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a beer let's talk some true crime [Music] [Music] June 1st 1985 3:10 a.m. I love y'all
last will and testament I love you mommy daddy Robert dawn and Richard and everyone else and all the other friends
and relatives I'll be with my father now so please please don't worry just remember my witty personality and great
special times we all share together please don't ever let this ruin your lives just keep living one day at a time
for Jesus some good will come out of this my thoughts will always be with and in you casket closed I love you all so
damn much sorry dad I had to cuss for once Jesus forgive me Richard sweetie I really did and always
will love you and treasure our special moments I ask one thing though accept Jesus as your personal Savior my family
has been the greatest influence on my life sorry about the cruise money someday please go in my place I am sorry
if I ever disappointed you in any way I only wanted to make you proud of me because I have always been proud of my
family mom dad Robert and Dawn there's so much I want to say that I should have said before now I love you I know you
all love me and will miss me very much but if you all stick together like we always did
you all can do it please do not become hard or upset everything works out for the good for those that love the Lord
all of my love always I love you all with all my heart Sharon Shari Smith PS Nana I love you so
much I kind of always felt like your favorite you were mine I love you a lot [Music]
Friday May 31st 1985 at 338 p.m. Bob Smith discovered his daughter Sherry's car unattended with the driver's door
open in the motor running at the end of the long driveway leading to the family's home he called out her name
several times and got no response he checked the vehicle and found Sherry's purse on the seat but where was his
daughter Sherry's father started searching for her when his efforts failed mr. Smith
contacted the police this is just two days before 17 year-old sherry Faye Smith was scheduled to sing the national
anthem at her high school graduation so while most of her friends and classmates
were packing for their high school graduation trip sherry was abducted from the driveway of her Lexington County
South Carolina home what followed was the largest search in South Carolina history the investigation was bleak they
had no witnesses and no leads sherry is what law enforcement would consider to be an extremely low risk victim
therefore it was important to clear the family as fast as possible and move on to other possibilities police very
quickly ruled out any involvement by the immediate family or any of the members of the immediate family they're hoping
for a ransom demand so police put a trace on the Smith's home phone the next day the Smiths received a phone call on
the line a strangely distorted voice of a man who claims he has sherry captive he tells Shari's mother hilda who
answered the phone so you'll know this is not a hoax sherry had on a black and yellow bathing suit beneath
her shirt and shorts then the caller says you'll get a letter from sherry later state officials intercepted her letter
this was entitled last will and testament from the mail the letter we read during the trailer was that exact
letter apparently her abductor had sherry drafted shortly before her death this was a two-page handwritten letter and
while it clearly displayed an amazing amount of strength and courage on Sherry's behalf after reading the letter
no one was optimistic the papers were sent for fingerprint analysis local law enforcement was all over this one the
FBI was very quickly sent in and the FBI feared the worst their theory is that the abductor most likely killed sherry
by the time that they arrived to assist in the case and the killer would now be ready to search for another victim they
believe the kidnapper saw sherry and her boyfriend Richard kissing at the local shopping mall and from there he followed
her home she stopped at the mailbox and that's where he snatched her seems like a lot of creeps are hanging out at
the local malls so that was their working theory and after this first call was received they decided to set up
recording equipment at the Smith home because now they're anticipating another phone call on June 3rd they received a
call asking if they had received the letter and the caller asked do you believe me now
- which Hilda this is Sherry's mother replied no I have not heard from sherry and I need to know if she is alive and
well so basically if I'm following you correctly this dirtbag calls the family and he says I have her mm-hmm and then
he says you're gonna receive a letter right but the letter is the last will and testament so it's almost implying
that she's dead and then he calls him back and says do you believe me now right right he wants to know if they've
received the letter they as said it was intercepted by law enforcement and this is actually a really good move by
Shari's mother Hilda to not kind of cower to this distorted voice on the other end of the phone
yeah she's saying look I've not heard from my daughter I need to know if she's alive and well I don't believe anything
you're saying you say you have her captive we'll let me talk to my daughter right and so in a sense she's kind of
calling his bluff right or hoping so yeah and he says that when she asked him I need to know if Sheree's alive and
well he then responds that you will know in two or three days and he hangs up the
phone now later that same day he did call again this time saying sherry was alive and he would release her soon and
that he wanted to tell her one thing that sherry is now a part of him physically mentally emotionally and
spiritually he says our souls are now one Hilda asked again if her daughter was alive and well the man said sherry
is protected and she is a part of me now and God looks after all of us ok so this
