Police Hunt Down Man After He Killed His Entire Family

stand. by this is Jason carols and he's. currently being chased by 12 police cars. and one police helicopter coming up on. bri coming up on bri we stuck in a. little bit of traffic here the reason is. that just a few hours ago he killed all. three of his children to get back at his. wife for divorcing him what is going on. I don't. know why'd you do it I think I felt like. I was saving them however this car chase. would end in a disaster Steel Bridge.

coming up he's. [Music]. swerving it all started on Monday. morning of June 13th. 2022 the police department of Round Lake. Illinois received a shocking phone call. from 30-year-old Debbie carrolls who had. just discovered her kids. unresponsive 911 let's the address of. the emergency.

hi I'm in C Lane my kids my husband my. kids okay tell me exactly what happened. um I came home to take the kids and. they're all on the bed and. they're okay all right how many children. three how were they killed please how. they're cold they're cold how okay. please. ma'am ma'am how were they how were they. killed I don't know maybe you suffocated. them or cut them they're laid in the bed.

I'm assuming he them hey where are you. right okay we have officers there where. are you right now I'm upstairs and come. inside I'm upstairs she's upstairs. please please please guys wake up. [Music]. [Music]. please got to get in there res go in let. just go in.

[Music]. 42 location police police department. police coming. [Music]. up got blood. here is there anybody else in the house. ma'am what is there anybody else in the. house I don't. know what is going.

okay okay ma'am do you have any weapons. no I don't have any I'm going to have. you step out here with me okay come out. here come out here when officers made it. to this horrifying scene they quickly. escorted the traumatized mother out of. the room and inside they found her three. kids Bryant Cassidy and Gideon all lying. in the same bed completely unresponsive. as of now all the information officers. had have comes from Debbie's 9911 call.

where she claimed her husband committed. the act however he is nowhere to be. found so they decide to ask her you. haven't spoke to him at all. today where you from where am I coming. from. yeah's Debbie would go on to explain. that she drove to this house to pick up. the kids from Jason carrols her. 36-year-old ex-husband with whom she'd. been going through a divorce two days.

prior to this crime Debbie said she had. given Jason their three kids to spend. time with him not realizing this would. be the last time she saw them alive when. it was time to pick them back up Jason. wouldn't answer the calls making Debbie. grow nervous that's when she decided to. check up on her children herself only to. discover the scene Jason Left. Behind These facts alone are enough to. make Jason the prime suspect police. officers decid to check on the whole.

house and confirm that the suspect is on. the loose and not hiding somewhere at. the crime scene I want to make sure no. one is hiding in the. house that we're missing out on uh if. you guys want to be I'm going to check. the rest of these rooms Police. Department I got a knife in the bathroom. got a knife there I got a knif in the. bathroom let's let's Mo the. house this address sounds.

familiar come from over here I'm looking. there no I don't see anything in here so. I feel pretty confident up here I'm. guessing we shouldn't have anybody but a. rescue come up coming up that's it it. seems like Jason is not in the house the. only thing this female officer finds is. this knife near the blooded sink along. with a bloody razor blade these could be. possible murder weapons that Jason used. in this disturbing crime however when.

the medical examiners arrived at the. scene and had their first look of the. victims they would quickly dismiss this. Theory. entirely. so you guys see the wounds on the kids. because there's a lot of blood I don't. want to make you guys touch or anything. with the body I don't see anything other. than blood to the hands here I mean it's. nothing that would ever be worth. resuscitating at this point because. they're just what I'm wondering is if. this. is Dad I'm not sure who that is but I.

don't believe it's one of there the. victims had large strange markings on. their necks the lips skin and even Nails. on all three of them were completely. blue it was clear the victims had been. choked but there were no signs of stab. wounds or similar on their bodies this. made the officer question where exactly. all the blood had come from and every. room the officers would look through. there were pools of it especially in the. master B bedroom where the victims were.

found this is where one of the officers. would find a trail of blood droplets. leading downstairs into the kitchen. where she would find their biggest clue. yet a letter to Debbie despite the. difficult handwriting there are several. clues in the narrative proving that. Jason carrols wrote this note and left. it in plain sight for Debbie to find. according to Jason their marriage lasted. for 7 years before they filed for. divorce and fought in court over the.

