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Who is Jerri Gaither?
Jerri King Gaither is an American woman from Gulfport, Harrison County, Mississippi, United States. Here are 10 more things about her:
- She is also known as Jerri A. Roby, Jerri Lynn Roby, Jerri Lynn Isreal, Jerry King Israel and Jerri King Bogart.
- She is accused of killing her son John Allen Gaither.
- She was born in South Carolina, USA.
- She has lived in different parts of South Carolina including Union, Prosperity and Goose Creek, in different parts of Florida, USA including Boca Raton, West Palm Beach and Mount Pleasant and in different parts of Maryland, USA including Hyattsville and Silver Spring.
- She has a former husband from Los Angeles, California, USA.
- She is 2 years younger than Salah Avner Levy, a professional tennis player from Israel who became a poker player.
- In 1981, she gave birth to John.
- She was sentenced to 17 years for killing Christina P. Racey, 44, in 1993 but she only spent eight years in prison.
- In 2001, she was released from prison.
- In February 2025, she turned 68.
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TIMELINE
1993
- In July 1993, she fatally shot Racey in Racey’s residence in Boca Raton and drove around with the victim’s body in the trunk before dumping it in Indian River County, Florida. Racey’s body was found in the trunk of her car during a standoff with police in Okeechobee County, Florida in which she threatened to kill herself. She told police Levy, her then boyfriend, killed Racey. She was released after posting a $100,000 bail.
1994
- In November 1994, she failed to appear at a hearing.
1995
- On June 5, 1995, Florida Highway Patrol trooper Mark Stickel arrested her after pulling her leased Ford Escort over because of phony plastic license plates on the vehicle near Orlando, Florida. She gave him a counterfeit birth certificate for Carol Ann Navarro, 28, of Winter Park, Orange County, Florida. After telling him she was sick, she was taken to the emergency room of a hospital in Orlando where she grabbed a bottle of Betadine scrub solution and drank it.
- On June 6, 1995, she remained at the Orange County Jail in Orlando on suicide watch.
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2023
- She allegedly put John’s corpse inside a wooden box and hid it behind a false wall in her residence in Gulfport. The last known contact with him was on December 10, 2023.
- On December 22, 2023, he reported John missing and Gulport Police Department officers responded to her residence in Gulfport in reference to a welfare concern about a possible missing person.
- On December 27, 2023, officers conducted several follow-ups and started noticing discrepancies in statements she provided them.
2024
- On January 18, 2024, officers conducted a search of her residence in Gulfport and found John dead. She took pills and was transported to a hospital for medical treatment.
- On January 20, 2024, she was arrested, booked into the Harrison County Adult Detention Center in Gulfport and charged with first-degree murder.
- In February 2024, she attended a preliminary hearing in her first-degree murder case before Justice Court Judge Albert Fountain.
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