Trial set in death of Aliamanu military wife

U.S. Magistrate Judge Kevin Chang set a 24-year-old Indiana woman’s trial for Nov. 12 after she pleaded not guilty Monday to a charge that she stabbed to death an Army medic’s wife last year.

Ailsa "Lisa" Jackson appeared in federal court on a first-degree murder charge in the stabbing death of Catherine Walker, 38, in her Alia­­manu Military Reservation home Nov. 15.

Federal prosecutors have not said whether they will seek the death penalty in the case.

Jackson is being held without bail in the federal detention center in Hono­lulu after being extradited to Hono­lulu over the weekend from Indiana, where she was arrested.

A federal grand jury indicted Jackson last month for the alleged murder of Walker in her home. The three-page federal indictment said the offense was committed after "substantial planning and premeditation."

Walker’s body was found in her home on Mori­­shige Lane at AMR at about 6:30 a.m. Nov. 15.

Walker’s husband was a medic assigned to Tripler Army Medical Center.