00:0024-year-old nursing student Megan Sharpton told her family she was leaving for a last-minute job
00:05interview. She never came home. Hours later, firefighters discovered her burning body beside
00:11a rural road. Investigators found she had been raped and shot in the face before someone set
00:16her body on fire. The job interview was a trap. Police traced the call to a burner phone.
00:23Surveillance footage revealed who bought it, eventually leading investigators to Donnie Jones,
00:28a local informant with a criminal record. Then DNA from Megan matched Jones. He claimed they had a
00:35consensual affair, but GPS records told a different story. His phone, Megan's phone, and the burner phone
00:41all traveled together, from where her car was found to the suspected murder site and finally to where
00:46her body was discovered. A burned piece of Megan's purple scarf was also found on Jones' family's
00:52property. In 2013, Donnie Jones was sentenced to life without parole for murder, rape,
00:58and kidnapping.
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