VA VA - Ralph Leon Jackson, Blue Ridge Parkway Shooter, 4 May 2010

[rob525]

Well you claiming you saw an article saying he was in the military is not good enough for people who haven't seen said article, i've read everything i can find on him and this article doesn't seem to exist. I'm sorry but i can't just take your word for it and i assume the majority of people wouldn't do so either especially since everything points to Ralph committing one murder and not being some super serial killer. VFA-37 which is the unit with the bull insignia was never stationed in California so there's yet another issue with this.

I don't base my judgement of witnesses on what Judge Judy says also if you asked her if a hypnotized child is a good witness i assume her answer would be different. The first interview is always the most reliable one and the child didn't say anything about a bull tattoo until later when she was hypnotized. That should tell you something especially when no one else mentioned the tattoo, there was 37 witnesses to the Visalia Ransacker i think it's telling that you base this entirely on one and probably the least reliable one.

I did see an article that alluded to RLJ serving in the Army. But I also noticed that the source of this article was obscure and I would not take it as gospel truth. The writer may have been citing an unreliable source. I have not seen any reliable evidence that proves RLJ served in the military and that is usually a talking point in main stream media. I will try to find it and post it.

Is it confirmed that RLJ has a tattoo of a bull?

 

[jaejae]

I did see an article that alluded to RLJ serving in the Army. But I also noticed that the source of this article was obscure and I would not take it as gospel truth. The writer may have been citing an unreliable source. I have not seen any reliable evidence that proves RLJ served in the military and that is usually a talking point in main stream media. I will try to find it and post it.

Is it confirmed that RLJ has a tattoo of a bull?

Thanks for the post and interest in the thread I started. As I said to the poster Nadal I have seen it written down and stated in an article that he was a military veteran of ten years and this was used by his lawyer at his sentencing as a plea for leniency. The lawyer did also state he could find no rhyme or reason to the attack. I read into this along the statements of the District Attorney that they did not think that the crime in 2010 was his first. I am only a amateur poster like yourself no doubt and am part of no official investigation but I believe it was very likely Jackson had a bull tattoo. Cheers.

 

[Nadal]

I did see an article that alluded to RLJ serving in the Army. But I also noticed that the source of this article was obscure and I would not take it as gospel truth. The writer may have been citing an unreliable source. I have not seen any reliable evidence that proves RLJ served in the military and that is usually a talking point in main stream media. I will try to find it and post it.

Is it confirmed that RLJ has a tattoo of a bull?

Okay, if you saw it in an article i'll apologize here to JaeJae i wasn't calling him a liar but i couldn't just take his word for it. Can you post the article please i haven't see it anywhere?

This actually means he likely doesn't have the tattoo though because the Virginia based unit with the bull tattoo is a Navy Unit and you are saying he was in the Army. Those are distinctly different things i don't see why he'd get a Navy tattoo as an Army man.

No it's not confirmed anywhere that RLJ has any tattoo's if someone where to send FOIA requests for info on him you'd likely get his inmate details or whatever you call it and that mentions tattoo's from what i've seen even if they don't have any it says None, IMO if he was in the Army and not the Navy he didn't have it.

I'd like to see the article because if you're saying the source is obscure it could be that same mixup from the military register in 1963 that can't be him. I'd like to try and contact the author of the article and see what they say as like i said it's in none of his court documents or any other articles i could find, a few articles weren't available to me though since i'm from Europe so it could've been one of them. I had Ralph's Inmate # which if you googled it all of his available court documents online appeared i'll try and find it again.

 

[Nadal]

Here it is: Criminal No. 5:10cr00026

Google that and all his available court documents come up. Think that's only after conviction but he pled guilty so there was no trial.

 

[jaejae]

Okay, if you saw it in an article i'll apologize here to JaeJae i wasn't calling him a liar but i couldn't just take his word for it. Can you post the article please i haven't see it anywhere?

