that they were found dead inside a home here on the 200 block of Camden Lane the whole situation kicked off a police chase that ended about 85 Mi south of here with a person in custody some crimes are more gruesome than others but it's hard to imagine a more horrific deed than when a parent murders their own children brace yourselves because the deeper we dive the more Sinister this case will get everything started with a very surreal and tragic 911 call 911 address of the emergency hi I'm Lane my kids my husband kids okay repeat the address for me one more time East Camden Lane okay verify what town real Lake Beach Illinois 6073 okay what's the phone number you're calling from okay tell me exactly what happened um I came home to take the kids and they're all on the bed and they are dead okay all right how many children three okay one moment the woman making the call is Debbie carrols on June 13th 2022 after finishing work she went to pick up her kids who were visiting their father little did she know that her whole world would come crashing down children we got to get in there for rest 42 location police police department police up coming up got blood here is there anybody else in the house ma'am is there anybody else in the house I don't know what's going on okay I okay ma'am do you have any weapons no I don't have any weap I'm going to have you step out here with me okay come out here okay come out of here we got one coming down yes they're okay to come in want to come in yeah come on in okay there's no way for us to avoid this Bobby okay you got your body cam on yeah I got my body C I don't want to touch any of them but the chilling scene these officers witnessed were the tiny bodies of Bryant carrols H5 Cassidy carols H3 and Gideon carols ag2 they were lying lifeless on the bed here's a statement later released by police chief Gilbert Riva Rony Beach police were called to a home in the 200 block of Cam Camden Lane for a well-being check at 1:40 P.M Monday by a mother who was supposed to pick up her children from her strange husband upon arrival the three children ages 53 and two were discovered deceased in the home the resident later identified as Jason e carrols 35 of the 200 block of East Camden Lane was missing from the scene and immediately identified as a person of interest officers immediately put out recognizing information through Illinois State Police emergency radio network seeking carols at his vehicle AR 2010 Nissan Maxima simultaneously police began the investigation into the deaths of the three young children requested assistance from the Lake County corers office and evidence evidence technicians from the Lake County major crime task force while the investigation into deceased children was being conducted Illinois State Police spotted then attempted to stop the suspicious 2010 Nissan on Interstate 57 and 115th Street in Cook County the hunt was on for Jason carols the man who committed the most vile crime imaginable police spotted him in his Nissan Maxima and engaged in Pursuit carols then took police on a high-speed chase across multiple highways involving several police departments Steel Bridge coming Steel Bridge coming up continuing vehicles's off the roadway vehicle's off the roadway here at uh he came all the way down sorry Water Street Water Street in Duncan Water Street Duncan where he at I can't see see after fleeing police for around 17 minutes Carol's crashed his car in this wooded area the officers had him surrounded so there was nowhere left to run it was a miracle he survived considering the damage to his mangled vehicle may have a KNE can you see his hands yeah I'm not going to shoot you want to get him CS his hands up put hands out the car put your other hand out the carve okay what's your name Jason Jason man it's unclear if these officers fully knew what this guy done or why he was on the run in the first place regardless they treated the man with respect and care even though he put their lives at risk they still acted professionally your hands out the car your hands out the car yep just leave your hands out the car okay no I move from out okay good we can't we can't move you right now just because your injuries okay we don't want to hurt you more than already are got any weapons in the car I don't no no leg right now up on the arms was Drive hey can you feel your feet don't Mo your leg right now know the officers mentioned seeing lacerations on the suspect's hands as you'll hear later on he supposedly attempted to take his own life that would also explain the large amount of blood found in the house after failing once again to end his life by crashing his car Jason decided to come [Music] clean what's that that's good man hey good news you here anyone I mean yourself that's good yeah it what are your kids names sorry and then I woke up and many well-known sociopaths such as Richard Ramirez the nightstalker and David burkowitz the Son of Sam claim to be disconnected or detached from their bodies as they committed their crimes this type of dissociative experience is possible most experts however are skeptical about it and generally view it as an attempt to evade responsibility for their actions after being extricated from the vehicle by firefighters Carell was transported with injuries to a nearby hospital before being transported again to another hospital where he remained in custody overnight all right but hey like I