guy's uh why I could do weird oh well these are not clear and simple answers to very clear and simple questions from
hilda and the other thing - captain using those words Sherry's now a part of me physically mentally emotionally and
spiritually our souls are now one I can't feel like anybody's got any good feelings in the Smith home hearing that
that sounds very bleak sounds very bad I mean it sounds so bad well on top of that you have you know her car is found
on so the fact that this individual was able to just pull up behind her grab her
take her captive and now this has come back it's gonna bring the Lord Jesus Christ and our Savior and to this so
because of the first call that was received they were anticipating these two phone calls and attempting to trace
the location of these two phone calls now they did they did have some luck with that they were able to determine
that these two phone calls did from the general area you know they were they were local let's say right but
there are some issues there were some issues with the phone trace according to the FBI in 1985 it took about 15 minutes
to get a pinpoint location of the exact phone from which the calls were placed even with the strength and courage shown
by Hilda Smith the caller never stayed on the phone for that length of time now the man called again this time it was
four days after the abduction and this time Sherry's 21 year old sister Dawn answered the phone the man gave her
details about the kidnapping saying he stopped his car when he saw her at the mailbox he said he took a few photos of
her then approached her acting friendly and when he got close enough he forced her into his vehicle at gunpoint
he told dawn he was regretful that the whole thing got way out of hand he then went on to tell her that at 3:10 a.m.
Saturday the first of June Cheri wrote the letter you received and then at 4:58 Saturday the first of June we became one
soul he said don't worry goes with the weird talk again right and he says don't ask me any questions
he told dawn Shari would be returned the following evening and that they should have an ambulance on standby
Anning you'll receive instructions on where to find us well this makes you wonder because you take somebody like
Dahmer for example and he would talk about possessing his victim by eating his victim and that they would become a
part of him by doing so so that's where my head goes with these comments my head
actually goes in two directions one what you just said there talent one right there is is the possessing you know we
even here the Zodiac wrote in his letters that they will become slaves my slaves in the afterlife
yeah but the weird thing that I find here is a bit of the opposite that we've seen with like when we talked about
Kemper we talked about BTK where both of them said you know after I killed somebody I just immediately went into
pure paranoia where I felt the whole world knew what I just did right and at any second there
going to come and get me you know they're gonna come and apprehend me and here you know we have the FBI
who's stating well we believed by receiving this letter that she was probably already dead before we arrived
on the scene to help and this dudes probably out looking for another victim he might be but he's also busy spending
his time communicating with the family I wonder what happened to give them that impression that he already killed her
I think the letter you know the letters weird enough that it might steer you in that direction that's the same way that
it steered us to the possession possessing the victim okay they have become one all of that kooky talk right
what could do but here's one thing I do want to point out and I read a lot of books by retired FBI agent on Bob rag
what what what kind of Braga's head didn't did I can read a lot of books now that just means Isis nothing else to do
this is after did you start reading a lot after you studied computer well the thing that I want to point out here that
I see time and time again by these retired FBI agents and don't get me wrong I enjoy them very much that's why
I purchased their books so I can read them however they're always kind of the smartest guy in the room and I wonder a
lot of times like after the fact they're telling these stories twenty thirty years later and they're like yeah we
knew already that this is what was going on and it's you kind of I questioned it
sometimes you couldn't have been right every single time you know what I mean it just doesn't work out that way maybe
this is why you identify with the books right remember he's now telling them that they will receive instructions on
where to find us that more of the kooky talk and letting them know that hey I'm going to let sherry go she will be
returned the following evening make sure you have an ambulance on standby so to me I go in a different route thinking
why so much communication going on if you haven't kept her alive the paranoia though
at noon the next day the man called again and said follow these instructions listen carefully he said take Highway
378 west to traffic circle take prosperity exit and go one and a half miles turn right at the Moose Lodge sign
go 1/4 mile and then turn left at the white building go to the back yard there we will be waiting God chose us and then
he hung up the phone yeah this God speak is just creepy well it's South Carolina and it's I I
think you know it's part of that but no I don't mind God talked I don't mind that at all
you know I'm a spiritual person what I do mind is when you kidnap a person possibly have already murdered or you
made her write her last will and testament and now you're saying that you have became one and then you keep
bringing God into this so that's uh don't like that much well in given all these instructions pretty detailed
instructions it's good for law enforcement that this call like the others was recorded so the Sheriff's
