Convicted of a single murder, he died in prison in 2002 before the more complete exposure of his crimes was revealed based on DNA profiling.

Due to material difficulties, Jackson dropped out of high school in the early 1950s and started spending a lot of time on the street.

He moved to California in the late 1950s along with his mother, and over the next 20 years, Jackson was repeatedly arrested on charges of committing crimes such as burglary, rape, assault, and molestation of minors.

Jackson's mother told the police that every morning she wraps a piece of Canadian bacon to give to him before he goes off to work.

In 1998, police departments around the East Bay area conducted DNA testing on unsolved cases that dated between the 1970s and the early 1990s.

In 1999, investigators positively identified a match in Charles Jackson's DNA to biological evidence left at a November 1981 double homicide in Albany.

[1] His death didn't slow the investigators down, and in 2005, based on results from the DNA research, Jackson's involvement was revealed in the murders of Higginbotham, Johnson, Waxman, Grunzweig and Slocum.

Jackson's true victim count is currently unknown, since there were at least six other serial killers in the Contra Costa County, California, area during his murder spree.