Jackson Jambalaya

Judge Mc may post his bond.

"The worst thing someone could do for him right now is to bail him out."

I agree.

There were additional fires in Laurel he has a connection to. Nothing was ever proven though.

Someone suffering from addiction needs to be in a controlled environment. Then there's hope for recovery and while he's still paying his debt to society he could be a help to others.

fire has a purifying compenent that cant be ignored
ashes are sterile carbon and carcile can he used to filter impurities
from the ashes of a fire, the earth becomes more fertile
fire is warm and has a life of its on.
In ancient pre history, when humans had not yet fully mastered fire, the keepers of were the first shamans and later preists. they alone kept the flames burning for the tribe to use.
this is the origins of the illiminati

This downward spiral is so sad to me.

He sure grew a beard quickly, based on the arrest photo you posted Friday.

His family must not had gotten him the help he desperately needs

Or he was so destructive they cut him off. A person has to want help to get help.

While we’re talking about getting help for people, we may want to consider 2:45.

At the risk of torquing Kingfish into a tirade....What, actually, is the man's name?

His name is Dow Yoder......First name George last name Yoder

He, Chowke, and Jody will make great jailhouse lawyers.

"His family must not had gotten him the help he desperately needs"

I'm pretty sure this is a sarcastic take on comments from previous posts.

Dow was on the MC football team that won a national championship. It was later taken back. He was a freshman. He had strong support during his run for the Court of Appeals.

I do not know him but I do know not all families even try to get their love ones help. Maybe they did and he refused or maybe they had no use for him.

I knew him from an adversarial stance when he represented a certain lunatic in Rankin County . He was then and is now a POS.

Family member here again. No help is coming from any of us at this point. Unfortunately he needs to be institutionalized for the rest of his life after prison. His mind is fried from schizophrenia and drugs

When he was bringing in money from his law career a lot of people probably loved him but when he’s in crisis and needs help they all abandon him

Schizophrenia can be treated

I think a lot of attorneys (especially in MS) are a biscuit away away from cracking up like this poor fella.

@ 5:02 - Are you sure about the man's actual, formal, legal name?

His booking sheet, posted with this thread, shows him to be: McDowell, Yoder George.

He goes by Dow. If you say George Yoder, no one will know who are talking about.

I've known him a long time. He was born crazy and it just got worse over time

With more drugs that refuses

He really fucked a lot of people by burning the Yana club. That place saved my life and has saved a lot of other people’s lives. It has been a very special place for me and many others. I am having a really hard time not casting judgement.

I know someone who, when his druggie/bipolar sister died, hadn't spoken to her for 16 years. He's periodically wracked with guilt about that. On the other hand, she'd been getting him in trouble since adolescence. "Giving her money, only shifted her focus onto me. Then, she'd be generating new crises, aiming them in my direction, in order to get even more money out of me. Attempts to help her were worse than futile: they backfired. And now, I'm basically estranged from the family, because they see me as this hard-hearted monster, who wouldn't help his sister - even though I'd been in trouble for trying to help her, since I was 12."

Maybe that's how Yoder's family has been experiencing it. He may have been wrecking their lives, since they were preteens.

"When he was bringing in money from his law career a lot of people probably loved him but when he’s in crisis and needs help they all abandon him "

That's a couple of pretty big assumptions, with nothing to back it up but your imagination and personal biases.

I agree (rarely) with KF that he is where he needs to be for now, and probably a stretch. The rest of you are a testament to the Baptist hypocricy that keep this State last, year to year. And I know Dow, and he is an asshole. But he is human and we all live in the same space in that regard.

I know a lot of people on here disagree with me but I believe society doesn’t take mental illness as serious as they should. The family is the first one to see it and usually in the best position to help. Throwing people to the wolfs isn’t the answer.

I attended many a meeting upstairs at the Northeast group.
COPAC used to load us up in a van and transport us to YANA.
That was forty years ago, and I still attend YANA at the Way Group meeting (men) on Monday evening.

So sad to see this happen to the building.

still remember JCSD responding to him walking down the road naked in Hebron out by his mothers home. shes elderly and disowned him long ago for obvious reasons. dude was an ass. Yoder family won't claim him. again, the ass aspect. he would lie/cheat in court all the time. should check out some of his jones county pleadings, could write a book on that alone. thought he was smartest person in the room, which always makes you the dumbest. then the involuntary commitments began, to which he acted a total fool. nobody in jones county misses this POS.

11:03, I don't think anyone disagrees that serious mental illness should be taken seriously, and that more resources need to be dedicated to treating it.

The question is exactly what to do about it. And generally blaming "the family" doesn't help, especially when a lot of families have done everything they could, begged for help while their loved one slipped through the cracks, and suffered greatly along the way.

Now, the people who have had help heaped upon them, but refused to accept it over many years, are a different story. And there are many of those.

Some people just like to be f*cked up, and want to stay that way, regardless of the cost. Eventually, those people have to be removed from society because of all the trouble they cause to others.

Yes, he was on the football team. Lost his scholarship. MC fired Coach Williams and the administration told the team not to have anything to do with him. Yoder helped him move anyway and lost his scholarship/half scholarship when admin found out.

It is never in my heart to celebrate anyone's downfall, but after having been previously personally slandered by this man, I am making an exception! Karma has spoken.

Walking naked?????

The time to help Dow was when he was in the Madison County District Attorney’s office. We knew he didn’t know what he was doing but we looked away because Michael Guest looked away. When he was finally let go, he crashed. He needs help! I hope he gets help.

Burn it all down, Dow. Purify the land with fire!

@3:02 -

I’ve been out of the state a while, and the last thing I’d heard about Dow was that he ran for Court of Appeals.

Every interaction I had with him in Canton was cordial & professional, back around 2009-13. And I certainly didn’t get a whiff of substance abuse.

That said, I also couldn’t find one other defense lawyer with anything good to say about him at the time. Guess I was clueless or lucky. His mug shot was a shock. I hope he gets clean & healthy.