The NAMUS-45: Reachelle Smith
True Crime Bullsh**: The Israel Keyes Investigation
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🗓️ 29 May 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Written and Researched by Shana Wilensky and Josh Hallmark.
Edited and Produced by Josh Hallmark.Â
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Sources include:Â
- For The Love of Reachelle
- Reachelle Marie Smith – The Charley Project
- Episode 081: Reachelle Marie Smith – Bite-Sized Crime
- Hunting at Upper Souris National Wildlife Refuge | FWS.gov
- Reachelle Smith - Amber Alert is issued - Newspapers.com™
- Alert: Cowen may be headed to Kansas - Newspapers.com™
- Girl still missing; man dead - Newspapers.com™
- Missing: Volunteers continue search - Newspapers.com™
- Search covers refuge - Newspapers.com™
- Case haunts retiring police chief - Newspapers.com™
- Officers volunteering their off-duty time to search - Newspapers.com™
- Riders comb ditches in search - Newspapers.com™
- Family still hopes child can be found - Newspapers.com™
- Dog handler continuing search for Reachelle Smith - Newspapers.com™
- Year later, mother still has hope for daughter - Newspapers.com™
- Police close cold case - Newspapers.com™
- Minot police: “Compelling evidence” points to murder of Minot 3-year-old in 2006 | KX NEWS
- CNN.com - Transcripts
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Alex Preston, 9 Moons, Lightless Voids, The Construct of Time
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| 0:00.0 | Season 7 of True Crime Bullshit is coming out later this year, and we're working on other |
| 0:05.6 | exciting true crime projects, and you can help support all of those by joining Patreon today |
| 0:12.4 | at patreon.com slash studio both and. On Patreon, you can get access to ad-free and early episodes, |
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| 0:23.2 | and bonus content like Thoughts and Feelings episodes, archival episodes, research roadtrip episodes, |
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| 0:36.7 | hours, and more. |
| 0:38.1 | So consider supporting our research and our investigation into keys and other crimes |
| 0:42.9 | by joining Patreon today at patreon.com slash studio both and. |
| 0:49.5 | And. |
| 0:49.5 | Thank you. This is a studio both and production. Rochelle Marie Smith was last seen on May 16th of 2006 in Mynott, North Dakota. |
| 1:19.6 | She was only three years old at the time of her disappearance. |
| 1:22.6 | She was approximately three feet and four inches tall and weighed about 40 pounds. |
| 1:31.9 | Rochelle is a Caucasian female with light brown hair and brown eyes. |
| 1:34.4 | She often went by the nickname Peanut. |
| 1:41.6 | Rochelle was born to her mother, Samantha Smith, and an unnamed biological father. |
| 1:48.0 | It's not known how involved her bio dad was in her life, but by 2006, |
| 1:54.9 | he was living in Colorado. Samantha was in her late teens when Rochelle was born, |
| 2:02.1 | and gave her older sister Stephanie custody of her newborn daughter. Despite all that, by all accounts, |
| 2:06.0 | Rochelle was a happy child while living with her Aunt Stephanie and mine aunt. |
| 2:10.2 | Her mother and aunts say she knew her ABCs, enjoyed puzzles, |
| 2:12.8 | and loved making her family laugh. |
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