A man arrested last
year for allegedly killing a mail carrier 38 years ago has been
ordered to stand trial by a San Diego judge.
Gerald Dean Metcalf is
charged with murder for allegedly stabbing Gerald Jackson 61
times at the victim's Pacific Beach apartment. Metcalf
claims it was self-defense, saying Jackson tried to rape
him.
Jackson was 27 at the
time he was killed. A Vietnam War veteran, Jackson worked
part-time as a mail carrier and part-time as a bouncer
at a gay bar.
The case sat unsolved
until early last year, when a student worker in the San Diego
Police Department's cold case unit was able to lift Metcalf's
fingerprints from the window of Jackson's car and from a stereo
that had been stolen from his apartment.
Defense attorney Gary
Gibson told authorities that his client said Jackson had tried
to rape him. Metcalf was arrested last October and on Tuesday
was ordered to stand trial.
In 1984, Metcalf was
acquitted of a separate murder in Texas after claiming
self-defense. (Advocate.com)
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