Russell Smith

Murdered

The homicide of Russell Smith, a 57-year-old resident of Memphis, Tennessee, occurred on May 21, 2008. Smith's case has remained unsolved and was eventually handed over to the Memphis Police Department’s Cold Case Unit. This unit is tasked with revisiting unresolved homicides once all original investigative leads have been exhausted. Typically, a case is transferred to the Cold Case Unit after about a year if no progress has been made, and new techniques or technologies are employed to try to ...Read More

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