According to Unsolved Mysteries, officers said that Jones had tied his shoelace to a grate above a showerhead to hang himself. His oldsters, alternatively, didn't believe this as he had never been depressed or “showed suicidal tendencies.” His stepfather, Charles Quinn, later visited the prison and estimated that the grate was once “about 8 ft above the ground.” Simply put, he thought someone had lifted Jones to hold him. This contradicted the state-appointed pathologist, Dr. Steven Hayne, findings (via Synova’s True Crime Stories). His post-mortem concluded that Jones “will have hanged himself unaided.” The Quinn’s then made up our minds to hire their own pathologist, Dr. James Bryant.
Per Unsolved Mysteries Wiki, Bryant believed ligature marks on Jones’ neck had been the outcome of him being strangled. Although Hayne’s post-mortem failed to find any bruising on his body, Bryant noted that “[Jones] had suffered from some sort of blunt pressure trauma” while he used to be in jail. When Dr. Emily Ward turned into the new state scientific examiner in a while after, she, like Hayne’s, stated that Jones’ death used to be a suicide.
His circle of relatives believed that the prison was once concerned and that in the end, his death was racially motivated. They referred to as it a “lynching.” Charles Quinn later instructed The New York Times that the purpose, “will have been several issues, however we all know he didn’t devote suicide.” The Quinns later filed two proceedings in opposition to Mississippi and the federal government. Both have been disregarded and Jones’ manner of death has never been modified.
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