there were two more murders 15 miles away arrival epochs or tell me how to write my one investigator as reminiscent of what we now live in a world of Lyft and Uber where we rely on drivers who are vetted by a company to take us safely to our destinations those in past Generations weren't so lucky and had to rely on complete strangers to get rides on September 26th 1995 a43 Three year old mother of two would accept a ride from a stranger that she met in a bar and was never seen again alive that is so if you like your coffee hot, but your bones chilled so back and start your day with a morning cup of murder. Sometime between 8:00 and 9:00 p.m. On September 26th, 1995 a woman named Virginia Jackson arrived in a taxi at Broncos bar and Dickson, Tennessee with her was her dog a large purse and a pillow. She seemed to be going to spend the night somewhere and stopped at the bar before hand already in the bar was Jerry Ray Davidson the two Sat near one another but did not Converse eventually the bar began a close down and Virginia called the cab. Need to pick her up. However, it was already closed. So instead she accepted a ride from Davidson getting into his pickup truck around 11:30 with her belongings and dog was the last time anyone ever saw for junior Jackson on October 1st after not hearing from Virginia for about a week her family grew concerned and filed a missing persons report prior to reporting her missing Virginia's brother-in-law saw a pile of clothing lying alongside the road leading to her home, but Nothing oven but by the 18th, he reported the clothing after growing suspicious of her disappearance when police investigated the pile they found hair clips that Virginia was wearing the night. She disappeared a cell phone panties a pillow as sweatshirt and a sock the next day two deer hunters found, Virginia Jackson's nude body partially buried in a shallow grave. She was lying chest down, but when examined it was found that her torso had been cleanly cut. Open from sternum to Navel her organs exposed her head was missing though. There seemed to be a spot where her head was when the grave was initially dug. Her trachea had a clean sharp cut and her hyoid bone had also been cut. There was evidence that animals have begun to consume parts of her exposed body. So experts were unsure if her head was taken away by the killer after burying her or if an animal carried it away toxicologists determined that there was alcohol and Oh Zach in Virginia system at the time of her death, Jerry Davidson being the last person to see her alive became the obvious suspect though. All the evidence was circumstantial. He was the janitor at a hospital department when after September 26, he failed to return to work nor had his mother heard from him in almost three weeks his mother reported him missing but six days later withdrew her report because Davidson called her and told her he was on an extended camping trip, but there were Witnesses. Reports that put Davidson in the area that Virginia's body was found in the days following her disappearance according to a local woman. She saw Jerry Davidson driving his truck slowly around the area with an object that was tightly wrapped in a white sheet in his passenger seat between October 2nd and the 6th Davidson came into a local One-Stop Market not far from Virginia's home covered in dirt up to his waist. But according to Davidson the night of September. He simply gave her jigna a ride to the grocery store nearby and left her very much alive. However, these strange sightings and witness reports were enough to execute a warrant to search Davidson's home where they found a 20-gauge shotgun shell in his home and the gun in his truck also in his truck was a tent to shotguns a knife handcuff keys and various other items the bottom of the passenger seat have been cut out and a chain and padlock were found around the seat on October 19th. 1995. Jerry Davison was arrested on his person at the time of his arrest was a 25 caliber pistol a knuckle knife a pair of handcuffs and a 20-gauge shotgun shell when questioned this time. He denied even giving Virginia a ride before changing his story back to the he dropped her off at the store the officers keeping the fact that her body had been recovered a secret. Ask Davidson to hypothesize what may have happened to Virginia his response quote. Maybe someone got her and chained her to a tree and that maybe they'd find her head and hands missing to avoid identification. Once they told him that they had found her body at asked what he did with her head. He responded I haven't told you that I killed her yet when DNA was tested on the blood found on the headrest and Davidson's truck. The blood was consistent with for Jenna's blood type though, they could not be more specific than that. Davidson's lawyers argued that all of the evidence was circumstantial. They also argued that because Virginia had been hospitalized between 1978 and 1995 for depression and alcohol abuse that maybe she simply died from an overdose prosecution stated that Jerry Davidson could have used the surgical instruments from his work to make the cuts on Virginia's body at the end of the arguing and the trial Jerry Davidson was convicted of first-degree premeditated murder and aggravated kidnapping and was sentenced to death in 1997 in 2016. His sentence was commuted to life without parole due to his ineffective counsel during his original sentence according to his attorneys. 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We now live in a world of Lyft and Uber where we rely on drivers, who are vetted by a company, to take us safely to our destinations. Those in past generations, weren’t so lucky and had to rely on complete strangers to get rides. On September 26th 1995 a 43 year old mother of 2 would accept a ride from a stranger she met in a bar and was never seen again. Alive that is. Jerry Ray Davidson Kills Virginia Jackson(1995) Become a supporter of this podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/morningcupofmurder Follow Morning Cup of Murder on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cupofmurder @cupofmurder Follow MCOM on Instagram: @morningcupofmurder Have a Murder or strange true crime story you want to share, email the show here: morningcupofmurder@gmail.com Morning Cup of Murder is researched, written and performed by Korina Biemesderfer. Follow Korina on Instagram: @kbiemesderfer Information for this podcast collected from: https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/dickson/2015/09/28/daughter-mothers-killer-needs-die/72981868/ https://www.google.com/url?q=http://caselaw.findlaw.com&sa=D&ust=1569301706091000&usg=AFQjCNHl0lt_8dvw3Hg8NBruE6vEPKzSwA  ---   Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/morning-cup-of-murder/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/morning-cup-of-murder/support 