EP155: The Brutal Murder of Cherish Perrywinkle

Crimes and Consequences

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.6 • 859 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

A BIG "THANK YOU" TO PATREON SARAH and DANIELLE B!

Eight-year-old Cherish Perrywinkle was out shopping with her mother, Rayne, on June 21, 2013, near Jacksonville, Florida. Rayne was struggling financially when she thought she had been blessed by a kind stranger, especially when that stranger told her that he and his wife had a $100 gift card for Walmart to give to her and he wanted her to buy whatever she needed. The kind stranger was Donald James Smith--who wasn't kind at all. He was a lifelong child predator, who fell through the cracks in the Florida prison system. A month prior, Donald was still in prison, but on that fateful day in June, he was out preying on another unsuspecting child. As the evening wore on, Cherish and her two little sisters grew hungry, and Donald offered to buy them cheeseburgers at the McDonald's that was inside Walmart. Donald and Cherish went to get the cheeseburgers, but instead, Donald led Cherish out of the store and she was never seen alive again. Listen to this week's episode to hear the story that even the medical examiner who performed Cherish's autopsy had to take a break from during her testimony in Donald's trial.

Episode written by Terra Bella

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Sources:
1) Court Records
2) https://allthatsinteresting.com/cherish-perrywinkle
3) https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/crime/reflecting-on-the-cherish-perrywinkle-case/77-ce04e41a-3538-498a-83c8-ff1b8d6ea135
4) https://news.wjct.org/first-coast/2022-01-24/u-s-supreme-court-turns-down-appeal-in-murder-of-8-year-old-cherish-perrywinkle
5) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqopZUhtxnc
6) https://www.news4jax.com/news/2018/02/04/cherish-perrywinkle-the-case-that-shocked-jacksonville/
7) https://www.news4jax.com/news/2018/02/04/cherish-perrywinkle-the-case-that-shocked-jacksonville/
8) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSyuMzlDw_Y&t=2121s
9) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOO76JJ5fR8&t=30s

Transcript

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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. I'm going to be. Hi Tlaia, how are you today? Oh today is a great day. How are you today?
0:37.6	Oh today is a great day. How are you? I am doing fantastic. Fantastic.
0:42.3	And welcome back everyone to another
0:43.8	episode of crimes and consequences. Tanya had a lot of caffeine so she might
0:48.1	talk. I know I'm feeling really anxious so if I'm talking really fast I'm going to consciously try to slow down but
0:55.4	Take a deep blood girl anyway enough about us enough about us before I tell you today's story, please hit the subscribe slash follow button on whatever
1:07.1	app you're listening to.
1:08.7	And the story today was suggested to us by Danielle B and one of our patron members Sarah who is a fellow Detroit
1:16.2	Oh so thank you ladies for this recommendation she's from the D from the the D. From the D.
1:23.0	Our story begins in Jacksonville, Florida, where beautiful young 8-year-old
1:28.0	Cherish Perrywinkle lived with her mother.
1:30.0	Her mom's name was Rain Perrywinkleinkle and she also lived with her two younger
1:34.8	step sisters who were four and five at the time. They lived in a one-story home that was
1:40.0	located on the north side of Jacksonville and Cherish's upbringing was a little bit chaotic.
1:45.6	Her mother, Rain, and her father, Billy Joroe, were involved in a pretty ugly custody battle
1:50.8	following their divorce, which was in 2010. At the time a lot of things
1:55.1	were being thrown Rain's way. There were discussions surrounding our
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