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This 2017 Detroit News article is the most detailed biography I've found:
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/n...ton-man-niagara-falls-cheats-death/104931426/
All indications were that he had planned to go over the falls a second time in an inflatable ball along with the boa constrictor and using a drone to film the plunge for merchandising purposes. He'd already set up a website for marketing souvenir T-shirts.
The ball was sighted drifting and spinning above the falls - empty. It then drifted into the current and was swept over the brink. The drone was found crashed on an island in the river. Its camera had some footage of the river, but nothing showing Jones or the ball.
No one connected the mystery ball with Jones until his ex-wife contacted Niagara authorities. Jones' van and an empty snake cage were found soon after the cops learned who / what they were looking for.
It would be roughly 6 weeks later that his body was discovered 12 miles downstream from the falls. The boa was never found.
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/n...ton-man-niagara-falls-cheats-death/104931426/
All indications were that he had planned to go over the falls a second time in an inflatable ball along with the boa constrictor and using a drone to film the plunge for merchandising purposes. He'd already set up a website for marketing souvenir T-shirts.
The ball was sighted drifting and spinning above the falls - empty. It then drifted into the current and was swept over the brink. The drone was found crashed on an island in the river. Its camera had some footage of the river, but nothing showing Jones or the ball.
No one connected the mystery ball with Jones until his ex-wife contacted Niagara authorities. Jones' van and an empty snake cage were found soon after the cops learned who / what they were looking for.
It would be roughly 6 weeks later that his body was discovered 12 miles downstream from the falls. The boa was never found.