Suspect confesses in decades-old cold case of Napa woman's murder

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Janet Luxford was last seen at an Alabama motel in 2001.

Up until Jones’ confession, all that was known of Luxford’s disappearance was reported in 2002 by her daughter. Luxford’s daughter told Napa police that her mother had left her residence in Jacksonville, Florida in September 2001 — and was last seen at a motel in Bessemer with a trucker.

Bessemer Police Lt. Christian Clemons, who described the case as a “once-in-a-career type situation” to“So 21 years ago, Mr. Jones was here working as a day laborer,” Clemons said “He and Ms. Luxford were boyfriend-girlfriend. She wanted to get money to go back to home, which is California, to see her folks and from that, an argument started to which he described got out of hand and he ended up hitting her with a club in the throat.

Jones told police that the murder was accidental, but he packed her corpse inside a green suitcase — taking it to a remote area just by a nearby creek. Days later, on March 29, Jones took Bessemer police to the site near the creek where he dumped the suitcase, according to the

 

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