Jackson County Sheriff's Department officials found text messages between the suspect and her mother that discussed the murder in December 2022.
JACKSON COUNTY, Indiana — The plot to slip an untraceable deadly liquid and roots of a poisonous flower into the food and drink of a southern Indiana man was likely, detectives believe, concocted up by his own wife's daughter who now faces multiple charges in connection with his 2022 death.
One of two suspects in that burglary then confided to Jackson County authorities that he had a conversation with Jones in which she accused her mother of ending Allen's life by poisoning him to death. Detectives then spoke with Jones' mother, who denied killing her husband and consented to a search of her phone.
On Dec. 2, 2022, Ashley texted her mother,"You can't touch the plant." By then, text messages suggest the duo had shifted their strategy, turning instead to a colorless, odorless chemical to try and kill Allen. Officers arrested Jones at a residence in Missouri on Oct. 3, and she was booked at the Jackson County Jail in Indiana on Oct. 16, 2023. Jones allegedly told authorities in an interview the following day that her mother put a foxglove root into Allen's chili and brownie. She told them the foxglove had been ordered from Etsy, although she could not recall who ordered it.
Jones lamented in the texts that her mother allegedly required her assistance to get into a"dead man's phone" to get"his retirement savings he had hidden", and that she had helped her mother access $4,500 from"his" PayPal account, but was upset she did not receive any of the money.
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