Submitted Photo Tennessee Bureau of Investigation / Rodney E. JacksonThe Tennessee Bureau of Investigation announced Friday that a man wanted in the 1996 killing of a woman in McMinn County was arrested last month.
Rodney E. Jackson of Roseville, Illinois, was arrested Jan. 18 by the Illinois State Police in connection with the death of Barbara Danley (Lehman) Johnson, whose body was found in November 1996 off a ramp on Interstate 75 in McMinn County, according to a TBI news release.
“I am incredibly grateful for the relentless work on the part of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation in this case,” 10th Judicial District Attorney General Steve Crump said in the release. “Despite the years that have passed since her murder, Barbara Johnson will have her opportunity at justice.”
When Johnson’s body was found in 1996, an autopsy determined homicide was the cause of her death.