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Davis County deputies excavate back yard of former police officer in search of cold case victim

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Thomas Richard Jackson, 78, served as a police officer in East Layton from April of 1975 to July of 1976. 89. That suspicion even led detectives to excavate the backyard of the home where Jackson lived in 1975, searching for Baird's remains.

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