Department followed the directions and this led them to the body of Sheri Faye Smith the decomposition of the body
suggested that she had been dead for some time likely since 458 On June 1st like was noted in the letter right they
were pretty sure of this so she was clothed and they could tell she was once bound with duct tape but
the the tape had been removed so we have the residue left over from the duct tape
and they believe that Sheree's body was likely in this location since shortly after her death unfortunately by the
time Sherry's body was located due to the advanced decomp the pathologist could not ascertain either the cause of
death or whether or not she had been sexually assaulted the pathologist believed however that Sheri either
suffocated or died from dehydration this resulting from a rare form of diabetes from which Sharri suffered evidence
suggested she was killed elsewhere investigators believed her killer placed her there and returned to visit with the
corpse and it was only until the body was too far decomposed for his liking or decomposed enough to hide / destroy
evidence that he told the family where to find her and strange for me with the FBI involve you'd think that they would
be able to determine the cause of death well using the information that they had
the FBI unit put together a profile of the offender they believed that the offender was in his late 20s to early
30s probably divorced living alone or with his parents white he has yeah that they actually will update this profile
later and they didn't include white as part of the first profile but probably divorced living alone or with his
parents he has some kind of criminal record this would include assaults on women or at least obscene phone calls if
he has previously murdered anyone the victims would be children or young girls they believed when he was on the phone
with Sherry's family he was reading from a script' they believed the killer was rigid orderly and obsessively neat he
would take notes obsessively and keep many lists did this anything about possible military background they did
not but usually they will include that if they believe that he does have some type of military background the reason
why I bring that up is because the neat and orderly possibly wants to create lists yeah good think that would be
somebody that you know had some regiment scheduled at some point in their existence they believed that he owned a
vehicle likely three years old or newer and the vehicle is clean well maintained
and cared for outwardly he is arrogant and displays contempt for the world but on the inside he is insecure in harbor
strong feelings of inadequacy it possibly goes around telling people he reads a lot of books yes and then and
then doesn't speak too highly of the author they said that the man is local having lived in the area for most of his
life he had access to a secluded area where he knew he would have time to spend with sherry
her body they figured that the reason that the callers voice sounded distorted is because he was using some type of
device to achieve this they determined the caller was using something called a variable speed device they were now in
the process of tracking down manufacturers of these types of devices and retailers this suggested that the
suspect had a background in electronics so it's it's always interesting to me captain how they come up with this some
of it more detailed than other profiles that we've reviewed in the past the stuff about the books is fascinating
right know what gets me is when they say we believe that he has a car that's three years old or newer like that's so
random that man and it's like you don't know do they have any eyewitnesses that would make them lean that way or or is
this just kind of a random gas according to the information I could find there was no eyewitnesses right that's that's
why it's so random to me we believe that he has a newer three-year-old car or newer that's so pinpoint I think they
come up with this for a couple of reasons one I think they're working off of the
idea that this guy is driving a lot that he's spending a lot of time driving and
they may also believe him to be careful if they believe him to be careful in driving all the time they're probably
going off of the thought that he would prefer to drive a newer vehicle something that's well maintained and
well cared for because it'd be too risky to spend all that time driving and he wouldn't do that because he's careful or
possibly the idea that this guy was married divorced so he possibly has a career is living with somebody or living
with his parents so therefore he has the money where he would have a nicer vehicle because that would be his only
opportunity to maybe impress a female also it's interesting that you picked up on that because with having a background
in electronics they're almost suggesting that they believe this individual has a job and
like you said if they believe he's living with his parents he has more money than
not living with their parents but the obvious thing here is usually when they base off of the situation is this
individual local or not and that seems to be pretty quick to come to that assumption and I think here really
exemplifies that to perfection you know we have a situation where he gives very detailed directions to find her body and
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link the day after they found the body of sherry Smith the killer called the home again and this time he called
collect he asked to speak with dawn he told her he would be sending the family the photos of sherry and he asked her
for forgiveness and for their prayers he said he was going to commit suicide because this thing got out of hand and
all he wanted to do in the beginning was to make love to dawn and that is why he
was watching her dawn startled by this interrupted the man and asked the man make love to whom
