Bryan Maurice Jones

In addition to the murders, Jones was charged with the sexual assault and attempted murder of two other women: Maria R. and Karen M. According to the latter victim, a self-admitted prostitute and drug addict, she was approached by him at the intersection of 29th Street and Imperial Avenue while he was driving his blue Datsun 280Z.

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.

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.

Bryan Maurice Jones was born on May 14, 1962, in San Diego County, California, the older of two children of a Marine.

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.

At around this time, Jones lost interest in learning and began to spend most of his time on the streets.

In the mid-1970s, Jones' parents divorced and his mother moved the children to San Diego, where they lived in a housing estate on 51st Street, near the El Cajon Boulevard, an infamous red-light district at the time.

His sister would later claim that she had been sexually abused by him between 1973 and 1974, but this was never confirmed.

Under the influence of peers, Jones committed a theft in 1975, after which he was arrested and incarcerated at a juvenile detention facility.

Once in San Diego, Jones began attending a local school, but was soon forced to drop out due to academic failures and truancy.

In 1979, encouraged by his mother, he enrolled at the San Diego Job Corps programme.

Later that year, the 17-year-old Jones met 15-year-old Tracy Davison, with whom he began an intimate relationship that resulted in him impregnating Davison.

She gave birth to their son the following year and moved in to the Joneses' apartment, but never married Bryan.

In the early 1980s, Jones graduated from the Job Corps as a welder and worked for various local businesses, where he was well regarded by superiors and characterized positively by friends and acquaintances.

Davison later claimed that her reason for leaving him was that in the early 1980s, Jones got addicted to watching and collecting pornographic videotapes and reportedly attacked her, including an instance where he attempted to strangle her.

After Davison left him, Jones began spending all his free time on El Cajon Boulevard with prostitutes and pimps.

In 1983, Jones and Davison separated, with the latter marrying a man named David Entzminger.

Davison alleged that, shortly before his arrest, Jones started being aggressive against her and her husband, resulting in at least two fights in the fall of 1985, during which Davison lost a tooth.

After the incident, the couple sued Jones, who was ordered to not approach them due to a restraining order.

On August 16, 1985, Jones was arrested for assaulting and raping a prostitute named Maria R. The woman claimed that she was homeless heroin addict and that on the previous day, Jones had offered to have sex with her for $20.

They then boarded a bus and went to his apartment, where he sexually assaulted and strangled her with a rope until she lost consciousness.

When she came back to her senses, Jones raped her again, took back his $20 and released her, threatening to kill her if she told the police.

Despite this, Maria R. did go to the police - however, Jones was released only a few days later and all charges against him were dropped, as Maria R. unexpectedly failed to show up for subsequent meetings with investigators and stopped cooperating altogether.

In late October 1986, Jones was arrested for kidnapping and raping a female cook named Bertha R. On October 16, she was in a phone booth on El Cajon Boulevard looking for the address of a check-cashing office when Jones drove up to her in his Datsun 280Z and offered to help out.

He drove her to the office, but the computers were malfunctioning, at which point he suggested to Bertha that they go to his house on Mississippi Street until they fix the problem.

Bertha accepted, and once inside, the pair smoked marijuana before Jones asked if he could kiss her.

She refused, which caused an angered Jones to threaten her with a knife and then rape her.

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 as 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.

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.

They were the following: