Kansas City’s “Waldo Rapist” loses appeal, will serve 18 consecutive life sentences

Bernard Jackson, the Kansas City man dubbed as the “Waldo Rapist,” on Tuesday lost the appeal of his multiple convictions.

A three-judge panel of the Missouri Court of Appeals upheld his 2011 convictions for a series of crimes in the 1980s.

Jackson, 60, alleged in the appeal that a juror in his trial committed misconduct by blogging about the case while it was pending.

But the appeals court ruled Tuesday that the juror did not violate the trial judge’s instructions by “recording her thoughts and reflections on the trial in a private journal at night in the privacy of her hotel room.”

“The juror’s conduct in publishing on-line those thoughts and reflections after the trial had concluded and her discharge as a juror did not violate the court’s instructions,” the court decided.

Jackson is serving multiple life sentences after the jury convicted him of four counts of first-degree robbery seven counts of sodomy and seven counts of rape.

He was also charged in another string of attacks in 2009 and 2010, but prosecutors dropped those charges after he was convicted and sentenced in the 1980s cases.

This story was originally published January 23, 2018 at 10:23 AM with the headline "Kansas City’s “Waldo Rapist” loses appeal, will serve 18 consecutive life sentences."