Glenda Jeanette Jackson was 39 years old when she was killed in St. Louis on Monday, April 1, 2013. The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department investigated her death. The Washington Post's homicide database, which tracked killings in St. Louis through 2017, lists it as a homicide that remained open with no arrest.
Beyond her full name, her age and the date of her death, almost nothing about Glenda Jackson has been made public. No news story about the killing, obituary, memorial page or family fundraiser could be found for this account, and the search run for this review turned up nothing beyond the database record itself. She surely had family, friends and neighbors who remember who she was, but none of that has entered the public record.
Because so little has been released, even the basic circumstances remain unknown to the public.
The record does not say how she was killed, whether she was attacked indoors or on the street, whether she knew the attacker, what time of day it happened, or whether she died at the scene or later at a hospital. It does not say whether anyone else was hurt or whether investigators ever identified a suspect.
Glenda Jackson is also a common name, and searches for it are dominated by other women, including a woman in Alabama with the same first and middle names who is mentioned in a 2026 family obituary. That woman has nothing to do with this case, and the overlap makes it harder to find any trace of the woman who died in St. Louis in 2013.
Her age and sex stand out. Most homicide victims in St. Louis in those years were men, and a woman of 39 would likely have had close family, friends, perhaps children or a partner, people who noticed when something was wrong. She died on the first day of April, the day after Easter Sunday in 2013.
The location recorded in the Post's database places her death in north St. Louis, in the area of the Hyde Park and College Hill neighborhoods, a few miles north of downtown, close to where several other open killings in this group took place, including those of Gabriel Noldin, Antwone Chatman and Steffen D. Smith. People who lived in that area in the spring of 2013 may remember Glenda, and may remember the police activity that followed her death.
St. Louis has long had one of the highest homicide rates of any large American city. The city recorded more than 100 homicides in every year of the early 2010s, and the yearly totals later climbed to 188 in 2015 and 205 in 2017. In many of those years, fewer than half of the city's killings ended in an arrest. Killings of women were less common than killings of men, but many of them also went unsolved, and cases with few public details often faded from view quickly.
No arrest, criminal charge or court case connected to the death of Glenda Jeanette Jackson could be found in news archives or public records. More than 13 years later, there is no public sign that anyone has been held responsible. Anyone who knew Glenda Jackson, who saw her over the Easter weekend of 2013, or who heard talk afterward about what happened to her, may be able to help. Even a small detail, such as a name overheard, a car seen leaving the area or a conversation remembered, can help detectives move a case forward. Anyone with information can call the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department Homicide Division at 314-444-5371, or call CrimeStoppers at 866-371-TIPS (866-371-8477), where tips can be anonymous.
