A fascinating focus amid the whole bevy of unnatural personalities--maybe 20 percent of these articles say the young girl is "no relation to the cult leader," although the consensus was Stephanie Jones was the "adopted granddaughter" of Jim Jones--niece of Stephan Jones, and in a few accounts also a niece of Susan Amos. But among ten million words written about the Jones family, I can't find any describing her actual relationship as in a diagram. Wikipedia tells us that
Lew and Agnes Jones both died at Jonestown. Agnes Jones was thirty-five years old at the time of her death.[119] Her husband [120] and four children [121] [122] [123][124] all died at Jonestown.And the other boys were too young and basketball-calloused to parent a houseplant. The New York Times, says she's "9-year-old Stephanie Jones, the adopted daughter of an adopted son of the Rev. Jim Jones," and there we are.
November 20, 1978, San Francisco Chronicle, Mystery Death of People's Temple Aide,
November 20, 1978, San Francisco Examiner, Price of her faith: 4 lives; Mother kills 3 kids, self, by Paul Shinoff,November 23, 1978, The Oakland Tribune, by Steve Lopez, A reunion before Guyana massacre,
November 24, 1978, San Francisco Examiner, One of the first Guyana victims, by Annie Nakao,
November 25, 1978, San Francisco Examiner, Death count rises to 900; Final toll in Guyana; Jones follower charged with four murders,
December 1, 1978, New York Times / Reuters, Writs Granted in Guyana, [Charles E. Beikman]
December 4, 1978, The Day - AP, page 7, Cultist accused of aiding mother slay her children, by Lew Wheaton,
December 5, 1978, New York Times, page B-11, A Cult Mother Led Children To Death; Witnesses, Initially Unaware of Plans for Suicides, Tell of the Guyana Deaths, by Joseph Treaster,
December 5, 1978, The Evening Independent - UPI, page 3A, Peoples Temple: Prosecutor Says Fellow Cultist Helped Woman Kill Her 3 Children, Then Herself,
December 5, 1978, New York Daily News / UPI, page 32, Arraign ex-marine in 4 slayings, [Charles E. Beikman]
December 5, 1978, Washington Post / UPI, page A-14, Guyana Suspect Mute in Court [Charles E. Beikman]
December 5, 1978, The Free Lance-Star - AP, page 1, Papers tell of tricks by cultists, by Peter Arnett, AP Special Correspondent,
December 5, 1978,The Daily Item, [Sumter, S.C.] - AP, Prosecutor Says Cult Member Held Kids For Mother To Kill, by Lew Wheaton,
December 5, 1978,The Free Lance-Star- AP, page 15, Cultist denies role in killing family, by Lew Wheaton,
December 7, 1978, Adirondack Daily Enterprise - AP, Beikman accused,
December 12, 1978, Observer-Reporter - AP, Son of Cult Leader Testifies at Hearing,
December 18, 1978, Ellensburg Daily Record – UPI, Son of cult leader confesses to murders,
December 20, 1978, The Palm Beach Post – UPI, Jones Charged With Murder, Temple Head’s Son Calls Confession 'Sarcasm’,
December 20, 1978, Washington Post, Jones' Son Is Charged With 4 Murder Counts In Cult Throat-Slashing, By Charles A. Krause,
December 20, 1978, New York Times, 'Confession' Prompts Four Charges of Murder Against Jim Jones's Son, by David Vidal,
December 20, 1978, The Spokesman-Review – AP, page A-6, Jones charged, bank funds frozen,
December 20, 1978, Lodi News-Sentinel – UPI, Rev. Jones’ son retracts story he killed follower, 3 children,
January 29, 1979, Washington Post, FBI Has Copy of Jonestown Radio Messages by Charles A Krause,
January 31, 1979, Schenectady Gazette - UPI, Jones’ Daughter’s Testimony Out As She Does Not Believe in God,
February 2, 1979, The Oregon Bulletin - UPI, Trial reveals bloody details,
February 3, 1979, The Virgin Islands Daily News - AP, Youngster Describes Guyana Murder Scene,
February 3, 1979, Spokane Daily Chronicle – UPI, Court Ruling Due in Temple Deaths,
February 7, 1979, Lakeland Ledger, Cult Leader Son Freed,
October 17, 1979, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - New York Times News Service, Guyanese Shun Jonestown Horror, [Continued page 4]
April 1, 1980, Spokane Daily Chronicle – AP, Jonestown Death Count Admitted,
April 2, 1980, The Observer-Reporter - AP, page A-9, Cult member Pleads Guilty to Murder Charge,
April 9, 1980, Eugene Register-Guard - UPI, page 15-B, Jones follower sentenced,
April 9, 1980, Plattsburg Press-Republican, Cultist sentenced for Jonestown killing,
April 9, 1980, The Day - AP, page 9, Jonestown defendant given 5 years in attempted murder,
September 29, 1980, The Virgin Islands Daily News - CANA, Jonestown Survivor Will Not Face Murder Charges, by Sharief Khan,
July 8, 1982, Florence Times Daily – UPI, page 23, Last Jonestown survivor freed from Guyana jail,
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November 20, 1978, San Francisco Chronicle, Mystery Death of People's Temple Aide,
