http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27335906/October 23,2008
Austin Galloway
After 36 years of despair, the family of Gerald “Jerry” Jackson finally learned who had brutally murdered the Vietnam vet in his apartment in California. Thanks to an enterprising intern at the San Diego Police Department, the closure they have waited for so long appears to be finally at hand.
The suspected killer, 60-year-old Gerald Metcalf, was arrested last week in Texas and is awaiting extradition to San Diego to stand trial. The person responsible for cracking the case is Gabrielle Wimer, a 24-year-old criminal-justice major who looks forward to a career in crime scene investigation.
Jerry Jackson was a Vietnam vet and postal worker who worked part-time at a bar. He was last seen at work at the bar on Dec. 28, 1971. When he didn’t show for his postal job, co-workers called police, who found his body in his apartment on Jan. 2, 1972. He had been stabbed 50 times and his apartment had been ransacked. Fingerprints were recovered, but there was no database to submit the prints at that time. Wimer simply resubmitted the prints to the now extensive database and they matched Metcalf.
There are many other cases that could be solved by reopening preserved evidence and using technology now that was not previously available.
1 comment:
Austin, I liked how your opening sentence caught my attention by the use of eye-catching phrasing. In addition, I liked how you summarized the article by only talking about the main points and leaving out the unimportant fluff. Finally, I liked how you ended your current event by explaining how crime scene investigators today could reopen old cases and use new technology today to solve the cases. However, I do feel you could try to lengthen the article a little by going further in-depth into the actions of the intern. I would also have liked to know who the intern was working with and for how long he had been working on this case. Over all I was very impressed with this current event, I liked how it was formatted in a simple and direct way.
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