Dead Inmate Linked to 6 Unsolved Killings
From Staff and Wire Reports
Newly performed DNA tests linked a prison inmate who died last month to six East Bay killings that had been unsolved for more than 20 years--and have cleared a man long suspected in his wife’s murder.
The tests show that Charles “Junior” Jackson, 64, who died of a heart attack while serving a life term for a 1982 rape-murder, killed five other women and a man during burglaries from 1975 to 1981, said Rockne Harmon, an Alameda County prosecutor.
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