mentioned man my name is detective Barrera I'm with Round Lake Beach okay um and obviously you you know what's going on you know why why we're here why we want to talk to you okay um and like I said I appreciate you being super Cooperative again sorry about what's whatever is going on okay so um I just got to get I got to get through this okay you be able to just sign the states I've read you your rights here you understand your rights feel free to look them over okay sir sorry silly but uh I I always wanted to be a cop and um so I started doing uh GTA RP as a police officer so really oh wow I know it's just a video game but it was like it no no I hear you it's downright stomach Jing to hear this guy casually talk about playing video games and even wanting to be a police officer after brutally snuffing out the lives of his own children Steve Newton anyw T Chief Deputy with the Lake County Corner's office I I like all my dreams to try to provide for my family um we did conduct autopsies this morning on the three children I dropped out of college when I was going to be a high school math teacher oh no kidding and then um and and I just received word the U third one has been completed and that the preliminary cause of death in all three children is consistent with drowning listen to how this pathetic excuse for a human being tries to paint himself as the victim even after committing an act Unthinkable to normal people his words in his tone Show No Remorse only self-pity as if he's the one who deserves sympathy not surprisingly he tries to blame everything on his estranged wife Debbie since we met each other I've always complained about how she she makes up things to justify how she treats me and I put up with it because I have no self worth and then and and she's always like manipulated me and and they 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 tell me the truth it's really weird it was a relationship but I I I uh I was I wasn't I was depressed a lot but I didn't always feel until you'd think Debbie must have done something truly terrible to provoke such a horrible response from him but according to Jason it was just quote unquote little things like scolding him for staying at a friend's house playing video games till 2: a.m. I don't know I just it just felt like she would try to paint me she would paint me as this bad terrible person to make herself feel better for how she felt about herself okay I also wanted to be a psychologist that was my third dream you guys are married still for my understanding or separated you guys are separated but legally still married found out 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 from me but she claims that she hasn't well 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 so like I'd be expecting like I I was trying to get her space because I obiously had someone be with it's understandable that Jason felt hurt and was angry with his wife as from time to time most couples go through rough patches however what no San person can comprehend is how this guy could take the lives of his children just to punish her didn't these kids mean anything to him what's clear here is this man's bruised ego matters more to him than the innocent lives he destroyed I feel like she it's not that she doesn't love she didn't love me it's that she doesn't love herself so when she takes it out I me to make herself feel better if I'm being if I'm being honest with you sir like I I know I know 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 like what was that and it was like that they were that like they deserved to be with me and then I felt like she was neglecting them and I want for some reason I thought it was okay to hurt them too I don't know why I did that like I thought we would be together like you know in in whatever is after this life like you know and like the whole time I was trying to home I kept telling myself they're waiting for you you have to be with them Jason's warp sense of reality led him to create delusions that justified his actions in his mind what he chose to do seemed reasonable what fueled these fantasies was his own self-pity as if the murders weren't enough he topped it off by leaving a note behind for his wife I don't know why I've never been like that before okay and I said I left her like a a note and stuff and like most of it was just was just like trying to be like I don't know I don't [Music] know was it something that you wanted to for her to feel your pain her in that sense or or you know can't say yes or no to that honestly I don't think so exactly honestly I I just didn't want to be in pain and I think I told I told myself that and you 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 in like from going through the pain that I did the depths of depravity in this man's mind are truly disturbing in a Twisted way he convinced himself that he was somehow saving his kids as though his actions were merciful rather than monstrous me uh kind of walk me through today uh no no no don't be sorry um just kind of walk me through today kind of what was going on how were the how were the kids were they joyful playful they were awesome yeah I mean was like frustrating like this was yesterday and the day before what was I 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 so so then so then what kind of happened uh what what what kind of triggered you um after the phone call ended were the