Small Town Secret Robert Jones

Small Town Secret Discovery ID describes this episode as when young Kari Nixon goes missing while on a snack run, no one in her upstate New York town can imagine why anyone would harm her. With no body and few clues, detectives struggle to solve the mystery until a twist leads police to an unlikely killer.

Robert A. Jones plead guilty to this crime.  

There is a facebook group to keep Mr. Jones in prison. You can view this group here.

His appeal includes:
Purser testified as follows. On the night of the murder, she was looking out the second-floor window of her apartment. She saw two men standing on the sidewalk below, one of whom had a bicycle. The man with the bicycle looked up at her. Both men were standing next to a street light and the street was bright and clear. After they talked for ten to fifteen minutes, the man with the bicycle crossed into the street, at which point Stone walked up to him, stopping about fifteen feet away. They stood there for about a minute and a half before Purser heard two "pow-pows." Trial Tr. 645. Stone ran away, and the man with the bicycle crossed back to the other man on the sidewalk, again looking up at Purser. The man with the bicycle then fled on his bicycle. Purser viewed a lineup of potential shooters on September 30, 1994. She told the detective at the lineup that Jones's "face wanted to look like the same person [she] saw at the window there." Trial Tr. 758. Purser noted, though, that she was "not one hundred percent sure" that the person she picked out of the lineup was the man on the bicycle. She also identified Jones in court, saying again that his face "wants to look like" the face of the man on the bicycle. Trial Tr. 760.
Englebert testified as follows. Coming out of the subway station on the night of the murder, he saw a police car rush by with its sirens and lights on. Soon after, he saw a man speed past on a blue and white bicycle. As he walked home, he passed a man lying on the ground, surrounded by people. Englebert identified Jones as the man on the bicycle at a lineup on September 30, 1994. He also identified Jones in court as the man on the bicycle. Further, Englebert identified a photo of a bicycle recovered from Jones's apartment as the same one that he had seen the man riding on the night of the murder.








You can write to Robert A. Jones at:

Robert A. Jones 06A2830
Wyoming Correctional Facility
P.O. Box 501
Attica, New York 14011-0501