pointing in the wrong direction, said the defense attorney in his closing remarks to the jury. the actual evidence does not support the allegation that andre killed marie. it certainly doesn t support it beyond or doesn t prove it beyond a reasonable doubt. why? there s a simple answer. andre didn t kill marie. nearly two decades after marie s murder, the case was finally before a jury. and just 2 1/2 hours later, there was a verdict. we the jury in the above entitled action find the defendant andre jackson guilty of the crime of first-degree murder. andre jackson was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. for marcus singleton, this victory was bittersweet. he still wants to hear the truth from andre himself. he knows he says that that may never come, but he hopes his mother would be proud that he finally spoke up. i try to live my life to make her proud of me. i m never going to give up. never going to give up on anything that i feel is important. and and that s her.
even the dna was not absolute proof. after all, andre and marie were husband and wife. to find his dna on her car or even under her fingernails was not necessarily evidence of murder. after andre had been in jail for nearly four years, lewin decided to offer a deal. we offered him voluntary manslaughter. he would have had to serve roughly another year, and he didn t want it. his attitude was you don t have any evidence. so, the case was going to trial. lewin knew he needed more evidence to make the jury believe his theory of the crime. i believe that they had probably some kind of argument. i believe that marie said that she was leaving. i believe that an argument turned violent. and i believe that at some point during the argument andre hit her, and then he made the
typed? it was typed. the unsigned letter read in part, it is very unlikely that the individual or individuals responsible for her death will be brought to justice. although you may be receiving lip service from her former office, believe me when i tell you that the agency has literally placed her death on the back burner. the agency, of course, meant marie s secret employer, the central intelligence agency. she worked for them, and they never offered a reward for her, any information regarding her case or anything. the letter continued, her former colleagues at work have been placed una by their office. they have ordered these people to cease all contact with you and marie s family in pennsylvania. someone in your family needs to stir the pot. we didn t know where the letter came from because it was
marie was. he then took all the kids to his mother s house and dropped them off. i remember somebody asked him where you going? and he says he s going to go check with my mom s girlfriends to see if he can find out where she s at. andre s first stop was the home of marie s friend bridget harris whom he d called earlier. first he called and then i didn t really think anything of it, because i m, like, well, she ll be back and then when he showed up, is when i got concerned. she s still not back? cell phones were still pretty rare in those days. so i paged her because i knew if i paged, she would immediately call me back. but marie did not call back. the next morning andre knocked on the door of another friend, jean jones apthel. he said they had an argument, i said, well, you had a little
the few people who knew marie worked for the cia. but even she didn t know exactly what marie did. we loved her as a sister. we respected her as a sister. and with her job she traveled a lot. we knew she worked for the government, for the cia and that was it. and you never asked what she did. never asked. but now elaine had a lot of questions. starting with what could possibly have induced marie to leave 8-year-old marcus and infant marquis home alone? that was preposterous. that would have never happened. so, elaine started to compare notes with friends and family. but the conversations weren t about the cia. they were telling me different incidents and different things that they had with andre. andre, marie s husband, things he was saying and doing didn t add up. first, there was jean s story about what she saw that saturday morning when andre showed up at her home