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Case Description
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In the winter of 2016, a 33-year-old Black woman named Nicole Smith vanished from her Detroit, Michigan home. The day after she was last seen, on December 11th, her young son, just a year old at the time, was found wandering alone on a nearby street. For two years, her family held onto hope, searching tirelessly for answers. Their agonizing wait finally came to an end in December of 2018 when a man named Robert Autrey, Smith's ex-boyfriend, confessed to her murder. Autrey, who was already in cus ...Read More
Victim Details

Michelle Nicole Artist

Female

Black / African American

Detroit

MI

2016-04-09

30

Michelle

Nicole Artist

12/24/2025