Evening star., 1960-06-26
REES
Virginia Authorities Prepare to Act
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and Harold cases. Another sig
nificant link was the fact that
a .38 caliber revolver was used
in the Harold killing and the
shooting Of Mr.. jackson.
Sources close to the investi-
cation said Rees had been ten
tatively identified as the man
in the Harold case by M/Sergt.
Roy D. Hudson. Mrs. Harold's
companion at the time she was
shot in a parked car on a lonely
country lane IL miles from
Annapolis in June 1857.
1t was understood that a
number of witnesses from other
cases which FBI agents and po-
lice thought might be linked to
the Jackson case have viewed
photographs of Rees and said
he closely resembles the man
who victimized them. Hudson,
1T was understood, made a per-
sonal Identification after view
ing Rees.
Lived in Area
An FBI spokesman said Rees
was known to be familiar with
the isolated neighborhood of
the Jackson burials and the
Harold Staying because he had
lived for while in the Uttered
basement of a cinderblock
house down the lane from the
spot where Mrs. Harold, a Fort
Meade clerk and mother of two,
was killed. . ..
Mrs. Jackson and Susan Ann
were found in shallow grave
beside a tumble-down house
only seven-tenthS of a mile
from where Mrs. Harold was
killed.
He was traced to the base
ment, according to an FBI
spokesman, through one of
many pictures of women taken
from magazines and plastered
all over the walls. One of the
pictures, the FBI laboratory
specialists discovered, came out
of a University of Maryland
yearbook and was of a girl Rees
dated while a student at the
University of Maryland.
The FBIs principal theory
and the one that led to the
break in the case-was that the
Jackson killings were done by
a sex deviate or sex maniac.
Many Records Checked
Squads of agents combed
mental institutions from Della
ware to North Carolina and
studied criminal records of the
District, Maryland and Vir-
ginia to find every possible
person known as sex deviate
who could have been where the
Jacksons were on January IL.
In the course of this scrutiny,
it was found that Rees was
arrested by Prince Georges
County police on March IL,
1855. on charges of assault and
battery on a woman. The case
was dismissed after the woman
declined to prosecute. But
agents were interested in the
details.
The woman claimed that
Rees picked her up on a high
way where she was standing
after a fight with her husband.
She said he drove her to a
secluded road and told her to
diSrobe.
Worked as Musician
A several months check on
Rees' whereabouts at all the
Investigators had sought
Hoover's special statement yes
terday afternoon.
Investigators have sought
someone who was familiar with
Virginia back roads as we'll as
the isolated back roads of
Maryland. Rees, according to
the FBI, worked as a musician
between Norfolk and Washing
ton and travelled Route 301-
the highway that linked the
burial of Mr.. Jackson and his
baby daughter near Fredericks-
burg, Va, with the turmoil to
the back road where Mrs.
Jackson and Susan Ann were
buried near Annapolis.
Car Shift Quizzed
When The Star on May 81,
1859, posed a series of questions
in the Jackson case as authori-
ties turned to the public for
information. this question was
asked:
do you know a man who
used a 1946-1948 green Chrys-
Ter or DeSoto on June 26, 1857,
acquired a 1952-l954 dull
colored light blue or green
Ford before August "a, 1858,
and had the Ford on January
II, 1882"
These cars were used in other
cases which suggested similar
tiles with the Jackson case.
A half-hour before the
Jackson car was presumably
forced off the road as the
Jacksons drove toward their
home at Apple Grove, Va, a
wild-eyed man driving light
blue or green Ford of this
vintage attempted to shunt
another car off the road only
II miles from where the
jackson car was Abandoned.
In August, 1858, a Ford an
swering the same description
was used to halt Laurel couple
on a back road near Laurel. AS
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