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John David Smith III (born April 2, 1951) is an American murderer convicted in 2001 of killing his first wife in 1974 and also has been indicted on charges for the 1991 murder of his second wife. Skull fragments found in a locker owned by him belong to a third unidentified woman; they're the basis of an ongoing " Jane Doe " inquiry.
Six months after the identification, Smith was charged with murder in Hartman’s killing. He pleaded not guilty and was convicted at trial. In 2001, Smith was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison.
Kelly Anne Bates (18 May 1978 – 16 April 1996) was an English teenager who was murdered in Manchester, England at the age of 17 by her abuser, James Patterson Smith (born c. 1948). [ 3 ] [ 4 ] She was tortured by him over a period of four weeks, including having her eyes gouged from their sockets up to three weeks before her death, before ...
Parole Board Chairman Mobley Howell said of Smith's case, "There can be no doubt John Eldon Smith was a willing and active participant in the crime of murder." [20] Smith's execution was scheduled to take place on December 15, 1983, at 8:00 a.m., which, according to a former prison guard who was staffed to work at Smith's execution, attracted ...
In April 2012, 48 Hours Mystery covered Rule's successful effort to help a mother prove her daughter's 1998 death was actually a murder. The resulting book was In the Still of the Night. [13] One of her last books, Practice to Deceive, about a 2003 murder on Whidbey Island, Washington, was released in October 2013. On the island for the launch ...
Gayno Gilbert Smith (January 23, 1938 – May 16, 2005) [1] was an American mass murderer and serial killer who killed six of his family members in Iowa between 1961 and 1962. Before the murders, Smith had been living in Denver , but due to problems there had come to Martinsburg, Iowa to live with his stepmother.
Sara Anne Wood was 12 when she was abducted and murdered by Lewis Lent while riding her bike near her New York home. Even though her killer is behind bars, authorities say he refuses to give her ...
Anne Perry, the prolific crime writer who murdered her best friend's mother when she was a teenager, died in Los Angeles on Monday. She was 84. Anne Perry, teen murderer turned crime writer, dies ...