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Jacobson, Cookie 9/21/98; This has always haunted and repulsed me
Topic Started: Mar 28 2006, 04:06 PM (1,023 Views)
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Vital Statistics at Time of Disappearance

Missing Since: September 21, 1998 from Tempe, Arizona
Classification: Endangered Missing
Date Of Birth: September 16, 1949
Age: 49 years old
Height and Weight: 5'4, 145 pounds
Distinguishing Characteristics: Light brown hair, hazel eyes. Cookie has a surgical scar on her knee. Her ears are pierced.
Clothing Description: A knee-length blue denim nightshirt, a gold wedding band and a gold necklace with a Hebrew love symbol-shaped pendant.


Details of Disappearance

Cookie was last seen during the evening hours of September 21, 1998 inside her residence in Tempe, Arizona. She has never been heard from again. All of her personal belongings were located inside of her home.
Authorities believe Cookie's then-fifteen-year-old son, Aaron Jacobson, murdered his mother that night and was assisted in the disposal of his mother's remains by his thirteen-year-old sister, Laura. Investigators think that Cookie's children placed her body in a trash can behind their house in the Butterfield Station Landfill south of Phoenix, Arizona. An extensive, two-month-long search of the Butterfield Station Landfill was conducted, but no evidence was located. Blood was, however, found in a trash container outside Cookie's home.

Cookie's children have never been charged in connection with her presumed murder. Ten days after her disappearance, Aaron confessed that he had found her dead in bed and Laura helped him dispose of her body. One of Aaron's friend stated that Aaron and Laura had wanted to kill their mother. In addition, Aaron failed a polygraph about his mother's disappearance. Aaron was arrested for second-degree murder and Laura for facilitation to commit second-degree murder, but the lack of other evidence forced investigators to let them go within hours and continue working the case.

Aaron and Laura, who still live with their father in the same home Cookie lived in, remain the prime suspects in her presumed homicide. Authorities believe Cookie's body is in the Butterfield Station Landfill, even though they did not find it there. Investigators announced that they received a tip vital to the case in May 2003, but they did not release any details about what they had been told. Cookie's case remains unsolved.
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What a terrifying story :unsure:
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http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/j/jacobson_cookie.html


That truly is horrific.

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Police Search Landfill in Hacking Investigation


Landfill Search is Monumental Task
Jul. 29, 2004
John Daley Reporting

Ten days after she mysteriously disappeared, the search for Lori Hacking continues. But finding something in a huge landfill is turning into a monumental task.

Salt Lake City police will continue to follow what they call "promising leads,” but an intensive search for evidence at the Salt Lake Solid Waste Facility has so far turned up nothing.




The past three nights police and search dogs have sifted through mountains of trash. It's a grisly and uncertain job, one that may or may not turn up anything significant. By night it looks like a daunting task digging through piles of waste with only spotlights, a shovel truck, and specially trained odor-sniffing dogs.

By day you can see it's a needle in a haystack search--when the haystack is a monumental 550 acres in size with 500 plus vehicles a day dumping 2500 tons--70 percent of the Salt Lake Valley's waste. There is a system to it--but it's not very exact.

Romney Stewart, Exec. Director, Salt Lake Solid Waste Facility: "Generally speaking, within an acre or so we pretty well know where we are within a few weeks or a month. But you know we don't keep actual track for long periods of time."

When searching there, time is of the essence.

Romney Stewart: "More than a few hours, it gets buried 15 feet deep per day and is compacted and mixed with other materials. It's very difficult more than an hour or two."

The day after Lori was reported missing police called the landfill and disposal was then switched to a different location, but that was after 600 trucks had come in.

Phil Eslinger, Salt Lake City Police: "There's a certain quadrant of the landfill that items are dumped in for the particular day of the week, and that is the area we have concentrated our search in."

KSL news crews on the scene the last few nights say they've seen flash photography and what appears to be a narrowing focus on one area. But so far, police say they've come up with nothing.

Given the volume of garbage, it's conceivable no evidence will surface. Case in point: nearly six years ago in Arizona, Tempe homemaker Cookie Jacobson disappeared. Police were sure she was murdered. They searched the area landfill 59 days, but Jacobson's body was never found.

Charges were never filed, despite blood in a trash can and an admission by her teenage children that they dumped her body.

The investigation chewed up more than 15,000 man-hours and about $600,000 as crews sifted through 8,000 tons of garbage but found no body

Police still believe the teenage children killed their mother. They were arrested early in the investigation, but released hours later. Legal experts said getting a murder conviction without the body or other physical evidence would be next to impossible.

Tempe police still consider the teens primary suspects and still believe Cookie Jacobson is buried in the landfill.

Here in Salt Lake police say they will search the landfill until the search is done, but have "no idea how long" that will take.

