New evidence has come to light regarding the Staten Island mom and her three children who were killed in a suspicious murder-suicide last week. Police investigators had originally thought that the oldest child, 14-year-old C.J. Jones, might have set a deadly blaze that killed his mother and toddler brother. The youth was then suspected of slashing the throats of two family members, then his own.
But now, the focus of the ongoing police investigation has shifted to the Mother.
Investigators found a penned note among the rubble, which read, "Am sorry."
"We believe that the badly charred note and a diary found in the wreckage of the fire were written by the same person - the Mother," top NYPD spokesman Paul Browne told the New York Daily News on Sunday.
The children's father, Earlston Raymond, 39, who lives in Kingston, Jamaica, told the Daily News, "If anybody set fire to that house and killed those children, it's their mother. She's got a high temper." Raymond also mentioned that C.J. had been under a lot of pressure to help raise his three younger siblings.
C.J.'s siblings (Brittany, 10, and Melony, 7) were found with their throats slashed, and the youngest sibling, Jermaine, 2, died later at a nearby hospital of smoke inhalation. Mother, Leisha, 30, was found in a crawling position and apparently also died of smoke inhalation. C.J. was found with his throat slashed, and police discovered a straight razor under his charred body.
A toxicology report is currently being put together to determine, if C.J. and perhaps his siblings had been drugged before they died. So far, autopsy investigators found undigested pills in Leisha and C.J.'s stomachs. A source said, that police are trying to figure out if Leisha might have drugged her children to make slitting their throats an easier process.
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Another unnamed source added that the found note might be Leisha's handwriting, but because it is so short, police can't say for sure.
The investigator's focus is definitely moving away from C.J. and more toward his mom. According to psychological experts, the teen's fascination with fire doesn't make him a mass murderer. Psychotics usually start out by torturing small animals or other children, and police discovered that C.J. was not known to demonstrate such violent and deviant behavior. Reportedly, Jones had allegedly told a pal several months ago that she thought about killing the kids and torching the house.
Leisha's family members, on the other hand, are defending her and insist, that she was not a murderer. Instead, they say, that the mom of four was devoted to her children.
Meanwhile fire marshals found a butane lighter near the victim's bodies. Police are also examining the family's computer to see if there were any e-mails, which detailed any alleged plans, or if any sites were visited that might have contained information on how to carry out any of the events that occurred.