full custody of their children halfway. through the note it seems that Jason. lost the court and this is also. confirmed by the disturbing sentence. written in the middle of the note if I. can't have them neither can you finally. Jason ends the letter by saying he would. end everything on his terms yet it. wasn't the most horrifying thing the. officer would discover in the same room. she'd find another writing now on the. board I'm sorry I loved them too much to.

leave them behind you promised you swore. you. lied this is not just evidence this is a. confession that whatever happened to. their kids he knows the absolute truth. but if he did what he promised to do. then police officers would have more. trouble finding his body than his. confession but luck was on the officer's. side this time something was missing in. that house specifically in the garage. Jason's Red 2010 Nissan Maxima a.

significant clue that would help them. find Jason moments later the Round Lake. Beach police would alert police. departments across the Chicago area to. look for that exact car the Clock Was. ticking but it wouldn't be long before. an Illinois State officer discovered a. car that fit the description perfectly. and attempted a traffic stop they. weren't sure if this was their guy until. the driver stepped on the gas and sped. away quickly this would result in a. major police chase that would CFT. helicopters and a dozen units ending in.

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units to help catch him including a. police helicopter equipped with thermal. vision the adrenaline pumping Chase. continued like this for 17 minutes with. police driving as fast as possible but. Jason somehow going quicker even. managing to slip out of the helicopter's. vision for a brief. time west bound passing Richard West B. passing Richard.

all right 132 I'm following him with. State units looks like he's got a 1050. on 80 here outside shoulder now outside. shoulder right on him now we cut up the. traffic1 on him got I got moving. over up Bri up on. briide shoulder if Jason had more fuel. than the helicopter there might have. been a slight chance he could have. gotten a way but suddenly this.

happens Steel Bridge coming up. continuing Vehicles off the roadway. Vehicles off the roadway here at uh he. came all the way down. sorry Water Street Water Street in uh. Duncan Water Street dunan.

he I can't see see. keep them.

there all right man keep them. [Music]. there don't move I know [ __ ] up don't. move can you see his hands. yeah no I'm not going to shoot. you hands out the. car other hand out the.

car got any weapons in the car sir I. don't no Ni No. enough my leg right now lastation up on. the arm my plan was to drive can you. feel your. feet don't move your legs your toes. right. now anything else. hurt you don't. know keep your eyes open for us okay bud.

I what's. that that's good man good news you he. anyone I mean yourself further. inspection of Jason's State proves that. Jason is unharmed but clearly struggles. to stay semiconscious but even then he. has enough strength to admit what he did. back at the house.

I woke up and all of a. sudden they were they were. dead and. I you remember what happened I mean I. know what I did but I feel like it was. doing I man we're get you to help you. okay where you from. don't you.

know know what. I um I've heard some stuff I mean talk. on you to me I'm not gathering enough. what you. said so hey we got to get them out but I. want to keep control of the F you. know for the next 10 minutes a team of. Rescuers would be working hard to cut. off the roof of his vehicle and get him. out safely although he looks most. uninjured the EMS cannot take their.

chances and take him to the nearest. hospital it would be an absolute miracle. for Jason not to have any damages. especially after a disastrous crash he. somehow survived escaping death this. day but the person he couldn't escape no. matter what was detective Barrera after. being informed of Jason's stable. condition he and his partner were. dispatched to the hospital their only. goal was to get as much information out. of Jason as possible about what had. happened hours earlier but more.

importantly why it happened to do this. they'd start with talking about his. relationship to his former wife and the. mother of his children so what's what's. going on uh and your uh and your wife. man I mean for my understanding you guys. had some issues or well my my side of it. is you can go and look back at like text. messages phone calls like for since we. met each other I've always complained. about how she she makes up things to.

justify how she treats me I put up with. it because I have no self worth and then. and and she's always like manipulating. me and and like put me down and been. mean to me and the only time like I've. really been mean to her is when it's. it's like I'm not even being mean it's. more like it's like she says something. mean or rude that's not true to hurt me. so I say something mean back because I. know if I say something mean she'll. tells me the truth clearly this doesn't.

