LIHU‘E — A reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of suspects in the 2010 murder of a Kapa‘a woman has been doubled to $20,000. The increase is due to a donation made to the Amber Jackson Justice
LIHU‘E — A reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of suspects in the 2010 murder of a Kapa‘a woman has been doubled to $20,000.
The increase is due to a donation made to the Amber Jackson Justice Group. The individual donor wishes to remain anonymous.
“The donor was inspired to make the donation upon reading the local community’s online response to The Garden Island story on June 26, about the second-year anniversary of Amber’s murder,” Ann Spaulding, AJJG member, said Friday.
Amber Ellis Jackson was a 57-year-old Kapa‘a resident, and an employee of the Hawai‘i State Teachers Association.
She was murdered on Kaua’i on or about June 23, 2010. Her body was discovered 10 days later on July 3, by a pig hunter in a remote, wooded area of Kealia.
The Amber Jackson Justice Group is commemorating the second anniversary of the murder — in which no arrest or conviction has been made — by doubling the reward offer.
“The donor and the AJJG now feel that the community is aware of additional information about the murder, and with the doubling of the reward, are hoping that members of the community will step forward and provide this information to Crime Stoppers or the Kaua‘i Police Department,” Spaulding said.
The group was formed by Jackson’s closest friends and family in 2010. Its members continue to be grief-stricken and frustrated after two years without a resolution to the murder case, Spaulding said.
The group works to bring information to the Kaua‘i Police Department that could help with Jackson’s investigation and with other unsolved murders on Kaua’i, she said.
According to friends, Jackson was beloved by her many friends and co-workers in Kaua’i, the Big Island and California. These friends are now working together to make sure the case is solved and that other women are not victimized.
Jackson’s Mainland friends gathered in Marin County in California on Sunday to remember her, near the second anniversary of the day her body was found. It was an opportunity to grieve and to pray for justice in her name, and to ensure she is not forgotten, Spaulding said.
“It was also in the name of the other murder victims on Kaua’i,” said Spaulding.
Those who may have information about the Amber Jackson murder case are urged to contact Crime Stoppers at 808-241-1887.
• Tom LaVenture, staff writer, can be reached at 245-3681 (ext. 224) or tlaventure@thegardenisland.com.
