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Criminal Records - Most Wanted |
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Profile |
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Name: Jacqueline Highberger
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Race: White |
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Age Now: 48 |
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Height: 5'4" |
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Weight: 105 lbs. |
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Hair (Color, Description, Facial Hair): Brown
Highberger's hair is long, stringy and dirty blonde to brown |
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Eyes (Color and Correction): Blue |
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Wanted for :
Murder, Chesterfield County, SC;
Apr 23, 2007
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Location(s) |
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Last Seen : Redondo Beach, CA
Highberger's alleged accomplice, Jackson, says he walked away from Highberger in Redondo Beach to get them some food. |
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Possible Location : California
Roanoke, VA
Las Vegas, NV
Police say Highberger is likely still in California, but she could also be in Las Vegas, and has family in Virginia. |
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Last Known : Myrtle Beach, SC |
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Traits |
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Jacqueline smokes Basic cigarettes and has a southern drawl. |
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Case Story |
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Police: Argument Leads To Murder In A Car |
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Everyone who knew him says 51-year-old Thomas Sartor had a big heart. He coached basketball and football at the S.C. School for the Deaf and the Blind, and had most recently been volunteer umpiring for the Carolina Miracle League -- a not-for-profit organization allowing children with special needs and disabilities to play baseball.
On April 23, 2007, Sartor was heading back from umpiring a Miracle League game in Spartanburg, S.C., and in the car with him were John "Frank" Jackson and Jacqueline Highberger. Sartor had let the two stay at his house in Myrtle Beach, S.C. and all three were driving back home. Sartor talked to his wife on his cell phone around 8:30 that night.
Police say at some point during the trip, a fight broke out in the car, and Highberger and Jackson hit Sartor with a blunt object, killing him. Investigators say the pair then dumped Sartor's body in a field filled with garbage in Pageland, S.C., threw a Christmas tree on top of him, then drove 30 miles away to Monroe, N.C., where they used his ATM card. Detectives say the two used Sartor's card five times to withdraw the maximum amount of money allowed each time. |
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Jackson Walks Away, And Into The Hands Of Police |
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Detectives say after Highberger and Jackson took out as much money as possible, they drove the car, covered in Sartor's blood, about 400 miles away to Blount Co., Tenn., ditching it in a long-term parking lot at the McGee-Tyson Airport. Then the pair hitchhiked to Las Vegas, where they caught a train to Los Angeles.
The car sat at the airport for 101 days, until August 9, when an airport police officer became suspicious. Police opened it up, saw all the blood, and called in the Blount Co. Sheriff's Office. Detectives soon connected the car to Thomas Sartor, and found a missing persons report had been filed in S.C. But where was Sartor's body? |
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Investigators Running Down Leads |
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November 15th. Workers cutting down trees for a powerline in Pageland, S.C. noticed a fake Christmas tree, and when they moved it, they discovered Sartor's badly decomposed body. He'd been killed by a deadly blow to the head.
Detectives in Chesterfield Co., S.C., where Sartor's body was dumped, hooked up with detectives in Blount Co., Tenn., who told the S.C. investigators there was evidence putting Jackson and Highberger in the car with Sartor. Sgt. Wayne Jordan issued murder warrants for Jackson and Highberger, just in time for Jackson's encounter with police in Los Angeles.
On November 20th, officers grew suspicious of Jackson as he walked down the street. They pulled him aside, asked him some questions, and ran his name. When the murder warrant came back, they arrested Jackson, and he was soon extradited back to S.C. He told police he left Highberger to go get some food for the two of them, but Highberger hasn't been seen since. She could still be in California, or could have gone to Las Vegas or Virginia, where she has family. |
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