093 - The Mysterious Murder of Judy Smith

Trace Evidence

Steven Pacheco

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2019

⏱️ 63 minutes

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In April of 1997, fifty year old Judy Smith attended a conference with her husband, Jeffrey, in Philadelphia. While the conference was work for Jeffrey, Judy planned to do some sightseeing during the day and then spend evenings with her husband. Unfortunately, Judy would mysteriously vanish.

For five months investigators worked the case, casting a lot of suspicion onto Judy's husband who always maintained his innocence. Then, five months later, in September of 1997, Judy's remains were recovered from Pisgah National Forest in Western North Carolina. She had been the victim of homicide and while catching her killer was a top priority there were many unanswered questions.

How did Judy find herself in Western North Carolina, why hadn't she told anyone about her plans to go there and who made the horrible decision to end her life?

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0:00.0	In April of 1997, Judy Smith disappeared from Philadelphia.
0:12.4	On a trip with her husband, Jeffrey, to a legal convention, Judy planned to see the
0:16.9	sights while Jeffrey worked throughout the day.
0:20.0	The nights were meant for the couple to catch up and spend time together, but Judy would
0:24.2	vanish before that could happen.
0:26.8	When Jeffrey returned to their room to meet Judy before attending a cocktail party, she
0:31.6	was nowhere to be found.
0:33.6	After filing a missing persons report, Jeffrey searched everywhere, but no one seemed to
0:37.6	have any answers.
0:39.6	Several witnesses reported seeing Judy, but no one knew her current whereabouts.
0:44.9	While investigators began looking at Jeffrey as a suspect, he hired private investigators
0:50.0	to search for his missing wife.
0:53.0	Five months later, in September of 1997, 600 miles to the south in the mountains of Western
0:58.9	North Carolina, the Bunkham County Sheriff's Office recovered unidentified skeletal remains.
1:05.6	These remains would later be identified as those of Judy Smith, though learning her identity
1:11.0	only opened up more questions for which there were no answers.
1:15.6	What brought Judy to North Carolina?
1:18.0	Why hadn't she told anyone about her plans to go south?
1:21.1	And who did she meet along the way who may hold the answer as to how and why she was
1:26.1	murdered?
1:27.6	This is Trace Evidence, Episode 93, The Mysterious Murder of Judy Smith.
1:40.5	Welcome to Trace Evidence.
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