were the babies were were they were kids sleeping or were they up were were watching TV and then I like I KN I had to give him a bath 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 Jason mentioned that around midnight he spoke to his estranged wife on the phone and while he claimed the conversation and in amicably it appears to have been a catalyst and it sent the man into a dark and downward spiral he was pushed Over the Edge by something in that exchange what was it that she said um that I you know it's it's it's weird because she did say some nice things to me in the end but it's like she said that I was nothing that I deserve nothing that I was a terrible father a terrible husband and like all these things and I was like I don't know like something snapped to me like 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 was about do as as it sounds was doing something for myself okay and like that's what I told myself at like I what was that thing that you were doing for yourself um was so we could be together forever okay did you did you have did you plan the S did you already have an idea of how you wanted to do this um did it take some time for you to to to do it um no I just you know I um I started giving him a bath and for some reason I said we're going to do it one by one and I just I my one and then I tried to okay so you um so while who who was the first one you gave a bath to the youngest yeah okay now who's the oldest m okay what was Mo was he yeah they were watching TV okay did at any point in time did they come in and see anything did they no I refus to let them see anything because I I don't know I don't know why but I shut their door and I shut the bathroom door and then and then I would put the the child in the computer room on the futon mattress to dry off so then in that way once they were dry I could dress them so they weren't naked wherever we were going at the hands of their father these three children met a horrifying end if there's any small mercy here it's that none of them had to witness each other's fate maybe I something snapped to me because like I I I couldn't handle being cheated on and I couldn't handle being away from my kids so much yeah like I don't know so then same thing yeah and I don't know why I didn't stop I don't know why I went with all free like you would think that I do one and then I'd be like oh my god what have I done but it didn't feel like I was doing anything wrong okay for some reason I didn't cry once until I um I didn't really dawn on me what I had done until I flipped my car and the cops asked me if I knew what I had done and then and then I just started crying he likely cried only because he got caught no matter what he said this wasn't some split-second decision it was a series of deliberate decisions and it stretched on for hours the chilling reality is that he had countless moments to stop but he still pushed onward I don't know maybe I don't know I can't I can't say for certain that I realized that that what I had done at that moment it's possible that I was crying because I couldn't be with them I don't know yeah but um but like it didn't really dawn on me until like after at some point after that okay at some point after I'd gotten into the to like gotten into the AC yeah okay and then you placed them all in the uh in the the um on the futon in the computer room you let them dry off you said let them dry off and then um uh and then uh and here's here's the messed up part about it all is like I didn't realize what I was doing to them and I didn't realize what I was doing to myself either but but I think subconsciously I did like to myself because I was so because then after that was done I got so nervous like because I knew I was next the moment he started to get nervous was the moment Jason realized it was his turn to die but unsurprisingly when it came down to it he was too much of a coward to follow through what he says next though will truly blow your mind and then I went into the garage and I smoked like 10 cigarettes okay and and it wasn't in I know it wasn't because of what I had done it was because I knew I Was preparing myself calming myself down so that I could because I don't know if like you don't like the fact that I actually like actually was able to where trying in the downstairs um there's a bathroom door and a closet door right next to the stairs and um I had and um I blacked out and then I woke up and the door had come off the hinges and the extension CT had kind of sliced the door in half a little bit okay you'll hear the man say that he blacked out several times so imagine how long it took for the man to drown three children one by one dry them off go to the garage to smoke 10 cigarettes and then pass out several times while attempting to end his life in several different ways he attempted side how what did he do um he had he had attempted a made several attempts to um I can tell you that um without disclosing those at this moment um there was a a um a lot of indications at the scene uh there was blood the blood was not of the children um um so there were multiple things that he had done and disclosed at this point as I mentioned it's still ongoing we will have those details for you hopefully shortly um um but he did make statements uh as well on body camera as far as uh wanting to hurt himself does he have a history of mental we are unaware of that let's turn back