This story is as horrifying as it gets. A mother takes her 2 year old into the emergency room because she is bleeding. It is discovered that she has a fractured skull and nose. The mother does not know what happened, so of course, an investigation begins. When police are searching her family home, they discover a padlocked room. Inside that room was 22 year old Betsy Mary Smith, who was dead. Her brother, 16 year old Walter Smith Jr. told police that he killed her with a sledgehammer, then stabbed her and raped her. Betsy Mary was babysitting her niece (2 year old Andrea Costello) and nephew (a 1 year old boy, not named). When Andrea started to cry, Walter beat her with the sledgehammer also, which is how she got her injuries. The children were locked in the room with Betsy Mary for about 12 hours when they started to cry. So, Walter’s mother told him to take care of them. Now, at this point I am wondering why no one has noticed that the children AND Betsy Mary had not been seen in 12 hours, but it seems like this family sure did not notice this. It was after this that the toddler’s mother took her to the emergency room.
And, Walter told all of this to the police. He admitted killing and raping his sister and hurting his niece. But his mother, Mary Smith, does not believe he killed his sister.
“He don’t remember nothing he did,” she said. “He was out of it or something like that. It was an accident. He don’t remember that stuff.”Mary Smith said her son had no history of violence, but said he was on medication for depression
Somehow, this just seems wrong. Her daughter has been bludgeoned heinously and then raped, her son confesses to the crime, but mommy does not want to believe it. I am sure I would not want to believe it, but I think she is truly blind to this I am sure she is in shock, with her family life falling all around her. It will be even worse for her when she realizes that Walter is more than just depressed. Especially since he is going to be tried as an adult and they are in Virginia. It is a death penalty state, and I believe this qualifies. Besides just being sick and wrong.
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