Lake County, FL - Deputies said Robert Jackson, 60, and his wife, Versie Jackson, 59, traveled to a Best Western hotel Tuesday to meet a hit man who was an undercover law enforcement officer.

Their son, Jason Jackson, 31 was in jail, facing child molestation charges. Their daughter in law Karen Jackson and their grandchildren were scheduled
to testify against him for molesting one of his own daughters.

Karen Jackson said she knew her in-laws didn't like her, but she didn't think they hated her enough to have her and her three kids killed.

Jason Jackson is in the Lake County Jail facing 48 counts of sexual battery. Lake County detectives said he recruited his parents to help him with his case by hiring a hit man to kill the witnesses who would testify against him, including his child and two stepchildren.

Jason Jackson reportedly told his "Hit Man" to give his daughter this message right before he killed here:

"I told you I would get you if you ever told on me"

The grand parents met with the so-called hit man, where they paid the hit man $100 in cash as a down payment for the murder of the wife and her three children," Lake County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Christie Mysinger said.

The hit was going to cost $5000 for each hit totaling $20,000. This is the amount Jason Jackson had to pay his attorney for a retainer. He figured he would get that money back.

"According to an arrest affidavit, Versie Jackson made contact with the undercover agent while her husband stayed in the car because he was reportedly too afraid the meet the person who would kill his grandchildren and daughter-in-law," Local 6 reporter Louis Bolden said.

The couple was taken into custody after the money was exchanged. After an investigation, authorities said the couple's son, Jason Jackson, 31, concocted the alleged murder-for-hire plan from jail and asked his parents to seal the deal, Bolden said. Jason confided in a cell mate to hire a hit-man who in turn contacted the police.

The 31-year-old was awaiting trial in a sexual molestation case, and his wife and children were scheduled to testify against him.
Investigators said the rest of the money was to be paid to the hit man after the family members were killed Tuesday night.

The daughter-in-law, Karen Jackson, was shocked to hear about the plan to kill her, her children and pet dog, according to Local 6 News.

"I never saw this coming," Jackson said. "I loved (him) with all my heart. (He) was good to me and good to the kids. (He) was a nice guy, everybody's friend.

"He was like a Ted Bundy charmer. He has to be a psychopath."

Karen Jackson said after her husband's arrest last year, her in-laws stopped speaking with her. She said she plans to testify against her husband and both in-laws.

While it was being investigated, the grandparents had mortgaged their home to pay for attorneys for him. The grandfather was retired, but he took on a truck driving job to pay the mortgage.

At some point the grandparents gave the son money and false documents that identified him as his deceased brother and a cousin found him someplace to stay and he fled the area.


It was after he was located and arrested that he came up with the murder for hire plot and got his parents to assist in it..

The 16 year old daughter says that sometimes the stepfather would hold a gun on her while he raped her. And that he had told her that he would rather go to jail for murder than for child molestation. It has also been said that he drugged the stepdaughter at least once.

So the stepdaughter never told what was happening. It all came out when he assaulted his 10 year old daughter and she told her mother.

UPDATE: Versie Jackson was given 5 years in prison and she died while in prison. (Son) Jason Jackson 31, received 60 years.

http://www.exposereport.com/enews/component/content/article/38-sex-offender-news/287-grandma-hires-mitman

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