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MADISON - Testimony in Friday morning’s murder trial here featured another recording of Carrie Jones talking to Nebraska State Patrol investigators.
Jones is on trial in connection with the Aug. 4, 2022 murder of four Laurel residents. Her husband, Jason Jones, was convicted in September, 2024 of killing Gene Twiford, his wife Janet, and their daughter Dana, as well as Elm Street neighbor Michelle Ebeling.
Footage from Nebraska State Patrol investigator Tony Kavin‘s body camera was shown to the jury on Friday.
The State Patrol informed Jones they had a warrant for her husband’s arrest and were seeking information about her husband’s whereabouts, his medical condition, and where he was located in the house.
She was not a suspect at the time, Kavin said.
‘’Initially, we just wanted to make sure she was alive, if she was ok and safe and wanted to know if she would give us the layout of the house,’’ Kavin said.
In the 42-minute video Carrie Jones said she saw someone ‘’stumbling across the lawn. I was gonna go over to help who ever it was,’’ outside Ebeling’s burning house and then realized it was her husband.
‘’He was burned. He was walking and stumbling. He was in and out of consciousness,’’ she said to the investigator.
When asked how Jason Jones had gotten burned she replied that, ‘’he was in the military. He tried to help people.’’
Jones said she then helped her husband into their house, and helped to peel the burned clothes off of his body before bandaging him up and going to bed herself.
She did not take him to the hospital because, ‘’he’s an adult, he can make his own decisions, and he didn’t want to go to the hospital,’’ she said.
Trooper Kavin then told Jones he was, ‘’questioning if he’s in that bad of shape, why would you not take him to the hospital? Did he say, ‘I did this today, so I can’t go to the hospital?’ ‘’ Jones replied that was not the case. He was only trying to help the fire victims, she said.
‘’He was in the military. If he sees something going on, he tries to help somebody,’’ she said.
She then let patrolmen look over her phone to check for texts and calls between the pair, but there were none.
When the Troopers informed her they had a warrant for her husband’s arrest she urged them not to break the door down to get into her house.
‘I’ll let you into the house, you don’t need to kick my door in,’’she said. 'I don’t know why you want to kick my door down. I could let you in there. He’s not answering because he’s burned up.'
