The Trail Went Cold - Episode 246 - Yasmin Acree

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

January 15, 2008. Chicago, Illinois. 15-year old Yasmin Acree is seen going to bed in the basement of her residence, but she is discovered to be missing the following day and there are signs of a break-in on the exterior basement door. Over one year later, Jimmie Terrell Smith, who had previously lived in the upstairs apartment at Yasmin’s residence, is charged with a series of sex crimes and mentions of Smith’s name are found in Yasmin’s diary. Even though Smith claims to have knowledge of what happened to Yasmin, this information is never substantiated and no conclusive evidence links him to the disappearance. On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we chronicle the sad story of a teenage girl who endured an abusive childhood before she vanished without explanation. If you have any information about this case, please contact the Chicago Police Department at (312) 746-8365. Thanks, Shudder. To try Shudder free for 30 days, go to shudder.com and use code the promo code “COLD“. Additional Reading: https://charleyproject.org/case/yasmin-rayon-acree https://abc7chicago.com/yasmin-acree-missing-disapperance-teen/5853809/ https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/oak-park/ct-xpm-2014-02-25-ct-yasmin-acree-mother-death-met-0227-20140226-story.html https://www.newspapers.com/image/234539188/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/232575738/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/232589349/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/233010367/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/233010579 https://www.newspapers.com/image/233010509 https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20160316/englewood/man-pleads-guilty-violently-raping-young-girls-after-years-of-delays/ https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20170926/englewood/jimmie-smith-serial-rapist-sentencing-kidnapping-abduction-2009 https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2019/10/24/20931275/convicted-rapist-jimmie-smith-guilty-murder-hire-plot-linn-papa-judge-prosecutor “The Trail Went Cold” is on Patreon! Visit www.patreon.com/thetrailwentcold to become a patron and gain access to our exclusive bonus content. “The Trail Went Cold” is now doing a weekly livestream show on GetVokl every Thursday from 7:00-8:00 PM ET as part of their “True Crime Thursday” line-up. For more information, please visit their website. The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote. All music is composed by Vince Nitro.

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0:00.0	We would like to send out a special thanks to Shutter for supporting the Trail Went Cold.
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0:19.1	January 15th, 2008.
0:23.0	Chicago, Illinois.
0:26.0	15-year-old Yasmin Acri is seen going to bed in the basement of her residence, but she's
0:30.4	discovered to be missing the following day, and there are signs of a break-in on the exterior basement door.
0:35.8	Over one year later, Jimmy Terrell Smith, who had previously lived in the upstairs apartment at Yasmin's residence,
0:42.1	is charged with a series of sex crimes and mentions of his name are found in Yasmin's diary.
0:47.0	Even though Smith claims to have knowledge of what happened to Yasmin, these are never substantiated and no trace of Yasmin is ever found.
0:55.0	After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, yeah. Oh, uh, uh,
1:04.0	uh,
1:05.0	uh, uh, uh, uh,
1:07.0	uh,
1:08.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
1:15.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, and uh, uh,
1:18.0	and uh, uh, uh, Hello everyone and welcome to the latest episode of the trail went cold.
1:35.6	I'm your host Robin Warder and today we're going to be covering a missing person's
1:39.8	case involving a teenage African American girl.
1:42.4	The 2000 disappearance of 15 year old Yasmin Acri.
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