Weaverville Man Charged with Murdering His Brother, Whose Remains Were Found in a Compost Pile Along with Dead Puppies
This is a press release from the Trinity County Sheriff’s Office. The information has not been proven in a court of law and any individuals described should be presumed innocent unless proven guilty:
On the late morning of March 3, 2026, Deputies with the Trinity County Sheriff’s Office received an out-of-state tip regarding a possible homicide in the area of Bear Creek Road in Weaverville, California. The information indicated the incident may have occurred several days earlier and identified a potential suspect.
After gathering additional information related to the allegation, Deputies obtained and served a search warrant at a property on Bear Creek Road later that same day.
Upon arrival, Deputies contacted an adult male later identified as Kevin Jackson (DOB 12/03/1971) of Weaverville and Redding, California. Jackson was initially uncooperative and refused to comply with lawful commands. Deputies attempted de-escalation; however, those efforts were unsuccessful, and a brief physical struggle occurred before Jackson was safely detained.
Jackson was armed with a loaded firearm during the encounter. No shots were fired by Jackson or by law enforcement personnel.
During a subsequent interview, Jackson admitted to shooting his brother, Darren Jackson, several days prior. He stated he used the same firearm he possessed at the time Deputies contacted him. Jackson directed investigators to a compost pile on the property, where human remains believed to be Darren Jackson were located.
While processing the scene, Deputies also located multiple deceased puppies on the property. Jackson admitted to killing the animals.
Kevin Jackson was arrested and booked into the Trinity County Sheriff’s Office jail facility on the following charges:
- Penal Code 187 — First Degree Murder
- Penal Code 29800 — Felon in Possession of a Firearm
- Penal Code 30305 — Felon in Possession of Ammunition
- Penal Code 597 — Animal Cruelty
The investigation remains active. Anyone with additional information is encouraged to contact the Trinity County Sheriff’s Office.
Assisting Agencies:
- Trinity County Life Support
- Weaverville Fire Department
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Damn that’s messed up, possibly methed up
So if hed kept his mouth shut, would they have found the stiff? Weird that hed sing. A very good lawyer once told me that about 80% of the people in jail are there because of something they said. STFU!!
The compost heap isnt very secure it seems. A lot of forest land around Weaverville to bury a body. I would have thought hed have driven out some remote road, dragged the stiff a couple of hundred yards off into the woods. 3 or 4 hours of work with a mattock and shovel to dig a deep enough hole and it would never be found.
I once asked a Sherrifs Office detective how many missing, unaccounted for bodies there were around. All hed say is “a lot”.
Rough out there! Be careful!
Please stop giving the criminals advice 🤣
I don’t believe he was thinking too straight…
It’s extremely possible that he was not thinking very …intelligently?. Indeed he may be….bat shit crazy! Killing puppies- that’s a monster right there…I bet they throw the book at him- 5 years
I agree with you about killing the puppies! Really bad. If hed had his dog spayed this wouldnt have happened. Its just irresponsible and cruel.
If his parents had been spayed and neutered this would not have occurred.
Guess its not his fault he just had to kill the pupies.
Americans care more about puppies than children so lord only knows what sort of childhood those two brothers had.
At some point there is zero excuses for people’s behavior. I could’t care less how good or bad his childhood was. Too many excuses for screwed up behavior it only allows bad behavior.
It does seem that this may have been a mental health matter. The guy may not have been all there… The fact that he killed puppies as well as his brother sounds like he had a mental break. Maybe that’s why he didn’t think logically and take the body elsewhere.
Hats off to the Trinity County Sheriff for deescalating this incident without using weapons. That is rare in this time of shoot first and ask questions later.
There was an article, just this week, in this newspaper, about a mentally ill, suicidal man in Eureka who was murdered by police for having a knife laying near him. An example of what not to do.
Just to be clear, the incident I think you’re referencing happened at Bear River Rancheria, the man was actively charging deputies with a knife raised above his head, and it was ruled a justified homicide — not murder.
