By Bryan Schwartzman
On Dec. 24 a passerby found Jackson's body in a plastic bag on the side of North Conduit Avenue near 244th Street and police were able to identify her several days later, said Cadet John Buthorn, a police spokesman.
Then on Dec. 30 police found the body of a second woman, also in a plastic bag, on 146th Avenue near Springfield Boulevard and 146th Road, said a source in the 105th Precinct. It is believed the two women were friends, sources said.
Warren Hinson, a friend of Jackson's, said she disappeared Dec. 28 along with a woman named Starr. It was not known if Starr was the woman whose body was bound
The medical examiner had not determined the cause of death in either case and police had not made any arrests as of press time Tuesday, said John Buthorn, a police spokesman.
“We don't know who did this,” said Lennie Nunez, Jackson's grandmother.
Just last month Jackson gave birth to her fourth child, a boy, said Nunez. She also had a 1-year-old son and two daughters, ages 2 and 3.
Nunez said the three youngest children were placed temporarily in foster care and the 3-year-old was in the custody of Jackson's older brother, who planned to adopt the girl.
Jackson's mother died five years ago and her father died in 1986. She graduated from Springfield Gardens High School about 10 years ago, Nunez said.
For years Jackson had lived with her grandmother in her Springfield Gardens home in her youth up through her high school years.
“She hasn't done much since then,” Nunez said. “She had a few jobs, but they didn't last too long.”
At the time of her death Jackson lived in a room in the South Jamaica home of Russell Pointer in South Jamaica. Pointer said she was staying there temporarily with her boyfriend. None of her children lived there with her, Pointer said.
“She was a caring, giving person,” said Pointer. “I'm an older person and she helped out.”
Pointer said Jackson would often cook for him and do his laundry.
“She had a lot of friends,” he said.
Hinson, described Jackson as a pretty woman and he said he planned to use her in a rap video he was producing.
“I was very upset when I heard about this,” said Hinson. “I had bought her a Christmas present.”
Police in the 113th Police Precinct Detective Squad did not return several phone calls requesting comment on the case.
Funeral services were planned for Wednesday evening at the Isaiah Owens Funeral Home in Manhattan on Malcolm X Boulevard near East 121st Street.
