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Last MSU Cold Case Murder Solved Save Email Print
Posted: 11:47 AM Aug 6, 2008
Last Updated: 8:06 AM Aug 7, 2008
Reporter: Tim Gillette

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East Lansing - In November of 1970, Marie Jackson, had been missing for a week. The 19-year old woman's body was found November 21st, 1970, in a wooded area of the MSU campus. She had been sexually assaulted and strangled to death.

On Wednesday, MSU Police report that DNA and tissue analysis, combined with information they gathered at the time, has linked an acquaintance of hers at the time, Carl Finch, to Jackson's murder. However, there will be no arrest. Finch committed suicide in Hillsborough County, Florida, in 1997.

MSU Police say investigators had a number of suspects in mind, and had questioned Finch, but there was no scientific way in 1970 to conclusively link the physical evidence to Finch. Police say Marie Jackson was not a MSU student. She and her family lived in Lansing, she graduated from Everett High School earlier that year.

Jackson's case was the last remaining unsolved murder at MSU.

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Posted by: Vince Location: Charlotte on Aug 6, 2008 at 12:13 PM
What about Henry Baltimore? He has been missing since, what, 1975? His case is not solved. It is still a cold case, is it not?

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