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    Homer Lee Jackson III Pleads Guilty and Walks Free for 1980s OR Serial Murders


    From left: Latanga Watts, Angela Anderson, Tonja Harry and Essie Jackson




    Murders of 4 Portland women in 1980s tied to man described by neighbors as unassuming, nice

    By Everton Bailey, Jr.
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    A Portland man killed two women and two teenagers in the 1980s to conceal that he sexually abused them and then dumped their bodies in a vacant house, a park, along a street and near the Columbia Slough over four years, police said Friday.

    They arrested Homer L. Jackson III, 55, at his Northeast Portland home and booked him into the downtown jail on 12 counts of aggravated murder. Jackson has a criminal history that stretches back 30 years, but all for non-violent offenses including burglary and traffic violations.

    Neighbors described him as a quiet, nice man who mostly kept to himself in their apartment complex.

    "If you saw him, you wouldn't ever think he would be accused of this," said Beverly Jones, who lives underneath Jackson.
    Police released few details of the killings, saying they're still investigating the cases and may find other victims.

    Three of the women – ages 19, 23 and 29 -- were choked or strangled. It's not clear how the youngest – a 14-year-old girl -- died.

    Three of them were killed months apart in 1983 and one in 1987. Their bodies were found in North and Northeast Portland. All were involved in prostitution, police said.

    Cold case investigators linked Jackson to the killings through forensic evidence and other information, police said at a news conference to announce his arrest. They worked with the original detectives and others to gather enough evidence to make an arrest.

    "To be able to be at this point today where we're actually able to show that one person was responsible for this much tragedy, it's extremely gratifying," said cold case homicide Detective Jim Lawrence.

    An indictment alleges Jackson killed Essie Jackson, 23, in March 1983, Tonja Harry, 19, in July 1983, Angela Anderson, 14, in September 1983 and Latanga Watts, 29, in March 1987. Essie Jackson and Homer Jackson are not related.

    The women's families are generally relieved to have answers, Lawrence said.

    "Some of them are still kind of suspicious that the system is actually going to work for them," he said. "Their overall joy is I think a little bit stilted, but they are still feeling some relief that we've been able to give them some measure of peace."

    Police wouldn't say how Jackson knew the women, but spokesman Sgt. Pete Simpson said the deaths highlight the dangers of sex trafficking.

    The three older women were involved in prostitution before their deaths, police said. Anderson had been living in a foster home and friends believed she had been involved in prostitution before she was killed. Essie Jackson was the mother of one child and Watts had three children.

    A passerby spotted the body of Essie Jackson while walking along the western edge of Overlook Park in North Portland and looking over an embankment, police said.

    She had last been seen more than a month earlier on what is now Northeast Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.

    Four months later, two people found Harry facedown in the water near the Columbia Slough in West Delta Park, police said. She was pronounced dead at the scene. She had last been seen the night before on MLK Boulevard just south of Killingsworth Street.

    Authorities initially suspected that the deaths of Jackson and Harry were linked to the Green River killer who terrorized Seattle and its south suburbs in the 1980s.

    A potential homebuyer discovered Anderson in an upstairs bedroom of a vacant house for sale at 416 N.E. Going St. that fall. The key had been in a lock box on the front door. Anderson had been dead for two weeks, police said.

    Watts was found in a grassy area near North Concord Avenue close to the Going Street Pedestrian Bridge. Her body appeared to have been moved by the bridge, police said. She had been seen on MLK Boulevard the night before she was discovered by police.

    Court records show that Homer Jackson was convicted in January 1984 on a second-degree burglary charge and sentenced to a year in jail. Since then he has been convicted of driving under the influence of intoxicants, reckless driving, unlawful use of a weapon, discharge of a firearm in the city, second-degree criminal mischief, driving while suspended and other traffic violations.

    He faces three aggravated murder counts in each of the four killings. The indictment describes different theories of how sexual abuse was involved in the deaths.

    His neighbors said he sometimes made pork rinds for the residents at Emerson Plaza, their U-shaped complex tucked off Northeast 13th Avenue, and never had an issue with anyone.

    People mostly saw him when he would leave his apartment to go to the grocery store and doctor's appointments with his mother or nephew, they said.