We asked the police spokesman how long investigators would search the landfill. He said until the search is done; he said he has "no idea how long" that will be. Police say they do not plan to search tonight, saying the dogs need a rest.
Lauran

"If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth." The late, great Roberto Clemente.


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Tuesday Jan 26, 1999 - 07:01:50
COOKIE JACOBSON, missing and presumed murdered
Tempe, Arizona
Landfill search ends (Arizona Central) No answers in case of missing Tempe mom
Authorities call it quits at landfill search (Access Arizona)

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Lauran

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http://studentmedia.vpsa.asu.edu/webarchiv...07/story01.html

No search planned for Jacobson
Tempe police report that body could be in landfill
By Alicia A. Caldwell, State Press

Tempe and Phoenix police, fire officials, and the Maricopa County Attorney's office met Tuesday afternoon to discuss the possibility of searching for Cookie Jacobson's body in the Tempe landfill.

But there are no plans to search the landfill for the body, said Tempe Police Sgt. David Lind. Investigators are still gathering evidence.

Police notified landfill officials that Jacobson's body could have been hidden in a garbage can and later dumped in the landfill, Lind said. The area of the landfill that her body would have been dumped into has not received any further refuse.

Representatives from the Phoenix Police Department were also involved in the discussion because they have experience searching for bodies in the landfill.

"We just wanted to know the things they did that worked and didn't work," Lind said.

Jacobson has been missing since Sept. 21. Her two adopted children were arrested last week on suspicion of her murder and were later released to their father's custody.

According to affidavits released Tuesday, Jacobson's 16-year-old son, Aaron, and 13-year-old daughter, Laura, told police they found their mother dead in bed and feared they would be blamed. The two then allegedly put her body into a garbage bin behind the family home and went to school.

Aaron reportedly admitted to his involvement after failing a police polygraph test.

The children did not have a good relationship with their mother, according to reports, but there is no record of domestic violence involving the children and their mother, Lind said.

He added that reports about the children's relationship with their mother needed to be weighed carefully because "sometimes people have a way of exaggerating a parent-child relationship."

The credibility of Aaron is also being looked into, Lind said. He added that the teen made no implication of involvement in his mother's disappearance for eight days.
Lauran

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http://studentmedia.vpsa.asu.edu/webarchiv...14/story01.html

Police confident missing mom will be found
By Alicia A. Caldwell

State Press

Tempe police will be only the second law enforcement agency search in Arizona history to search a landfill for a body when they begin searching for the body of Cookie Jacobson, according to Tempe Police Sgt. David Lind.

The two previous searches, conducted by a Florida police agency and the Phoenix Police Department, didn't yield any results.

However, Lind said he and investigators are very confident that if Jacobson's body is in the Butterfield landfill, near Mobile, Ariz., they will find her.

Lind said specific evidence collected from one of the four garbage dumpsters and the recycling bin yielded evidence that a human body had recently been in the containers. This discovery led police to search the landfill.

Lind would not say what type of evidence was found.

Despite conclusive evidence that a human body had been in the two containers, Lind said it has not been determined if it was Jacobson's body.

"At some point that determination will have to be made," Lind said. "All we can say is that a body was in the dumpster."

He added that investigators are not currently conducting tests to determine if the material found in the containers came from Jacobson.

Tempe Police Lt. Laura Forbes, project manager for the landfill search, met today with Tempe City Works officials in Mobile to prepare for the search. The body is believed to have been dumped in an area measuring about 70 feet wide, 80 feet long and 12 feet deep, Lind said.

Once the search begins, Lind said city works personnel will operate the machinery needed to dig up the trash cell and move the garbage to a sorting area. From that point, officers will sift through the trash and then have it removed and re-buried in another location of the landfill. This will avoid searching portions of the refuse more than once.

Lind did not have a cost estimation as of late Tuesday afternoon. He said Forbes and other police officials are working to determine that figure.

This search cannot be compared to the first search in Arizona history, which cost the city more than $100,000 about two years ago, Lind said. Tempe police believe that by limiting the section of the landfill searched to that where the body is believed to be so early in the investigation, it will not have as large a job as Phoenix.

Lind said the two weeks of digging that Phoenix had to do before reaching the cell they believed contained the body slowed their progress.

"Phoenix (police) felt if they had been in the area the body was in, they would have found it," Lind said. "We think that we are going to find a body."
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Lauran

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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_...31/ai_n11467354

Other states have battled cases that lacked remains
Deseret News (Salt Lake City), Jul 31, 2004


Prosecutors have contemplated and sometimes brought murder charges against individuals in other states even when a body hasn't been found, with varying results. Here are a few examples:

Thomas Capano received the death sentence in 1999 in Delaware for the murder of his girlfriend, Anne Marie Fahey. Prosecutors contend she was shot and that Capano, with the help of his brother, dumped the body into the ocean. An ice chest that supposedly held the body was recovered, but no remains were found.

