Teen gave 33-year-old boyfriend 'ultimatum' to kill his mom within 5 hours before bludgeoning and strangling other woman to death

Kaitlan didn't get a chance to be one of the women on death row but she should have - or at least no chance at parole.

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio teenager who bludgeoned her adult boyfriend's mother to death with a rock after giving him an ultimatum to kill her has been sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 25 years. Her boyfriend, who helped dispose of his mother's body, received the same sentence.

Kaitlyn Coones, 18, and Jonathon Jones, 34, pleaded no contest on June 4 to aggravated murder and abuse of a corpse in the 2023 death of 53-year-old Nicole Jones, according to Lucas County Prosecutor Julia Bates.

Prosecutors said Coones, who was 17 at the time of the murder and had been living with the Jones family, admitted to killing Nicole on April 19, 2023, because she felt Nicole disapproved of her relationship with Jonathon. Coones reportedly gave Jonathon five hours to kill his mother, threatening to end their relationship if he didn't. When he failed to do so, Coones took matters into her own hands.

Court documents state that the couple then wrapped Nicole's body in tarps and placed it in the trunk of her own vehicle. "The two of them had dinner with the body of Nicole Jones still in the trunk of the vehicle," said prosecutor Jennifer Liptack-Wilson.

The pair fled to Mexico, where they were arrested weeks later. Authorities have not found Nicole's body.

In court, Nicole's brother, Robert Jones, expressed the family's grief and sense of betrayal. "We are denied the closure that comes with laying a loved one to rest, and we are haunted by unanswered questions and horrific imaginings of her final moments," he said.

Coones and Jonathon also face a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the administrator of Nicole's estate, seeking $25,000 in damages and other associated costs.

Here's a video where she was on the run:

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