    Jones, his neighbor downstairs, sat in her recliner Friday evening with two friends as the TV news mentioned Jackson's arrest. She turned up the volume.

    "This is the biggest news we've had happen around here," she said. "It was big and shocking."

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    Accused serial killer Homer Jackson pleads not guilty

    When reached by phone on Monday, a family member of Homer Lee Jackson declined to comment

    By Brent Weisberg
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    PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN 6) — An accused serial murderer appeared in court for the first time since being indicted by a grand jury on 12 counts of aggravated murder.

    Homer Lee Jackson
    , 55, appeared by video. He is being held in the Multnomah County’s Inverness Jail in Northeast Portland.

    According to court records, a not guilty plea was entered on his behalf. He is accused of killing three women and a teen girl in the 1980s.

    As Jackson appeared in court, homicide detectives furthered their investigation. Since news of Jackson’s arrest on Friday, police confirm that they have been contacted by several people who have provided them with information on other missing persons’ cases. Police would not release specific information on the cases, other to confirm that the investigation is still active and on-going.

    Records show that Jackson was born in Berkley, California. Prior to his arrest, he lived in Northeast Portland. Neighbors told KOIN 6 News that Jackson was receiving fulltime care for an unknown medical condition. Records show that Jackson has lived in Portland for about 40 years.

    The last time Jackson worked was in 2009 and since then has received disability, according to records.

    A tentative trial date has been set for Nov. 3 but will certainly be rescheduled.

    When reached by phone on Monday, a family member of Jackson’s declined to comment.

    Jackson will remain in custody.

    According to records, 15 people testified before the grand jury empaneled to investigate the allegations against Jackson.

    http://koin.com/2015/10/19/accused-s...ears-in-court/
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    Judge tosses alleged confession of accused serial killer, citing coercive Portland police tactics

    By Maxine Bernstein
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    The state's case against accused serial killer Homer Lee Jackson III suffered a significant blow after a judge this month threw out his alleged confession, finding Portland police used improper and coercive tactics during more than seven hours of questioning over two days.

    Police arrested Jackson, now 57, in October 2015 and accused him of strangling two teenagers and two women in their 20s who worked as prostitutes in the 1980s. He's pleaded not guilty to aggravated murder charges.

    It's the latest setback in a case that has lingered for two years afterpolice announced at a news conference that they had finally solved the asphyxiation deaths of four African American women who had been sexually assaulted and their bodies dumped. Relatives and friends of the women filled three rows in the courtroom's gallery when Jackson entered his plea.

    Prosecutors and defense attorneys have been locked in a series of pitched court arguments about the quality of evidence in the case against Jackson, who was collecting disability payments and had lived quietly in a Northeast Portland for 13 years at the time of his arrest. He told court officials he was taking medication for paranoid schizophrenia.

    Multnomah County Circuit Judge Michael A. Greenlick now has suppressed the two days of statements that Jackson made to two Portland cold case detectives when he was first taken into custody in October 2015, finding they were "made under the influence of fear produced by threats (and promises of leniency.)'' The judge cited more than a dozen examples from the interrogation.

    At several points during the interview, Detectives Meredith Hopper and James Lawrence told Jackson that if he admitted to killing the women and explained why, they'd help him, he'd feel "great relief" and everything would turn out "for the best for everybody."

    At other times, the detectives were hostile, exploiting Jackson's religious belief by suggesting God would never forgive him for his sins and promising that bad things would happen if he didn't start talking, the judge said.

    Hours into the questioning on Oct. 15, 2015, Hopper advised Jackson not to put the families of his alleged victims through the pain of a trial. If he did, she told him, jurors would look at him as a monster because he couldn't remember how many women he killed.

    The detectives would make sure he got the severest penalty if he didn't come clean on the killings, she said.

    After Jackson continued to deny involvement, Hopper said, according to transcripts of the interrogation:

    "Well then, you are a monster, my friend. You deserve what's coming to ya and I hope you get every bit of it. Because I think you're a nice guy to talk to, very pleasant, but I'm telling you right now, you are a monster and we will do everything we can to make sure you spend as much time in prison as we can put you there for. Because that's what's coming. You have the power to help these people."

    The judge also highlighted Lawrence's likening of the case to a train as the detective urged Jackson to confess and "get on'' the train and then warned that if Jackson didn't, he'd get "run over'' by the train.

