{"id":330280,"date":"2026-07-05T23:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T23:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/330280\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T23:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T23:57:09","slug":"florida-man-accused-of-sexually-battering-killing-wife-after-divorce-filing-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/330280\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida man accused of sexually battering, killing wife after divorce filing"},"content":{"rendered":"

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A 47-year-old Florida man is behind bars, accused of sexually battering and killing his wife weeks after she filed for divorce in January.<\/p>\n

According to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office<\/a>, law enforcement was called to an apartment on Sunbeam Road, off San Jose Boulevard, on Jan. 23 to conduct a welfare check. When they entered the home, they found a woman, later identified as the suspect’s estranged wife, attacked and strangled. <\/p>\n

The Homicide Unit launched an investigation and, using evidence collected during the case, identified 47-year-old Raymond Jackson Jr. as the suspect.<\/p>\n

Court records show Jackson’s wife had filed a divorce petition earlier that month due to Jackson’s violent behavior. She also filed an injunction against him for stalking; however, it was denied by a judge just days before she was murdered.<\/p>\n

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Authorities say the Nassau County Sheriff’s Office<\/a> took Jackson into custody just days later after he allegedly led Jacksonville and Nassau County deputies on a chase.<\/p>\n

A grand jury indicted Jackson on May 21 on charges of murder, sexual battery and burglary with assault or battery.<\/p>\n

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Investigators say Jackson was transported from the Florida Department of Corrections to the Jacksonville jail on Monday and was formally arrested on those charges the following day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A 47-year-old Florida man is behind bars, accused of sexually battering and killing his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-330280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}