Crime & Justice

She Messaged Mom She Was a Hostage. Then She Was Found Shot Dead.

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“They killed my child,” Gail Maddox wrote on Facebook after Mahogany Jackson’s body was discovered.

Mahogany Jackson
Birmingham Police

A young Alabama woman who went missing over the weekend—and reportedly sent her family a message that she was being held hostage—was found shot dead on a roadside early Monday.

Birmingham Police say a passerby spotted the body of Mahogany Jaquise Jackson, 20, and called 911.

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