GUILTY VA - Cpl. Justin 'Jake' Huff, 24, Virginia Beach, 2 Jan 2006

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Police are investigating a homicide after digging, and finding the body of a missing Marine who was assigned to an intelligence training unit in Virginia.

Name has been withheld pending notification of the family.

Another student is being questioned about the death.


http://www.wwaytv3.com/Global/story.asp?S=4363151&nav=menu70_2

 

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http://www.wavy.com/Global/story.asp?S=4374281&nav=23ii

He's been identified as Justin "Jake" Huff, 24. He leaves behind a wife who is 3 months pregnant with their first child.

Family says he was stabbed and set on fire, police have not confirmed any details in the case.

The suspect is in the Navy and is attending the same school.

 

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http://www.wavy.com/Global/story.asp?S=4405312&nav=23ii

Petty Officer Third Class Cooper Jackson, of Boones Mill, is charged with murder, kidnapping, impersonating an officer from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service and obstruction of justice.

More at link.

 

[OkieGranny]

From October 2006:

http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,117964,00.html

Petty Officer 3rd Class Cooper Jackson showed no emotion and seemed unsurprised Friday when a military jury sentenced him to life in prison without parole for the kidnapping and killing of a Marine corporal in January.

Jackson, 23, pleaded guilty Monday to murder and related charges in a deal that spared him the death penalty. He admitted slitting Cpl. Justin Huff's throat in the mistaken belief that Huff had taken part in the rape of a woman who befriended Jackson over the phone...

Jackson was led to believe by Ashley Elrod, his phone acquaintance, that Huff participated in a sexual attack on her. She admitted in court the attack never occurred and that Jackson, whom she called more than 1,000 times over a two-month period, was one in a long line of military men she enjoyed calling constantly, using a false identity and personal description... Elrod faces no charges.

 

[SuziQ]

I just watched this case on 48 hours NCIS. I hope that that Ashley Elrod has had a horrible life these past 12 years.

 

[SuziQ]

Catfishing relationship between strangers leads to the murder of an innocent Marine