to the two officers questioning Jason it took remarkable restraint for them to sit through his questioning without reacting most of us surely couldn't have done so but when one officer pressed him about his lousy attempt to taking his own life that's when Jason dropped another bombshell one that only makes his crimes so much more horrific I'm sorry I'm just trying to get an understanding of of how how it was that CU that door knobs are you know low right usually when someone something from like well that's why it was up over the door up over the door yeah that's and that's and then you were and I also enough that I could drop to my knees because I have a problem with I have a problem with like um I almost drowned when I was a kid so like I can't stand feeling like I can't breathe so I have to be able I was hoping I would black out before I couldn't breathe if that makes sense okay so imagine the wickedness this man possessed after a near drowning experience as a child he developed a debilitating fear of not being able to breathe and yet he inflicted that very same Nightmare on his own children you're probably thinking that it couldn't possibly get any worse than that but it actually does do that so so I you know I did what I did with with them and then I smoked the cigarettes and I played um a game of hearstone on my phone while I was smoking um because again like it I it wasn't like I to me I didn't do anything wrong you know what I mean it was just a normal like I don't know um not that it was anything is it anything far from normal but you I think you get what I mean um so I played a game of hearstone and then um because I knew I had to like I mean I I knew they were drying off like you know so you said you played a game of hearstone on my phone oh okay what's what's it what's it called it's a card game called hearstone hearstone okay mhm I mean can you believe it after killing his three children he actually sat down and played a card game on his phone as if nothing had happen happened and while he's saying all this to the officers he sounds like he expected empathy from them it's hard to Fathom this level of Detachment and lack of remorse so I come to and I think I I think I was on the ground for maybe like two minutes like that I lost track of time if that makes sense yeah um and then I come I come to and like I see that it's broke and everything and like I remember I remember like like waking up like struggling to come back like like think I don't know like I just remember like like fighting to come back and and then I don't know it was weird it was like I was fighting myself too like telling myself no just go like your kids are waiting for you just go stop fighting thankfully he didn't succeed in taking his own life as strange as that might sound his survival means that instead of an easy way out he will have to f face the consequences of his actions had he ended his life his plan would have worked out but the family would be left without answers or Justice the most important thing to me were the kids and he knew that he knew that nothing matter to me but those children and he took them away from me because he knew that would hurt me the most he always told me he couldn't do anything to his children my people was with you not with the children so I never worried about the children because you love your children and you should never do anything to your children so it's like it was me it was a different story and I just had so much Faith so much Faith so much love that it would all work out in the end and it didn't I just wish I was there for them that day I wish I was there to grab them before this all happened I should have stick to my guns and not had their father see them but you know I thought what was right is that the father should be involved the father should see them um he always said he would never do anything to the kids you know never thought anything of it and I have regret every day of my life while the mother was going through the most devastating day of her life her strange husband continued nonchalantly recounting his horrific actions as if the story couldn't get any darker he casually mentioned that after his failed attempt to take his own life he simply went out for another smoke and I smoke another couple of cigarettes in the garage and then I go upstairs and I close all three of them and put them in the bed and then I put the blankets on them and everything and I kissed them all and I said Daddy we'll be with you soon don't worry did you clothe them yeah I put diapers on them the ones that needed diapers underwear on the and then I put pajamas on them all pajamas all on all of them okay and then and then you brought them into another room I didn't there was there was two reasons honestly and like I don't I'm probably giving like a lawyer saying I'm giving way too much detail but it's like I'm just trying to be honest but um I didn't want them to be naked when when they were found and I didn't want them to be naked wherever we were going yeah at least that's what I told myself yeah he claimed that after after that he then made his way to the bathroom for yet another attempt to take his own life however even that failed as the wounds on his wrist kept closing up thoring his efforts it's unsettling to think that he was so intent on escaping responsibility yet nothing seemed to go according to his Twisted plan about 20 minutes had