Valeria Smith Set To Be Sentenced In Cover-Up Of Stepmother’s Murder

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — A 31-year-old Baltimore pistillate is expected to beryllium sentenced Monday for her relation successful the effort to screen up her stepmother’s murder.

Valeria Smith testified past week against her father, Keith Smith, who was convicted of first-degree execution successful the 2018 stabbing decease of his wife, Jacquelyn. She said she saw her begetter stab his woman and, astatine his request, she lied to constabulary astir it.

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Smith faces up to 10 years down bars aft pleading blameworthy successful September 2019 to a number of accessory aft the fact to first-degree murder.

Jacquelyn Smith, a 54-year-old technologist for Aberdeen Proving Grounds, was killed Dec. 1, 2018.

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Her hubby and stepdaughter claimed she had been stabbed by a panhandler successful East Baltimore. In reality, Valeria Smith said, her begetter stabbed his woman astatine Druid Hill Park pursuing a nighttime out.

Smith and her begetter were aboriginal taken into custody successful Texas adjacent the U.S.-Mexico border, astir 1,700 miles from Maryland.

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Valeria Smith was initially charged with murder, but that complaint was dropped. She yet turned connected her begetter and became a cardinal witnesser successful the lawsuit against him.

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