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Glenda Trucks
Status: HOMICIDE
City: Jacksonville
State: Florida
County: Duval County
Date of death: September 20, 1987
Age: 37
Gender: Female
Race: Caucasian/White
Cause of death: Gun Firearm
Anniversary month: September
LEA: Jacksonville Sheriff's Office, Jacksonville, Florida
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August 27, 2018 | By Corey Stevens This story is part of a collaborative project between Project: Cold Case and a University of North Florida Journalism class. At the time she died, many in Jacksonville knew the name of Glenda Dixie Trucks. They might have seen her at her family’s auto radio business, Auto-Radio Service Inc., on Philips Highway. The company was started by James Trucks, her husband, and has been around since 1974. Now her son and daughter-in-law, Tara Trucks, run the business. They might have seen her singing; Trucks and her husband sang together in a band. She was also an avid piano player. “I was playing with a band at a restaurant that she worked at, and that’s where we met,” James Trucks remembered. But on Sunday, Sept. 20, 1987, the then 37-year-old woman was murdered and taken away from her three children, Samantha, Jason, and Sammy, and her husband, James. It was on that day that Trucks was found shot in the head and... Read More
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