then he corrected himself and he said the name sherry and he hung up the phone later that same day the killer called a
local TV network and asked for a specific reporter and told that reporter he planned to turn himself in at some
point and he would give the reporter an exclusive interview yeah this guy's changing his stories I'm gonna kill
myself I'm gonna turn myself in it should just kill himself yeah you wonder if it's just does he
need to get forgiveness from the family for some reason or is this attention seeking it seems like a lot of work and
a lot of effort risky behavior for some attention yeah but he's a complete wackadoo hmm and the FBI didn't believe
or they say they didn't believe the man would turn himself in or kill himself at
any point they believe that the calls were in fact seeking forgiveness from Sherry's family but also to manipulate
and control the situation as much as he possibly could and that this guy would eventually kill
again yeah well this guy's a giant piece of [ __ ] whoa what would have been nice
though is if you would have put himself in a brown paper bag and then wring somebody's doorbell and lit himself on
fire okay so I do want to touch on this though because we do know from this last
phone call that he says that in the beginning all he wanted to do is make love to dawn Dawn's 21 years old
sherry Smith is 17 and they actually you can find there's quite a bit of photos and images of both of them on the
internet and you can see that the two of them look very much alike okay so this is when he makes this slip when he says
dawn instead of sherry when he's on the phone with dawn I was really curious why
the FBI didn't update their profile because remember they said at one point that if he had killed before his victims
would have been children or young girls right okay well sherry yes she's 17 and that's
more closer to being an adult but dawn is absolutely an adult so you almost wonder if now at this point if you're
going to say if he is killed before is there a chance that dawn was actually the intended victim you know because he
he's not gonna see her or see a girl that he perceives to be dawn at the mailbox and walk up and ask her if
that's are you dawn you know right but he did take some pictures before so then you wonder throwing it out there
maybe this individuals supposed to wear glasses but doesn't and so is it is it that simple of a mistake and then when
he gets closer it's the wrong girl but it's too late at that point I think it's I think it's very much like that I think
it's he the intended victim was dawn he hoped to abduct her and do whatever he did was sherry with her but I think at
some point he would accept the substitution or like you said I mean I think it's kind of too late look he
probably opened up that door for the person and and at that point it's too late and his mind well the man called
dawn Smith again this time he told dawn that he gave sherry a choice of how she would be
killed and the choices were overdose shooting or suffocation and sherry chose suffocation
he told dawn he killed sherry by placing duct tape over her mouth and nose until
she died two weeks after the abduction of sherry nine year-old Debra may Helmick
was playing with her three-year-old brother at their home in Richland County when she was abducted from the front
yard of the family's home a neighbor saw a vehicle pull up and a man get out of the car the man spoke with Debra then
grabbed her through the screaming girl into his car and drove off now the neighbor immediately alerted
Debra's father who was inside their home they called police and after the two of
them jumped into a vehicle and they went speeding after the abductors car but were unable to track down the vehicle
well this sounds similar so is the FBI immediately thinking this is our guy and Sherry's case yeah yeah they believe the
offender is one in the same and with the addition of the second victim especially
a younger victim the FBI didn't really change their profile but they did add to the profile they added that the killer
and abductor is a white man outwardly shy maybe overweight but it the very least is not attractive to women so
there's no bradley cooper those closely and may notice one or more of the following the offender is experiencing
weight loss drinking heavily not shaving regularly and he would be eager to talk
about the crimes as he is following the investigation coverage on the evening news or in the papers he's also a
collector of pornography that likely focused on bondage and or is of sadomasochistic nature so not good
old-fashioned Christian porn and because of the young age of the second abducted
victim Deborah only being nine years old they believe the offender would be too ashamed to call or correspond with
Deborah's family well this turned out to be true no phone calls and no letters the killer also
stopped calling the Smith house the FBI believed that the phone calls would be the easiest way to trap the killer yeah
I believe it would be as well and since he's not calling or writing it's almost like they would want to put out a taunt
to him like you know he re-contacted news reporters before have that same news reporter do a report on how this
guy has become weak and vulnerable because he hasn't reached out to the FBI so knowing that the unknown subject was
following the case in the news and in the papers the FBI decided to enlist the help of a reporter of a single reporter
say they wanted to force this man out into the open or at the very least get him to call the Smith's home once again
they wanted to use Don Smith as bait for their trap now the Smiths begrudgingly went along with this so they held a
memorial service for Sherri Faye Smith they wanted the Smith family and Dawn present at this memorial service and
during the ceremony they had reporters snapped photos of dawn holding a stuffed animal belonging to Sherri and flowers
