21 Years After Ala. Mom Vanished, Then-Boyfriend Allegedly Confesses, Leads Cops to Body in Suitcase

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More than two decades after a mom of three went missing, a South Carolina man confessed to her alleged murder, police said.

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Jones told authorities he kept the murder a secret because he didn’t want to disappoint his parents, according toAL.com. Their deaths last year prompted him to confess.

“I physically met this man. I have looked this man in the face,'' Luxford’s daughter Amanda Luxford Fernandez, 33, recalled to the outlet. “Brian told me he would take care of my mom.”

“Yeah, he took care of her, but not the way I thought he was going to,'' she added.

“I never liked him,” Fernandez said. “I always thought he was a shady person. He had these eyes that are very dark. That’s what I remembered of him.”

Fernandez said her mom ultimately took off with Jones when she was 12 years old. Fernandez would go on to stay with her stepfather or friends. Prior to Luxford’s disappearance, she’d occasionally visit her daughter, before relocating to Alabama, according to the outlet.

“He convinced her on packing up everything. Not only did I lose my mom, I lost everything of my childhood,'' Fernandez said.

“She took her pictures, her wedding dress that she married my father in which was supposed to be mine, my christening gown.”

“They had left to go to Alabama, and I never heard from her again,'' she said.

According to jail records, Jones faces one charge of murder and one charge of abuse of a corpse. He’s being held on a $750,000 bond. It wasn’t immediately clear if he has retained an attorney.

source: people.com