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During the investigation, several eyewitnesses who were around during the time were found. They reported a suspicious vehicle driving erratically, and one neighborhood reported the vehicle trying to lure children into it. The person described as driving the car was a black male with bushy hair and a scruffy mustache. It was found during the investigation that this vehicle was seen parked nearby when
Stewart was attacked. They wrote down the license plate on the car. The vehicle was spotted on January 8 by a police patrol car, and they questioned its owner, who was Jackson.
319:. The victims were 62-year-old Henry Vila and his 59-year-old wife, Edith. Their bodies were found on November 22, 1981. They were stabbed to death, and there was evidence that Edith was sexually assaulted by her attacker. It was determined the killer broke into the home around nighttime, around the time the Vila's were getting ready for bed. When Jackson was informed his DNA was a match to the DNA left at that crime scene, he refused to come out of his cell in
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In 1953, at the age of 16, Jackson was arrested and charged with theft. Subsequently, his crimes only got worse. He moved to
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December 4, 1981, 37-year-old Betty Jo Grunzweig was found stabbed in her home in Oakland's Trestle Glen neighborhood. She was still alive when her daughter found her. Betty told her daughter, "I think he was a rapist," before passing away on the way to the hospital. Before her murder, Betty had
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