Ruben Ebron calm when talking to mother of his children in jailhouse calls

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Compared with recently released voicemails from the weeks before 21-month-old Lonzie Barton disappeared, Ruben Ebron has a very different tone in the two jailhouse phone calls that Action News Jax obtained from the State Attorney's Office on Tuesday.

In the voicemails, Ebron was frustrated that his ex-girlfriend, the mother of his three children, was keeping his kids from him.

In the calls, Ebron keeps his cool when talking to her. He was calm and collected, even emotional at times.
     
The two calls were made while Ebron was inside the jail, both are about 15 minutes long. In them, he pleads for the mother of his children to come see him in person.

"At this point, I don't know who else to turn to. I need you," said Ebron, pleading with his ex-girlfriend and mother of his children to come visit him in jail.
     
Action News Jax is not revealing her name, only calling her J.R. Court documents reveal Ebron wasn't supposed to have contact with her, but he called her repeatedly.

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In the two separate calls from jail, the woman tells Ebron he is in this situation all because of his stripper girlfriend, Lonna Lauramore Barton.

Ebron: "Why do you say she disgusts you?"

J.R.: "You know quite frankly, both y'all do."

Ebron: "You saying because I started talking to her, that's the reason I'm in this situation."

J.R.: "Yeah."

Ebron: "There's no need to talk bad about her, bad but whatever."

J.R.: "Bad about her Ruben? You wouldn't be in this f*****g situation."

Ebron: "Ok, I know. You just don't like her at all?"

J.R.: "The whole situation, like, her child's missing, but yet she's so worried about you, telling you she loves you, she needs to come see you. Dude, the whole situation doesn't make sense. I'm sorry. It doesn't."

Ebron: "You telling, but I'm sitting here."      

The woman also tells Ebron he better start talking about what happened to Lonzie, who he was watching the night the toddler disappeared.

J.R.: "You're looking at prison time."

Ebron: "I know."

J.R.: "They're even looking at it as murder now, and guess who, trying to pin it on you."

Ebron: "I know. Trust me, I know."

Ebron is in the Duval County Jail without bond.

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