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Jacque Sue Waller
👶👶👶“I leave you now for a little while for a home that awaits us all. Cry not out of sadness but, rejoice that what was lost has been found.” -Reverend Cody Alley
👶👶👶She was born on December 26th, 1971 in Bonne Terre, St. Francois County, Missouri to Ruby and Stan Rawson. Jacque was a beautiful, outspoken, kind, empathetic, woman that was full of compassion. She also was a prankster at times.
👶👶👶 wanted nothing more than a family of her own, so when she became pregnant with triplets, she was overjoyed.
👶👶👶 husband, James Clay Walker, was a little awkward and had a speech impediment. That made Jacque feel sorry for and want to take care of him. Jacque's parents, however, didn't like Clay at all and thought he was a jerk. For awhile Clay worked as a deputy at the Cape Girardeau county sheriff's office. This only lasted a year though. Jacque already had a good paying job as manager at Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, so she was able to support the family while Clay bounced around from job to job.
👶👶👶 Jacque loved her babies and enjoyed every minute with them. Clay, however, was unwilling to help with the kids. He also had become emotionally and physically abusive. He began threatening her and the children. He would pull a gun on Jacque. Jacque began to fear for her life and her children's. She began documenting the abuse in her computer. Allegedly, Clay also had multiple affairs, which he'd always deny when she would confront him. Jacque asked for a divorce and her husband said "If you take my kids, I will kill you". Her husband would threaten to kill her children as well.
👶👶👶As the divorce grew near, Jacque began confiding in her older sister. Jacque felt she could handle her husband and things would work out fine. Sadly, she was dead wrong.
👶👶👶On June 1st, 2011, 39 year-old Jacque finalized their divorce and she was to pick up her son that stayed at Clay's house the previous night. She called her sister Cheryl and told her that she had just pulled up to Clay's house and she was going to get her 5 year-old son and be on her way home. That was the last time Cheryl heared Jacque's voice.
👶👶👶Three hours later, Jacque still wasn't home. Cheryl had a sick feeling and started calling Jacque's phone, desperately trying to get a hold of her, to no avail. Cheryl then began bombarding Clay's phone, but he didn't answer either. Then on the last attempt, Cheryl made to Clay's phone stating that she was going to give him five minutes and then she was going to call the police. Clay called her back immediately. He said that if he sees Jacque he'd have her call and then he hung up on Cheryl.
👶👶👶Cheryl didn't wait around and drove to Jackson, where Clay lived, and went into the police station. She told them that Clay killed Jacque and even though she had no evidence of this fact, the police began immediately investigating and sent someone out to question Clay.
👶👶👶During police questioning, Clay said his son wasn't at his house, he was with Clay's girlfriend and that Jacque had come over to talk more about their divorce. He stated that Jacque arrived at his house around 4 p.m. He said they got into an argument and she stormed off on foot. Clay said he left and that when he returned about two hours later, her car was gone.
👶👶👶Police didn't buy Clay's story and assembled a team of investigators from different agencies. A few hours later they found Jacque's car abandoned on the side of the road, with a punctured tire. Investigators said the scene looked staged.
👶👶👶Investigators wanted to search Clay's house and vehicle, but Clay said that his attorney advised against the searches. Investigators acquired warrants and later that afternoon, began the searches. Blood was found all over Clay's truck, but when the test results came back it wasn't from Jacque. It turned out to be fish blood. Clay had video tapped himself smearing fish blood all over his vehicle. He claimed in the video that he was doing this to see how corrupt the police were and if they would plant evidence.
👶👶👶When Clay's house was searched investigators noticed that the hall carpet was gone as well as there being blood in the hallway. This led investigators to sermonize that a violent confrontation took place.
👶👶👶One of the detectives who had searched the basement, stumbled onto a crawlspace. Inside that crawl space was the missing hallway rug, soaked in blood.
👶👶👶Investigators look at surveillance video from around town of the day that Jacque disappeared.
👶👶👶At around 11:00 a.m. on June 1st, 2011, Jacque was seen at a drug store where she met Clay.
👶👶👶At 1:00 p.m., Jacque went to an ATM and that was the last time that she was seen alive.
👶👶👶Later that day, Clay at a store and in different clothes than he was wearing in the video where he had met Jacque. He was with his girlfriend and his son, buying toys. There is video of his truck as well, with a garbage can in the back.
👶👶👶Later in the evening, there is also footage of Clay at a car wash, scrubbing out a boat he was towing. When authorities issued images of Clay's boat to the public, witnesses came forward saying that they saw what appeared to be Clay's boat floating next to a sandbar called Devil's Island earlier in the day. Police searched that area several times, but found no trace of Jacque.
👶👶👶The authorities being suspicious about Clay, had one of their detectives convince Clay to come into the station for a formal interview. Allegedly, Clay claimed that the blood found at his house was from a minor accident.
👶👶👶A lot of blood can come out of a small wound depending on what place on the body it is located. However, why would you attempt to hide the rug instead of throwing it out?
👶👶👶Investigators had put a tracker on Clay's truck, in hopes he might lead them to a clue on where Jacque might be located. This didn't turn out to be a fruitful endeavor, quite the opposite. It is believed that Clay suspected that there was a tracker on his vehicle and it appeared that he kept leading investigators on wild goose chases that wasted their time.
👶👶👶On July 11, 2011, Jacque’s business cards were found inside a packet along Missouri Route 177, which was about 10 miles from where her car was found.
👶👶👶Clay allegedly started harassing Jacque's family and even flipped off search crews. Cheryl had been awarded custody of the kids, which angered Clay profusely.