    Conor Huseby, one of Jackson's defense lawyers, argued that the promises of leniency mixed with threats showed the detectives were trying to manipulate Jackson into confessing to murders "it was abundantly clear he had no memory of.''

    State prosecutors countered that the detectives lawfully pressed Jackson about how he should clear his own conscience and give closure to the families of Essie Jackson, 23, killed in March 1983, Tonja Harry, 19, killed in July 1983, Angela Anderson, 14, killed in September 1983 and Latanga Watts, 29, killed in March 1987. Homer Jackson and Essie Jackson aren't related.

    Jackson's statements were voluntary, and the detectives made no threats, the prosecutors said.

    "There is simply nothing threatening about calling the defendant a monster nor is it threatening to tell the defendant that the detectives will work as hard as possible to do their jobs and make a strong case against the defendant in order to keep him in prison as long as possible,'' wrote Deputy District Attorney Susan O'Connor. "A threat must be more than expression by the officer of an intent to do something that the officer is authorized to do.''

    The judge disagreed.

    "Police threatening the worst punishment if convicted, I believe, is coercive," Greenlick ruled. Citing case law, he said police have the power to follow through on threats of harsher penalties and it's reasonable for a defendant to believe that could happen.

    "Given the totality of circumstances, I believe the defendant could have started to believe that he would suffer a number of detrimental consequences, including that the judge and the jury would consider him to be a monster, the police would seek the longest possible penalties, the victims would be angry and influence prosecution negatively," the judge said. "It might also have been reasonable for him to believe that the interview might not end until he cooperated and he would not be able to let his family know what is going on."

    Though the judge said he isn't required by law to determine whether he believed Jackson's statements were false or wrong, he called it "noteworthy" that Jackson admitted only to the killing of the 14-year-old yet had no recollection of what occurred and provided details that were inconsistent with how she died.

    "It sure appears that the defendant became convinced that he committed murders for which he had no memory," Greenlick said.

    "The fact that the defendant remembers Ms. Anderson or remembers being at a place where she took johns obviously does not mean that he committed murder on this particular date 34 years ago," he said.

    Multnomah County Deputy District Attorney Jenna Plank argued that under recent case law, "the probable truth of a confession" shouldn't be a factor in deciding whether a statement can be admitted as evidence at trial.

    The judge said he wasn't ruling on the truth of the statements. But he said he found in his close review of the interview with Jackson that the types of inducements or threats made by police can create a risk of an inaccurate admission.

    "Backing that up is my concern the defendant isn't really able to come up with anything specific about any of these murders even though he seems to be trying," Greenlick said.

    The judge threw out all of Jackson's statements to police after Lawrence, responding to Jackson who asked to call his sister during a smoke break on the first day of questioning, told Jackson that he couldn't call his sister until "we get to a point where we are working together on this."

    Before that break, Jackson had repeatedly denied any involvement in the killings. After emerging from that break, he suddenly remembered "the girl in the house," referencing the death of Angela Anderson, the interrogation transcript shows.

    The judge issued his ruling from the bench Oct. 2, but then sought more input from lawyers regarding an unusual turn in the interrogation, when police called Jackson's sister and allowed him to talk to her on speaker phone while the detectives listened and participated in the conversation.

    When his sister asked why Jackson was there and why he was talking to police without a lawyer, he said, "I did it."

    The judge ruled Tuesday that the unlawful police tactics tainted Jackson's admission to his sister as well
    , finding it reasonable for Jackson to believe at the time that "that the detectives would evaluate the statements he made to his sister and potentially react negatively to them.

    Prosecutors haven't yet discussed with Oregon Department of Justice lawyers whether to appeal the judge's ruling to a higher court, Plank said Wednesday. "We're still moving forward,'' she added, noting there are hearings set next month on other pretrial motions in the case.

    Prosecutors allege Jackson's DNA was found at three of the crime scenes. Jackson's lawyers have countered that his DNA isn't the only male DNA at the scenes and often was found in less suspicious places than the DNA of other potential suspects.

    http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/i...confessio.html
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    Judge suppresses Homer Jackson's phone call to sister

    By Brent Weisberg
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    PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Prosecutors are appealing a Multnomah County judge's decision to suppress statements made by Homer Lee Jackson III during police questioning into allegations that he killed four females in the 1980s.

