By Chuck Hustmyre
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Records from the Arizona Department of Corrections show Burns, 25, spent more than seven years in prison. He was originally sentenced to three and a half years for burglary, but had time added to his sentence after being caught with a homemade knife while in prison.
Department of Corrections records also show that while Burns was behind bars he was anything but a model prisoner. He was disciplined at least 30 times for violating prison rules. Burns's violations included engaging in sexual acts, tattooing, arson, rioting, fighting, and escape.
Burns was paroled from prison in January 2006 but violated his parole last summer and was sent back for 46 days. He was released again in August. It was after Burns's first release and before he was sent back to prison that Smith bought him the gun, Ruet said.
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| Jonathan Ian Burns |
The day after Jackie's parents reported her missing, police arrested Burns in connection with her disappearance and charged him with one count of sexual assault. At the time, Burns admitted to seeing Jackie after she sneaked out of her parents' house. He said they had sex and then he dropped her off at home.
However, police found Jackie's bullet-riddled, bloody shirt and torn bra, along with her purse, flip-flops, and panties, stuffed inside a trash dumpster at an apartment complex just a few blocks from Burns's house in the Phoenix suburb of Mesa.
According to police, who searched Burns's home at least twice, he shared the house with his brother Daniel Raymond Barnett, 22, and his girlfriend Mandi Smith.
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