That doesn’t make it any less tragic. There were a lot of points where this could have gone differently — better mental health funding, a psych hold that held, officers aware of his mental state before they encountered him, more resources for deescalation training. Any one of those things might have changed the outcome.
But by the time those deputies were facing a man charging at them with a raised knife, those options were gone. They did what their training required them to do when faced with what their training deems an imminent threat. The failure is systemic and includes everything that led up to it.
And those deputies will likely carry that moment for the rest of their lives. Everyone lost.
To be clear Lisa, do you know why was tazing not an option?
Genuinely wondering this. He had a knife. They are trained to shoot. They couldn’t just shoot him in his legs? That would have dropped him. Threat over.
Shooting to wound is never an option, smaller target more likelihood of missing and stray bullets going someplace not intended. Also, tasing is never a guarantee that the person will be stopped or disabled.
Just to be clear this article/incident had no one shot by deputies.
Also ASSuming deputies remember moments of violence for the rest of their lives can be said too of incarcerated murderers…so what? Veterans also often go bat sh!t crazy from bad memories of bad doings. Sure a little better than a total sociopath AND the problem is giving LE so much power to do so much damage..not good for them or citizens.
As for your saying that I guess you have to keep a door open for good leads to articles now that Journalism has little if a mud raking going on – just reporting not uncovering much.
I’m glad the killer did confess! He should face the death penalty immediately. But Newsom shut down the sloww death chamber. So now we have to pay to incarcerate this killer for decades. How many other puppies or humans has he killed?
If he’s locked up, he won’t be killing anyone or anything else.
Killing him would only send the message that sometimes killing is justified.
It never* is.
So you disagree with the death sentences given to “Nazi’s” when WW Two ended?
I disagree with the death penalty in every instance.
Life without the possibility of parole serves the same purpose,
and we do not dehumanize ourselves in the process.
What’s really weird? The eye-for-an-eye folks often call themselves Christian.
They sure like to use it to justify brutality thinking their God is going to be OK with it. That’s an old Babylonian Hummabri Code “lex talonis” and an Exodus thing that predated actual Christianity almost two millennium. Part of that rule was that reciprocal justice should not exceed the crime committed and “eye for an eye” isn’t explicitly literal, rather expressive. Hebrews just exchanged that idea with an equivalent monetary penalty and now you have sin taxes and all sorts of crap like tithing gets you salvation, to go along with the capital punishment now. It’s all in how they choose to interpret things.
I would agree with you but there are certain individuals who should be killed if they were actually kept in solitary where they could never harm anyone and never released I would agree but some are released and kill or rape people including and especially children so it’s not worth it in my opinion if it keeps that from happening. Some people (and I use that term loosely) are absolute monsters.
Dehumanization is what you do. By refusing to protect innocents. And by making us spend limited resources on murderers instead of innocent children services or even services for the mentally ill who have not killed anybody. And since CA voters voted to bring back capital punishment you are also being undemocratic and hiding behind some false sense of superior morality to do it. I’m saying that it is your stance that is “dehumanizing” because your priorities are to protect murderers and rapists more than innocent people and that is just….wrong.
That’s not what he’s saying.
He’s talking about this isolated incident involving a mentally ill person.
But.
Categorically, killing is never justified.
But not everyone understands that.
That is why the death penalty is so controversial.
But if you believe that killing people is the solution, it would be almost impossible to convince you otherwise.
It is a minority of us who see a bigger picture and other solution.
Since before the bronze age, physical pain and murder have been used as deterrents to keep societies in line.
Still, today, women are murdered, shrouded, half buried, shaking from the cold of the earth, and have tennis ball size rocks thrown at them until they are in excruciating pain and left to drown on their own blood by damage to their ribs and organs and die over many hours.* They call them “Honor Killings”: murders done to a woman who refuses to marry a man chosen by their family, or who has sexual relations outside of marriage. It even happens in the United States amongst immigrant families.
The same punishment is inflicted on anyone who was not born heterosexual or does not comply with patriarchal values.*
*These are actual realities, in 2026, not in some ancient time, in eastern countries, to this day.
