MURDERED: Shari Smith and Debra Helmick

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True Crime

4.7 • 352.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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When 17-year-old Shari Smith is abducted from her driveway in broad daylight, it seems like her family’s nightmare can’t get any worse. But when her abductor starts calling them relentlessly, investigators hope that his recklessness will lead to his downfall... that is, until a second girl goes missing in an eerily similar manner.

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0:00.0	Hi, Crime Junkeys.
0:01.6	I'm your host, Ashley Flowers.
0:03.8	And the story I have for you today is one
0:06.5	for the crime junkie records books.
0:09.0	Because to help me tell this story,
0:10.9	our team got to talk to none other
0:13.2	than the mother f***ing mind hunter himself, John Douglas.
0:18.2	He shared a case with us that has stayed with him
0:21.5	over many years, a case of a young woman who was taken
0:25.7	from her own front yard just two days
0:28.1	before she graduated high school.
0:30.1	Her abductor always seemed to be one step ahead
0:33.1	of the investigators.
0:34.3	And when another girl was taken from her front yard,
0:37.4	they worried they might never catch up.
0:39.9	Until one mistake finally brought his reign of terror
0:44.2	to an end.
0:45.6	This is the story of Sherry Smith and Deborah Helmick.
0:49.5	Intro
1:19.5	It's 3.38pm on May 31st, 1985, and a man named Robert Smith is working from his home
1:28.2	office in Lexington, South Carolina when he looks out the window to see his daughter,
1:32.7	Sherry, pulling into their driveway.
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