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Accused killer charged in Georgia teen's death

By The Associated Press
<p>An Oklahoma man accused of killing an Alabama woman and suspected of killing several others now faces a second murder charge in the death of a 16-year-old Douglas County girl.</p><p>Jeremy Brian Jones, 31, has been held in a Mobile, Ala., jail without bond since he was charged with capital murder and rape in the Sept. 18 death of 45-year-old Lisa Nichols.</p><p>On Monday, Douglas County authorities also charged Jones with murder in the slaying of 16-year-old Amanda Greenwell, who was a neighbor of Jones and was missing for a month before her skeletal remains were found off an access road in April. Jones, a construction worker, had lived in Douglasville under the alias John Paul Chapman.</p><p>District Attorney David McDade said sheriff's investigators traveled to Mobile on Monday to interview Jones at the jail, and they had gathered enough evidence to charge him by that night.</p><p>"There was a major break in the case yesterday evening that led to the decision to charge him with murder late last night," McDade said Tuesday.</p><p>Authorities would not specify what new information led to the murder charge. Jones's attorney, Habib Yazdi, could not immediately be reached for comment.</p><p>Georgia investigators also have questioned Jones in the case of 38-year-old Tina Mayberry, who was stabbed to death in the parking lot of a Douglasville restaurant and bar on Oct. 31, 2002, but "there has been no movement in that case," Douglas Sheriff Phil Miller said Tuesday.</p><p>Miller said Jones remains a suspect in Mayberry's death.</p><p>At the time of his Alabama arrest, Jones was wanted in Oklahoma for rape and failure to register as a sex offender.</p><p>Alabama prosecutors also have suggested that investigators in California, Arkansas, Tennessee, Oklahoma and elsewhere in Alabama have expressed interest in Jones as a suspect in unsolved murders in their jurisdictions.</p><p>McDade said Tuesday that he hoped to have Jones extradited to Georgia as soon as possible to face charges in Greenwell's death, but that he probably would first be tried in Alabama for the killing of Nichols, who was raped and shot three times in her Turnerville, Ala., home before the house was set on fire.</p><p>"They're first in line, but we're an eager second," McDade said.</p>
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