make much sense it seems like Jason. might be trying to portray his wife as a. manipulative and toxic partner however. it's hard to tell if this is a genuine. feeling or simply an attempt to gain. sympathy from the officer so detective. Barrera decides to keep digging so what. all transpired today I mean you had you. have you guys are married still from my. understanding or separated you guys are. separated but legally still married I. found.

out the day before yesterday that she. cheated on me and left me for another. guy the day after my birthday okay and. then she's been keeping the kids for me. but she claims that she hasn't but the. truth is is I thought she was keeping. the kids from me but the truth is she. was seeing somebody instead of like. calling me with the kids and you know. you get what I'm saying like I found out. she was cheting at me and she was. lying just lying to me and.

um um and like I was just very adamant. about it because like when you're with. someone for seven years like you know. their Poker Face you know you know when. they're to you I get you. like especially someone that lies as. much as she does to me and your Jason is. describing his wife as manipulative mean. and the problem in their relationship. which seems unlikely given what they. know he's done this conversation is. going nowhere so the officer decides to.

move on to more important things what. happened to the kids if I'm honest with. you sir I don't know why I did what I. did but like I know what I told myself. when I did it you know what I mean what. was that and it was like that they. were that like they deserve to be with. me and that I felt like she was. neglecting them and I wanted myself and. for some reason I thought it was okay to. H them too I don't know why I did that. like I thought we would be together like.

you. know whatever is after this life like. you know and like the whole time I was. trying to at home I kept telling myself. they're waiting for you you have to be. with was it something that you wanted to. for her to feel your pain in that sense. or or you know see yes or no to that. honestly I don't think so okay honestly. I I just didn't want to be in pain and I. think I told myself I told myself that.

and you'll actually hear it in the last. time we talked I told her it's like if. I'm not around you're just going to. start taking it out on them and they. don't deserve that and I think I felt. like I was saving them I don't I don't. know why saving. them from going through the pain that I. did it's almost as though he believes. what he did was reasonable at least in. the moment he did it if this is indeed. the case it's likely he is genuinely. mentally ill which which means he had. limited control over what he did and can.

claim that in a court of law but. regardless of if he is mentally ill or. not detectives still need to build a. case against him so they decide to dig. deeper into what exactly he did to his. kids kind of walked me through today. kind of what was going on how were were. the kids were they joyful playful they. were awesome yeah I me. was like this was yesterday in the day. before what was I was I I did what.

everything I did I started doing last. this morning at 1: in the morning so 1: in the morning is uh when when. everything happened yes sir okay so what. what what was going on um cuz I know you. guys spoke on the phone yesterday right. yeah what time did your guys' phone call. end I want to say about midnight about. midnight yeah okay you guys phone call. ends around midnight yeah um and. then then what happen.

were you drinking you say you don't. drink. right so so then so then what kind of. happened uh what what what kind of. triggered you um after the phone call. ended with were kids sleeping or they up. we were watching TV and then I like I. knew I had to give him a path yeah and. and like I don't know like I I just. something in my brain snapped because of.

the things she said to me on the phone. what was it that she said um that you. know it's it's it's weird because she. did say some nice things to. me but it's like she said that that was. nothing I deserve nothing that I was a. terrible father a terrible husband and. like all these things and it was like I. don't know. like something snapped in me and like. and and I know that makes it seem like I. was trying to get back at her but it was. like it wasn't it was never about.

getting back at her it wasn't do as. [ __ ] up as it sounds was doing. something for myself okay and like. that's what I told myself yeah the. detective makes a final note and leaves. Jason on a little break before they can. continue questioning there might be. something Jason hasn't mentioned yet. something like a sheet of paper with his. handwriting lying on a kitchen table and. a short note on the. board did detective Barrera comes back. shortly after and informs Jason that.

there will be cops watching him for the. next 24 hours to make sure he doesn't. run away or try to harm himself Barrera. then recites the whole timeline to. ensure they're on the right track with. Jason making Minor Adjustments to the. story and eventually Barrera stops to. question Jason about one final crucial. detail one thing I did I did want to ask. was um so I know we um one of the. officers noticed there was a note um. last night on the what was in the. kitchen yeah um now was that when you.

