On March 9, 1973, 41-year-old Richard Russell Jackson was killed in Stockbridge, Henry County, Georgia. He had been married to Marie Jackson for four months at the time. The killing later became linked to a wider crime spree that took place in Georgia from 1973 to 1977.

Decades after the slaying, investigators identified Carl Millard Patton Jr. and Joseph Thomas Cleveland as participants in that string of murders. Authorities concluded Marie Jackson had hired Patton to kill her husband, reportedly to collect on an insurance policy. At Patton’s sentencing, Richard’s daughter, Gladys Elaine Jackson, thanked Patton and characterized her father as abusive, saying her mother had ordered the killing to save herself.

Marie Jackson later lived with a man named Fred Wyatt; Wyatt was murdered by Patton and Cleveland in 1977. Marie Jackson died 14 years after her husband’s killing. Does anyone have information about Richard Jackson, his family, or the events in Stockbridge around 1973?