SMITH, ERIC: Killer Kids TV - True Crime Recaps 2022 -
Many children struggle with self-control. But what happens when a child can’t cope and chooses murder as an outlet? What causes an ordinary child to take another life? Can films influence them? Or is it in their DNA? Do they have an internal instinct to kill? Killer Kids s2e6: A Scream and Banana Split, CI 2017
Savona on the outskirts of Rochester, New York … One of the many children who lived in Savona was 4-year-old Derrick Robey … Police found Derrick’s lifeless body in the woods near the park. A heavy rock had been found on Derrick’s head crushing his skull. ibid.
Investigators ask Eric [Smith, 13] to meet them at the crime scene where he last saw Derrick. ibid.
Eric was convicted of murder and sentenced to a minimum of nine years in prison. ibid.
Eric has been denied parole six times. ibid.
Back in ’93 Eric Smith made headlines as the 13-year-old who brutally murdered and sexually assaulted a 4-year-old boy in Savona … Eric Smith is now a free man at age 41. True Crime Recaps: Child Killer Going Free! Youtube 13.11, 2022
SMITH, GEORGE JOSEPH: Jane Robins - Fred Dinenage: Murder Casebook TV - David Wilson TV - Brides in the Bath 2003 -
George Joseph Smith was a charmer and of course a con-man and a killer. Jane Robins, author The Magnificent Spilsbury
How did he become known as the Brides in the Bath Murderer? Fred Dinenage s1e5: Murder Casebook: Brides in the Bath, CI 2011
In 1915 a trial took place at the Old Bailey in London. The man in the dock was George Joseph Smith, a serial bigamist ... Three of his wives had died while taking a bath. ibid.
Smith had eight [wives]. ibid.
He wasn’t the astute businessman he liked to think he was. ibid.
The famous pathologist Sir Bernard Spilsbury enters the story. ibid.
It took the jury all of twenty-two minutes to find Smith guilty of murder. ibid.
George Joseph Smith was executed. ibid.