Barbara Smith

Death by Force

In the summer of 1988, the life of 38-year-old Barbara Ann Parker Smith was tragically cut short. On July 28, the convenience store clerk was shot and killed during a robbery at the Best Stop in Prescott, Arkansas. The incident shook the community and set in motion an investigation that would lead to the arrest and conviction of her killer.

Witnesses at the scene saw a man, later identified as Kirt Douglas Wainwright, fleeing from the convenience store right after the fatal shot was fired ...Read More

An Evening of Death: 3 Murderers Are Executed (Published 1997)

Barbara Smith - National Gun Violence Memorial

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