James Christopher Jones is accused in the stabbing death of 71-year-old Kay Conway Thomasson on June 27 2018 at her home in Sandy Springs, Georgia. Jones is also accused of being responsible for taking Thomasson's 2012 Kia Sorrento, which was found on June 30, 2018, at an apartment complex in Chamblee. The suspect had been captured on CCTV arriving at 1:10am on June 27, and then leaving in the victim's car at 5:03am. Several months later police obtained from Google an anonymized list of devices that reported their locations within 100 meters of the victim's home during the four hours when the murder happened - a process known as 'geofencing' - and identifying information tied to the subset of devices that were relevant to the investigation. This led to the arrest of Jones in 2020. Jones faces charges including, murder, murder during the commission of a burglary, aggravated assault with intent to murder, burglary in the first degree, false imprisonment, theft by taking a motor vehicle. |