In July 1987, Randall Scott Jones and Chris Reesh, both teenagers, were shooting in with a 30/30 hunting rifle at Rodman Dam recreation area in Florida. While they were shooting, Jones' pickup truck became stuck in a sandpit. A fisherman suggested they ask a couple in a pickup parked nearby for help. Jones and Reesh approached the truck, where Kelly Lynn Perry and her fiancée, Matthew Brock, were sleeping. The two men debated whether or not to wake them to ask for assistance.

     The following morning, fishermen found the bodies of Perry and Brock in the woods adjacent to the recreation area. Police investigated and revealed that each had been shot in the head with a 30-caliber bullet and that Perry had been sexually assaulted. Their pickup was reported stolen. In August, Jones was arrested in Mississippi found driving Brock's pickup. Reesh was arrested the next day in Palakta, Florida, after Jones told police that they were together that night in July. Both were indicted on counts of first-degree murder and sexual battery.

     A semen sample, E (vs), retrieved from Perry's body, and blood samples from Reesh, S1, and Jones, S2 were compared at a laboratory that specializes in DNA fingerprint testing. The resulting DNA fingerprint will indicate which man is guilty of rape. Using the results of the DNA fingerprint and other evidence, officials were able to piece together the events of the crime.

     Without waking the couple in the pickup, Jones shot both Perry and Brock in the head at close range. He and Reesh then dragged the bodies into the woods nearby. They towed Jones' truck from the sand with Brock's pickup and left with both trucks. Later Jones returned to the crime scene, moved the bodies further into the woods, and raped Perry.

     A representative from the DNA fingerprinting laboratory tested that the chance of another person having the same DNA fingerprint as Jones was one in 9,390,000,000 about twice the earth's population. About deliberating only 15 minutes, the jury convicted Jones of murder and rape. The judge sentenced him to a double death sentence, making the first case involving DNA fingerprint evidence in U.S. legal history in which the death sentence was handed down. Reesh was sentenced to six years in prison and twenty years probation.