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Holy f...WTF?
Sauce: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...5?ref=Outbrain&ADLocation=footer&ADPosition=2
Storeh:
An FBI agent who investigated the 1977 murder of a millionaire heiress may have swiped part of her fortune and hidden it in a Swiss bank account.
About $1.6 million of Marjorie Jackson’s massive fortune went unaccounted for after she was shot and killed inside her Indianapolis home.
But a Pulitzer prize-nominated reporter said newly obtained, fishy records suggest that at least part of the missing loot may have been pocketed by investigators who found her cash buried in an Arizona desert, the now 81-year-old journalist, Don Devereux, told the Indianapolis Star.
Devereux’s claim may seem outlandish — but so did the 1977 murder and its puzzling aftermath. And Jackson’s family said the theory doesn’t seem that far-fetched at all.
“I’m not accusing the FBI agent of anything,” said Steve Koers, a nephew of Jackson and co-executor of her estate. “But it sounds like there could be something to it, so I think it is something that should be looked into.”
Jackson, the wife of grocery store tycoon Chester Jackson, inherited an estimated $14 million when he died in 1970.
The widow grew more reclusive and eccentric after his death. She stopped maintaining the lawn and was rarely seen outside the home. She kept the dining room table set in expectation that Jesus Christ would stop by for dinner, wrapped gifts and addressed them “to God, from Marjorie” and covered the home’s doorknobs in foil.
She also grew untrusting of the bank. Worried workers would embezzle her inheritance, she slowly withdrew crash in $500,000 and $1 million increments, took it home in shopping bags and hid it in drawers, garbage cans and toolboxes.
Within four months, she had stashed about $8 million in the house — on top of millions her equally distrustful husband left in the home before he died.
The hidden cash made Jackson a prime target for robbers. A few months before she was killed, two teens snuck into her house and swiped $800,000. Jackson denied she had been robbed and refused to prosecute them.
On May 2, 1997 another set of robbers — Howard “Billy Joe” Willard, 38, Mooresville, and Manuel Lee Robinson, 29, Indianapolis — broke in to her home and made out with $1 million.
The burglary was so easy, so they went back two days later for a second round. But the pair found Jackson inside her home and shot her. As she bled to death in the dining room, Willard and Robinson set the house on fire. They raided the home one last time as it burned before firefighters came to put out the blaze.
Investigators were never able to determine how much cash Jackson had in the home — or how much the killers got away with. About $5 million from the house after the fire, but officials estimated that she may have had upwards of $15 million hidden. Willard and Robinson likely swiped between 2 and 3 million, officials said.
WISH-TV Jackson was murdered inside her home in 1977.
Robinson was tracked down in Indianapolis and Willard in Arizona, each after a wild spending spree tipped off cops.
Willard was sentenced to life in prison for murder and died in 1987. Robinson was acquitted of murder but stayed in prison until 1988 on arson and burglary charges.
But Willard’s ex-wife later led FBI agents to treasure buried in a Phoenix dessert. Officials dug up $1.7 million in cash, which the pair allegedly buried to keep other thieves from it.
That’s where Devereux’s theory comes in. Nearly four decades later, earlier this year, a source told the 81-year-old reporter how odd it was that some of the cash was still unaccounted for, even though the suspects cooperated with police after they were arrested.
So Devereux requested FBI documents from the case. In them, an agent’s name — which should have been redacted — was left uncensored six separate times.
“Once is an oversight,” Devereux told the newspaper. “Six times is a message. At least, that’s how I took it.”
WISH-TV The recluse Jackson stashed millions in cash inside her home.
The veteran journalist then looked up property and financial records in the agent’s name. Years after the murder and after the agent retired, the records showed money from a Swiss bank account was used to but property in the agent’s name.
Devereux suspects that the agent dug up more than the reported $1.7 million, stashed the leftover in a Swiss account and used it years down the line.
“The whole thing,” he said, “leaps out at you as irregular. And even though we’re talking about something that happened a long time ago, I don’t believe that is any excuse to ignore it now.”
