TOLEDO, Ohio (Court TV) — An Ohio teenager is facing a list of charges after she allegedly confessed to murdering her adult boyfriend’s mother and disposing of the body.
Kaitlyn Coones is charged with murdering her adult boyfriend’s mother with a rock. (Cochise County, AZ Sheriff’s Office)
Kaitlyn Coones, 18, is charged with aggravated murder, murder, tampering with evidence, abuse of a corpse and felonious assault for the murder of Nicole Jones on April 19, 2023.
In court documents obtained by Court TV, investigators said that Coones, who was 17 at the time of the murder, told police that she initially told her boyfriend, Jonathon Jones, to kill his mother, but when he failed to act she took matters into her own hands. Coones told police that she went to Jones’ home and snuck inside without his mother knowing. After giving Jones a time frame of five hours in which “to do something about his mother and mentioned killing her because his mother was preventing them from being together,” Coones took action when he failed to.