Deborah Harriett Jackson

Deborah Harriett Jackson, a 30-year-old African American woman, was found dead near a container outside a paint store near Pico and Rimpau boulevards in the Mid-Wilshire area of Los Angeles on December 1, 1987. At the time, the cause of her death was not publicly disclosed, and the case remained unsolved for over two decades.

In 2008, a breakthrough occurred when a DNA match linked Michael Hughes, a convicted serial killer, to the murder of Deborah Harriett Jackson. Hughes had previously ...