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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Crime Alert 09.12.24 | Man Tells Family Grandma Has Terminal Illness, Really Killed with Hammer

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

News, True Crime

4.28.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Joseph Glynn tells his family his wife has a terminal illness and left, but he really bludgeoned her dead with a hammer. College town cops do NOT need help cleaning up spilled beer delivery. 

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or urgent alerts about missing persons,

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need to know every hour on the hour. Listen to Crime Alert hourly update on the I-Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your

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podcasts.

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Crime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace, breaking crime news now.

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Joseph Glenn tells his son and grandchildren their Yaya, Jackie Glenn, is terminally ill,

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and that she left to avoid putting the family through the pain of her death.

0:45.5

The granddaughter is a convinced she'd never leave and her doctor says she gave no such diagnosis

0:51.6

to Yaya.

0:52.8

Months later, Tennessee cops find Jackie's car and her body buried in a shallow grave.

0:58.4

When pressed, husband Joseph Glenn admits he hit Jackie over the head with a hammer until she died.

1:04.0

Nancy, Jackie Glenn's last text message read,

1:07.0

Happy New Year, let's all choose to make this the best year ever.

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Love you so much.

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Her naked body was found buried 50 miles from her home at a dig site Joseph

1:15.8

Glenn worked on weeks prior. Investigators also found a bag with Jackie's clothes, bloody towels,

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and rags in a nearby dumpster.

1:23.8

Joseph Glenn's motive is still unclear.

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