Updated: Dental records confirm missing Richmond mom’s remains found in Pulaski County
The Kentucky State Medical Examiner’s Office has confirmed that human remains found last week in Pulaski County are those of a missing Richmond mom.
Ella Diebolt Jackson, 48, went missing in October and her husband was charged with her murder before her body was found on April 28. Richmond police received confirmation this week that the remains were hers.
Glenn Jackson, 39, was charged with murder-domestic violence and tampering with evidence on April 24, according to police and court records. The next day he was charged with abuse of a corpse and an additional count of evidence tampering.
Glenn Jackson was an English professor at Eastern Kentucky University where he also worked with honors program students before leaving in February. He is now being held in the Madison County jail and is scheduled to have a preliminary hearing in court this week.
Police were called on April 28 to a wooded area off U.S. 27 in Pulaski County by a person who found skeletal remains while hunting mushrooms, Pulaski County Sheriff Greg Speck said a the time. Investigators with the Pulaski County Sheriff’s Office were set to meet Tuesday with Richmond police to discuss the case and turn over evidence that was found with the skeletal remains.
Glenn Jackson owned a lake house in neighboring Wayne County, according to an affidavit in the case.
Ella Jackson leaves behind a 5-year-old son and an adult son. Her adult son is the one who first called police in October requesting a welfare check, according to court records.
Ella Jackson’s ex-husband, Jason Hans, told police that she had been trying escape an abusive marriage with Glenn Jackson, according to court records.
She wrote in her diary that she was “terrified” of her husband and had told her friends that if anything happened to her, her husband was responsible, according to Glenn Jackson’s arrest citation.
Richmond police were able to charge Glenn Jackson with Ella Jackson’s murder before her body was found because they’d located her blood in the trunk of his car, according to the citation. Attempts had been made to thoroughly clean away evidence, but investigators were able to make the “reasonable inference” that she was no longer alive and that she’d been killed in her home, the arresting officer wrote.
Glenn Jackson’s charge of abuse of a corpse was filed after he was caught on audio and visual surveillance in the Madison County jail discussing how he’d searched online how to dispose of a body, according to a separate criminal citation.
The citation said Glenn Jackson was caught on surveillance the day after his arrest saying, “you can Google just about anything. I googled how to dispose of ‘the body’ in a tub of acid.”
Glenn Jackson gave a police investigator permission to go through his phone on Oct. 23, and the investigator noted at that time that the search history on Oct. 20 had been deleted, according to an affidavit in the case.
Ella Jackson loved her young son “more than life itself” and had refused to leave Glenn Jackson until she had a plan that would ensure the boy’s safety, her ex-husband Jason Hans wrote on Facebook after Glenn Jackson’s arrest. Previously, after Ella Jackson’s disappearance, Hans wrote a different post in which remembered her sharp intellect, compassion and charm.
This story was originally published May 5, 2020 at 9:47 AM.