left the house so like something snapped. to me I wrote the letter and then I did. it okay okay that makes sense then I. just I haven't seen it so that's why I. was just looking for some some help. there I think it's starts off like I I. mentioned about how she swore in the. kids lives that she wasn't cheating on. me and like you know and I said I hope. it was worth it it was like it wasn't. like I hope it was worth it how I'm. getting back at you I was hoping it. worth it like you pushed me to do.

something for myself like kind okay so. she swore on the. kids um. lives that she wasn't cheating on you in. reality she was snap like I don't know. maybe like so then you basically in your. head you're you're saying you're. thinking again you know correct me if. I'm wrong any any moment if I'll admit. part of me like if she's going to swear. in their lives they belong to be with me. like you know like stuff like that M. this statement confirms the writing on. the board you promised you swore you.

lied it seems like his supposed mental. illness and urge to quote save his. children were not his only reasons for. doing this these statements make it seem. like Jason partly did this to get back. at his ex-wife for cheating on him. leaving him and taking his children it. almost seems like he did all this to. make her feel what he felt however at. this point Jason needed to rest and the.

officers decided they were best off. continuing interrogations the next. day early the following morning police. officers would escort Jason out of the. hospital in a robe and get him to the. police station where he would be placed. inside an empty room and left with his. thoughts however he was unaware that his. ex-wife Debbie was sitting in an. interrogation area only feet away from. him Debbie is sitting in a room filled. with toys coloring books and a.

comfortable sofa an extreme contrast to. that of Jason's interrogation room the. reason for this is that they know for. certain Debbie wasn't behind any of this. and that she's likely extremely. traumatized and vulnerable right now. their best chance at getting any. information from her is to ensure that. she feels as comfortable and safe as. possible Jason on the other hand will be. put under pressure to confess as much as. possible as of now Debbie has no. confirmation that Jason was the killer.

she also doesn't know that he was caught. just hours earlier so now it's time to. break the. news. hey um I know we spoke. earlier I'm sorry I I don't you know. this isn't part of my job I enjoy I do. have to officially you know do do this. and you have to do notify you that he.

did Mur your three. children I believe it did you find him. yes is he dead. no where did you find. him um the police chase about an hour. and 30 minutes away from. here he's he's in custody and we're. going to do our best I'm a detective I'm. detective unit we're going to charge him. best as we can we're going to do this. right everything Jason said up to this.

point was nothing but his own version of. events and Debbie well she never got the. chance to talk about what she saw that. day and what it made her feel as a. victim her voice matters the most and. that voice would be the final nail in. Jason's coffin i w up. I I ate I went I didn't contact them. until I was on the way to get them. because they had the doctor's. appointment today when I went to Walmart.

to get diapers I went to Walmart to. getan for their. playback um and get a bathing suit for. my. daughter and then I went there and I. open the garage door and didn't notice. anything I think about it I walked in I. looked to the right and I saw the door. broken off the hinges and then I saw. drops of blood and then I turned around. and look in the garage and I saw that. his car was gone I started calling him. cuz I thought maybe he took the kids or.

went somewhere and I heard his phone. upstairs so I started walking up the. stairs and I just saw more blood and. more blood and then just started saying. to myself no God please no please no and. I go to the room I saw all three of them. there on the bed they were waking up. they were so cold well Debbie was. spilling her heart out little did she. know Jason was sitting in the room next. to her staring down into the emptiness.

her ex-husband the father of their kids. and a vicious murderer it's hard to. understand what he thinks at that moment. the memories he had with his children or. the regret he feels for making them. leave this world too early after 10. minutes of complete silence detective. Barrera returns to the interrogation. room for his second and last. conversation with Jason with no idea. that he was about to discover a major. piece of this story that could have.

prevented this entire Massacre from ever. happening how's your work situation do. you work during the weekends no I don't. work at all that's why I like I should. be watching and seeing them a lot more. okay all right how long have you been. unemployed since December since December. okay uh what did you do before I worked. at Bob CH. crab okay you still keep in contact with. your uh your coworkers there no no okay. so ever get ever uh talk to any of them.