This actually means he likely doesn't have the tattoo though because the Virginia based unit with the bull tattoo is a Navy Unit and you are saying he was in the Army. Those are distinctly different things i don't see why he'd get a Navy tattoo as an Army man.

No it's not confirmed anywhere that RLJ has any tattoo's if someone where to send FOIA requests for info on him you'd likely get his inmate details or whatever you call it and that mentions tattoo's from what i've seen even if they don't have any it says None, IMO if he was in the Army and not the Navy he didn't have it.

I'd like to see the article because if you're saying the source is obscure it could be that same mixup from the military register in 1963 that can't be him. I'd like to try and contact the author of the article and see what they say as like i said it's in none of his court documents or any other articles i could find, a few articles weren't available to me though since i'm from Europe so it could've been one of them. I had Ralph's Inmate # which if you googled it all of his available court documents online appeared i'll try and find it again.

Hi Nadal. Thanks for the interest.

I definitely saw it but is was sometime ago when I was comparing various composite sketches and the photos of Jackson to the Maggiore composite sketches and trying to age regress him as such. It gave me a likely connection to California in the 1970s and being born in 1953 would have made him about 25 years old in 1978. I saw it I know that for certain and the fact that I cannot find it to me makes it more certain that I saw it but I know I did anyway.

I am sorry if I say Army I mean military in general. I think of EAR/ONS being in a combat role of some sought like a Navy or Airforce equivalent of a marine because of the way he behaved but this may have changed after any service in Vietnam. To me EAR/ONS was always stationed at a Californian military base like Mather and that is why he so desperately wanted the Maggiore's dead and why he perhaps saw one victim at the Officer's Club. So he might have been in any division of the military after Vietnam and if I remember right Mather was an Airforce base.

I just want to say my piece that I believe Jackson was actually EAR/ONS as I believe it is my moral duty as other people are being held for his crimes. I have said my bit on one internet thread up against so many LE and scientific experts and supposed DNA hits that are so many trillion to one. That is done and as I say LE have arrested many others in the crimes I believed he was responsible for. This is all I can do and it is enough and I do not think Freedom Of Information requests will get me very far and also I am not even a US Citizen.

Thanks

 

[jaejae]

Here it is: Criminal No. 5:10cr00026

Google that and all his available court documents come up. Think that's only after conviction but he pled guilty so there was no trial.

Nadal. If you actually follow Jackson's legal process through he originally pleaded not guilty and it appears he may have appealed that he did not receive a fair trail because he was denied a jury one. So he was enthusiastic in a guilty plea and to me arrogantly with a rare show of narcissism outside of his own mind actually felt he might get away with it. Just to add I believe he is likely dead now. Cheers.

 

[Nadal]

Nadal. If you actually follow Jackson's legal process through he originally pleaded not guilty and it appears he may have appealed that he did not receive a fair trail because he was denied a jury one. So he was enthusiastic in a guilty plea and to me arrogantly with a rare show of narcissism outside of his own mind actually felt he might get away with it. Just to add I believe he is likely dead now. Cheers.

No, he appealed because he didn't feel he had effective council. His lawyer told him his mental state and inebriation at the time of the crime would not be an effective strategy according to Jackson, he also claimed one of his lawyers did very little for him. He wasn't denied a jury trial, he was advised to plead guilty and did so meaning he didn't get one if he plead not guilty he would have had one. Here it is here from the court document:

Ralph Leon Jackson pled guilty to capital murder and three other related offenses in exchange for a life sentence. Jackson received the benefit of his bargain but has now filed a motion pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255 maintaining he received ineffective assistance in two respects. First, he claims that counsel misadvised him concerning the viability of an intoxication defense capable of reducing the homicide from murder to manslaughter. He contends that he was intoxicated to such an extent that "a verdict of manslaughter would have been probable." (Br. in Supp. of Mot. to Vacate 20, ECF No. 55.) He claims that had counsel properly advised him concerning the matter, he would have insisted on going to trial rather than pleading guilty. Second, he claims that one of two statutorily required court-appointed attorneys rendered little or no assistance. Both claims are frivolous. Jackson's voluntary intoxication would not have been admissible to reduce the homicide from murder to manslaughter and Jackson's Sixth Amendment rights turn on the issue of whether Jackson received effective assistance of counsel not the role played by one or the other of his two court-appointed lawyers. Accordingly, the court sua sponte denies Jackson's motion.

