MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The boyfriend of a missing Memphis woman has been charged with her murder. Police have finally identified the body of Jacklyn Miller, her family says police have contacted them about his charges but have yet to contact them about her death.
Initially Richard Dickerson was booked on first degree murder charges. FOX13 was at the homicide division at MPD around 3:30 on Friday. That's when investigators officially charged and down graded those charges to second degree murder.
Friends of 21-year old Jacklyn Miller are outraged at the lesser charge of Second Degree Murder for her ex-boyfriend Richard Dickerson.
"He should get death. If you take a life, i feel your life should be taken," said Asha Jones, one of Miller’s co-workers.
Miller was found dead Tuesday in the back of her car trunk at the Willow Creek Apartments near Winchester. She'd been missing a week. The cause said to be strangulation.
"They be fighting. She's not the type of person that would let him fight her. She would fight back. I can imagine with whatever happened, she didn't go down without a fight," said Myesha Cooper, another co-worker.
Back in March, she filed a restraining order against Dickerson. Friends and family say the relationship had become abusive.
"She came in the other day with scratches on her face and we said you need to leave him alone," said Cooper. "She had scratches from her jaw bone to her nose."
Not only did Myesha Cooper know Miller, she also knows Richard Dickerson.
"We all went to school together. Beauty school. It was New Wave at the time. That's where they met and he didn't come across as the type of person that would do something like that."
Family by phone Friday told FOX13, police informed them about the new charges, but still have not told the family that it's her. Until that happens they say they're hoping she'll come walking through the door. Meanwhile, still a somber mood, at the beauty supply where she worked for over a year.
"Jackie was lively. We laughed, we talked. It's not the same. People had stopped coming to work," said Cooper.
"It's just sad. He deserves what he's going to get," said Jones.
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