@crimetokshorts: Part 3/4 She was forced to write her own last will. But the most important clue wasn’t even on the page she wrote. On May 31, 1985, 17-year-old Shari Faye Smith was abducted from her family’s driveway in South Carolina, just days before her high school graduation. Her family received disturbing phone calls from the kidnapper, who eventually sent them a letter Shari had written under his control. He called it her last will and testament. Then investigators noticed something unusual. A telephone number had left faint impressions on the paper beneath her letter. Forensic document examiners carefully recovered those indentations, uncovering a lead that helped police trace the number to a house where Larry Gene Bell had been staying. Two weeks after Shari disappeared, nine-year-old Debra May Helmick was also abducted and murdered. Investigators connected Bell to both cases. He was convicted of both murders and sentenced to death. He was executed in 1996. A final letter became a critical piece of evidence—and helped expose the man responsible. Could a clue left behind by a victim solve the case that took her life? #truecrime #crimetok #crimejunkie #truecrimestories #truecrimetiktok
