Posted on 03/04/2019 6:37:50 AM PST by Red Badger
The story of a woman who was fatally stabbed in December after reportedly giving money to a panhandler — a case that drew national attention and spread fear through Baltimore — was actually a ruse by her husband and stepdaughter, who have been charged in her death, police announced Sunday night.
Keith Smith, 52, and his daughter, Valeria Smith, 28, were arrested by Texas State Police, near the U.S.-Mexico border while trying to flee the country earlier Sunday, acting Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison said.
Warrants charging them with first-degree murder in death of Keith Smith’s wife, Jacquelyn Smith, were issued, Harrison said.
“The information and evidence points it wasn’t a panhandler,” Harrison said. “People take advantage of Baltimore. We want to make sure the truth comes out and justice is done.”
Jacquelyn Smith, 54, an electrical engineer at Aberdeen Proving Ground, was stabbed to death about 12:30 a.m. on Dec. 1 at North Valley and East Chase streets, according to police.
Just days after the stabbing, Keith Smith and Valeria Smith, who also identified herself as Shavon, appeared at a tearful news conference at the scene. They blamed Jacquelyn Smith’s death on a man who approached their car after she reached out the window to give money to a woman begging in the rain with a baby. They said the man came up to the car under the guise of thanking Jacquelyn Smith, then reached into the car and snatched her necklace and pocketbook, stabbing her in the process.
“This girl actually said, ‘God bless you’” after the man stabbed Jacquelyn, Keith Smith said to the media in December.
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I wonder if they got picked up by a license plate scanner.
There was an APB on their car that got sent to Texas. All Texas has to do is enter these license plates into a watch list database and let the scanners do all the work.
Sucks to be a bad guy these days.
Okay, I was thinking wrong...................
It was a rental, so it may have had a GPS..................................
They didn't concoct a hate crime story, though. They blamed her murder on panhandlers.
Of course, as we all know, every crime is a hate crime - people don't kill you to show they like you.
So sorry for this woman and her family. She was an electrical engineer, and apparently she did a good job raising her own biological sons.
This guy married her 4 years ago. He and his daughter probably planned her murder from the beginning. One article says her own family suspected them from the start.
Yupper,,,,,
Could be.
Criminals are stupid. Otherwise, they would never get caught.
Baltimore was a great city when he was mayor.
It was even still great when her brother was mayor. Except he let the riots go on and sort of cowered about it.
Lots of misinformation being spouted here.
No one said the “panhandler” was a white guy. No “hate crime” concoction.
The “Valeria” is his daughter only, not hers. He only married her kind of recently.
Shockingly not mentioned much is that in the course of a year, he robbed a bank 4 times before getting caught then, in 2000.
The victim is an EE, an educated, well-off woman.
(Why she would marry a low-bred guy with that history is anyone’s guess.)
Now here is guessing on my part: I’ll bet ANYTHING this dude did it for the insurance money. Maybe suggested by the daughter but definitely eagerly assisted by her.
MD ping for this atrocious story.
Sorta kud say similar bout ChiTown and the Daley Family....BUT! Not n honest bone in those bodies nor an honest deal ever made....Crime Ruled,graft rules,local ‘dons’ ruled their towns/areas thru out C(R)ook County..
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
The sad thing is when I first heard of this stabbing, I used it as an example of how I distinguish real news from fake news on sensational crimes. My point was that there was no obvious political agenda, so I assumed this was another real Baltimore stabbing, just a more sensational one than usual. Nope. It’s 100% fake news, all the time.
You presume too much.
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