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.
This is a man who doesn’t love women, he simply uses them for his own ends. So even before the murders this is somebody who flits in and out of his partners’ lives. Professor David Wilson
I think Smith is motivated entirely by greed. Professor David Wilson
Two kinds of people you should never try to fathom: judges and women. Brides in the Bath 2003 starring Martin Kemp & Richard Griffiths & Tracey Wilkinson & Emma Ferguson & Charlotte Randle & Susan Brown & Carolyn Blackhouse et al, director Harry Bradbeer, Griffiths
Bessie’s misadventure was marrying a bastard like you. ibid.
No man is too bad to save – to try to save. ibid.
I wonder first – can my wife have a bath? ibid.
I’m his wife – his first and only legal one. ibid. Canadian wife
SMITH, NEDDY: Forensic Investigators TV -
7:00 a.m. Sunday 26th March 1995, Port Botany NSW: A past that one killer thought had been buried for ever. Forensic Investigators s1e4, Seven Network 2004
‘A man walking his dog made the grim discovery.’ ibid. TV news
This area was considered a dumping ground for gangland murders of the 80s, and this may be one its victims. ibid.
‘The person we’d dug up was Harvey Jones.’ ibid. rozzer
And that bloke linking arms with Harvey was his best made, Neddy Smith, who was one of the most well-known and feared criminals in the 1980s. ibid.
Neddy Smith has been sentenced to life for the murder of a stranger. ibid.
‘He’d come unstuck through road rage.’ ibid. comment
‘I think in total there was mention of 14 murders.’ ibid. rozzer
SMITH, PHILIP JOHN: Forensics: Catching the Killer TV -
9th November 2000: [rozzer]: The body was discovered at six o’clock in the morning … It was set alight … She was identified as Jodie Hyde. Forensics: Catching the Killer s3e6: Catching the Birmingham Spree Killer, Sky Crime 2024
The man she was with did not match the description of her boyfriend. ibid.
Three days later another gruesome discovery was made. ibid.
The line of inquiry was clearly to understand who was the taxi driver Philip Smith. ibid.
The forensic team also found a plethora of evidence to further connect Philip Smith with all three victims. ibid.
SMITH, SUSAN: Killer Trials TV - Biography online - Faking It: Tears of a Crime TV - True Crime Recaps 2022 -
Susan and David Smith of Union, South Carolina, appear on local TV to appeal for the safe return of their two missing children. Killer Trials s1e7: The Real Victims
After a nine-day search for her sons Susan Smith finally comes clean. There is no carjacker after all – she has killed her children. ibid.
Susan Smith is best known for her murder of her two sons in order to carry on a relationship with a man.
Susan Smith was born September 26, 1971 in Union, South Carolina. Smith's childhood was quite painful, following her parents’ divorce, her father committed suicide. On October 25, 1994 Smith claimed to have been carjacked by an African-American man, with her boys in the car. She later confessed to drowning them and was sentenced to life. Biography online article
It was a story that gripped the world. Michael Smith, aged 3, and his brother Alexander, 18 months, had disappeared both reportedly in the backseat of a hijacked car. Their mother, Susan Smith, was the only witness to a shocking crime in the quietest of places. But all of that would change on October 25th 1994. Faking It: Tears of a Crime s3e9:
The press also began questioning the details of Susan Smith’s story, they began to delve into her private life. ibid.
She’s telling us it’s a lie because her head is moving left and right to contradict the positive affirmative statement. ibid. Cliff
What we’re hearing here is almost a laugh. ibid. Cliff
She admitted driving her car to the edge of a local lake, then letting it roll into the water with her two young sons inside. ibid.
Susan Smith: 27 year ago that young woman killed her two young sons the blamed it on a black man that didn’t exist. True Crime Recaps: Susan Smith: Someone Stole My Babies! Youtube 16.27, 2022
Then on the 9th day Susan finally confessed. ibid.