James Leon Jackson is accused of killing 10-year-old Tammy Welch while her family was moving out of their apartment in 1984
A man accused of raping and killing a 10-year-old girl in Florida in the 1980s has protested his innocence in court despite having a back tattoo referring to the crime.
James Jackson, 66, spoke as he took to the stand in the second day of his trial in Jacksonville.
'It was a little girl. I wouldn't kill no little girl,' Jackson said.
Prosecutors say Jackson raped and killed Tammy Welch at her apartment complex and then put her body outside his window.
Jackson claimed he never knew the girl or her family who lived next door and said that he was asleep during the time that the girl was murdered.
A little while later, a detective showed up at his door.
'I went over there to take a nap on the couch and a few hours later, my friend started knocking on my door and asked to come in because there had been a body discovered outside,' Jackson said.
5 comments:
To start lets reopen and refurbish all the empty ones sitting abandoned across the country. The switch to community based care has been a failure and just reverted us to the pre-institutionalization days where patients were left to rot in the streets/prisons.
Please just release him and let me know,where he is. I’ll give him a sporting chance.
How did I know this black man murdered a 10 year old white girl.
Anonymous said...
To start lets reopen and refurbish all the empty ones sitting abandoned across the country. The switch to community based care has been a failure and just reverted us to the pre-institutionalization days where patients were left to rot in the streets/prisons.
December 6, 2018 at 2:04 PM
WTF are you talking about?
Anonymous said...
Please just release him and let me know,where he is. I’ll give him a sporting chance.
December 6, 2018 at 10:12 PM
No, you can't do that, then County Council Wannabe Josh Hastings and James Yamakawa will want to memorialize him and then give him a monument on the Wicomico County Courthouse lawn.
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