Judy Smith
Description
In 1997, Judy Smith accompanied her husband to Philadelphia for a business conference. While out sightseeing, Judy vanished. Months later, her body was found hundreds of miles away in clothes her husband didn’t recognize. The mystery is not just who killed Judy Smith, but how did she get to the Blue Ridge Mountains.
If you have any information on the murder of Judy Smith, please call the Buncombe County Crime Stoppers at (828) 255-5050.
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Credits
Researched, written, hosted, and edited by Charlie Worroll
Music by Scott Buckley
Cover art by Lars Hacking, host of Rusty Hinges podcast
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Sources
Internet
Newspaper
Tourist Reported Missing, Philadelphia Daily News, 12 April 1997
Tourist Still Missing, The Philadelphia Inquirer, 13 April 1997
Missing Tourist, Philadelphia Daily News, 14 April 1997
Vanished, The Philadelphia Inquirer, 31 Aug 1997
Body ID’d as Boston Woman, Asheville-Citizen Times, 1 Oct 1997
Bones of Newton Woman Found in N.C., The Boston Globe, 1 Oct 1997
N.C. Team to Probe Newton Woman’s Death, The Boston Globe, 3 Oct 1997
Asheville Sighting of Woman Reported, Asheville-Citizen Times, 11 Oct 1997
Television
Unsolved Mysteries, Season 12 episode 11