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Sex, Lies and Audiotape: The Murder of Denita Smith

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True Crime Campfire

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2021

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Some murders are born of sudden passion. Rage leaps up like a flame and then subsides, too late to undo the bloody damage done in that moment. But other murders are more of a slow burn--weeks or months of smoldering anger, stoked by careful planning. Every detail meticulously considered, for maximum damage, minimum risk. This is the story of one of those murders, and of a killer so clever, they came within the barest whisper of getting away with it.

Sources:
Oxygen's "Snapped," Episode "Shannon Crawley"
Investigation Discovery's "Hear No Evil"
NBC's Dateline, Episode "Internal Affairs"
https://caselaw.findlaw.com/nc-court-of-appeals/1589180.html
https://www.wral.com/news/local/story/7092468/

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0:00.0

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season C to apply. Hello campers. Grab your marshmallows and gather around the true crime

1:05.2

campfire. Wear your camp counselors. I'm Katie and I'm Whitney. And we're here to tell you a true

1:11.0

story that is way stranger than fiction. We're roasting murderers and marshmallows around the true

1:15.6

crime campfire. Some murders are born of sudden passion. Rage leaps up like a flame and then

1:27.4

subsides too late to undo the bloody damage done in that moment. But other murders are more

1:32.7

of a slow burn. Weeks or months of smoldering anger stoked by careful planning. Every detail

1:38.9

meticulously considered for maximum damage minimum risk. This is the story of one of those

1:44.4

murders and of a killer so clever they came within the barest whisper of getting away with it.

1:49.6

This is sex, lies, and audio tape the murder of Denita Smith.

2:02.8

So campers were in Durham, North Carolina, January 4th, 2007. It's early morning at the campus

2:18.4

crossings apartment complex. When a 911 call comes in from a young man, a student at North Carolina's

2:25.2

central university. He says he's just found a young woman collapsed at the foot of the stairs

2:29.7

in his apartment building. She's bleeding from the head. So he's talking to her on the phone,

2:34.8

come on baby girl, come on, but she's not responding. Her purse is there so the young man asks the

2:40.5

911 dispatcher whether he should look for her ID to get her name and the dispatcher says, yeah,

2:44.4

go ahead and do it. So he gets out her wallet and looks at her campus ID. Her name is Denita

2:49.6

Monique Smith. So he's talking to her, Denita, Denita, but still no response. So 911 says help is on

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