When Scott Jones left the house on July 8, 2011, he told his wife Janelle and his 10-year-old son Tyler that he was driving to High Desert State Prison to ask for his job back. He never made it to the prison.
Police Chief Tom Downing and his wife, friends of the Jones family, found Scott the next day near a rocky, dirt road along Lake Eagle, 10 miles outside of Susanville, California. He lay dead among the desert brush, a gun in his hand, around 200 yards from his dark green pickup truck. He was 36.
The police chief opened Scott’s truck. Several sheets of paper, ripped from a small notebook lay on the dashboard beside a small brass chip that guards use to trade in for equipment when they arrive at work. Dried teardrops stained the sheets. There were messages on them, etched into the paper with the chip.
“Mom & Dad Love you.”]
“Tyler Love you most!”
“Janelle Love you Sorry.”
“I told the truth.”
“The job made me do it.”
[For more of this story, written by Albert Samaha, go to http://www.buzzfeed.com/albert...-prison/#.jbEbJ1pQ2X]
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