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November 20, 1978, San Francisco Examiner, Price of her faith: 4 lives; Mother kills 3 kids, self, by Paul Shinoff,
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November 23, 1978, The Oakland Tribune, by Steve Lopez, A reunion before Guyana massacre,
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November 24, 1978, San Francisco Examiner, One of the first Guyana victims, by Annie Nakao,
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November 25, 1978, San Francisco Examiner, Death count rises to 900; Final toll in Guyana; Jones follower charged with four murders,
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December 1, 1978, New York Times - Reuters, Writs Granted in Guyana, [Charles E. Beikman]
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December 4, 1978, The Day - AP, page 7, Cultist accused of aiding mother slay her children, by Lew Wheaton,
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December 5, 1978, New York Times, page B-11, A Cult Mother Led Children To Death; Witnesses, Initially Unaware of Plans for Suicides, Tell of the Guyana Deaths, by Joseph Treaster,
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December 5, 1978, The Evening Independent, page 3A, Peoples Temple: Prosecutor Says Fellow Cultist Helped Woman Kill Her 3 Children, Then Herself,
Prosecutor Carlton Weithers says Charles Beikman killed Sharon Amos and her three children.
three more survivors flew out of Guyana
Robert Paul, 33 of New Iberia, La.,
Johnny Franklin, 33, of San Francisco
Richard Clark, 42, of Los Angeles
Of 86 known survivors, 31 have returned
"Stefany Jones, 9, a niece of Mrs. Amos, entered the bathroom while the murders were being carried out and Beikman tried to cut her throat. He managed to inflict a cut but failed to sever her jugular vein, and the girl escaped screaming.
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December 5, 1978, New York Daily News - UPI, page 32, Arraign ex-marine in 4 slayings, [Charles E. Beikman]
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December 5, 1978, Washington Post / UPI, page A-14, Guyana Suspect Mute in Court [Charles E. Beikman]
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December 5, 1978, The Free Lance-Star, page 1, Papers tell of tricks by cultists, by Peter Arnett, AP Special Correspondent,
__________________________________________________________________________________December 5, 1978,The Daily Item, [Sumter, S.C.] - AP, Prosecutor Says Cult Member Held Kids For Mother To Kill, by Lew Wheaton,
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December 5, 1978,The Free Lance-Star- AP, page 15, Cultist denies role in killing family, by Lew Wheaton,
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December 7, 1978, Adirondack Daily Enterprise - AP, Beikman accused,
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December 18, 1978, Ellensburg Daily Record – UPI, Son of cult leader confesses to murders,
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December 12, 1978, Observer-Reporter - AP, Son of Cult Leader Testifies at Hearing,
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December 20, 1978, Lodi News-Sentinel – UPI, Rev. Jones’ son retracts story he killed follower, 3 children,
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December 20, 1978, The Palm Beach Post – UPI, Jones Charged With Murder, Temple Head’s Son Calls Confession ‘Sarcasm’,
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December 20, 1978, New York Times, 'Confession' Prompts Four Charges of Murder Against Jim Jones's Son, by David Vidal,
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December 20, 1978, The Spokesman-Review – AP, page A-6, Jones charged, bank funds frozen,
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December 20, 1978, Washington Post, Jones' Son Is Charged With 4 Murder Counts In Cult Throat-Slashing, By Charles A. Krause,
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Dec. 19—Looking haggard and contrite after a night in police custody, the late Rev. Jim Jones' 19-year-old son Stephan was charged with murder today in the throat-slashings of four Peoples Temple members hours after the mass suicide-murder at Jonestown.
In one more unexpected episode of the Nov. 18 Jonestown tragedy, Jones confessed yesterday to the murders during a tense courtroom confrontation [with] Carlton Weithers, government prosecutor. Jones was testifying during an inquest to determine whether Charles E. Beigman, a member of the Peoples Temple, will stand trial on charges of actually carrying out the four killings.
