The night of September 5, 1987, changed Talbray Jackson’s life. That was when he learned his older sister, 22-year-old Jamedia Hines, had been found dead.
Talbray told Dateline that he was “blindsided” by the news. “Shock, shock, shock,” he said. “It was this total shock.”
He couldn’t make sense of it. He’d dropped off Jamedia at their mother’s house the day before, and everything had been normal. Talbray says they’d been chit-chatting and cracking jokes, laughing the entire car ride, as usual. He told Jamedia he’d see her later — not realizing that car ride would be the last time he’d see his sister alive…