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🗓️ 27 March 2022
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When he was 13 years old, he committed an unthinkable crime. 28 years later, Smith is out on parole. What’s next for him? "48 Hours" contributor Jim Axelrod reports.
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0:00.0 | 48 hours in CBS News present season three of My Life of Crime with Aaron Moriarty. |
0:08.0 | This season join Aaron for extended interviews with convicted murderers. |
0:12.4 | Go beyond speculation to the evidence. Did our Toro Gotti really commit suicide? |
0:18.4 | And what happened to Jennifer Dullos? The Connecticut mom still missing almost four years later. |
0:24.2 | Listen to My Life of Crime from 48 Hours on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts. |
0:44.3 | He was convicted of a monstrous act. Eric Smith has served 28 years for the killing of four-year-old |
0:50.0 | Derek Roby in 1993. We never forget our boy. He was in a wonderful child and we miss him terribly. |
1:09.2 | Yeah a lot of people don't know the full gamma of what we go through and Nor should they. |
1:16.3 | Right. I wouldn't wish this on anyone. It's the first time I've ever let him go anywhere alone |
1:21.8 | and it was one block down the same side of the street. |
1:28.0 | When you have a family member that has been murdered every time that inmate is at for parole |
1:38.4 | you relive I think what happened. |
1:40.2 | There are clearly people who make choices which reflect pure evil. |
1:51.7 | In my view this heads the list. The events of that morning of August 2nd 1993. |
2:00.3 | Right in through the woods. He gave me a kiss and I said I love you and he says I love you, |
2:04.6 | madam. He won't happen off the sidewalk. At some point during the midday I learned that |
2:12.0 | my child was missing in the village of Savona and that's going to be a search for Derek began. |
2:21.6 | Late in the afternoon the body of Derek Roby was found. It was just a brutal, brutal killing. |
2:31.3 | I've lost my boy. You know we've lost him. He's gone. |
2:40.6 | Our instinct was to believe the killer was some adult evil person. |
2:51.0 | And it's another kid. |
2:52.2 | So you find a dependent guilty of murder in the second degree? |
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