gone by and I'm like this is taking forever there's no way like so then I did because I wanted to be with my children and it was taking too long M I would I would walk to the bed and I would lay down with the kids and then I'd be like no I have to go with them like they'll see me soon I have to make sure this works so then I would get back up and go back to the bathroom and make sure it was still bleeding yeah and then and then um and just like rinse and repeating I would pass out for maybe like a few minutes and um I would just go back to doing that because I really wanted to be with him and I didn't want to let him down like I I I want you to know I I know what I but I'm talking understand the mind the mindset um because but it also makes it easier to talk about just to try to get back into that mindset because when I admit to myself what happened is when I start to cry yeah the crazy thing is he's been talking about what he did for a long time now and yet he never really cried he did choke up a few times but that was the full extent of his emotional reaction to this horrific crime continuing to tell his story to police he told about his third attempt to quote unquote join his children um so about 6:00 a.m. mhm I had the bright idea you know what this isn't working I'll I'll go drive to the beach and I'll swim as deep as I can and try okay and and then I got there and I turned around I'm like no I can't leave my kids I'm doing this for them anyway so so I keep and like you know it's about eight 39:00 now and then I lay down I I I laid down in bed because I was exhausted like I like I was so close but like I couldn't keep doing it anymore like I was just tired and I think I've passed out for about half hour maybe an hour you can do this like you do it for your kids do it for your children they're waiting for you like I honestly like looking back I sounded like a mad man after numerous failures Jason realized that his wife would be coming soon so panicked and decided to try one more time but if you listen to what he says it's obvious he was fooling himself he really wasn't going to go through with it was he then the game plan turned into you know what I can't be here I can't be here when she gets here because I don't want to hurt her like I can't be here when she gets here I'm just going to go drive my cars back okay and then so I started driving down I went to uh what time is this now about 1 130 about 1 130 uhhuh I started driving down uh 294 on the expressway and I and I I thought to myself there's too many people I can't cause an accident there's too many people so then I drove to I decided to drive to Chicago and I was like you know what I'll just the biggest building I can get on and then I and then I reason with myself and I said Jason you're afraid of height how are you supposed to build up the courage to do that if you can't so then I thought to myself well I'm in Chicago maybe I'll try to trade my car for that and that shows just how serious he was about taking his own life he was vacillating between ropes and guns this guy was even thinking about going to a bad neighborhood and getting himself smoked but even that plan had a problem and then I started thinking I'm like I was like but I don't want people to think that I'm a racist because I'm asking Hey where's where's the bad neighborhoods at around here and also I'm started driving south on the expressway and I told myself I'll just stop at the first rest stop and I'll wait until night time when there's like hardly any cars on the road and I'll just do it then and then they saw me before MH that had happened but I drove drove drove and then finally I saw a barricade with a for hor behind it and I'm like and um now I mean obviously I wish I'd never done any of it yeah but should have just turned myself in and after everything he still doesn't feel sorry for taking his children's lives as he said he's only sorry for not turning himself in it's no surprise at all that this tragic story gripped the entire country I I you know what is it's unknown what what is the actual appropriate response right when something like this happens um um so um our prayers in our hearts and I apologize because I did go house I did speak with with the mother and again all I can say is that we really uh support her and um we are going to do our best job for her based on the evidence and statements captured by police via a bodyw war camera the Lake County stat attorney's office Tuesday today approved three charges of first-degree murder carols is currently being transported to Lake County and expected to appear in Lake County bond court at some point when able the Lake County State service office has indicated additional charges could be filed against carols when the investigation is completed breaking now the father charged with three kids in Round Lake Beach has been moved to the Lake County jail Jason carols is expected to appear in bond court tomorrow morning he is charged in the deaths of his children ages 5 three and two a grand jury later indicted carols on a total of nine first-degree murder charges included with the charges were intent to kill knowing the axe will cause death or great bodily harm and creating a strong probability of death by great bodily harm Jason Carroll initially pleaded not guilty to the charges however he later changed his plead to guilty but mentally ill to three counts of first-degree murder