HONOLULU — A woman accused of stabbing a soldier’s wife to death in Hawaii has been arrested in Indiana, the FBI said.
Ailsa Jackson, 24, appeared in federal court in Ft. Wayne, Indiana, on Monday. She agreed to return Hawaii to face a first-degree murder charge. Thomas O’Malley, the assistant federal community defender who represented her at the brief hearing, declined to comment.
Catherine Walker, 38, was found dead in November in the home she shared with her husband at Aliamanu Military Reservation, a military housing complex in Honolulu. At the time, the medical examiner’s office said she died of stab wounds to her neck and torso. Her husband was assigned to Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu, the Army said.
Walker’s husband, and other relatives, couldn’t immediately be reached for comment.
An indictment filed last week in federal court in Honolulu alleges Jackson, also known as Lisa, “willfully, deliberately, maliciously, and with premeditation and malice aforethought,” carried out the killing.
Her relatives couldn’t immediately be reached for comment.
Soon after Walker’s death, Army criminal investigators identified a person of interest who wasn’t in custody. Investigators didn’t believe the killing was a random act or a robbery, Army Criminal Investigation Command spokesman Chris Grey said at the time.
Now that a civilian is involved, the Army investigators will continue to assist with the case, but the lead agency is the FBI, Grey said Monday.
“We do not have a date for her transport or arraignment in Honolulu, but these things normally take three weeks or so,” FBI spokesman Tom Simon said.