The East Bay Slayer

Behind The Crime Scene

10-08-2020 • 30 mins

It's January 2, 1982.  Joan Stewart is raped, strangled, stabbed several times and murdered in the woodlands near Montclair, California. It was the work of the EAST BAY SLAYER. Charles Jackson started his lifetime career of crime when he was arrested and charged with theft at 16. Over the next 28 years, he’s repeatedly incarcerated for committing burglary, rape, assault and molesting minors. After Jackson died in prison in 2002,  authorities learned he slayed more than eight people…. because of the tenacity of Deputy District Attorney Rockne Harmon's pursuit of DNA profiling.