Episode 5-MURDER: The Murder of Marine Corporal Justin Huff
Ep5. MURDER: The Marine Catfish Murder – Who Killed Marine Corporal Justin Lee Huff?
In early 2006, Marine Justin Huff was on a temporary assignment at Dam Neck Naval Station in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Justin was a good Marine – tall, handsome, and very well liked by all those around him. Justin was a newlywed and he and his wife were expecting their first child in June that year. This is why it was strange when Justin failed to show up for class on January 2, 2006. It seemed as if he vanished in the night, leaving a half eaten pizza in his room, and leaving around 3am without a coat, never to be seen again. Investigator dug deep to find out what happened, but it was a group of keen eyed and fearless Marines who would break this missing persons case wide open! Once the investigators got a name – Petty Officer Cooper Jackson – they remained on his tail trying to figure out why two men who seemingly did not know each other would have crossed paths causing one to kill the other and then hide the murder. The investigators found their answer in the form of a twisted catfish game that went too far. Dig in with Margot as she discusses the case against Navy Petty Officer Cooper Jackson.
Corporal Justin Lee Huff, USMC
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Fun Loving Justin was loved by his wife and was expecting their first baby at the time of his disappearance.
Still Image of Justin leaving his room on a cold winter morning in Virginia.
Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Cooper Jackson
Convicted of murdering Justin over a catfishing story.
Justin’s Grave
Episode Resources:
- US Navy-Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals, U.S. v. Cooper Jackson, 9 October 2007, https://www.jag.navy.mil/courts/documents/archive/2007/JACKSON,%20C.%20200700255.UNPUB.pdf (last accessed on August 16, 2019).
- Oxygen – “A Lie to Die For” and its corresponding article by Brittany Du Bois on Oxygen Crime Time, 29 July 2019, https://www.oxygen.com/a-lie-to-die-for/crime-time/justin-huff-marine-murdered-cooper-jackson-catfish-false-rape (last accessed on August 16, 2019).
- CBS News – “48 Hours – NCIS: Deadly Lies,” June 19, 2018, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/48-hours-ncis-catfishing-relationship-between-strangers-leads-to-murder-of-an-innocent-marine/ (last accessed on August 16, 2019).
- Esquivel, Paloma, “Brought Together by Grief.” L.A. Times, September 8, 2008, https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-sep-08-me-widow8-story.html (last accessed on 17 August 2019).
- American Widow Project, http://americanwidowproject.org/ (last accessed on August 17, 2019).
- American Widow Project Donation Link: https://donatenow.networkforgood.org/112636
- Floto, Patrick J., Lance Corporal, Pendleton Website, “Marine Remembered by Peers From All Walks of Life.” January 31, 2006, https://www.pendleton.marines.mil/News/News-Article-Display/Article/536093/marine-remembered-by-peers-from-all-walks-of-life/ (last accessed on August 17, 2019).
- Taps Rendition: https://www.marineband.marines.mil/Members/Musicians/Brass/Trumpet-and-Cornet/#mccabe (last accessed on October 31, 2019).
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