http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/05/04/national/a063506D59.DTL&sn=008&sc=753The FBI admitted it made mistakes on fingerprint tests that allowed a man to go free who now has been charged in three murder cases and suspected in at least five others.
Jeremy Jones was arrested and jailed on minor offenses three times in Georgia's Douglas and Carroll counties in 2003 and 2004 under the name John Paul Chapman.
Local police fingerprinted him and sent the prints to the FBI under the name Chapman, but the FBI did not match the prints to Jones, who was wanted in Oklahoma for sexual assault, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Wednesday. As a result, Jones was released.
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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.
He also is charged with murder in the death of Amanda Greenwell, a 16-year-old neighbor of Jones 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.
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This is the same FBI that "matched" an innocent man from Oregon to the Madrid Train Bombings. :grr:
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