 

[Nadal]

Nadal. If you actually follow Jackson's legal process through he originally pleaded not guilty and it appears he may have appealed that he did not receive a fair trail because he was denied a jury one. So he was enthusiastic in a guilty plea and to me arrogantly with a rare show of narcissism outside of his own mind actually felt he might get away with it. Just to add I believe he is likely dead now. Cheers.

How would he think he would get away with it if he was pleading guilty? That makes no sense.

And yes he is dead i posted that way back at the start of this thread, he died in March this year.

 

[Nadal]

I am sorry if I say Army I mean military in general. I think of EAR/ONS being in a combat role of some sought like a Navy or Airforce equivalent of a marine because of the way he behaved but this may have changed after any service in Vietnam. To me EAR/ONS was always stationed at a Californian military base like Mather and that is why he so desperately wanted the Maggiore's dead and why he perhaps saw one victim at the Officer's Club. So he might have been in any division of the military after Vietnam and if I remember right Mather was an Airforce base.

I just want to say my piece that I believe Jackson was actually EAR/ONS as I believe it is my moral duty as other people are being held for his crimes. I have said my bit on one internet thread up against so many LE and scientific experts and supposed DNA hits that are so many trillion to one. That is done and as I say LE have arrested many others in the crimes I believed he was responsible for. This is all I can do and it is enough and I do not think Freedom Of Information requests will get me very far and also I am not even a US Citizen.

Thanks

Rob said the article says he was in the Army, we'll wait for him to post it if it does say that then IMO that rules him out as having a Navy tattoo. I'll also contact the author and hopefully get a response as to their source.

You don't have to be from America to file FOIA requests, i'm from Scotland and have got Mafia Member FBI Files through FOIA. If you are interested in sending one PM me and i'll advise you how to do it.

 

[jaejae]

How would he think he would get away with it if he was pleading guilty? That makes no sense.

And yes he is dead i posted that way back at the start of this thread, he died in March this year.

Let's just say he was persuaded to plead guilty. Who wants a real life Michael Myers in the news. Anyway I think it was better than the young female victim having to be put through a greater ordeal. Thanks

 

[Nadal]

Let's just say he was persuaded to plead guilty. He wants a real life Michael Myers in the news. Anyway I think it was better than the young female victim having to be put through a greater ordeal. Thanks

I agree about the female victim, glad she didn't have to go through a trial. But if he wanted a Michael Myers in the news why wouldn't he have claimed he committed all of these crimes you think he did? His crime didn't make national news, nowhere near it barely anyone has heard of him. If he wanted publicity this was not the way to do it.

 

[jaejae]

Interesting posts. I am sure I also read a line saying he was denied a jury trial as well by bad council. As I say I think it was good that the female victim and the male victims mother were not put through my trauma. However I suppose procedure is procedure. Hello to sunny Scotland. I will leave the Freedom Of Information requests to you. I do not really think it is for me to do as a foreigner and perhaps I have watched Unsolved Mysteries too many times. Cheers

 

[Nadal]

Interesting posts. I am sure I also read a line saying he was denied a jury trial as well by bad council. As I say I think it was good that the female victim and the male victims mother were not put through my trauma. However I suppose procedure is procedure. Hello to sunny Scotland. I will leave the Freedom Of Information requests to you. I do not really think it is for me to do as a foreigner and perhaps I have watched Unsolved Mysteries too many times. Cheers

He wasn't denied a jury trial, he decided not to have one by pleading guilty and he later claimed it was because of bad council. He didn't have to listen to his lawyers, all they can do is advise you if he decided to plead not guilty then he would have had a jury trial.

