Larry Gene Bell: When a Sadistic Killer Calls
Killer Psyche
Wondery | Treefort Media
4.6 • 4.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Retired FBI agent and criminal profiler Candice DeLong walks us through the sordid case of Larry Gene Bell, the South Carolina serial killer who murdered teenage girl Shari Smith and 9-year-old Debra Helmick. Candice's mentor at the FBI, John Douglas, helped identify Bell and called him “one of the most sadistic murderers I’ve come across" for tormenting the families by telephone and forcing his victim to write her own obituary.
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| 0:15.0 | Please be advised. On Friday, May 31st, 1985, at approximately 330 PM, Hilda Smith happened to look out the window of her family's rural South |
| 0:36.9 | Carolina home and noticed her daughter's car was in the driveway. The blue Chevy Chvette was next to the Smith's mailbox, which was about 750 feet from the |
| 0:45.0 | Smith's mailbox, which was about 750 feet from the house. |
| 0:51.0 | And the driver's side door of the car was wide open. |
| 0:57.4 | Hilda knew that her daughter, Sherry, |
| 0:59.8 | a graduating senior at Lexington High School, had a habit of checking the mailbox |
| 1:05.1 | before going up the long dirt drive to the house. So she figured that Sherry was |
| 1:11.0 | inside her car reading a letter. |
| 1:14.0 | Hilda left the window to retrieve something from another room |
| 1:18.0 | and let her husband Bob know that Sherry had arrived home. |
| 1:22.0 | When five minutes passed and the bubbly teenager had not bounded through the door, |
| 1:28.0 | Sherry's father went to the window to check on her. |
| 1:31.0 | Her car was still at the mailbox and its door remained wide open. |
| 1:38.9 | But Sherry was nowhere in sight. |
| 1:43.6 | The sight of the empty car made him uneasy. |
| 1:47.0 | He knew something was wrong. |
| 1:52.1 | 17 year old |
| 1:53.4 | old Sherry Fay Smith had diabetes insipitous, a rare type of diabetes that |
| 1:58.9 | prevented her body from retaining water. |
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