for her memorial meanwhile undercover agents wrote down license-plate numbers for all the vehicles that were present
in the area now this didn't seem to flush out the killer out into the open but he did once again call the Smith
home this time calling long distance and collect you have a collect call from a giant piece of shot well that's
interesting that you say that captain because okay so in these collect calls you would if you were calling someone
collect you would be given a brief set a time there where you could announce who
you are so it would say you have a collect call from so-and-so and then the person receiving the call who would be
paying for it can decide if they're going to accept the call except the charges or not so during this portion
where the caller can announce their name and who they are it's a man's voice but
he says that his name is Sherri Faye Smith okay dawn does accept this call this time the man was
using the voice distortion device he told dawn that God wants her to join sherry Fay saying it's just a matter of
time this month next month this year next year you can't be protected forever then he asked Don if she had heard of
Debra may Helmick Don said she had to which he tells her listen carefully go one mile west turn left at Bill's grill
go three and a half miles through Gilbert turn right at the last dirt road before you come to two knotch Road go
through the no trespassing sign go fifty yards Deborah May is waiting God forgive
us all yeah I don't need this turd stain to be confessing for my sins the FBI is
now worried and regretting the ploy of using dawn as bait because of the received threat during all of this law
enforcement was still submitting the letter from Sherry titled the last will and testament to every possible test the
letter was drafted on yellow lined legal paper from a pad so they decided to use
an SD machine this device can detect even the slightest indentations on a piece of paper they wanted to see if
they could pull any possible information from indentations that were made from writing on pieces of paper above the
last will in the legal pad and they found some interesting leads they found a partial grocery list in a sequence of
numbers with further testing they could detect nine numbers of a possible ten digit sequence the numbers are in this
order to 0-5 837 one three blank eighth this was a phone number in Huntsville Alabama so working with the phone
company they checked all ten possible phone numbers for a connection to Lexington County South Carolina where
sherry and the Smith family lived one of the numbers in Huntsville received several calls from a residence just 15
miles from sherry Faye's home the home belonged to Ellis and Sharon Shepard law enforcement went to the home
and interviewed Ellis and Sharon the Shepards told police they had made phone calls to Huntsville where their son was
stationed in the Army but they were out of town when both of the murders were committed they explained a man who
worked for Ellis as an electrician Larry gene Bell was put in charge of house-sitting for the six weeks that
they were away Larry was in his early 30s divorced lived with his parents he was neat and orderly and when he picked
them up from the airport he spoke constantly about the unsolved murders that occurred while they were
away he had noticeably lost weight he was unshaven and he was irritable the sheriff asked mr. Shepherd to show him
the room where Larry stayed while watching the home under the bed they found mr. Shepherds handgun jammed in
pornographic magazines featuring bondage on the cover now regarding the sequence
of numbers the couple wrote down the telephone number for their son and gave it to Larry gene Bell before they left
for their vacation with instructions that if anything were to come up with the house to call their son the police
played a portion of the last call received by the Smiths this is the one where the killer did not use the voice
distortion device right and the Sheppard's confirmed it sounded just like Larry's voice armed with this
information they did some digging and they found that a vehicle registered to Bell was seen at the memorial service
for Sherri Faye the officer wrote down the plate number and noted that the driver did not exit the vehicle he
simply drove by the vehicle was less than three years old early the next morning police surrounded Larry's
parents home and arrested him as he was leaving their home to go off to work a quick background check revealed Bell was
twice arrested for attempted assaults on women on both of these occasions he attempted to force a young woman into
his car at knifepoint unsuccessfully under questioning Bell admitted to nothing inside Belle's parents home in his
bedroom police found hairs on the bed matching hairs from Sherri Faye Smith in Larry's desk
they found a sheet of stamps from which the stamp used to marry Sherry's last will and testament originated from the
neighbor that witnessed the abduction of Deborah may told police after the arrest
it was in fact Belle who he saw pulling the screaming child into his car that day under further questioning Bell still
admitted nothing so they played the tape of his voice from the phone calls for him and still Belle admitted nothing so
they brought in the FBI to further continue the questioning they took a different approach rather than to
continue to question him they explained to him that they had a lot of experience
in dealing with these types of crimes and that the perpetrator of these types of crimes never gets the opportunity to
explain themselves and their side of the story often the offenders too afraid and
ashamed to admit what they have done and once they are in court their attorney will not let them take the stand right
so this individual is then trapped in a nightmare that never goes away and he goes away to a lengthy prison sentence
