Husband arrested in 1994 LA-area slaying of CIA
analyst
LOS
ANGELES (AP) — Nearly 14 years after a CIA employee’s strangled body was
found in a car trunk, her husband has been charged with her murder.
Inglewood
police and FBI cold case investigators reopened the case and used DNA evidence
to link Andre Jackson, 46, to the killing of his 33-year-old wife, Marie
Singleton-Jackson, FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller said April 22.
Singleton-Jackson’s
body was found Nov. 16, 1994, in the trunk of her Saab at Dockweiler State
Beach. Intrigue swirled around the case because the mother of four worked as a
communications analyst with the Central Intelligence Agency.
The FBI’s
Fugitive Task Force in Los Angeles traced Jackson to Tempe, Ariz., where he was
arrested last week. He has waived extradition and will be arraigned Wednesday
in the Torrance branch of Los Angeles County Superior Court.
The
district attorney’s office filed a first-degree murder charge but spokeswoman
Sandi Gibbons wouldn’t discuss the case.
Sal
Hernandez, who heads the FBI office in Los Angeles, credited Inglewood
detectives for reopening the case and developing solid leads that made it
solvable.
Inglewood
police Chief Jacqueline Seabrooks and Hernandez announced the arrest Tuesday in
a joint statement.
Jackson
was initially the prime suspect in the killing, but investigators said there
wasn’t enough evidence to file charges. The FBI also concluded the death wasn’t
job related.
During a
routine cold-case review, investigators determined crime scene and autopsy
blood samples had not undergone DNA analysis. The FBI Laboratory in Quantico,
Va., found there was “male pattern DNA” present.
Jackson
couldn’t be found, but his son Andre Jackson Jr. was arrested by Hawthorne
police in an unrelated crime and investigators got a warrant to take a blood
sample for the homicide investigation.
The
analysis of the younger Jackson’s blood, when compared with blood found at the
crime scene, revealed he was related to the man presumed to be his mother’s
killer. An arrested warrant was issued April 8 for the senior Jackson.