Larry Lee Smith of the County of Pinellas and State of Florida, and on the 12th day of July in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred eighty-one did insert his penis into the vagina of Katherine McWilliams without the consent of Katherine McWilliams, and in the process thereof used physical force and violence likely to cause serious personal injury, to-wit did choke and strike the victim, thereby causing Katherine McWilliams to submit to said sexual battery.
The State of Florida vs. Larry Lee Smith
He’d circled nearly-empty city blocks more than once, Katherine noticed, before the guy giving her a lift home, late on that summer Sunday evening, finally brought his small truck to a stop in front of an apartment building. Taking in elements of her surroundings, Katherine would remember the white picket fence and the rectangular shape of the four-plex: two units up, two units down, stairs running up the middle.
“Come up with me,” Larry Lee urged his passenger as he reached for the door handle. “It’ll just take a minute.”
“That’s okay,” she replied agreeably. “I’ll wait here.”
“No, come with me. It’ll be quick. I want you to meet some people.”
She breathed a sigh of reluctant submission. “All right,” she surrendered, hoping it would actually speed things along. She really needed to get home.
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Eight known victims. One set of skeletal remains. Hard to imagine, hard to put down.
Former social-worker S. R. Reynolds has never forgotten the mishandled case of fifteen-year-old Michelle Anderson, a vibrant beauty who went missing from Reynolds’ Knoxville, Tennessee, neighborhood years earlier. Aided by her old professor, famed forensic anthropologist Dr. Bill Bass—founder of the University of Tennessee’s “Body Farm”—Reynolds picks up the trail of this cold case.
As she presses neglected pieces of the puzzle into place, Reynolds unearths a string of heinous kidnappings and rapes across the South, crimes that span decades. A picture begins to form. Patterns appear. And all evidence points to one man: convicted sex offender Larry Lee Smith.
As a result of Reynolds’ efforts, the Knoxville Police Department reopens the cold case of Michelle’s disappearance, but Larry Lee is about to be released from a Georgia prison, where he served time for a related crime—a “similar transaction.” What transpires is amazing. Every parent’s worst nightmare is chronicled superbly in this powerful memoir about the author’s determination to solve a murder and to bring the perpetrator to justice.
Two books in one 400-page volume.
