Investigators continue to gather evidence in the case against the Southeast Washington mother charged with killing her four daughters and said formal charges could be coming soon.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Deborah Sines said at a D.C. Superior Court hearing Friday that prosecutors are still interviewing witnesses and expected to present evidence supporting an indictment to a grand jury by June 13, the date of the next follow-up hearing.
Forensics investigators are still looking at a knife and T-shirts found at the scene, Sines told D.C. Superior Judge Frederick H. Weisberg.
Jacks is accused of killing her four daughters Brittany Jacks, 17, Tatiana Jacks, 11, N’Kiah Fogle, 6, and Aja Fogle, 5.
U.S. marshals discovered their decomposing bodies Jan. 9 while serving an eviction notice at the Anacostia row house. Authorities believe the girls had been dead between two weeks and several months.
The D.C. medical examiner ruled the deaths murder but could not determine how they were killed because their organs were so badly decomposed.
Jacks told detectives during interviews that she had not killed the children and that they were possessed by demons.
She said the children began dying in their sleep one at a time, all within a seven-day period, sometime last summer.
She remains held without bond on murder charges.