That is the result of people thinking murder is a viable solution.
Hopefully, more people will come to understand this.
It does not excuse Nazis. It is just a larger perspective on where do we want humanity to evolve in the future.
I absolutely disagree with the death penalty in those situations as well because those bastards deserved to suffer incarceration for years!
Very good point. Exactly.
Stop it with your “never”. Sometimes it is. Maybe YOU should pay for his incarceration for the rest of his life. Or perhaps I should be posting more examples here of murderers sent away for “life’ to “never” be released who then are paroled anyways. You know it happens often so please stop pretending that “life “sentences actually mean that…the only sure way to protect innocents is to put down the mad dogs, not pay huge bills for them and then release them later to come back into our communities. And hope they have somehow been fixed…
I agree. It’s funny how all these God fearing people think they get to go to heaven after advocating for death against their fellow humans.
I’m not saying they deserve to be free.
Just saying who are we to decide who gets to live and die? The cops do that for us everyday. I wonder how they sleep at night?
“You cannot kill people who kill to show people that it’s wrong to kill”
This guy sounds pretty fucked tho so im glad he’s busted
Newsom blah blah blah blah?
Aside from the fact that it’s wrong for the state to exact from citizens death, “In California, maintaining the death penalty system is significantly more expensive than life imprisonment without parole (LWOP). Studies indicate that death penalty trials cost approximately $1.1 million more than LWOP trials, and housing death row inmates incurs an additional $90,000 per inmate annually. Overall, the death penalty system costs taxpayers about $137 million per year, compared to $11 million for LWOP.”
https://www.aclunorcal.org/news/frequently-asked-questions-about-costs-californias-death-penalty/
I still feel that he deserves the death penalty. I think the death chamber is too expensive and there are ways to do it that are cheaper. Everyone has their feelings on the death penalty. I’m not going to change anyone’s opinion.
His own brother damn . Wether he’s on drugs and he’ll sober up or just come to reality sitting in a cement box he’s pretty well f*****. It’s pretty wild to me that people still question things in our society every single thing that is going on around us is profit and cost based net and gross what you’re spending what you’re making everything that’s all that anybody cares about. There’s no death penalty in California because they don’t make any money when people are dead and if you look into states that do enforce or have the death penalty and people who oppose it are 100% involved some way somehow in losing money. I’m not talking about the public. It’s not about eye for an eye or killing someone to show them that you shouldn’t be killing it’s that today in our society people kill someone and expect to get away with it or for there not to be any consequences and cry about it when they get in trouble back in whenever when it was I for an eye and you might get killed if you killed seone.People were more afraid of consequences when there was consequences now he’ll just go sit somewhere and get housed and fed and zero will be expected of him he will not have to participate in anything productive he can lay and sleep in his cell all he wants in fact they want that . Nobody wants to look into anything for even 20 minutes half an hour study into something like this and it will blow your mind look at real inmate interviews about what it’s like yeah they’re not out on the streets with their family having a good time but it definitely isn’t any kind of trouble for murdering someone and taking somebody’s family member away from them.
Geez, how big was that compost pile?!
The headline…
“WEAVERVILLE MAN CHARGED WITH MURDERING HIS BROTHER, WHOSE REMAINS WERE FOUND IN A COMPOST PILE ALONG WITH DEAD PUPPIES”
…makes it sound like his brother and the puppies were all found right alongside each other in the very same compost pile, but that is not necessarily accurate, and likely misleading…
From the press release..
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“Jackson directed investigators to a compost pile on the property, where human remains believed to be Darren Jackson were located.
While processing the scene, Deputies also located multiple deceased puppies on the property.”
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The only firm conclusion that can be taken from the press release, is that they were all found on the very same property, but definitely not that they were all necessarily found in the very same compost pile…
That would be a mighty leap…
Never put meat in your compost pile. It attract rats and is smelly. Although it is considered organic matter, I prefer to use veggie waste, leaves, paper and small twigs. Not that smelly, and gardens love it.