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BALTIMORE — A Maryland woman whose death last year was blamed on an attack by a panhandler was actually killed by her husband and his adult daughter, police said Sunday. Keith Smith, 52, had told police that his wife, Jacquelyn, an engineer from Harford County, was trying to give money to a panhandler at a traffic light when she was robbed and fatally stabbed. Both were arrested in Harlingen, Texas, near the Mexico border. Harrison said the two were preparing to leave the country.

A woman murdered by her boyfriend had the foresight to audio record her own slaying in Pennsylvania, authorities said. Wesley Webb apparently began taping while she was engaged in a verbal domestic dispute with her boyfriend Keith Smith on May 2. She was sitting on the couch and said she was going to take two of the children from the home on Buckwalter Road in Schuykill Township, according to the Chester County District Attorney’s Office. “You want to record it now…?” Smith allegedly said in the recording. Smith then grabbed his single-shot, 12-gauge shotgun and shot Webb in the chest....