EP139: The Deacon of Death

Crimes and Consequences

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.6 • 859 Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Being someone interested in true crime, you always think you can spot a creeper from a mile away, correct? Maybe he’s driving a creeper van, or gives off some other hint that he’s a weirdo—but what if he looks like an everyday, middle-class American guy? And he’s a deacon at your church, with a wife and a family? Maybe you’re still on guard, you know, considering BTK was a similar type—but most people are fooled. Just like the victims in the story today—they thought they knew their killer enough to trust him. That was their first mistake.

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Sources:
1) THE DEACON OF DEATH by Fred Rosen
2) Murderpedia.com
3) Tampa Bay Times Article "Hillsborough detectives check potential link between killer and 1989 cold case"
4) The Lineup: Deacon of Death: Same Smithers
5) My Crime Library: Samuel Smithers Florida Death Row

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0:00.0	This episode may contain content of a graphic nature, including descriptions of physical and sexual violence against adults, children, and animals.
0:09.0	Listener discretion is advised.
0:12.0	Hi everyone, I'm Tanya. And I'm Tlaia. advised.
0:12.8	Hi everyone, I'm Tanya.
0:14.3	And I'm T Leah.
0:15.4	And we are Crimes and Consequences, a true crime podcast. Oh, Hi Talya, hi Tanya, how are you? I am doing great. How are you?
0:38.0	Not bad. Oh good. You know, yeah, I know. I absolutely know. I have a really exciting
0:47.2	episode for everyone today so welcome back and before I get started I would just like
0:51.5	to remind everyone to hit the subscribe or follow button on whatever app you're listening to us on.
0:57.0	And our story takes place in 1996.
1:00.0	On May 16th of that year, 24-year-old Denise, New York, she went by New York on the streets,
1:06.1	Roach, was living at the Budget Motel in Tampa, Florida.
1:10.6	The room she stayed in was actually more like a little wooden shack that was drafty, it wasn't much to look at.
1:16.0	Denise was a sex worker and had a drug addiction and one was used to cope with the other so she was just in a really vicious cycle. As a child, Denise
1:26.0	had emigrated to the US from Jamaica with her parents but the dreams of a better life in America
1:31.2	didn't pan out for Denise. Before she was a teenager she began
1:35.2	using drugs and by the time she was 13 she was addicted. Wow. I know that's really sad.
1:41.6	13. I know terrible right. By 1996
1:46.8	Denise was living at the budget motel and had been to rehab three times in her
1:51.1	short life and had also managed to give birth to two children who were five and two.
1:56.0	They didn't live with her in the motel and Denise didn't have much time for
2:00.0	anything else except feeding her drug addiction with the money she earned by selling her body.
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