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Forensic Files II

Desperate Stakes

Forensic Files II

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True Crime, Society & Culture

4.5902 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

When the 20-year-old clerk of an Atlanta-area smoke shop is gunned down during a robbery, investigators have only descriptions of the killers and the make of their getaway car. Investigators used a videotaped confession to smoke out the killers.

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0:00.0

The following podcast contains dramatizations of actual events.

0:03.9

Certain situations, dialogue, names, and locations may have been changed.

0:08.0

Some scenes are graphic in nature.

0:09.9

Listener discretion is advised.

0:18.2

Up next, these robbery teams appear to be skilled professionals.

0:22.6

They got more bold and brazen with how they were committing the acts.

0:28.6

So bold and brazen that a young store clerk is shot to death.

0:32.6

The robber fires one round from a semi-automatic 9mm pistol.

0:36.6

The killers apparently don't care that security semi-automatic 9mm pistol.

0:41.2

The killers apparently don't care that security video will catch them in the act,

0:42.9

and they make a crucial mistake.

0:44.4

That's caught on camera.

0:46.6

There's no perfect crime.

0:52.2

And sure enough, that's when we got the lead that would end up solving the case.

1:25.5

Shortly before midnight on May 20, 2015, 20-year-old Sean Smith arrived at a smoke shop called Smoke 911 in Woodstock, Georgia, an Atlanta suburb.

1:29.0

He was there to see his friend Enrique de Los Reyes,

1:31.7

whose shift at the store was just about to end.

1:35.8

21-year-old Enrique was known to everyone as E.J.

1:39.3

Being an only child, his parents doaded on him.

1:45.8

E.J. had taken a job at the Smoke 9-1-1 in Woodstock.

1:49.9

Pretty much his first adult job.

1:57.5

Sean often helped E.J. close up the store, but this time, something seemed different.

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