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Article: JACKSON CONVICTED IN STRANGLING CASE JURORS SEEK A LIFE TERM; HE IS A SUSPECT IN A SERIES OF SLAYINGS.(FRONT)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- August 22, 1998
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Byline: NAOMI AOKI, STAFF WRITER
NEWPORT NEWS -- Elton Manning Jackson, the prime suspect in a string of serial slayings, was convicted Friday of first-degree murder in a 1996 strangling.
Jurors, who took five hours to reach a verdict, then recommended that Jackson serve a life sentence for killing Andrew D. ``Andre'' Smith during the early morning hours of July 21, 1996, either during or after a sexual encounter.
Jackson then kept Smith's body for eight or more hours, before leaving him on a back road in Chesapeake, where Smith's naked, decomposing body was found at about 8:30 a.m. on July 22, 1996.
``Elton Jackson not only took away ...