On the evening of January 31, 1978, Sergeant Robert Jackson, a 29-year-old Black narcotics officer with the Dothan Police Department, was shot as he stepped out of his car at his home. Struck by a 12-gauge shotgun blast fired from a car, Jackson fell in his driveway and died while his wife held him and their two young children watched. The shooter was not immediately identified and investigators reportedly had very little evidence to proceed with.

A $10,000 reward was announced by Governor George Wallace after the killing, but the case grew cold amid community suspicion and competing theories. Years later a former Dothan officer, Wykle Williams, said his father W.D. Williams made a deathbed confession claiming he had ordered the hit because Jackson was investigating him for cocaine trafficking, and that he named three men allegedly involved: Jimmy Albritton as shooter, Drury Mills as driver, and Neil Walker as lookout. The FBI was reportedly aware of that confession, but no charges have been filed and the murder remains officially unsolved.

Did anyone in or around Dothan at the time have information about Sergeant Jackson’s investigation or the men named in the confession?