A crime involving the Westplex was included in cases spotlighted by the FBI to honor its’ hundred year anniversary. On Friday, the St Louis bureau spotlighted Michael Wayne Jackson's 1986 crime spree that reached from Indiana to Wright City.

Events unfolded quickly, starting on September 22^nd, when Jackson's probation officer stopped by his home for a routine visit. Jackson shot and killed him with a sawed off shotgun. Jackson then went to a grocery store and killed the owner, stole a car and abandoned it to steal another car with a woman inside. The FBI said the woman jumped out of the car to escape. He next went to a trailer park and kidnapped a woman and her three-year-old son and dropped them off in Frankfort, Indiana. He then traveled back to the Galleria in Clayton, where he stole $20 from a woman at the mall. Jackson was not seen again until he abandoned his current stolen car and then stole another car from a grocery store parking lot in O'Fallon, then he stole a second car in O'Fallon, but the woman's husband saw Jackson driving their car and chased him. Jackson fired several shots out the back of the car with his handgun and shotgun at the man, who eventually stopped chasing him. Jackson then abducted an O'Fallon man from his home and forced him into the trunk of his own car, which Jackson drove to Wright City. That’s when Wright City police spotted him and they exchanged shots, which left an officer wounded. After Jackson managed to escape, Officers found the man in the truck of his car, which Jackson had abandoned.

The FBI, local police and sheriff's departments spent the week searching for him then surrounded a barn off Route H near Wright City on October 2nd, 1986,. They used tear gas to try and force Jackson out of the barn. Investigators heard a gunshot and found Jackson dead in the loft of the barn. The FBI said Jackson used the same sawed off shotgun he used to kill three people during his crime spree. The FBI’s anniversary takes place on July 17th.