The Byron David Smith Killings

Not Another True Crime Podcast

Betches

Comedy, True Crime, Society & Culture

3.8 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Sara and Danny cover the chilling case of the Byron David Smith killings, which took place in Thanksgiving 2012 in Little Falls, Minnesota. They talk all about the situation before the killings, and how Smith conducted the killings in the basement of his house. They also breakdown the trial afterward, which centered around "the castle doctrine," and whether Smith acted in self-defense. To end the episode, they play "Not Another Thankful Thanksgiving," where they celebrate Thanksgiving this year by going through the things they are NOT thankful for this year! RESOURCES: https://minnlawyer.com/2012/12/07/in-morrison-county-shooting-case-minnesota-state-law-on-trial/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trial-set-to-begins-for-minnesota-man-who-shot-teens-in-his-home/ https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/hear-graphic-audio-catches-moment-byron-smith-guns-teens-article-1.1776145 https://web.archive.org/web/20141026211139/http://bigstory.ap.org/article/little-falls-mourns-teen-cousin-shooting-victims https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2021/03/22/byron-smith-serving-life-for-murdering-teens-in-little-falls-denied-appeal-from-scotus/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:23.9	crime podcast it's all fun in games until someone gets hurt welcome back everybody to not another true crime podcast i'm sarah labe and i'm danny murphy you know us where Welcome back, everybody, to Not Another True Crime Podcast.
0:38.8	I'm Sarah Levine.
0:40.0	And I'm Danny Murphy.
0:41.1	You know us.
0:41.5	We're your partners in wine, crime, and time.
0:43.6	And we have one that happened kind of in this time frame a few years ago.
0:49.8	Yes, we are talking about a murder case that took place over Thanksgiving.
0:56.5	Just I guess it makes everybody feel like when you go home for the holidays, you're like,
0:59.5	this could not get worse.
1:00.4	It could.
1:01.1	There are levels to that, A.
1:03.0	But B, I am so, I mean, my main thing, and I feel like what we both talked about while
1:06.7	prepping for this, it's very interesting because it brings up a law that I didn't know was a law.
1:14.3	Maybe I don't know if it's just because it like it doesn't get used much or maybe it does but
1:18.3	not around me at least. It's true. I know. This is an episode where like we're going to get
1:22.6	canceled because we're not legal experts and we're going to be like, I don't understand this law
1:27.4	and I feel like this law means this,, I don't understand this law, and I feel
1:28.4	like this law means this, but I don't know if it exists everywhere, but I know that it exists
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