I did reach out one to one to one to to. one of them after I found out that he. was cheating because. I cuz she had claimed that he she met. him at a bar and that one of her. co-workers gave him her number so I just. messaged my whoever I was like hey can I. ask you a question and he's like oh. sorry I didn't get I was like oh never. mind like you know I figured it out and. then I kind of broke down later and like. I just found out and I told him like.

everything because he was the one person. that I felt like I could trust have you. talked to him since no I had how long. ago how long ago have you had contact. with him that was like two days or that. was like Saturday or Sunday and so so. Saturday the kids get dropped off around. what time they did they get dropped off. I want to say one it was afternoon. afternoon yeah okay how were the kids. were they happy to see you joyful were. me like um well cuz the kids were out. there playing on the swings and stuff so.

like I started asking around like like I. was very like calm and and I was just. asking questions about like you know who. she was seeing like you know how she met. him and stuff and then um and she would. say like she didn't want to talk about. it anymore and I would say stuff like. what do you have to lose like like. whether you're chea on me or not it. doesn't change anything with the custody. battle cuz it like I know the law with. like you know. it wasn't a.

bad change it was it wasn't bad it. wasn't good it was just the you know I. had handled it great until I had got mad. and texted her later and and like I. don't remember what I said in the text. okay because I was just so mad that she. like I that she's still lying to me you. and that and that yeah so then so then. you you send her a message and you um. and I was I was just getting upset too. because she kept saying stuff like you.

should be spending time with the kids. and I'm like I'm mxing you because. they're sleeping like I'm messaging you. because like I'm playing I can play with. them and text you at the same time you. know with all of these events combined. there would be one last phone call that. pushed Jason to his limits but that same. phone call could have prevented this. murder if not for Jason's hatred and you. mentioned it was a it was the phone call. that kind of. kind of shut things off maybe that's the.

thing. like I mean there was a phone call and. then about a half hour 45 minutes later. is when I started everything but like. even the phone call it's like it it. ended well you know what like it had a. great ending even the phone call like. she was willing sound like she was. willing to work with me and stuff but I. don't I think I just didn't believe it. like you know and I just didn't. want I know what. it messed up but I just didn't.

want I didn't want this to end like I. didn't I wanted to be with them forever. and I felt like this was the only way it. sounds like Jason actually was close to. resolving a lot of his frustration with. Debbie but something after this call and. before the attack must have triggered. him to go through with this insane and. horrifying plan like I don't mean like I. don't want to hurt her but I'll say. something sometimes to hurt her because.

she hurt me and like okay but I wasn't. doing it to hurt her like that was not. my int because like if I if that's what. I wanted I would have if I really wanted. to hurt her I would have I would have. stayed home I would have waited for her. to see the kid like that and I would. have hurt her too okay you know what I. mean like I would I believe you I. believe you Jason yeah I don't I don't. think by the means of I um sitting here. saying you wanted to hurt her you know I. mean again I don't want to hurt anybody.

okay now let me ask you this um now you. knew at some point she would come and. and find you. guys what detective Barrera just said. catches Jason by surprise because his. actions contradict his statements. heavily how could Jason claim that he. didn't plan to hurt her when all his. actions would ultimately lead to Debbie. finding all three of them.

unresponsive I it wasn't. until about like noon 12:30 like so 12. hours later almost okay that that's when. I realized like she's going to be here. soon like I I I can't like I don't want. to hurt her I don't want to I can't be. here when she's here because I'm just. going to end up hurting her to give. myself more time to and be with them. okay yeah and so like my whole thought. process was is the only way to get more. time to do it is that I'll go drive into.

something but then I there was just too. many cars on the road I didn't want to. hurt anybody like I so I drove to the. city I um which I don't know my way. around I don't know anything about this. city I've only ever been to Chicago like. for sporting events and that's it his. response to barrera's question. completely falls apart when it's clear. his actions left Debbie to discover the. gruesome scene trauma izing her forever. all of this made it clear not just to.

detectives but later a jury that he was. mentally ill and was not fully in. control over what he did in June of 2022. he was charged with three counts of. first-degree murder and in February of. 2024 pleaded guilty but mentally ill. this means he will serve a life sentence. without the possibility of parole while. also receiving mental health treatment. after the story went public Debbie chose. to start a go fundme page in order to. raise money for the funeral and court.

expenses gaining over. $70,000 as of December 2024 she's. decided to maintain her privacy but we. can hope she's doing her best to move. forward and recover from this tragedy.