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Homeless NFL star goes missing again

Not by the Playbook

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Ted is a photojournalist who was sent to a homeless camp by his editor to take some pictures in 1990. He came across a gentleman who said to him: 鈥淵ou should do a story about me鈥�. It turns out this man was Jackie Wallace, former NFL player who had played in two Super Bowls. After the story went public, people offered to help Jackie and he was able to make a recovery. He got married to Deborah Williams in 1992 and they lived happily in a suburban home in Baltimore. Every Thanksgiving, Jackie would phone Ted for a catch up. And for 10 years, Jackie and Deborah were very content. But in 2002, Ted never received a call at Thanksgiving. He didn鈥檛 think much of it at the time. But they soon learned that he had a dispute with Deborah and had gone missing. 12 years later in 2014, after lots of research, showing photos to various people and speaking to numerous individuals, Ted miraculously found Jackie. After several years of drug use, he was jailed in 2008 for fraud, serving 3陆 years of a seven-year sentence. Now Jackie is missing again and Ted Jackson hopes the public can help find him once again.

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