A woman originally from Guatemala was sentenced to prison for the murder of her ex-husband in Oregon, US media reported on May 4.
According to the media Law and Crimethe Oregon Department of Justice reported that the Guatemalan woman, identified as Reina Gabriela Jackson, 45, She was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole. for the murder of Dr. Craig Jackson at his home in Coos County.
Jackson was found guilty of second degree murder, after a trial that lasted approximately three weeks.
According to Law and Crimethe crime occurred on August 2, 2021, when Jackson, In the company of two men, he would have broken into the doctor’s home and shot him.
The authorities, upon arriving at Craig Jackson’s home, found him dead with two gunshot wounds: one on the head and another in the rectum area.
Craig Jackson’s current partner told the authorities that, when they both heard that there were people inside their house, the doctor He went to check, at which point he began fighting with the two men.
He said he heard a gunshot and hid under the bed. When he made sure that It was safe to go out, he found the lifeless body of his partner in a hallway, outside the bedroom.
The authorities reviewed the home’s security cameras and discovered that Three masked people—two men and a woman—broke into the house.
Prosecutors say officers arrived at the home of Craig Jackson’s ex-wife and that she would have expressed “very little emotion” when he was notified about the death of his ex-partner. They also indicated that, inside the house, a fireplace was lit and that both the door and the window were open.
One of the authorities’ hypotheses suggests that Jackson tried to eliminate any evidence that linked her to the murder; However, the agents discovered that, inside his vehicle, There was a map with directions to her ex-husband’s house. The woman denied having gone to that place.
The main hypothesis about the motive for the crime is that the Guatemalan woman would have acted out of jealousy, seeing him with another partner. In fact, Law and Crime points out that, in 2018, Jackson She broke one of the windows of Craig Jackson’s home when she realized he was with a friend.
The couple, according to the media, met in Guatemala and married in 2008, in addition to having a daughter in 2013. In 2014 they went to live in Oregon, but the marriage ended in 2016when she filed for divorce.
After the divorce, Craig Jackson married a woman he met in China in 2020, while the alimony he paid to the Guatemalan woman ended in 2021.
Law and Crime indicates that Reina Jackson fled with her daughter to Guatemalabut she was arrested in 2023. While she remained in prison, her daughter stayed in Guatemala.