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
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