Woman told people she was scared of her husband before he killed her, met with a domestic violence advocate days before her disappearance: Authorities

Days earlier a Kentucky man's execution proceedings was to statesman implicit the decease of his wife, helium made an admittance successful tribunal that is acceptable to bring the lawsuit to a close.

Glenn Jackson, 45, entered an Alford plea to the reduced complaint of manslaughter successful the decease of 47-year-old Ella Jackson, arsenic good arsenic maltreatment of a corpse and tampering with evidence, Lexington-based NBC affiliate WLEX reported. The plea signifies that portion helium maintains his innocence, helium acknowledges determination is capable grounds for him to beryllium convicted astatine trial.

The suspect had been arrested and charged with execution successful the outpouring of 2020. According to section CBS affiliate WKYT, the lawsuit was delayed owed to pandemic-related tribunal shutdowns, forensics laboratory delays, judicial recusals, and the find of caller evidence.

Months earlier, connected Oct. 22, 2019, Ella Jackson was reported missing. According to the Richmond Police Department, her husband — who until months earlier had worked arsenic a professor astatine Eastern Kentucky University — told constabulary that helium past saw her 2 days before, connected Oct. 20, 2019, and that she had gone retired to a parkland adjacent their location to locomotion her canine earlier her disappearance.

Investigators reportedly recovered the circumstances of her vanishing unusual fixed that she near down her then-5-year-old son, dog, purse, and cellphone. And determination were different elements to the lawsuit that authorities made enactment of.

"Investigators discovered that Mrs. Jackson met with a home unit advocator a fewer days earlier her disappearance," Richmond constabulary added successful its April 2020 property release. "A hunt warrant was subsequently executed connected the residence and vehicles belonging to Mr. and Mrs. Jackson. A important magnitude of humor was located successful the trunk of Mr. Jackson's conveyance that was aboriginal proven to beryllium to Mrs. Jackson."

"Police located respective recordings that Mrs. Jackson secretly made of her and Mr. Jackson's arguments," the instrumentality enforcement bureau added. "Mrs. Jackson besides told respective individuals that she was acrophobic of Mr. Jackson, and if thing ever happened to her, her hubby would beryllium responsible."

Glenn Jackson was arrested connected April 24, 2020, and astir 2 weeks later, investigators found Ella Jackson's remains. In a wooded country adjacent spot helium owned successful Pulaski County — 2 counties southbound of Madison County — authorities accidental they recovered partial skeletal remains and that the Kentucky State Medical Examiner's Office confirmed "[d]ental records were utilized to positively place Mrs. Jackson."

Ella Jackson's origin of decease remains unknown, according to WLEX, though "she did person a fracture to her skull," Assistant Prosecutor Jennifer Smith said.

Glenn Jackson is acceptable to beryllium sentenced connected March 12, with the section outlet reporting that helium faces up to 14 years successful prison, but that, owed to clip served connected location arrest, helium could beryllium released successful less than eight.

"He volition extremity up having done astir 40% of his condemnation sitting astatine his victim's house, which is incredibly frustrating," the victim's ex-husband Jason Hans, who is raising the Jacksons' young son, told WLEX. "There's immoderate grounds that helium confessed to 1 of his champion friends successful December of 2019. He's denied it ever since then."