Teen collected blood on microscope slides after dismembering murder victim with cleaver and saw, told his girlfriend 'I killed somebody and cut him up': Police

A Florida teen told his woman "I killed idiosyncratic and chopped him up" aft attacking a antheral successful his vicinity with a shot bat, dismembering him, and past collecting the victim's humor to support connected microscope slides, according to police.

Lucas Jones, 19, of Indialantic, claimed successful a speech with the woman that helium wanted to execution Colie Daniel, 28, due to the fact that helium was a registered sex offender who was surviving successful his neighborhood, an arrest affidavit states. Online records show that Daniel was, successful fact, a enactment offender convicted successful 2018 of lewd oregon lascivious artillery with a unfortunate 12 to 15 years of age.

"He wanted to termination him," the woman allegedly recounted to police.

"He had a printed database of adjacent enactment offenders," the affidavit states. "Daniel did reside adjacent and was apt connected this database of registered enactment offenders Jones printed."

Jones allegedly told his woman that helium murdered Daniel "with a shot bat and chopped up his assemblage with a cleaver, a saw, and a knife." Jones past placed Daniel's remains successful 2 abstracted suitcases and 2 ample Rubbermaid totes, per the affidavit.

A information of Daniel's dismembered remains were recovered successful an country known arsenic the "Compound" successful Palm Bay, on Bombardier Boulevard, connected March 28. Vultures were spotted swarming astir an abandoned suitcase, which led to the discovery.

Daniel's parents had reported him missing connected March 22 and informed constabulary that helium told them helium was going implicit to a location astir a mile distant from their home; helium ne'er returned aft saying helium would beryllium location for dinner.

The parents said they utilized "Find My iPhone" connected Daniel's iPad, which was near astatine their home, to find that his cellphone was astatine 420 Watson Drive — Jones' address, according to an affidavit for a hunt warrant.

They went implicit to the code connected March 20.

"[Jones] confirmed that Colie Daniel was wrong of his home, but … helium refused to travel to the door," the affidavit says. "Colie Daniel's parents refused to permission without seeing their son, truthful Lucas Jones called instrumentality enforcement, who responded to the scene."

While the Indialantic Police Department and Colie Daniel's parents were some connected scene, Jones' woman arrived astatine the home. They had lone been dating for astir a period and a half, according to police.

"She often spends the nighttime astatine Lucas Jones' location and arrived connected this evening aft she got disconnected of work," the hunt warrant affidavit says.

Jones allegedly told his woman to not accidental thing and spell inside. He refused to fto the parents and constabulary participate his residence to spot if Daniel, who had not been reported missing yet, was there, the apprehension affidavit states.

"No interaction was ever made with Daniel that evening," the apprehension affidavit says, noting however his parents and the responding officers left. "The residence astatine the clip instrumentality enforcement and unfortunate household members were determination was an progressive transgression scene, and Jones was successful the process of cleaning up," the papers alleges.

Jones' woman aboriginal told cops that erstwhile she walked wrong the home, Jones told her "I killed idiosyncratic and chopped him up" and confessed that it was Daniel, according to the apprehension affidavit.

"Jones had already cleaned up astir of the humor wrong of the home, but she inactive saw humor successful the tile grout, the carpet rugs, the baseboards, and the partition extracurricular of his bedroom," the apprehension affidavit says. "She besides noticed 1 tile extracurricular of his chamber was cracked and dented successful the signifier of a head."

Police returned to Jones' location connected the greeting of March 21 — the time earlier Daniel's parents reported him missing — but were incapable to find immoderate motion of him aft being fto into the residence to look around. After they yet left, Jones' woman said helium asked her to thrust with him successful her car to "throw away" the suitcase and totes containing Daniel's remains, according to the affidavits.

"Shortly aft Indialantic Police Department departs, truthful does Jones who is accompanied by [the girlfriend]," the apprehension affidavit says. "Prior to departure, Jones loaded up astatine slightest 2 grey Rubbermaid retention totes and astatine slightest 1 achromatic suitcase into the backmost seat."

The mates allegedly made aggregate stops "removing each tote and the suitcase from the conveyance astatine abstracted locations" passim the Compound area successful Palm Bay, according to police. After Daniel's remains were discovered, authorities returned to Jones' location with a hunt warrant and allegedly recovered grounds of humor passim the residence.

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On March 30, 2 days aft the remains were found, Jones' woman came guardant and confessed to constabulary astir what allegedly happened. She told them astir items Jones utilized to cleanable up the transgression country and different objects utilized during the committee of the murder, according to the apprehension affidavit.

"These items see but not constricted to carpet rugs, overgarment utilized successful covering up the walls and baseboards, residential trash cans, drills, plumbing pea-traps and grounds of microscope slides containing biological-matter," the apprehension affidavit says. "A drill spot was located successful a container on with immoderate of the remains. There was an wounded observed consistently with a drill hole, akin successful size to the drill spot found."

Jones was arrested and charged with murder, maltreatment of a dormant body, transporting a quality assemblage successful unauthorized containers, and tampering with evidence. He is being held without enslaved and is owed to beryllium arraigned connected April 21.