His death sentence was commuted by Texas governor George W. Bush in 1998, and Lucas died in prison in 2001.

[4][15] A silver ring was found on her hand containing an abalone or mother of pearl stone.

[6][12] A matchbook found at the scene bore the name of a Henryetta, Oklahoma hotel, supporting the theory that she had been a hitchhiker or drifter.

[5][12][15] Investigators searched the hotel's registration records but did not discover any possible leads regarding the victim's identity.

[1] In 1982, suspected serial killer Henry Lee Lucas confessed to Jackson's murder, although no physical evidence existed to prove that he had been involved in any way.

[17] When he asked her for sex again while he was driving, she attempted to leave his car, and Lucas then killed her and sexually violated her corpse.

[10][3] He contradicted himself repeatedly when confessing to the murder, and his defense team stated that he was shown images of the crime scene before his interview.

Texas governor George W. Bush, citing lingering doubts about Lucas's guilt, commuted his death sentence to life imprisonment.

[4][5][9][15][22] After his recantation, Lucas stated that the only murder that he had committed was that of his mother Viola,[16] though he had previously been able to lead the police to the bodies of two other victims.

An anonymous woman phoned the program to report having seen "Orange Socks" hitchhiking on the day of her murder, but the lead did not generate any new information.

[6] In 2016, on the 37th anniversary of her discovery, new sketches of "Orange Socks" were released by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.

[14] Many other details about Jackson's life remain unclear, but it is known that she attended school locally and may have used the surnames "Moon" and "Larned.