and no one understands him no one knows what the hell he was going through at that time well I like their tactic here
but we could always employ my scary clowns where we dress up like clowns and we beat the guy to the inch of his life
to get him to start confessing well as they're explaining this to Larry they noticed that Larry Bell is nodding his
head up and down he's he's agreeing with what they have to say uh-huh and seeing
that he's responding they leaned in for the kill and asked him when did you start to feel sorry about the crime
Larry do they whisper this I don't know okay so wait I could be a powerful move you know come on Harry
tell us what you know we gotcha well they asked him when he started to feel sorry about this crime into which he
says it was when he saw a photograph of the Smith family right then they asked him if he could have
possibly done this sort of thing and Larry told them quote all I know is the Larry gene Bell sitting here could not
have done this but the bad Larry gene Bell could have so that is going to be the closest thing to a confession that
Larry gene Bell would ever give regarding both of these murders so we do have a confession or a loose confession
right implied confession we have some of Sherry's hairs found in his room on his
pillow in his bedroom okay and then we have eyewitness that saw him taking the nine-year-old girl way and that and and
then the car registered that yeah so him driving by the memorial is not really any evidence let's see you know it's
stacking pieces on the case right yeah but but there is a lot of evidence like you said you not only do you have the
hairs that match sherry face Smith's hair in his bedroom I mean how the hell is that going to get there - you have
the sheet from which the stamp came from that last will and testament was mailed
you also have all these little connecting factors to the letter itself you know the indentations that they
found using that SD machine and then you have the Sheppard's for which he is home
you know he's house-sitting for and they say yeah that's his voice all right right on that recording and this is the
killer that's calling and taunting the Smith family and that's not as good as picking them out of a lineup or anything
but that's that's something right and and to which I guess for the lineup purposes you have a bit of less evidence
regarding the abduction and murder of the little girl of Debra may Helmick yeah but you do have that eyewitness who
says okay you know I see this picture of Larry gene Bell on the news and he calls
up police and says that's the same guy that I saw take that little girl so we have all this evidence mounting up and
like you said this real loosey-goosey somewhat of a confession you know he doesn't say I didn't kill these
girls he says the bad Larry gene Bell could have done this would have been capable I guess of doing with the good
Larry you know he's serving his community and he's serving God sherry Faye Smith's older sister dawn she was
super brave and strong during the investigation into her sister's abduction and murder she went on to be
crowned Miss South Carolina in the following year she was the runner-up in the Miss America contest in February of
1986 Larry gene Bell was convicted of murdering and kidnapping Sherri Faye Smith the jury recommended the death
sentence and the trial judge imposed the sentence in accordance with the jury's findings in 1987 in a separate trial
Bell was convicted of murdering and kidnapping Debra may Helmick and again he was given a sentence of death for
nine years Larry gene Bell filed and played the appeals game trying to work the courts but on October 4th 1996 the
state of South Carolina in accordance with his sentences Larry gene Bell was strapped into the electric chair and
killed a large crowd cheered as the hearse carrying Belle's body left the Broad River Correctional Institution one
of his defense lawyers said quote we have executed a sick delusional psychotic man
[Music] it's beyond fascinating how correct their profile was in this case now mister I read a lot of books do we have
any recommended reading for this week we do and I'm happy to announce that it's not a book by a retired FBI agent so you
be good written on higher than a third grade level you know what though captain I
feel like I want to punch myself in the face for saying that the episode because
that's like my favorite reading you know you know how I how I feel right constantly just fighting the urge to
attack your co-host so this week recommending a book called handsome Johnny the life and death of Johnny
Roselli gentleman gangster Hollywood producer and CIA assassin so take a deep dive into the American underworld Johnny
Roselli and handsome Johnny this book I've been looking forward to this one you don't have to write down the title
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Brief Summary

The episode covers Sherri Faye Smith's abduction, murder, and the investigation that led to Larry Gene Bell's conviction.

Key points

Sherry's Last Will. A heartfelt farewell from Sherry to her family before her tragic fate.
The Search for Sherry. The largest search in South Carolina history begins after Sherry's abduction.
The Distorted Voice. A chilling phone call reveals the abductor's claim of having Sherry captive.
The Abductor's Confession. The kidnapper reveals details of the abduction and his twisted connection to Sherry.
Discovery of Sherry's Body. Tragically, Sherry's body is found, confirming the worst fears of her family.
The Killer's Confession. The killer claims he wanted forgiveness and to commit suicide, revealing his manipulative nature.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

I love you all so damn much.

Sherry's last will and testament.

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Tension

85/ 100High tension

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