👶👶👶I'm not really sure if he loved them, but I think he saw them more as his possessions.
👶👶👶In fact, Clay got so angry that he sent Cheryl a death threat online and so he was arrested on a federal charge for that threat. He was also accused of stealing money from one of his jobs and threatening a friend.
👶👶👶Clay is questioned again about Jacque and this time he says that a former co-worker killed Jacque and that he can prove it eventually. Police know that this is another lie that Clay is trying to spin and that the co-worker has a solid alibi.
👶👶👶Up to this point, Clay seemed cocky and thought that he was smarter than everyone else, but he wasn't.
👶👶👶As police continued to question him, they urged him to tell the truth, which they let him know they knew he hadn't been telling. Despite all of this, Clay still held steadfast to the claim that he didn't kill Jacque.
👶👶👶In September, 2011, Clay’s father related to police his son’s confession to him that he broke her neck during an argument. Waller’s father was ill and in a nursing home when the interview was conducted by law enforcement and prosecutors were unable to obtain a video affidavit before he died on December 20th, of that year.
👶👶👶In October, 2011, Clay pleaded guilty to threatening to kill Jacque's sister in a message he posted online.
👶👶👶On January 3rd, 2012, Clay received a five year sentence in federal prison for threatening Cheryl online.
👶👶👶Despite the lack of Jacque's body, Clay was charged with first-degree murder. After this, Clay's attorneys approached prosecutors about making some kind of deal. Jacque's parents wanted justice, but they wanted their daughter's body back as well, so they told prosecutors to make a deal. The deal entailed Clay to plead guilty of second degree murder and get in 20 year sentence in exchanged for details about what he did to Jacque and what he did with her body. Clay agreed and told investigators that Jacque's body was buried on Devil's Island after all.
👶👶👶Devil's Island is a thickly wooded island in the Mississippi River. Clay told investigators that he couldn't quite remember the exactly where he had buried Jacque's body. This led them to wonder if Clay was spinning another lie. Clay told them that he did bury Jacque with a bag of fertilizer on top of her in order to decompose the body faster.
👶👶👶This was a good thing in a way, because i guess too much fertilizer will make plants sick.
👶👶👶When investigators saw a sickly looking tree they started digging by hand and found Jacque's body. And now that her body was found, the family had to try to explain to the the now 7-year-old kids where their mom was and who took her away from them.
👶👶👶As the last part of Clay's deal, he had to do a full video tapped confession of what transpired between him and Jacque. He said that everything started a year before that fateful day of her demise. She had told him that she was thinking about ending their marriage. He said that he calmly warned Jacque that if she took the kids away from him he'd kill her.
👶👶👶Clay continued to go on about the event that brought him to the breaking point. He said that Jacque came to his place on May 1st, 2011 and was saying that she wanted a divorce. In the confession he said that he knew she was going to die now and told investigators that he had dug Jacque's grave on Devil's Island the day before he killed her.
👶👶👶Even though, by admitting that he knew that she was going to die and about digging her grave the day before he killed her, Clay then says that her death was an accident. He claimed that he accidentally bumped Jacque's nose with his head, causing her nose to bleed. He then said that this made Jacque freak out and she ran and tripped in the hall. Clay said that that is where she started provoking him and threatened that he would never see the kids again. He then goes on to say that he hit her in the neck, which knocked her down. Then he punched her in the nose and choked her until she passed away.
👶👶👶"I wasn't intentionally pre planned to kill my wife that day. That wasn't the case at all." said Clay.
👶👶👶Right, Clay... we all dig graves for the fun of it.
👶👶👶So, basically he changed his story. At first he says that he pretty much planned Jacque's murder with the act of digging her grave and then he claimed it was an accident. Essentially he lied to police about it not being a premeditated murder and also about how he killed her.
👶👶👶Jacque's autopsy proved that Clay had lied. Instead of just getting hit in the nose and strangled, she had "multiple fractures to the face and skull consistent with blunt force trauma."
👶👶👶Clay went on to say that after he killed Jacque, he put her into a garbage can and put it in the back of his truck. That was the garbage can that was seen on that surveillance tape in the back of his truck when he was shopping with his and Jacque's son...
👶👶👶After he dropped his girlfriend and Jacque's son off, he says he went in his boat to Devil's Island where he buried Jacque.
👶👶👶On December 19th, 2017, Clay was sentenced to 20 years. An extra 35 years was tacked on for interstate domestic violence, since he had dug the grave in one state and then killed Jacque in another. In total he should end up serving a 55 year sentence.
👶👶👶At Clay's sentencing, Jaque's son gave an impact statement, which seemed to have no effect on Clay.
👶👶👶"Dear dad, this is Maddox. The son of you. You betrayed... you know what you did you killed our mom. You betrayed your kids you big fat jerk. You're a big fat jerk do you know that? I wish you were never my dad you big fat jerk. I never want to see you again for my entire life. We don't like you anymore. This is the last time you'll hear of me. Okay? Bye!"
👶👶👶Besides not seeming to care about the feelings of his children, Clay seemed not to care that he had killed Jacque either. He said in a telephone conversation to a family member that he wasn't sorry and that he only regretted having to spend time in jail. Clay even wrote a book about murdering Jacque entitled, "If you take my kids i'll kill ya."
👶👶👶I hope something happens to him in jail and he has to stay in there for the rest of his life. Those kids should never have to deal with a monster like that ever again.
👶👶👶"We miss her to pieces, miss her to pieces and I'd do anything for her," said Stan Rawson, Jacque's dad. "But all we can hope for is we'll see her again someday."
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