Mom of 8-year-old girl kidnapped from Walmart superstore, murdered, breaks silence

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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3.9 • 7.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2018

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

The mother of Cherish Perrywinkle, the 8-year-old Florida girl who was raped, beaten and murdered by a man who pretended to help her mom shop, speaks out about the case in this special episode of "Crime Stories with Nancy Grace." Donald Smith, 61, was sentenced to die for the 2013 rape and murder of Cherish. Grace is also joined by forensics expert Karen Smith, child welfare law expert Ashley Willcott, and CrimeOnline.com reporter Leigh Egan.

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0:00.0	.
0:05.0	Crime stories with Nancy Grace on
0:07.0	Sirius XM Triumph Channel 132.
0:12.0	Hi, that warm up. I'm
0:15.0	interested in taking what do
0:18.0	you mean? Taken by stranger.
0:22.0	I can't fight her.
0:27.0	I cannot count the thousands of
0:31.0	times I have taken my children
0:34.0	there 10 now, but their whole lives
0:37.0	going through Walmart and
0:40.0	Target and Costco, Home Depot,
0:44.0	Lowe's, you name it.
0:48.0	How many times I remember the time
0:50.0	that John David got away from me
0:52.0	while I was looking for
0:54.0	a son-tamilowation for them on the
0:57.0	bottom shelf. I think back on all
1:00.0	those times when I would be
1:03.0	two aisles over and I'm looking
1:06.0	for them. And then I see the
1:11.0	video of a beautiful little girl
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