Bryan Maurice Jones

Bryan Maurice Jones (born March 14, 1962), known as The Dumpster Killer, is an American murderer, rapist and suspected serial killer who murdered between two and four women in San Diego, California, from 1985 to 1986. After killing them, he would discard their bodies in dumpsters.

He was linked to the four killings after being imprisoned for rape, and was later put on trial. Convicted of two of the murders, he was sentenced to death and remains on California's death row.

Early life Bryan Maurice Jones was born on May 14, 1962, in San Diego County, California, the older of two children of a Marine. Jones grew up in a poor neighborhood in Barstow, while his father spent most of the 1960s stationed around various military bases in Okinawa, Japan. In the early 1970s, his father resigned from the Marine Corps and became addicted to alcohol and gambling, as a result of which he lost the family's life savings. This led Jones' father to be physically abusive towards his family when drunk, reportedly breaking Bryan's arm on at least one occasion. After stealing $65 from her, Jones put Bertha in his car and drove her to the outskirts of San Diego, where he forced her to perform oral sex on him before releasing her. After Jones' arrest, she positively identified him and his car, which actually belonged to Jones' sister. His blood type matched that of the seminal fluid found on the victim's body, and she later confirmed that the house he lived in was the house where she had been raped. The house itself belonged to a Mrs. Tillie Wilsie, to whom Jones' mother worked as a caregiver. Wilsie allowed the Joneses to live there, and as Bryan also helped in taking care of the elderly woman, he had a key to the residence. In January 1987, he was convicted of rape and false imprisonment, for which he was sentenced to 22 years imprisonment.

Exposure After his conviction, Jones was transferred to the Corcoran State Prison to serve out his sentence. On June 24, 1992, he was visited by representatives of the San Diego County District Attorney's Office, who said that they intended to charge him with four murders. His attorneys argued that the women's testimonies were questionable due to the fact that they were drug addicts and prostitutes, and that one of them suffered from anterograde amnesia. Jones and his mother claimed that in August 1985, after his initial rape charges were dropped, Maria appeared with two others to apologize for falsely accusing him, but the two other women were never identified. As for the murders of Carpenter and Simpson, the jury were deadlocked on these counts, which forced Justice Laura Hammes to declare that Jones would need to be retried in these murders.

On September 19, 1994, Jones was officially sentenced to death. After the announcement of the verdict, Dusek said that he would not have Jones tried on the remaining charges due to the fact that he was already on death row.

Since his conviction for the murders, Jones has remained on California's death row and awaits execution.