Unsolved homicides that haunt me…
Posted in Cold Cases in the News, Forensics, Help the Cops!
Kansas City police announced today that they are reopening the investigation into the 40-year-old killing of Civil Rights and political leader Leon Jordan. In a news release, police said that they “have located the weapon used in the murder and partial fingerprints taken from the weapon and cars around the crime scene. The fingerprints were [...]
The trial of Bernard Jackson, the man accused of four Waldo area rapes in the 1980s, is slated for 2011. Judge Charles E. Atwell is scheduled to preside over the trial, which will be in either April or July. A case management conference is scheduled for August 13, 2010. Earlier this month, Jackson entered a [...]
Bernard Jackson was arraigned Wednesday June 2, 2010, on 18 felonies stemming from four Waldo-area sexual assaults in the 1980s. Assistant Public Defender Carie Allen entered not-guilty pleas on Jackson’s behalf during the brief appearance before Judge Brent Powell. His next court appearance was scheduled for June 22, 2010. Police are continuing to investigate the [...]
KANSAS CITY, MO. – The man who is considered a person of interest in the Waldo rape cases appeared in court on other rape charges yesterday. Bernard Jackson now faces 15 counts of robbery, rape and sodomy. There was a very strong police presence on Monday when Jackson went before a Jackson County judge. The [...]
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Yesterday, Jackson County prosecutors filed 15 charges against the man suspected in the recent Waldo-area rapes — all of them involving four unsolved rapes from 1983 and 1984. Authorities did not charge him in any of the recent assaults that have terrified women living in and near Waldo. Bernard Jackson, 52, a twice-convicted sex offender who [...]
Chief Corwin has updated his blog with information. The press conference today was a basic reassurance to the public that police was in control but they did not gave one piece of information or one clear answer. We did get this, a picture of the man in custody, a person of interest. “Bernard Jackson was developed [...]
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Yesterday, Kansas City police took into custody Bernard Jackson, a convicted rapist in connection with the Waldo serial rape investigation, after a short foot chase in the 3200 block of Thompson Avenue. He is as of yet a person of interest. Jackson was paroled from prison in 2008 after serving more than 20 years for attempted forcible rape, [...]