'Daddy, I love you': Last words of girl, eight, before her father strangled her to death after she had watched him kill her brother, as he stands trial for murdering all five of his children

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May 24, 2019 6:05 PM

The tragic final words of an eight-year-old girl before her father strangled her to death after she'd watched him kill her brother were 'Daddy, I love you,' it has been revealed. 

Timothy Jones Jr. is on trial for the murders of his five children in Lexington, Kentucky, in 2014.  

He first killed his six-year-old son, Nahtahn, in a rage because he had broken an electricity outlet, beating him then claiming to find him dead in his bed. 

Next, he strangled his son Elias, seven, with his hands, in front of his eight-year-old daughter Merah. 

Both fought back and Merah's final words to her father as he killed her were: 'Daddy I love you.' 

Timothy Jones Jr.

Merah, his eight-year-old daughter

Seven-year-old Elias also fought for his life

He killed six-year-old Nahtahn by hitting him twice then sending him to bed, he said

One-year-old Abigail was strangled with a belt

Two-year-old Gabriel

Jones revealed them during a video-taped confession to police that was played in court last week, according to The Post and Courier, which attended the trial. 

He is fighting murder charges, claiming he was hearing voices, is schizophrenic and should be found not guilty by reason of insanity. 

After killing the three oldest children, he used a belt to strangle his two-year-old son Gabriel and one-year-old daughter Abigail. 

Two-year-old Gabriel also told him: 'I love you,' before he died. 

The 37-year-old then wrapped their bodies in blankets and loaded them into his car, putting them onto the floorboards of his Cadillac Escalade. 

He was on the run for days until police arrested him at the state line with Mississippi.

Elsewhere in his harrowing interrogation, he told police that he had asked Nahtahn to do push ups and squats as a punishment for breaking the socket before he beat him to death.  

Amber Kyzer (center), the mother of five young children broke down during her testimony on Monday at the death penalty trial of her ex-husban

 'At the time, I didn’t think any of it was wrong. It was just happenstance and so let me finish it up now

He told police he hit the boy twice then sent him to bed and found him dead later. 

'Then the sh*t hits the fan. The voices started going off. And here comes the paranoia. Oh (expletive), what just happened?' he told the police officers in his interview. 

Next, he went to Elias and strangled him with his hands. 

His final words were: 'Take me with dad.' 

'They didn’t want go. They didn’t want their lives taken,' their father said in his police interview. 

He claimed he believed he had to kill his children because he thought they were conspiring against him. 

He said that he'd had thoughts about killing them before but never acted on it.

After killing the children at their home (pictured), authorities said Jones wrapped their bodies in plastic and put them in his SUV, driving aimlessly around the Southeast US for most of nine days

Jones eventually left the children's bodies on a hilltop (pictured) in Camden, Alabama

'At the time, I didn’t think any of it was wrong. It was just happenstance and so let me finish it up now,' he said. 

With the bodies in his truck, he then drove around for several days, stopping at Dollar General stores and buying supplies, with the intention of burning them. 

Police found a list in his car which included a note which read: 'Melt bodies! Sand bones to dust or small pieces.' 

He tried to saw off Nahtahn's leg but could not bring himself to do it so dumped the bodies on a road. 

He admitted that he knew he was going to be caught and that he was merely trying to buy time.

Before he was arrested, he took out $500 and planned to go to Las Vegas, he said. 

At the end of the interview, he blamed the killings on Nahtahn and said that if he had admitted to breaking the electricity socket, he would not have snapped and killed them all.  

The 37-year-old cried throughout the trial last week and dabbed his eyes with a blue bandanna

Jones says he is schizophrenic and was hearing voices in his head when he killed the kids

Last week, the children's mother broke down as she testified. 

'You kids are my world and Mommy and Daddy were really blessed to have you,' Kyzer said, pausing, then burying her head in her hands on the witness stand and breaking into heaving sobs.

She was reading a letter she had written to comfort the children about the divorce she was getting from their father. 

'Oh god. Oh god. My babies. My babies,' Kyzer cried as the judge rushed to get the jury out of the courtroom.

There are four possible outcomes in the trial: guilty, guilty by reason of insanity, not guilty by mental defect, or not guilty.

The mother also testified she fell in love with Jones because he was smart, accomplished and appeared to have his life together. 

But she said after they married, he became rigid in his religion and demanding on her.

'Women are to be seen and not heard. I was merely to take care of the children. To keep them out of his way,' Kyzer said.

After they divorced, Kyzer couldn't afford a lawyer, so she agreed to joint custody with Jones having physical custody of the five children.  

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