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A recent TikTok by Nedra Calloway has gone viral after she recounted the tale of befriending Kevin Sterling Jones back in the early 2000s in California. Jones turned out to be a serial killer, and Calloway told her story to implore people to trust their gut.
The first video began with Calloway explaining that she referred to Jones as “the weirdo” because he was so quiet and odd. Despite that, she ended up befriending him by hanging out with him often at an adult video store. The manager of the store, a woman that she referred to as “T,” told her that Jones would frequent the store alone and would habitually stare at the adult films that played on the television in the store.
“Once we actually talked to him, he didn’t seem like a bad guy,” Calloway said. “We all would hang out, barbecue on weekends, walk to the corner store,” Eventually, she said that T and Jones began dating, and soon after that, he began acting weirder. She explained that he’d been accused of stalking another woman who lived in her apartment complex.
“He’d been leaving X-rated videos and peering through her window.”
She had a bad feeling, but after he was arrested for stalking her, she still spoke as a character witness at his trial because she believed they were still friends. In the second part of the video series, she said, “Due to character witnesses and lack of evidence, ‘weirdo’ was released, and the charges were dropped,”
Calloway said things got worse when Jones wasn’t seen by T or her for several days and when Jones finally returned to California, he looked incredibly nervous. “A teenage girl was found raped and murdered one city over. When weirdo shows up, he’s nervous and jittery, and he tells me that he was at the police station all that time being interrogated for a crime that he knew nothing about.”
They continued to hang out until Calloway moved away and stopped talking to them. The final part of the story picks up when she received a call from Jones out of the blue, who attempted to harass her into coming and hanging out with him and another friend.
“He began cursing me out and telling me I’m not a real friend, and if I was his friend, I would come and hang out, blah, blah, so I hung up the phone in his face,” she explained that she had a bad gut feeling about the whole thing and decided that she wouldn’t go.
The next day she got a call from Detective Lacey of Napa County, who revealed that they were looking for her to take her into protection. The detective was made aware that Jones, who had already raped and strangled two women at the time, was going to come after Calloway next by an informant. After being apprehended while attempting to rob a store, Jones was shot and then picked up by police.
Calloway finished her TikTok series by telling users that Jones was convicted and got a life sentence without the possibility of parole for killing the two women in 1999 and 2000. She revealed that the informant who told police that she was the next victim was a friend of Jones’ who he tried to get her to hang out with and that he was also in jail for raping and killing his niece. Calloway ended the video by thanking God that she was still alive after knowing Jones for so long and told women to always trust their guts about people and situations.
@original_giftedtreasure #ThankGod #tiktok #fyp #tiktokviral #facebook #instagram #youtube #shorts #crime #crimejunkiepodcast #ashleyflowers #investigationdiscovery #survivor #truestory ♬ original sound – Neddy
@original_giftedtreasure #truestory #survivor #investigationdiscovery #ashleyflowers #crimejunkiepodcast #crime #tiktokviral #fyp #ThankGod #crime ♬ original sound – Neddy
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