TX - Kathryn Jackson, 32, Fort Worth, 26 November 1984

[Jacqu777]

Report No: 84473964
Victim: Kathryn Jackson, 32 years old
Location: 2001 Aden Rd
Kathryn Jackson was a school teacher. She did not show up for school the first day after the Thanksgiving break in the year 1984. Some friends went to her apartment. Her car was in the parking lot. They entered the apartment and found Kathryn fatally wounded. She had been strangled.

Cold Cases

Also:

Glen McCurley Strangled Carla Walker in 1974. Was She His Only Victim?

McCurley was living a quiet life in Fort Worth when new DNA evidence linked him to the notorious crime. Police suspect it wasn’t his first murder—or his last.

www.texasmonthly.com

 

[zh0r4]

Report No: 84473964
Victim: Kathryn Jackson, 32 years old
Location: 2001 Aden Rd
Kathryn Jackson was a school teacher. She did not show up for school the first day after the Thanksgiving break in the year 1984. Some friends went to her apartment. Her car was in the parking lot. They entered the apartment and found Kathryn fatally wounded. She had been strangled.

Cold Cases

Also:

Glen McCurley Strangled Carla Walker in 1974. Was She His Only Victim?

McCurley was living a quiet life in Fort Worth when new DNA evidence linked him to the notorious crime. Police suspect it wasn’t his first murder—or his last.

www.texasmonthly.com

Was she a teacher at Stirling Middle School like Marilyn Hartman who was also found dead in her apt via strangulation 10 years later? Or did she teach at another school?

FYI the title says 1974 and the bio says 1984.

 

[zh0r4]

Report No: 84473964
Victim: Kathryn Jackson, 32 years old
Location: 2001 Aden Rd
Kathryn Jackson was a school teacher. She did not show up for school the first day after the Thanksgiving break in the year 1984. Some friends went to her apartment. Her car was in the parking lot. They entered the apartment and found Kathryn fatally wounded. She had been strangled.

Cold Cases

Also:

Glen McCurley Strangled Carla Walker in 1974. Was She His Only Victim?

McCurley was living a quiet life in Fort Worth when new DNA evidence linked him to the notorious crime. Police suspect it wasn’t his first murder—or his last.

www.texasmonthly.com

https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/crime/article253554349.html

 

[Jacqu777]

Was she a teacher at Stirling Middle School like Marilyn Hartman who was also found dead in her apt via strangulation 10 years later? Or did she teach at another school?

FYI the title says 1974 and the bio says 1984.

Thank you for pointing out the incorrect date. When I was reading, I say something about another teacher being strangled but I haven't looked back into the details yet (I will). I didn't realize when I was creating the threads how hard it is to correct errors, but I'll try to get this corrected.

 

[zh0r4]

Thank you for pointing out the incorrect date. When I was reading, I say something about another teacher being strangled but I haven't looked back into the details yet (I will). I didn't realize when I was creating the threads how hard it is to correct errors, but I'll try to get this corrected.

No worries

Here is the other thread re: a teacher Marilyn Hartman (29) in Fort Worth who was murdered via strangulation in 1984.

TX - Marilyn Hartman, 29, Fort Worth, 19 October 1984

Report No: 84419922 Victim: Marilyn Hartman, 29 years old Location: 20700 Sunday Place On October 19, 1984, some of Marilyn Hartmann’s friends went to her house to visit her. They found Marilyn Hartmann deceased in the house. She had been strangled. She was a teacher at Stripling Middle School...

www.websleuths.com

If the date for Kathryn Jackson is also 1984, that is very interesting, as both were strangled, both were teachers, and both were found in their apartments. I wonder if there were signs of a break in? If not could the perp somehow be connected to the school(s)?

Marilyn Hartman worked at Stirling Middle School but it isn’t specified where Kathryn Jackson taught.

 

[Jacqu777]

No worries

Here is the other thread re: a teacher Marilyn Hartman (29) in Fort Worth who was murdered via strangulation in 1984.

TX - Marilyn Hartman, 29, Fort Worth, 19 October 1984

Report No: 84419922 Victim: Marilyn Hartman, 29 years old Location: 20700 Sunday Place On October 19, 1984, some of Marilyn Hartmann’s friends went to her house to visit her. They found Marilyn Hartmann deceased in the house. She had been strangled. She was a teacher at Stripling Middle School...

www.websleuths.com

If the date for Kathryn Jackson is also 1984, that is very interesting, as both were strangled, both were teachers, and both were found in their apartments. I wonder if there were signs of a break in? If not could the perp somehow be connected to the school(s)?

Marilyn Hartman worked at Stirling Middle School but it isn’t specified where Kathryn Jackson taught.

I agree, it's strange.

Possibilities:

- Connected: Serial Killer, possibly some common factor put both women at risk (like profession). It could also be that the killer looked for single women living in apartments (I don't think Mary Hartman was single tho, I'll need to double-check) and a decent proportion of single women in the area were teachers. So statistically teachers were more likely to become victims. I've been going through a bunch of cases in the Dallas area where women were found murdered in their homes.

- Indirectly Connected. Possibly the latter murder was framed to look like it was connected to the first one. Or something else.

- Not Connected. Seems kind of unlikely, but still possible.

Any other theories? I'll keep digging!

 

[Jacqu777]

If anything, this makes the police look bad. They were waiting to test out a superior finger print detection method because they were waiting for a perfect use case? Why does the first half of the article read like an advertisement?

Fort Worth Star-Telegram 02 Dec 1984, page 20 - Newspapers.com

View the digital scanned newspaper from Fort Worth Star-Telegram dated 02 Dec 1984, page 20.

www.newspapers.com

 

[Jacqu777]

16 December 1984 article link

“WITHOUT A CLUE
Some of Tarrant’s unsolved slayings in 1984”:

• Sandra Bush (strangled)
• Cheryl Ann Taylor (strangled)
• Buddy Herndon
• Dana Bowman (stabbed with a screw driver)
• Ginger Hayden (stabbed, SOLVED)
• Marilyn Hartman (strangled)
• Judy Herron (strangled)
• Kathryn Jackson (strangled)

Also, reported missing in 1984

• Catherine Davis (strangled, found 23 Jan 1985)
• Cindy Heller (strangled, found 5 Jan 1985)
• Angela Leigh Ewert (remains found 11 Aug 1993, mysterious fiancé?)

Fort Worth Star-Telegram 16 Dec 1984, page 4 - Newspapers.com