Guyanese police have determined Jones was not at the scene of the murder and therefore do not believe he wielded the knife himself. But under Guyanese law, they say, ordering the killings makes him liable to the murder charges.
During, Weithers' reexamination yesterday, [an] obviously angered Jones blurted out: "I killed those people and am trying to put it off on Chuck Beikman.
Magistrate Desmond Christian then asked Jones twice whether he meant what he had said, and both times Jones said he did, according to Weithers and a diplomatic observer in the courtroom yesterday when the statement was made.
Christian recessed the hearing and ordered a police investigation. It was understood here today that the police, who already had cleared Jones of involvement in the actual slayings, did not find any additional evidence to support his admission.
Nonetheless, Weithers said before the charges were formally lodged against Jones this morning that the fact that Jones recanted his admission and was obviously agitated when he blurted out his statement does not negate the legal validity of the confession.
Despite Jones' statement, the prosecutor did not dismiss the four counts of murder and one count of attempted murder against Beikman. They simply added Jones as a defendant, charged both with attempting to slash the throat of 8-year-old Stephanie Jones, Jones' niece; and with slashing the throats of Lianne Harris, 22; Martin Amos, 9; Christine Amos 10, and Linda Sharon Amos, about 42.
Stephanie Jones escaped but the other four, Linda Sharon Amos and her three children, died in the lavatory of a Georgetown house belonging to the Peoples Temple. Linda Sharon Amos was a top aide to the elder Jones before the Jonestown tragedy in which more than 900 persons died.
"I told them (the police) I was mad. It was absurd: I wasn't even there," Jones told reporters today before being taken off to jail.
Christian scheduled the next hearing in the case for Jan. 10.
Lee Ingram, a Peoples Temple leader outside the courtroom, characterized lengthy questioning of Temple survivors by Guyanese police as harassment. At the same time, Ingram said discussions are under way between temple lawyer Rex McKay, a confidant of Guyana's Prime Minister L. F. Burnham, to allow several Peoples Temple members to remain in Guyana rather than return to the United' States, where they will undoubtedly be called before a federal grand jury in San Francisco investigating the temple's operations.
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January 29, 1979, Washington Post, FBI Has Copy of Jonestown Radio Messages by Charles A Krause,
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January 31, 1979, Schenectady Gazette - UPI, Jones’ Daughter’s Testimony Out As She Does Not Believe in God,
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February 2, 1979, The Oregon Bulletin - UPI, Trial reveals bloody details,
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February 3, 1979, Spokane Daily Chronicle – UPI, Court Ruling Due in Temple Deaths,
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February 3, 1979, The Virgin Islands Daily News - AP, Youngster Describes Guyana Murder Scene,
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February 7, 1979, Lakeland Ledger, Cult Leader Son Freed,
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October 17, 1979, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - New York Times News Service, Guyanese Shun Jonestown Horror, [Continued page 4]
Jai Narine Singh, a 70-year-old lawyer who helped frame Guyana's first government in the transition toward independence and who is a member of the defense team representing Layton and Beikman, says he is convinced that neither man will be convicted of murder in Guyana.
"There is no case against either of them," Singh said. "Layton was inside the small plane when the five people were killed outside the larger plane. If they want to prove a conspiracy, they must have evidence of plans or language between the parties, but there is no such thing at all. The only possibility is attempted murder of the three in the little plane."
As for Beikman, Singh said, "there are no witnesses who will testify."
"All of them in the house except the little girl say they didn't see anything," he said. "And her testimony has been destroyed. She's given three different versions of the same story."
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April 1, 1980, Spokane Daily Chronicle – AP, Jonestown Death Count Admitted,
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April 2, 1980, The Observer-Reporter - AP, page A-9, Cult member Pleads Guilty to Murder Charge,
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April 9, 1980, Eugene Register-Guard - UPI, page 15-B, Jones follower sentenced,
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April 9, 1980, The Day - AP, page 9, Jonestown defendant given 5 years in attempted murder,
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April 9, 1980, Plattsburg Press-Republican, Cultist sentenced for Jonestown killing,
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September 29, 1980, The Virgin Islands Daily News - CANA, Jonestown Survivor Will Not Face Murder Charges, by Sharief Khan,
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July 8, 1982, Florence Times Daily – UPI, page 23, Last Jonestown survivor freed from Guyana jail,
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Dec 18, 1978 – ... if enough evidence was available to charge cultist Charles Beikmanwith the ... other cult members at the time Sharon Amos and her children were slain at... Beikman also is accused of attempting to kill Stephanie Jones the ...
