it's very, very frustrating.
30:39An answer to our question as to how did Kimberly end up in the water.
30:42Certainly, Jacob Jones is a prime suspect now.
30:45We were looking at people that possibly had a boat.
30:47We then focused our attention on him and his use of airplanes.
30:51We go to the airport, and we spoke to his supervisor who explained that
30:56over the past several weeks, Jacob's demeanor had changed.
31:00He normally was very particular, on time, methodical in everything that he did.
31:06Well, all of a sudden, he stopped showing up for work.
31:09When he was there, he was very agitated, distracted,
31:12which is indicative of somebody that has something going on in their personal lives
31:17that's distracting them from what they're doing.
31:21We begin to look into his flight records, and we find that on the night that
31:26Kimberly was reported missing, at approximately 11 p.m.,
31:30Jacob signs out a plane from the airport.
31:34It was one of those small-engine Cessna-type planes where the sliding door opens
31:40and takes off from that airport and returns back maybe one or two in the morning.
31:47That's during the time period of when Kimberly was reported missing.
31:52So from there, we begin to try and paint a picture of where that plane actually went.
31:58We had contacted the local airport, the Air Force,
32:01trying to see if that plane was captured on radar somewhere.
32:05Several of the detectives make contact with an Air Force base out west
32:10and are able to determine that Jacob Jones's plane was captured on radar.
32:19It takes off from the airport in Dover, Delaware.
32:23It flies over the Atlantic Ocean, does several circles in the Atlantic Ocean,
32:29and then returns back to the airport and lands.
32:33So once we learned that, we had asked the Coast Guard to give us patterns of currents.
32:40We took the area where the radar showed that he circled in the plane several times.
32:46If the body were dropped into the ocean from the plane,
32:50the body would have been taken by the current
32:53and would have been located where it was found, 3.3 miles off the coast of Cape May.
32:58In my mind, I knew that this is how this happened.
33:02The injury to the back of her skull, absolutely, was being dropped out of an airplane.
33:07Also, the fact that they had bought not only the chains, the duct tape,
33:11but they had bought these cinder blocks.
33:13Now I know that cinder blocks were probably attached with the chains,
33:16so the body would sink to the bottom.
33:19We presented all these facts to the district attorney's office,
33:23and they authorized charges for murder against Jacob Jones.
33:27So we're going to arrest him on these charges.
33:30And then we receive a call from the Delaware troopers that were dispatched to Jacob Jones' house.
33:39Jacob committed suicide inside the house.
33:44I don't even remember what I said. I think I was in shock. I couldn't believe it.
33:49So we go there. Jacob was in his room, deceased.
33:53And Jacob's parents tell us that he had admitted to killing Kimberly,
33:58that he was in fact the person on that video surveillance buying those items,
34:03and he bought those items with the intention of killing Kimberly.
34:08Even with this confession prefacing his suicide,
34:11police can't independently corroborate that confession.
34:14And that's in large part because they have no idea what the possible motive could have been.
34:19They have no idea why Jacob Jones might have wanted to murder Kimberly Holton.
34:24Jacob told his parents that there were several issues that Kimberly was causing between himself and Nora.
34:31But whatever the final actual motive is, they don't know.
34:37He goes in his room. The parents are kind of in shock.
34:41A short time later, they hear a gunshot.
34:45Go into the room and find that Jacob committed suicide.
34:50Rather than go to jail, Jacob Jones took his own life.
34:54But even if Jacob Jones was responsible for killing Kimberly and throwing her body from a plane,
35:00there's another question detectives need to solve.
35:02Could he have pulled off this crime alone?
35:05Jacob wasn't a big guy, maybe medium height, 140 pounds, so he wasn't a large statured person.
35:14To lift and carry basically a full-grown person wrapped in chains would take some strength.
35:22Fortunately, we were lucky in some ways because Jacob Jones did tell his parents some very important information.
35:30He admits that he had a help in killing Kimberly Holton.
35:35We need to identify who this person is.
35:38Jacob told his parents that he had an accomplice, a friend of his by the name of Michael Kaiser.
35:45So we do a little background on Michael Kaiser.
35:48We find out that he's a young man, local to the area, no criminal history, no prior acts of violence,
35:55nothing that would indicate that he would be involved in a crime like this.
36:01We didn't know at that point where Michael Kaiser was,
36:04We didn't know at that point where Michael Kaiser was,
36:06so we had Jacob Jones' father put a call in to Michael and give him the news that Jacob had committed suicide
36:16and that he had left a suicide note implicating Michael as being involved,
36:22assisting with the murder of Kimberly Holton.
36:26Michael comes into the station.
36:28He's very nervous, shaking, just scared to death basically.
36:32He's very nervous, shaking, just scared to death basically.
36:34We begin to question him about his role.
36:37We begin to question him about his role.
36:40He put a shotgun near his chin last night.
