About This Episode
What is this episode about?
The episode "SERIAL KILLER: Homer Jackson" from Crime Junkie covers the case against Homer Lee Jackson, who was linked by a single fingerprint found in a vacant Portland house to the 1983 murder of 14-year-old Angela Anderson. Detectives went on to connect Jackson to the deaths of Tonja Harry, Latanga Watts and Lawauna Triplet, and they also suspected him in the death of Essie Jackson. The episode questions whether the evidence tying him to these killings was as solid as headlines at the time suggested, and raises the possibility that police closed the cases without fully solving them.
Hosts and release
Ashley Flowers and Brit Prawat host Crime Junkie, a weekly true crime podcast from the Audiochuck network that explores missing persons cases, unsolved murders, serial killers and conspiracies. The show releases new episodes every Monday and is available on Apple Podcasts and other major podcast platforms. This episode runs 59 minutes and was released in November 2026. It traces how a fingerprint from a decades-old crime scene reopened questions about Jackson's connection to multiple killings, and examines the gap between the public narrative of a solved case and the murkier reality detectives faced when building it.