Apr 3, 1980 – ... said Charles Beikman 44 a cook and shoemaker for the Jonestown ...or Wednesday for the attempted murder of Stephanie Jones a girl and no... also was charged with murder in the death of Sharon Amos a top temple...
Wikipedia
Family aftermath
Marceline
Jim Jones' wife, Marceline, was found poisoned at the pavilion.[105] On the final morning of Ryan's visit, Marceline had taken reporters on a tour of Jonestown.[106] Stephan, Jim Jr. and Tim Jones
Stephan, Jim Jr., and Tim Jones did not take part in the mass suicide because they were playing with the Peoples Temple basketball team against the Guyanese national team in Georgetown.[16][104] At the time of events in Jonestown, Stephan and Tim were both nineteen and Jim Jones Jr. was eighteen.[107] Tim's biological family, the Tuppers, which consisted of his three biological sisters,[108][109][110] biological brother, [111] and biological mother, [112] all died at Jonestown. Three days before the tragedy, Stephan Jones refused, over the radio, to comply with an order by his father to return the team to Jonestown for Ryan's visit. [113]
During the events at Jonestown, Stephan, Tim, and Jim Jones Jr. drove to the American Embassy in Guyana in an attempt to receive help. The Guyanese soldiers guarding the embassy refused to let them in after hearing about the shootings at the Port Kaituma airstrip.[114] Later, the three returned to the Temple's headquarters in Georgetown to find the bodies of Sharon Amos and her three children.[114] Guyanese soldiers kept the Jones brothers under house arrest for five days, interrogating them about the deaths in Georgetown.[114] Stephan Jones was accused of being involved in the Georgetown deaths, and was placed in a Guyanese prison for three months.[114] Tim Jones and Johnny Cobb, another member of the Peoples Temple basketball team, were asked to go to Jonestown and help identify the bodies of people who had died.[114] After returning to the United States, Jim Jones Jr. was placed under police surveillance for several months while he lived with his older sister, Suzanne, who had previously turned against the Temple.
When Jonestown was first being established, Stephan Jones had originally avoided two attempts by his father to relocate to the settlement. He eventually moved to Jonestown after a third and final attempt. He has since said that he gave into his father's wishes to move to Jonestown because of his mother.[115] Stephan Jones is now a businessman, and married with three daughters. He appeared in the documentary Jonestown: Paradise Lost which aired on the History Channel and Discovery Channel. He stated he will not watch the documentary and has never grieved for his father.[116] One year later, he appeared in the documentary Witness to Jonestown where he responds to rare footage shot inside the People's Temple.[117] Jim Jones Jr., who lost his wife and unborn child at Jonestown, returned to San Francisco. He remarried and has three sons from this marriage,[104] including Rob Jones, a high-school basketball star who went on to play for the University of San Diego before transferring to Saint Mary's College of California.[118] Lew, Agnes and Suzanne Jones
Lew and Agnes Jones both died at Jonestown. Agnes Jones was thirty-five years old at the time of her death.[119] Her husband[120] and four children[121][122][123][124] all died at Jonestown. Lew Jones, who was twenty-one years old at the time of his death, died alongside his wife Terry and son Chaeoke.[125][126][127]Stephanie Jones had died at age five in a car accident.[16]
Suzanne Jones married Mike Cartmell; both turned against the Temple and were not in Jonestown on November 18, 1978. After this decision to abandon the Temple, Jones referred to Suzanne openly as "my goddamned, no good for nothing daughter" and stated that she was not to be trusted.[128] In a signed note found at the time of her death, Marceline Jones directed that the Jones' funds were to be given to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and specified: "I especially request that none of these are allowed to get into the hands of my adopted daughter, Suzanne Jones Cartmell."[129][130] Cartmell had two children and died of colon cancer in November 2006.[131][132]
John Stoen and Kimo
Specific references to Tim Stoen, the father of John Stoen, including the logistics of possibly murdering him, are made on the Temple's final "death tape," as well as a discussion over whether the Temple should include John Stoen among those committing "revolutionary suicide."[94] At Jonestown, John Stoen was found poisoned in Jim Jones' cabin.[68]
Both Jim Jon (Kimo) and his mother, Carolyn Louise Moore Layton, died during the events at Jonestown.[133]
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