Baltimore (WJZ) — On the third day of the trial against Keith Smith, a video recording of the interrogation of the man who was accused of stabbing his wife to death was played in court.
Mr Smith is accused of murdering his wife, Jacqueline Smith, and then accusing a panhandler.
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Prosecutors played video of the defendant’s interrogation. At one point a detective said, “I have gathered wonderful evidence.” The detective continued, “Something happened between you two in that car, you are the reason”.
Even though Keith Smith repeatedly denied that he had anything to do with his wife’s murder, the detective said “you are absolutely the reason your wife is dead.”
The detective was so convinced, she asked the life insurance company to withhold payments because her husband was a suspect in the case.
The detective’s belief came from cell phone data that pinged Keith Smith’s phone at Druid Hill Park for more than 10 minutes. In addition, a detective testified that he reviewed nine blocks of both public and private video surveillance and that none of the cameras captured evidence that would confirm the allegation that Jacqueline Smith was murdered in East Baltimore.
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A detective said that Keith Smith’s daughter, Valeria Smith, eventually took him to the park and told him what had happened to her stepmother. Valeria Smith pleaded guilty to the lesser charge.
Jacqueline Smith, an engineer at the Aberdeen Proving Ground, was murdered in December of 2018. Her husband had it mounted on a panhandler. Prosecutors say he later left for Florida.
But while he was there, detectives found a warrant to wiretap his phone and discovered he was sending a package to his daughter back in Baltimore.
A Postal Service employee testified on Friday that she received a call to intercept that package and that when they opened the package, it was a cell phone and a number.
Keith Smith may have been trying to dodge investigators’ radar as a law enforcement witness testified that he had turned up the numbers.
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A detective testified that cell phone towers in Brownsville, Texas eventually took a hit on Smith’s phone. He and his daughter were arrested near the US-Mexico border three months after the murder.
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