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| DNA Tests Link Dead Inmate to Killings |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 03/27/2002 |
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Newly performed DNA tests linked a California prison inmate who died last month to six East Bay slayings that had been unsolved for more than 20 years - and have cleared a man long suspected in his wife's slaying. The tests show 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. The killings took place in Oakland and Albany. The DNA evidence was gathered at the crime scenes at the time of the killings, but only recently was subjected to scientific tests that weren't available then, Harmon said. Police had been preparing to arrest Jackson for the killings when they learned he had died Feb. 15, said Oakland police Sgt. Ian Haney. In one case, the results exonerated Kenneth Grunzweig, who lived under a cloud of suspicion for nearly 20 years because police had identified him in a 1982 search warrant as their prime suspect in the killing of his estranged wife. The tests identified a bit of Jackson's skin under the fingernail of Betty Jo Grunzweig, 37, who was stabbed to death in her Oakland home in December 1981, Harmon said. By the prosecutor's account, DNA evidence also implicated Jackson in the deaths of Sonya Higginbotham in June 1975; Ann Johnson, 27, in August 1975; Henry Vila and his wife, Edith, in November 1981; and Gail Leslie Slocum, 34, in December 1981. All were killed in or just outside their homes. |
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