In what authorities are calling the “height of sexual depravity,” Maricopa County Sheriff’s detectives arrested and booked 47-year-old Christopher Lynn Jackson, an owner of two east valley businesses (a ballroom dance studio and a landscape company), after determining Jackson used a branding iron and butane to burn his initials onto the vagina of at least one woman, perhaps more, marking the victim(s) as “his property.”
Jackson, age 47, of Chandler, was arrested by Sheriff’s Office detectives on charges of aggravated assault stemming from the branding incident.
The branding/aggravated assault investigation led Arpaio’s detectives to a separate investigation, this one involving Jackson and bestiality. A search warrant was executed yesterday which led detectives to seize a computer and DVDs from inside Jackson’s Chandler home. Videos seized clearly show Jackson and two different women separately performing various sex acts with a male German Shepherd.
The bestiality case resulted in Jackson being re-arrested. He is currently in jail on bestiality charges and has a $30,000 bond.
Sheriff’s detectives also arrested one of the women seen in the video orally copulating and engaging in intercourse with the dog. She is Josephine Erikson, 61, a district supervisor at a valley insurance company. Erickson is currently in jail on bestiality charges as well. Another woman seen participating in the sex acts on the video has yet to be located.
Arpaio was briefed about the details of both investigations and called what was seen in those videos appalling. “The pain this suspect must have caused when burning his initials onto their genitals is incomprehensible,” Arpaio says. “To treat women like property and then to encourage them to participate in acts of bestiality is disgusting.”
The German Shepherd is Jackson’s pet. The dog was removed from the suspect’s home and is now being cared for at the Sheriff’s MASH unit in the First Avenue Jail.