    Jackson, now 57, was booked into the Multnomah County Detention Center at 11:30 a.m. on Oct. 16, 2015 after spending two days with homicide detectives being interrogated. He is charged with 12 counts of aggravated murder.

    Police said Jackson is linked to these 4 deaths:

    — Essie Jackson, 23. Her body was found March 23, 1983 long the western edge of Overlook Park in North Portland.

    — Tonja Harry, 19. Her body was recovered from the Columbia Slough in West Delta Park on July 9, 1983.

    –Angela Anderson, 14. The teen's body was found September 2, 1983 in a vacant house in the 400 block of NE Going Street.

    — Latanga Watts, 29. Her body was found on March 18, 1987 on N. Going Avenue.

    Multnomah County Circuit Court Judge Michael A. Greenlick outlined his decision on Oct. 3, 2017 on why he granted Jackson's motion, filed by his criminal defense attorneys, to suppress statements Jackson gave to police during his interrogation on Oct. 15 and Oct. 16, 2015.

    Greenlick determined that the two Portland Police cold case homicide detectives assigned to the case used improper and coercive tactics, specifically; the statements Jackson gave were "made under the influence of fear produced by threaths (and promises of leniency.)" Jackson's interrogation last more than 7 hours and spanned two days, according to court records.

    Recently, Greenlick ruled that statements Jackson made to his sister during a phone call that was monitored by detectives can be suppressed. It's another blow to the state's case against Jackson.

    Homicide detectives James Lawrence and Meredith Hopper told Jackson that he would have a chance to call his mother and sister at some point – while at police headquarters – and that the phone would be placed on speaker phone and it would be monitored.

    Greenlick, in his decision to suppress the phone call statements, determined that Jackson was "briefly shown" a copy of the written Miranda warning form, which he signed the previous day on Oct. 15, 2015. Jackson was asked if he still understood the rights on the form. Jackson looked at the form for a few seconds and replied "um-hm." The detectives never read Jackson his Miranda rights on the second day of continued interrogation.

    "The interrogation continued in a similar fashion and form as it had occurred the day before on October 15, 2015," Greenlick wrote in his decision. "The general themes reasserted to [Jackson] were that it would be better for him if he confessed; that the State's case was so strong that there was no doubt that [Jackson] was guilty of multiple murders; and that [Jackson's] claims of having no memory would continue to victimize the families."

    Records show that on Oct. 16, 2015, at approximately 10:30 a.m., after a 30 minute break of police questioning, Jackson told detectives that photos of Essie Jackson might help refresh his memory. Detectives told Jackson that they would have someone bring the photos while detectives dialed the phone number for Jackson's mother.

    "[Jackson] leaves a voice message for his mother, explaining that he is being booked for murder. Detective Lawrence interjects the term ‘aggravated murder,'" according to Greenlick's ruling.

    A short time later, Jackson had a conversation with his sister. The conversation was on speaker phone and Detective Lawrence and Detective Hopper were present.

    "During this conversation, [Jackson] makes admissions that he committed one of the murders now charged by indictment," Greenlick wrote.

    Greenlick determined that the statements Jackson made to his sister must be suppressed because "merely showing [Jackson] the Miranda warnings form – which he had previously signed – did not dispel the prior taint because that form was only shown to [Jackson] briefly and not read aloud."

    "Detectives interrogated defendant up to the moment they allowed him to make monitored phone calls to his mother and sister," Greenlick wrote. "Detective Lawrence participated in both telephone conversations. At the time the phone calls were placed, [Jackson] understood that the interrogation would continue after the calls because detectives were planning on showing him an additional photograph of a victim to possibly assist his recollection of events. In fact, the interrogation did continue after the phone call to [Jackson's] sister."

    Prosecutors have theorized that Jackson may have killed so many people that he has lost count – over the decades – of the exact number of victims.

    All four victims were African American females. Each worked as a prostitute in North and Northeast Portland. They were known to work Northeast Union Avenue, now known as Northeast Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., according to court documents.

    In each case, according to the state, the victim's breasts were exposed and the pants of each victim was either unzipped, unbuttoned or pulled down. They each died from some sort of asphyxiation.

