{"id":292720,"date":"2025-10-10T19:34:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T19:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/292720\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T19:34:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T19:34:26","slug":"nassau-county-sheriffs-office-closes-cold-case-of-jacksonville-man-who-was-killed-over-40-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/292720\/","title":{"rendered":"Nassau County Sheriff\u2019s Office closes cold case of Jacksonville man who was killed over 40 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><strong>NASSAU COUNTY, Fla.<\/strong> \u2013 The Nassau County Sheriff\u2019s Office closed a cold case of a Jacksonville man who was killed over 40 years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">On May 28, 1983, Delbert \u201cLou\u201d Luzader left his home and went to Playbill\u2019s Liquor &amp; Package store in Callahan. NCSO said his body was found wrapped in sheets off Crawford Road in Callahan on Oct. 18, 1983.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">His 1970s Ford Ranger was never recovered and may have been sold in South Carolina, NCSO said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">An investigation by the cold case unit revealed that David Wyatt Jones admitted to discarding Luzader\u2019s remains and led investigators to where he buried the body.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Jones was also convicted of the 1986 murder of Jasper Highsmith and the 1995 murder of Lori McRae.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Jones died of natural causes while waiting execution on death row for murdering McRae.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Investigators said Jones was involved in three murders sharing the same methods. Law enforcement agencies with unsolved cases with similar characteristics are asked to call NCSO for potential connections.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by WJXT News4JAX &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASSAU COUNTY, Fla. \u2013 The Nassau County Sheriff\u2019s Office closed a cold case of a Jacksonville man who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":292721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,3188,723,7310,7834,149915,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-292720","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fl","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-jacksonville","12":"tag-nassau-county","13":"tag-nassau-county-sheriffs-office","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115351550340904725","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}