<p>Family members of the alleged victims of suspected serial killer Jeremy Brian Jones expressed anger and frustration Thursday that FBI fingerprint tests were botched, allowing the suspect to be released from jail before at least four women were murdered.</p><p>Jones, who was using the alias John Paul Chapman, was arrested and jailed in January 2004 in Carroll County, Ga., on a trespassing charge.</p><p>Local police fingerprinted him and sent the prints to the FBI under the name Chapman, but an FBI computer did not match the prints to Jones, 32, who was wanted since 2000 in Oklahoma for sexual assault, the FBI said. As a result, Jones was released.</p><p>In a statement issued Tuesday by FBI headquarters in Washington, the agency blamed a database error for the fingerprint mistake, adding that it was not a case of an examiner failing to make an appropriate match.</p><p>Rob Endres, whose wife, Patrice, disappeared in April 2004 from her hair salon in Forsyth County, quoted government officials saying the fingerprint technology is accurate about 95 percent of the time _ and said that rate is too low.</p><p>"I miss my wife terribly and this whole thing is about Patrice, but if we ratchet this thing up another level, this is about national security," he said. "We're going to let five potential terrorists out of jail? That's not acceptable."</p><p>Police say Jones has confessed to raping and killing Endres and dumping her body off of a bridge.</p><p>A grand jury in Alabama returned a capital murder indictment against Jones on Monday. He has been held there since he was charged with raping and murdering Lisa Nichols of Turnerville, Ala., on Sept. 18.</p><p>He also is charged with murder in the death of Amanda Greenwell, a 16-year-old neighbor in Douglasville, Ga., whose remains were found in April 2004, and Katherine Collins, a 45-year-old New Orleans woman whose body was found in February 2004.</p><p>He has been named a suspect in at least two other murders, including Endres's, and possibly as many as 20.</p><p>Gene Nichols, Lisa Nichols's ex-husband, said he's frustrated at the fingerprint error, but not angry at law enforcement.</p><p>"It's a shame that it happened, but you can't take it back," said Nichols, of Mobile, Ala., who was divorced for more than 10 years, but says he and Lisa remained on friendly terms. "There's nothing you can do about it except work on a solution to fix the problem. You can only blame one man, and that's the man that did this to Lisa."</p><p>Endres said he hopes the case will be used as a catalyst to reform the FBI's system.</p><p>"I don't want my wife's rape and murder to be in vain; I don't want her to be just another statistic," he said. "Let's use this tragedy to get funds diverted and whatever we need to upgraded the ... system so we don't have this failure any more."</p><p>An FBI review of the incident is still ongoing. A spokesman in Washington, Joe Parris, said he could not elaborate beyond a statement saying "the FBI greatly regrets this incident."</p><p>Since his arrest in Alabama, Jones has been questioned by authorities from several states, including Georgia, Oklahoma and Missouri. Officials in those states as well as Florida and Kansas have contacted the Mobile County Sheriff's Office, where Jones is in jail, as they try to determine if he might be tied to unsolved murders in their states.</p><p>An Alabama prosecutor has said that investigators in California, Arkansas and Tennessee also have expressed interest in Jones concerning unsolved murders in their jurisdictions.</p>
