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John David Smith III (born April 2, 1951) [citation needed] is an American murderer convicted in 2001 of killing his first wife in 1974 and also has been indicted on charges for the 1991 murder of his second wife.
Apr 26, 2024 · In NBC’s ‘Dateline’ episode ‘Chameleon,’ the investigation into the disappearance and subsequent murder of John Smith’s first wife is depicted. The episode also shows how the police grew suspicious of John in the murder of two of his wives.
After Fran Smith vanished in 1991, her husband’s dark secrets began to unravel. In the three decades since, John Smith, 73, was convicted of killing his first wife in Ohio years earlier, in a...
Oct 25, 2021 · Smith, an Ohio state prison inmate serving time for killing his first wife in the 1970s, was indicted in Mercer County in November 2019 for the murder of Fran Gladden-Smith.
Apr 26, 2024 · While John Smith was only ever indicted, and never charged, with the murder of Gladden-Smith, he remains incarcerated for the murder of his first wife, Hartman. Despite confessing to the murder of his second wife, the court ended up dismissing the murder case.
May 5, 2024 · John Smith, now 73, is serving a life sentence in Ohio for the murder of first wife Janice Elaine Hartman, who he had eloped with after high school. She went missing soon after their...
Aug 4, 2023 · John Smith - who is serving life in prison in Ohio for killing his first wife there in the 1970s - has long been suspected of murder in the vanishing of Fran Gladden-Smith from her West...
Apr 26, 2024 · After two of John Smith's wives were found to have gone missing, Janice Hartman and Betty “Fran” Gladden Smith, family members took on a decades-long quest for justice.
Apr 30, 2024 · Six months after the identification, Smith was charged with murder in Hartman’s killing. He pleaded not guilty and was convicted at trial. In 2001, Smith was sentenced to 15 years to life in...
Oct 5, 2022 · If the murder case against John Smith goes to trial in Mercer County, the jury will not hear that he killed his first wife in Ohio, a judge ruled Wednesday.
