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Who killed Barbara Smith?
On a tragic autumn day, October 24, 1980, the life of 37-year-old Barbara Smith, a Caucasian female, was brutally cut short in her Wichita, Kansas home. Her husband and daughter made the horrific discovery, finding Barbara in her residence at 1151 S Waverly Drive. She had been bludgeoned to death, sustaining fatal injuries to her head from what investigators determined was severe blunt force trauma.

The scene suggested a desperate attempt by the perpetrator to conceal the crime. Evidence ...Read More
Victim Details

Barbara Smith

October 21, 2022

Female

Caucasian / White

Wichita

KS

1980-10-24

37

Barbara

Smith

11/26/2025


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