Jackson Jambalaya

Considering how many people have pertinent information, shouldn't the DA be paying a little more attention? Seems like he just announced his re-election campaign.

what's the story?

I completely agree. Someone else should step in for the investigation to prevent a biased conclusion.

This case needs to be handed over to an agency with no ties to the people involved. Everyone that I've talked to about this believes someone else should take over to avoid anyone thinking that a scandal is taking place. I think Rankin County's Sheriff Department is fully capable of handling the situation, but a lot of people are thinking that they are the wrong agency to do it.

Nick Hardwick is a snake in the grass. She was probably try to leave... He told her six months ago he would kill her and make it look like an accident. He did what he promised. J'Linda would never hurt herself, but she would defend herself! I see the bullet as a HUGE piece of evidence, but its still in his leg...

I knew J'linda and worked with her at BCBS. I can't imagine her ever trying to harm another person. While there are 2 sides to everything, this seems a bit fishy to me. For instance, why won't they remove the bullet from the husband's leg? And hell yes, another entity should be in control of the investigation, NOT the department the husband is affilliated with. Just my thoughts,
Brian Nickens

This is definatly an MBI case at the least. The bullet from his leg would not prove a thing, they know where it came from at close range, due to powder burns. The evidence is he said she said, if he did it on purpose he may have committed the perfect murder, but there is one judge he can't escape. Sounds like she was a sweet lady, prayers to her family, tragic.

Do you really think outside cops would do any better? Have you heard of the thin blue line? The only agency that might look at this objectively would be the FBI, and I am sure they have better things to do.

People manipulate. Ever think that the perfect person could never do what you thought they could do? I suspect both, and especially her. The obvious first blush is never the truth.

You can't force someone to allow surgery on himself to obtain evidence for a possible criminal case. I don't know if a court order would be feasible. He would be undergoing the risk from anesthesia and surgery to provide evidence against himself, which seems to violate the 4th Amendment.

Considering that Hardwick now works for Simpson County, he should be put on leave and both Rankin County and Simpson should step out and request that MBI do the investigation. Anyone who has information should immediately contact the DA, MBI or the FBI (never be sure what they're interested in). Since Rankin County doesn't want to take statements, etc. hopefully the other agencies will take notice.

Bet this case ends up on the ID channel one day, very interesting, several similar cases been shown recently.

It should be easy enough to tell who had the gun in their hand when it went off. Who had gunshot residue?

Both would likely have powder residue since is appears it was a close-range shot. Powder residue tests are far from conclusive.

I heard about this story from my sister who was a client of J'Linda. I am horrified at the gross misconduct of the police department and all officials who know about this and have turned a blind eye to an obvious murder. Where is the justice for this woman. J'Linda knows her killer and I know that her spirit will not rest until karma catches up with this monster.
Why couldn't this selfish, insecure, spineless person just move on if he didn't want her? Classic text book abuse at best...and no one gets this???

I heard about this story from my sister who was a client of J'Linda. I am horrified at the gross misconduct of the police department and all officials who know about this and have turned a blind eye to an obvious murder. Where is the justice for this woman. J'Linda knows her killer and I know that her spirit will not rest until karma catches up with this monster.
Why couldn't this selfish, insecure, spineless person just move on if he didn't want her? Classic text book abuse at best...and no one gets this???

J'linda was a kind and caring and loving and a sweet person and had a beautiful smile and. Was always happy when I saw her and she would do anything for anybody and I'm glad to call her my friend and I was really shocked to hear about her death and it's very sad that she's gone and she will be missed dearly and the guy that she was with will pay one day and have to answer to the father in heaven for that .

J’linda cut my hair several days prior to this happening. She was in an abusive situation and trying to get her ducks in a row to leave. She said she had to get her son out of the house before it all went down. I agree with several of the previous comments regarding the investigation being done by the FBI. One thing nobody has mentioned is that, at the time this occurred, Nick Hardwick worked for the Simpson County Sheriff’s Office. Someone who was in-the-know told me Nick called Simpson County instead of 911. Simpson County was on-scene and Simpson County notified Rankin. Gee, wonder how long they were on-scene prior to Rankin being notified? Yes, he worked reserve for Rankin—wonder why he left? —or was he fired? I haven’t heard anything good about the man from anyone! J’linda deserves justice! All the B/S about him trying to stop her from killing herself is wrong—she would NEVER put her son thru that! Her son was her life! She was a wonderful mother and I know she’s smiling down from heaven at the fine man he’s become!