He informed the FBI — which in turn wrote that they would not investigate.
Sauce: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...5?ref=Outbrain&ADLocation=footer&ADPosition=2
Storeh:
An FBI agent who investigated the 1977 murder of a millionaire heiress may have swiped part of her fortune and hidden it in a Swiss bank account.
About $1.6 million of Marjorie Jackson’s massive fortune went unaccounted for after she was shot and killed inside her Indianapolis home.
But a Pulitzer prize-nominated reporter said newly obtained, fishy records suggest that at least part of the missing loot may have been pocketed by investigators who found her cash buried in an Arizona desert, the now 81-year-old journalist, Don Devereux, told the Indianapolis Star.
Devereux’s claim may seem outlandish — but so did the 1977 murder and its puzzling aftermath. And Jackson’s family said the theory doesn’t seem that far-fetched at all.
“I’m not accusing the FBI agent of anything,” said Steve Koers, a nephew of Jackson and co-executor of her estate. “But it sounds like there could be something to it, so I think it is something that should be looked into.”
Jackson, the wife of grocery store tycoon Chester Jackson, inherited an estimated $14 million when he died in 1970.
The widow grew more reclusive and eccentric after his death. She stopped maintaining the lawn and was rarely seen outside the home. She kept the dining room table set in expectation that Jesus Christ would stop by for dinner, wrapped gifts and addressed them “to God, from Marjorie” and covered the home’s doorknobs in foil.
She also grew untrusting of the bank. Worried workers would embezzle her inheritance, she slowly withdrew crash in $500,000 and $1 million increments, took it home in shopping bags and hid it in drawers, garbage cans and toolboxes.
Within four months, she had stashed about $8 million in the house — on top of millions her equally distrustful husband left in the home before he died.
The hidden cash made Jackson a prime target for robbers. A few months before she was killed, two teens snuck into her house and swiped $800,000. Jackson denied she had been robbed and refused to prosecute them.
On May 2, 1997 another set of robbers — Howard “Billy Joe” Willard, 38, Mooresville, and Manuel Lee Robinson, 29, Indianapolis — broke in to her home and made out with $1 million.
The burglary was so easy, so they went back two days later for a second round. But the pair found Jackson inside her home and shot her. As she bled to death in the dining room, Willard and Robinson set the house on fire. They raided the home one last time as it burned before firefighters came to put out the blaze.
Investigators were never able to determine how much cash Jackson had in the home — or how much the killers got away with. About $5 million from the house after the fire, but officials estimated that she may have had upwards of $15 million hidden. Willard and Robinson likely swiped between 2 and 3 million, officials said.
Robinson was tracked down in Indianapolis and Willard in Arizona, each after a wild spending spree tipped off cops.
Willard was sentenced to life in prison for murder and died in 1987. Robinson was acquitted of murder but stayed in prison until 1988 on arson and burglary charges.
But Willard’s ex-wife later led FBI agents to treasure buried in a Phoenix dessert. Officials dug up $1.7 million in cash, which the pair allegedly buried to keep other thieves from it.
That’s where Devereux’s theory comes in. Nearly four decades later, earlier this year, a source told the 81-year-old reporter how odd it was that some of the cash was still unaccounted for, even though the suspects cooperated with police after they were arrested.
So Devereux requested FBI documents from the case. In them, an agent’s name — which should have been redacted — was left uncensored six separate times.
“Once is an oversight,” Devereux told the newspaper. “Six times is a message. At least, that’s how I took it.”
The veteran journalist then looked up property and financial records in the agent’s name. Years after the murder and after the agent retired, the records showed money from a Swiss bank account was used to but property in the agent’s name.
Devereux suspects that the agent dug up more than the reported $1.7 million, stashed the leftover in a Swiss account and used it years down the line.
“The whole thing,” he said, “leaps out at you as irregular. And even though we’re talking about something that happened a long time ago, I don’t believe that is any excuse to ignore it now.”
He informed the FBI — which in turn wrote that they would not investigate.
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