They say the following evening, when Jordan stayed the night at Jones’ house, he planted the gun in Jones’ bedroom crawl space, along with the red bandana witnesses said the murderer was wearing. He and his legal team have said in legal filings that Jones’ high school acquaintance, Christopher Jordan, was responsible for the crime. Jones, who was a freshman at the University of Oklahoma at the time of the killing, has maintained his innocence. Oklahoma Department of Corrections via AP file “I know beyond a doubt that Julius Jones murdered my brother.” Julius Jones was convicted and sentenced to die for the 1999 shooting death of businessman Paul Howell.
“I was there when my brother was murdered,” his sister Megan Howell Tobey told the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board during Monday’s commutation hearing.
