![]() ![]() Read the horrific story of Mark Smith, plus 49 more serial killer cases in 50 American Serial Killers You’ve Probably Never Heard Of Volume 5. He soon cracked and admitted killing Jean Ann, as well as three other women.įound guilty of first-degree murder at his trial in 1971, Mark Smith was sentenced to a total of 500 years behind bars. That immediately roused suspicion and Smith was brought in for questioning. He then assisted in the search for her body and it was he who “discovered” it, floating in a small lake nearby. On May 27, exactly four months after murdering Jean Bianchi, Smith viciously raped and murdered 17-year-old high school senior Jean Ann Lingenfelter. Her body was found the following morning, frozen solid in a nearby field. Just over one month later, Smith abducted Jean Irene Bianchi from a laundromat in McHenry, Illinois. Smith’s first known US victim was Obie Faye Ash, killed on December 3, 1969, in Mountain Home, Arkansas. Back Stateside, he wasted little time in continuing his killing spree. Method of murder: Stabbing / Strangulationīy the time he returned to home in 1969, after serving in Germany with the US Army, Mark Smith was already a serial killer, suspected of murdering eight German women during his tour of duty.
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