Georgia man tells 911 that aliens abducted his mother from their house. Then officers search the backyard and find her remains under a burned mattress
His sentence concerns the cover-up. Authorities have not publicly explained how his mother died.
Jason Christopher Campbell told 911 dispatchers that aliens had abducted his mother. Investigators found her remains in the backyard of their Georgia home, and a jury has now convicted him of burning her body to conceal her death.
Campbell, 35, received a 10-year prison sentence on October 30 after a five-day trial, according to FOX 5 Atlanta. A January 2025 missing-person report prompted neighbors to search for his mother, 62-year-old Marie Campbell, while her family appealed for help finding her.
Prosecutors did not charge Campbell with causing her death. Authorities have not publicly released how she died, and the conviction establishes his responsibility for concealing her death rather than killing her.
Her family was searching while her son gave different explanations
Marie’s car remained outside the home she shared with her son in Homer. Her purse, identification, and phone were there, too. When the T.J. Maxx employee was reported missing on January 6, 2025, neighbors searched while relatives appealed for help finding, Now Georgia reported.
Campbell offered authorities two different accounts of where she had gone. According to an incident report cited by the outlet, he called 911 on January 7 and claimed aliens had abducted her. The next day, he told a deputy that someone he did not know had picked her up three days earlier.
He said he had not heard from her since. Her vehicle, investigators noted, had remained parked outside since January 5.
The search brought deputies to the backyard, where they discovered a small fire and what appeared to be a burned mattress. The human remains found there belonged to Marie, according to Law&Crime.
Investigators also recorded a vehicle with a seat either missing or folded down and a mud-covered sheet covering that area. The reporting does not explain its connection to the burning.
By February 2025, Campbell faced a charge of concealing his mother’s death. Prosecutors later presented evidence that he had burned her body to hide the death his family and neighbors had been trying to understand.
The cover-up alone brought the maximum prison term
Prosecutors did not need a conviction for killing his mother to seek a decade-long sentence for concealment. Georgia law makes concealing a death a felony when it hinders investigators from determining whether someone unlawfully killed the person.
The law carries a prison sentence of one to 10 years. Judge Albert Collier imposed the maximum term, ordering Campbell to serve all 10 years in confinement after prosecutors presented evidence that he burned Marie’s body.
The investigation involved specialists from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation’s medical examiner and forensic anthropology departments, along with the FBI and other agencies. Their involvement helped bring the case to trial, but the published reports offer little detail about the forensic findings or Campbell’s defense.
The reports do not explain why Collier imposed the maximum sentence. They also leave Marie’s cause and manner of death undisclosed, though authorities may have information they have not released.
Campbell’s conviction establishes that he burned her body to conceal her death. Authorities have not publicly explained how she died.
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