Maryland Woman To Testify She Helped Father Cover Up Him Murdering Her Stepmother
Later this week a Maryland woman will testify that she assisted her father in covering up the killing of her stepmother on Dec. 1, 2018, blaming it on panhandlers. Valeria Smith, 31, pleaded guilty in 2019 to be an accessory after her father Keith Smith 55, killed her stepmom Jacquelyn Smith, 54 according to Law & Crime.
Keith Smith told officers that he was driving home in Baltimore with Jacquelyn and Valeria after celebrating the latter’s birthday. Keith claimed Jacquelyn gave some panhandlers $10 through the car window, but they snatched her necklace, took her purse, and stabbed her several times. Keith told police the suspects were a man in a blue hoodie, who allegedly stabbed Jacquelyn, and a woman in a brown coat who was carrying a child.
Keith and Valeria were arrested 20 minutes from the Mexico border. Valeria is facing 10 years in prison. Her sentencing is scheduled to take place Dec. 13, after her father’s trial.
“I was strung out on drugs and scared for my life,” Valeria Smith wrote the judge in the past. Valeria attorney says she lived with bipolar disorder, according to The Baltimore Sun. “My father made me leave the state,” she wrote
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