A father has confessed to killing his five young children and led officers to the spot where he had dumped their bodies, police in Mississippi have said.
Timothy Ray Jones reportedly took officers to a spot near a logging road in Alabama, where the remains of the children, aged between two and eight, were found stuffed into rubbish sacks.
The children were reported missing from their home in Lexington, South Carolina, by their mother, who is divorced from Mr Jones, on Wednesday 3 September.
Mr Jones was pulled over at a roadside checkpoint on Saturday and arrested on charges of drink driving and possession of a controlled substance, at which point he told officers of the killings, said Charlie Crumpton, the Smith County Sheriff in