    Jackson's criminal defense attorneys, Conor Husbey and Dean Smith, dispute the state's claims.

    "The crimes and scenes are much more different than they are the same," Smith wrote in recently filed court documents. "Detective Lawrence asserted he had observed ‘obvious similarities' in the homicides of Tonja Harry, Angela Anderson and Latanga Watts. Detective Lawrence turns out to be mistaken about much of what appeared obvious to him."

    "If one looks beyond the handful of superficial similarities in the cases of the victims in the charged cases, it becomes abundantly clear the evidence does not point to a single assailant," Smith wrote. "There is no ‘Mark of Zorro.' There is no signature pattern. No matter what you look at – injuries, condition of the clothes, locations of the crime scenes, etc. - you will find these are not " signature crimes."

    Jackson is scheduled to appear before Judge Greenlick on Thursday morning for a motions hearing, but it was canceled because of the DA's Office appeal.

    A trial date has tentatively been set for June 2018.

    http://www.koin.com/news/judge-suppr...ster/918001753

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    Oregon high court upholds tossing man’s alleged confession

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    PORTLAND, Ore. — The state’s highest court has upheld a judge’s suppression of an alleged confession made by Homer Lee Jackson III, marking a significant setback to a Portland case that has been pending since his arrest for allegedly killing multiple people.

    The Oregonian/OregonLive reported the court found Thursday that two Portland police “detectives’ methods and inducements may have persuaded defendant to tell the detectives what they wanted to hear, whether or not that was the truth.”

    Police arrested Jackson in October 2015 and accused him of strangling two teenagers and two women in their 20s who worked as prostitutes in the 1980s. He’s pleaded not guilty to aggravated murder charges.

    The state Supreme Court upheld the 2017 ruling by Multnomah County Circuit Judge Michael A. Greenlick, who threw out statements Jackson made during more than seven hours of questioning by detectives.

    https://lmtribune.com/northwest/nw-b...684b92af7.html
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    Prosecutors drop one murder case, add another against accused serial killer Homer Jackson

    By Maxine Bernstein
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    Prosecutors have dropped one murder case against accused serial killer Homer Jackson but added another one in a new indictment filed Tuesday.

    The indictment comes five months after the Oregon Supreme Court upheld the suppression of an alleged confession by Jackson. Jackson’s lawyers and prosecutors also are in multi-day pretrial hearings in Multnomah County Circuit Court, where defense attorneys are challenging Jackson’s fingerprint identification from at least one crime scene. A trial is set for Jan. 21.

    The indictment drops all aggravated murder charges against Jackson in the death of Essie Jackson, 23, killed in March 1983.

    Instead, it charges Jackson with the 1993 killing of Lawauna Janelle Triplet, 29, whose body was found in North Portland.

    Four years after his arrest, Jackson, 59, faces charges in the asphyxiation deaths of four African American women who had been sexually assaulted and their bodies dumped in North Portland - three in the 1980s, and Triplet’s death in 1993.

    On Tuesday, he pleaded not guilty to the new indictment, charging him with 15 counts of aggravated murder stemming from the four deaths.

    A 9-year-old boy walking home from school located Triplet’s body on June 15, 1993, near a pedestrian overpass at North Going Street and Concord Avenue. She was last seen alive walking west on Northeast Alberta Street at about 1:30 a.m. on the day her body was found, police have said. Triplet was a known prostitute in the area, according to police.

    Triplet died of abdominal injuries and strangulation, according to the state medical examiner’s office.

    Dean Smith, one of Jackson’s defense lawyers, said he had just received the indictment. “We’ll take a good look at it,’’ he said.

    The new indictment, issued more than three years after the initial indictment, continues to charge Jackson in the deaths of Tonja Harry, 19, killed in July 1983; Angela Anderson, 14, killed in September 1983; and Latanga Watts, 29, killed in March 1987.

    Police arrested Jackson in October 2015 and has remained in custody since.

    Police and prosecutors said similarities in the crimes helped investigators link the deaths. Each of the victims died of asphyxiation by strangulation or a ligature, was sexually assaulted and found with their shirts pushed up over their chests. They all walked the old Union Avenue, now Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, as prostitutes, authorities said.