36:54He admits that he received a call from Jacob Jones.
36:58Jacob asked him to meet him and they were going to pick up Kimberly at the mobile home park.
37:07Then they went to a motel not far from there, which is typically used by college kids to party.
37:13They rented a room.
37:14Michael Kaiser indicated that they both had sex with Kimberly.
37:18I always thought that there was some type of sexual act that happened,
37:22whether it was a forced sexual assault or consensual.
37:26Unfortunately, we will never have that confirmed by the forensics part of the investigation.
37:33At some point, Kimberly says that she has to use the restroom.
37:37She goes into the bathroom and then Jacob tells Michael that he wants to kill her and he needs his help.
37:44I didn't think there was anything wrong.
37:57Jacob Jones wanted to kill Kimberly because of the turmoil she was causing to his girlfriend.
38:03I didn't want her part of it. I wanted to leave.
38:05She told me basically that I didn't help him, he would kill me.
38:09He says that Jacob threatens to kill him as well, so then all of a sudden he decides to agree to help him.
38:17When she comes out of the bathroom, Jacob knocks her to the ground.
38:21Michael Kaiser indicates that he held her feet.
38:25She began struggling.
38:26Jacob used a phone cord, wrapped it around her neck and began to strangle her.
38:32Then used a pillow to put it over her face to muffle some of the noise.
38:37And she struggles for a while.
38:41After a certain period of time, she just stops moving.
38:44And then Jacob checks her pulse.
38:48She had no heartbeat.
38:50He did deny participating in the disposal of her body, but he confessed he participated in her murder.
38:57Michael Kaiser stated that Kimberly was killed sometime after 2am.
39:01They put the body into the back of Jacob's car.
39:04And at that point he claims that he had nothing else to do with it.
39:08He leaves and goes home.
39:10About 12 hours later, in the afternoon of September 30th, Jacob goes shopping at Lowe's with his friend Caleb Fenton.
39:17Caleb Fenton claims to have no knowledge of what happened the night before.
39:23Then Jacob went to the airport.
39:25He rented a plane around 11pm.
39:30Took the plane out over the ocean.
39:34Discarded the body.
39:36And landed back between 1 and 2am.
39:40Michael Kaiser is adamant that he wasn't involved in that part of it.
39:44But I really think that he probably was involved in loading the body into the plane and maybe even on the plane discarding it.
39:52Michael Kaiser's admission and statement to us helps us put all the evidence and pieces together as to what happened to Kimberly and how the body was discarded.
40:04What we believe happened was Kimberly was bound with the duct tape.
40:08The chains over top of the duct tape.
40:10The chains were looped through the cinder blocks and then clamped back together holding the cinder blocks onto the chain.
40:19And when the body was dumped out, what Jacob Jones believed would happen was the cinder blocks would cause her to sink to the bottom of the ocean and hold the body down there.
40:28But when the body hit the water, the cinder blocks shattered upon impact.
40:32They probably ripped the bag upon impact also.
40:35And just the cinder blocks were strewn about the ocean floor about 3.3 miles out.
40:41Having a rock crab gnawing on her means to us that she was definitely at the bottom for a period of time.
40:46But as part of the decomposition, your body produced gases.
40:50And when you're submerged in water and there's nowhere for these gases to release, it's just going to continue to expand inside the body until there's some type of release.
41:00I don't care if you're 3,000 feet in the water or 10 feet in the water.
41:04If the body starts filling with gases, no matter what weight it has, it's going to come floating up.
41:10The investigators in Delaware did a search of the hotel room probably eight days later at least.
41:17So, you know, I don't know how many times that room may or may not have been cleaned.
41:21So nothing was found in that room that would have tied it into this crime.
41:25We'll never know the exact motive as to why Jacob did this.
41:29One of the theories was there was some type of sexual relationship between Kimberly and Jacob.
41:36And at some point, Kimberly was going to expose that relationship to Jacob's girlfriend, Nora.
41:43So that would be a huge motive for him to want to keep her quiet.
41:48And another theory was that Kimberly's foster sister, Nora, went to Jacob and she wanted Jacob to have sex with her.
41:57She went to Jacob and she wanted Jacob to help her get rid of Kimberly.
42:02And Jacob obliged.
42:04We can never prove that.
42:06Nora was never charged with a crime.
42:16Caleb Fenton, who helped Jacob Jones buy the supplies, was never charged.
42:21There would not have been a case without the evidence that was her and with her.
42:25The evidence, as few as it was with her and as contaminated as it was from being in the water, just became everything to the success of this case.
42:41With a case like this, you have your initial feelings of seeing a victim that's just, you know, thrown in the trash, basically.
42:48And your responsibility to speak for that victim.
42:51And I can only hope that her family and friends have taken some solace in the fact that her killers were identified and one of them is still serving a sentence for that murder.
43:0321 years later, I still can't drive into Cape May without thinking of Kimberly Holton.
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