NC Wanted: With original murder suspect cleared, who killed Jacquetta Thomas?

When Greg Taylor was freed for the murder of Jacquetta Thomas 17 years after he was convicted in the crime, it raised the question, if not Taylor, who?
Posted 6/3/2018, 3:10:00 AM Updated 4/30/2021, 7:17:45 PM

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>> HER FAMILY HAD EVERY REASON

TO BELIEVE THEIR KILLER HAD

BEEN CAUGHT.

BUT 17 YEARS LATER QUESTIONS

WERE RAISED.

GERALD OWENS HAS TONIGHT'S

WANTED MYSTERY.

>>>

>> Reporter: TO HONOR JACKIE'S

MEMORY, JACKIE HAS HER FAMILY

AND FRIENDS CALLED HER WAS 26-

YEAR-OLD JAKARTA THOMAS.

THIS MEMORIAL SERVICE TOOK

PLACE IN THE RALEIGH CUL-DE-SAC

WHERE SHE WAS FOUND BEATEN TO

DEATH IN 1991.

HER DAUGHTER WAS JUST FIVE

YEARS OLD AT THE TIME.

>> THAT'S WHAT MAKES IT SUCH A

TRAGEDY, I DIDN'T GET TO NO

HER.

THE FIRST TIME I'VE SEEN A

PICTURE OF HER WAS WHEN IT WAS

ACTUALLY POSTED ON THE NEWS.

>> Reporter: HER FAMILY THOUGHT

THE CASE WAS SOLVED.

BUT AFTER 17 YEARS IN PRISON

THE MAN CONVICTED OF THE CRIME

WAS SET FREE.

>> IN MY MIND THERE WAS NO WAY

THAT HE DID THIS TO MY SISTER.

>> Reporter: THIS WOMAN

ACTUALLY BEFRIENDED THE MAN

NEVER BELIEVING HE KILLED HER

SISTER.

THE TWO BECAME FRIENDS AND

TAYLOR EVEN SHOWED UP AT THE

VIGIL TO SUPPORT THE FAMILY AND

LIGHT A CANDLE FOR A WOMAN WHO

WAS LONG GONE BUT NOT

FORGOTTEN.

>> HE'S A GOOD MAN, HE'S A REAL

PERSON.

>> I KNEW IT WAS TRAGIC WHAT

HAPPENED TO YOU.

AND YOU NO THAT MY HEART WENT

OUT TO YOUR FAMILY.

BUT NO THAT MY FAMILY IS STILL

HURTING.

BECAUSE WE DON'T NO.

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