    Jackson’s original defense lawyer, Conor Huseby, reviewed the police evidence and Jackson's hours-long, video-recorded interview with detectives and argued in 2016 that police had no evidence tying his client to Essie Jackson’s case and little linking him to the others. In cases where Jackson’s DNA was detected, police also found multiple other male DNA profiles in more incriminating locations at some of the scenes, defense lawyers have argued.

    Multnomah County prosecutors until now have stood by all the charges, contending Jackson confessed to Anderson’s killing, “made inculpatory statements and admissions” when questioned about Essie Jackson’s death and that his DNA was found at three of the four crime scenes, according to court documents.

    Though the new indictment no longer charges Homer Jackson with Essie Jackson’s murder, police and prosecutors said they still believe that Homer Jackson is responsible.

    Prosecutors suffered a setback in the case when in December the state Supreme Court upheld the ruling in 2017 by Multnomah County Circuit Judge Michael A. Greenlick, who threw out statements Jackson made during more than seven hours of questioning over two days by two Portland cold case detectives when he was taken into custody. Greenlick found they were “made under the influence of fear produced by threats (and promises of leniency).’’

    The state’s highest court found that the two veteran Portland police “detectives’ methods and inducements may have persuaded defendant to tell the detectives what they wanted to hear, whether or not that was the truth.’’

    The state’s high court said it considered the totality of circumstances, including Jackson’s diagnosed schizophrenia, his significant problems with memory, that he wasn’t allowed to call his family until Portland police cold case Det. James Lawrence told Jackson that he felt "we are working together on this,’’ and that Jackson had provided incorrect details about some of the killings.

    The new indictment charges Jackson with three counts of aggravated murder in connection with each of the deaths of Harry, Anderson and Watts, and six counts of aggravated murder in the death of Triplet.

    It alleges Jackson killed Harry, Anderson and Watts in the course of committing and attempting to conceal the crimes of first-degree sexual abuse against each woman. The six aggravated murder counts against Jackson in Triplet’s death accuse of him killing her in the course of committing and attempting to conceal first-degree sexual abuse and first-degree unlawful sexual penetration.

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    Homer Jackson walks free in plea deal that offered time-served for killing 4 women in 1980s, ‘90s

    By Maxine Bernstein
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    Homer Lee Jackson III walked free Monday afternoon, hours after pleading guilty to killing four young women in the 1980s and ‘90s in a drawn-out case that began with a high-profile announcement that police had arrested a serial killer and ended with a deal that one prosecutor described as “better than nothing.”

    But first Jackson, 62, had to face the families of those he finally acknowledged killing.

    https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/202...1980s-90s.html
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    Portland serial killer dies at home after sentence of just probation

    Portland, Oregon, serial killer Homer Lee Jackson III was released from custody in controversial plea deal

    By Michael Ruiz
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    Homer Lee Jackson III killed four sex trafficking victims between 1983 and 1993, eluded capture until 2015 and then walked free in a plea deal in 2022 following a court battle over a controversial confession.

    Now he's dead, discovered in his own home by his sister after succumbing to an illness, according to local reports.

    The four victims, all of whom had been raped and strangled, were between 14 and 29 years old.

    Police found Angela Anderson, the youngest, in a vacant home. The others, Essie Jackson, 23, Tonja Harry, 19, and Latanga Watts, 29, were dumped in public places.

    The cases remained unsolved until 2015, when police arrested Jackson and got him to confess in two days of interrogations.

    However, a judge threw out his confession amid allegations of improper tactics used by two lead investigators.

    Oregon's Supreme Court later upheld the decision, finding that their "methods and inducements may have persuaded defendant to tell the detectives what they wanted to hear, whether or not that was the truth," according to a 2018 report.

    Jackson was diagnosed with schizophrenia and, according to the report, had a bad memory. Court records show that his first-degree murder charges were dismissed and he was only convicted of four counts of criminally negligent homicide.

    Jackson was released from custody in January 2022, sentenced to time served and probation.

    Now the killer is dead at the age of 63. His sister reportedly found him inside his house in Portland. He weighed under 80 pounds and had been dealing with an unspecified illness.

    In addition to the four murders, Jackson had a prior criminal record that included firearms, burglary and DUI charges.

    https://www.foxnews.com/us/portland-...just-probation
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