Gustavo Covian was convicted in 2003 by a Santa Clara, Calif., jury of killing Young Kim in 1998 in what prosecutors believed was a murder-for-hire arrangement.

Richard Bailey was convicted in Chicago in 1995 for soliciting the death of candy fortune heiress Helen Brach, who disappeared in 1977 and was declared legally dead in 1984.

Bruce Koklich was convicted in 2003 of murdering his wife, Jana Koklich, in 2001, after a first trial in Los Angeles County ended in a mistrial. Jana Carpenter Koklich was the daughter of the late California State Sen. Paul Carpenter.

Cookie Jacobson of Tempe, Ariz., disappeared in 1999. Police searched a landfill exhaustively after Jacobson's son, Aaron, then 16, said he had found his mother dead and disposed of her body with the help of his sister Laura, then 13. Aaron Jacobson told police he did this because he feared he would be charged with killing his mother. Both teens were arrested but were released in a few hours for lack of evidence. A representative of the Maricopa County Attorney's Office told the Deseret Morning News charges have never been filed, although the case of the missing woman remains open.
Lauran

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Tip may give old case new life
Five years ago, Tempe homemaker Cookie Jacobson disappeared, a presumed murder victim. Her body was never found and charges were never filed, despite blood in a trash can and an admission by her teenage children that they dumped her body.
- THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC
Lauran

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Just a little info for you! LOL!
Lauran

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I found pictures of Aaron and Laura Jacobson. http://studentmedia.vpsa.asu.edu/webarchiv...20-%20aaron.GIF and http://studentmedia.vpsa.asu.edu/webarchiv...20-%20laura.GIF

I won't post them on her Charley Project casefile, though. I feel uncomfortable even giving out their names, since they were minors and were never charged, although the press has named them quite freely.

I wonder if either of them have gotten into trouble for anything else? It seems to me that if you kill your own mother without warning, that kind of lunacy would also show up in other aspects of your life.

Oh yeah...an article I found mentions that both children were adopted.
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meggilyweggily,Apr 2
2006 - 03:25 AM
I found pictures of Aaron and Laura Jacobson. http://studentmedia.vpsa.asu.edu/webarchiv...20-%20aaron.GIF and http://studentmedia.vpsa.asu.edu/webarchiv...20-%20laura.GIF

I won't post them on her Charley Project casefile, though. I feel uncomfortable even giving out their names, since they were minors and were never charged, although the press has named them quite freely.

I wonder if either of them have gotten into trouble for anything else? It seems to me that if you kill your own mother without warning, that kind of lunacy would also show up in other aspects of your life.

Oh yeah...an article I found mentions that both children were adopted.

I thought about not posting the pics, but since they were in the newspapers, I went ahead and did it. This is a most disturbing case. Makes me wonder about attachment disorder...
Lauran

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If the kids were adopted out of foster care, that would explain a lot. (I'm not trying to say that all foster children are evil or anything. I'm just saying that they tend to have more emotional issues than a child who has been raised by its own family.)
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meggilyweggily,Apr 2
2006 - 03:47 AM
If the kids were adopted out of foster care, that would explain a lot. (I'm not trying to say that all foster children are evil or anything. I'm just saying that they tend to have more emotional issues than a child who has been raised by its own family.)

Yes. I was a foster parent to 27 teenagers...Sometimes the chaos they experience before they get to foster care causes problems for years afterwards. And others simply thrive in a good healthy place. And attachment disorder, and other syndromes, are exacerbated by circumstances.

And can I just say how honored I am to have you with us... :) Deeply.
Lauran

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I can't imagine both kids being that screwed up...what's the chances of 2 with that many problems? I too would love to know if they've been in any more trouble. I can't imagine being the father to those 2. I just don't know how I'd react of feel. If I truly believed they killed their mother and the husband wasn't involved in it in any way, how could he live with those kids? I would never close my eyes nor do I think my conscience could take the chance that they might do that to someone else down the road.
Having said that, would I feel differently if they were MY kids? I just don't know. I love them and want to protect them but from something as heinous as that? I am not sure what I would really do although as I sit here today, I'd say I'd help convict them...that is unless he was involved somehow. Sure makes me wonder.
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I wonder if the children are biological siblings. The articles have not said.

Quite possibly the father knows nothing and CANNOT help in any case. If I were him I think I would choose to believe the children -- I'd have to, for my own mental survival. It's like the situation OJ Simpson's kids must be in.
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It's difficult to say, we don't know how the mother was. Maybe she was a nice woman but we don't know maybe she also did something to them to lead them to that extreme action. I've always wondered about this case too. You know some parents are just real mental torturers. These kids don't look to me as kids who have had a joyful life besides.
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