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On January 26, 1974, 17-year-old American female tourist Katie Smith was murdered in Nassau, Bahamas. Katie Smith, a white teenager from Detroit, Michigan, was one of three American victims killed over a two-month span by a man later identified as Michaiah Shobek. Her death marked the final act in a chilling series of stabbings that shocked both the Bahamian community and international observers.

The suspect, born James Michael Shoffner in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, had moved to the Bahamas in ...Read More
Victim Details

Katie Smith

Female

White / Caucasian

Nassau

Bahamas

1974-01-26

17

Katie

Smith

12/04/2025