Former Naval Post Graduate Professor admits to killing ex-wife
Former Naval Post Graduate Professor Larry Jones, 74, admitted to hurting and killing his ex-wife, Norife Herrera Jones in 2012.
Jones admitted to killing her in his Monterey home on Spray Avenue, according to the Monterey County District Attorney’s Office.
Prosecutors said Jones struck the victim with a blunt object during an argument over their divorce settlement, causing her to loss consciousness, on August 31, 2012. Several days later, he shot her in the head and stomach with a shot gun. He then dismembered her body and arranged the body along the first driveway from Highway 101 on Cannon Road in San Benito County.
Jones was on sabbatical from NPS during the killing.
On Wednesday, Jones entered not guilty pleas by reason of insanity to the crime of premeditated, deliberate, attempted murder. The judge accepted the pleas. On May 18, the judge will initially send Jones to the California Department of State Hospitals for a mental health evaluation. If he’s determined to be sane, he will be sentenced to 50 years to life in the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
