Richard Hilliard Jackson

Homicide

2known / alleged victims

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Case Facts

Gender: male
Country: USA
Location: Maryland, USA
Date of birth: ???
Characteristics: alcoholic
Victim profile: His infant stepson / An elderly female
Method of murder: ??? / Strangulation
Date(s) of murder: 1972 / 1977
Years active: 1972–1977
Date of arrest: —
Status: Life imprisonment
Sentenced to life in prison; Jackson was convicted of murdering his infant stepson in 1972.

Case Summary

Case details

Richard Hilliard Jackson was a Maryland handyman.

The offence

Jackson was convicted of murdering his infant stepson in 1972.

Investigation

No investigation details were provided in the case record.

Arrest

No arrest details were provided in the case record.

Trial

Sentencing

Jackson was sentenced to life in prison.

Jackson was also sentenced to ten years in prison for the infant stepson case and served only twenty-three months before his parole to a half-way house in Riverdale.

Other proceedings

In July 1977, Jackson was charged with the beating and strangulation of an elderly female victim.

Jackson pleaded innocent by reason of insanity to the July 1977 charge.

A psychiatric report suggested that the murder occurred while “the defendant was, in all likelihood, suffering from an acute psychotic state, characterized by agitation, paranoia and suicidal ideas, which was partly due to acute alcoholic intoxication but also due to his basic paranoid personality.”

Jurors rejected the psychiatric evidence, finding Jackson sane and guilty as charged, and they were distressed at the news of his early release in the prior murder case.

Outcome

Jackson was sentenced to life in prison for murdering his infant stepson in 1972.

Other details

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