I'm a foreigner too, FOIA requests are open to anyone. If you want to compile evidence against Ralph for your theories then that would be the best way to start, understand if you don't want to though.

 

[jaejae]

I agree about the female victim, glad she didn't have to go through a trial. But if he wanted a Michael Myers in the news why wouldn't he have claimed he committed all of these crimes you think he did? His crime didn't make national news, nowhere near it barely anyone has heard of him. If he wanted publicity this was not the way to do it.

I think most LE are honest people and that includes the vast majority who work for the FBI but what I meant was the FBI do not want a real life Michael Myers in the news and on trial. He did not want publicity. He never really did court it that much when committing his crimes and he had had most of the excitement he craved.

 

[jaejae]

How would he think he would get away with it if he was pleading guilty? That makes no sense.

And yes he is dead i posted that way back at the start of this thread, he died in March this year.

Thanks for the information you know more than I do. I just assumed because he was very ill at the time of his arrest in 2010 that he might have died before. That is interesting information.

 

[Nadal]

Thanks for the information you know more than I do. I just assumed because he was very ill at the time of his arrest in 2010 that he might have died before. That is interesting information.

No problem i'm going off the BOP Inmate Locator, search his name there and he comes up - Inmate Locator

RALPH LEON JACKSON
Register Number: 15613-084
Age: 65
Race: White
Sex: Male
Deceased: 03/08/2019

That is clearly him as he would have turned 66 this year but he died in March likely before his birthday. I've used that site a lot for inmates and it's always accurate.

 

[jaejae]

He wasn't denied a jury trial, he decided not to have one by pleading guilty and he later claimed it was because of bad council. He didn't have to listen to his lawyers, all they can do is advise you if he decided to plead not guilty then he would have had a jury trial.

I'm a foreigner too, FOIA requests are open to anyone. If you want to compile evidence against Ralph for your theories then that would be the best way to start, understand if you don't want to though.

Thanks for the post but it is my view I would not get very far and also it is bridge too far for me. Also this case is the responsibility of the FBI. I have tried my best to get the what I believe are the right answers for victims before they are too old and pass on and more recently to try and save the lives of the innocent men that I believe have been wrongly accused of his crimes through scientifically flawed investigative genetic genealogy science. I have spent quite a lot of time on Ralphman but I keep coming back and I am happy the number of cases I have solved or help to solve in my opinion.

 

[Nadal]

Another link to his death on the FMC Butner release list - FMC BUTNER – Inmate Releases

 

[jaejae]

No problem i'm going off the BOP Inmate Locator, search his name there and he comes up - Inmate Locator

RALPH LEON JACKSON
Register Number: 15613-084
Age: 65
Race: White
Sex: Male
Deceased: 03/08/2019

That is clearly him as he would have turned 66 this year but he died in March likely before his birthday. I've used that site a lot for inmates and it's always accurate.

That sounds like him as that is the likely age he would be now. As I say you know more than I do as I would have thought he would have gone to hell a few years earlier.

 

[jaejae]

No problem i'm going off the BOP Inmate Locator, search his name there and he comes up - Inmate Locator

RALPH LEON JACKSON
Register Number: 15613-084
Age: 65
Race: White
Sex: Male
Deceased: 03/08/2019

That is clearly him as he would have turned 66 this year but he died in March likely before his birthday. I've used that site a lot for inmates and it's always accurate.

Thank you for the post very interesting particularly in light of the fact I believe he is the actual Golden State Killer and another man has been incarcerated for his crimes for over a year:

RALPH LEON JACKSON
Register Number: 15613-084
Age: 65
Race: White
Sex: Male
Deceased: 03/08/2019

Inmate Locator