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Frances Smith, 40, known in her Chattanooga neighborhood as Prin Prin and the candy lady, was found in her Woodlawn View Circle home in the early morning hours of June 8, 2014, having sustained multiple gunshot wounds to the chest. A mother of five and a well-regarded local figure, her violent death shocked the community.

Investigators quickly focused on a primary suspect, Smith’s 31-year-old live-in boyfriend, Cashman Perkins. A warrant was issued and Perkins was placed on the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation’s 10 Most Wanted list. He was captured by U.S. Marshals in Columbus, Mississippi the following week and returned to Tennessee. In Hamilton County court he waived a preliminary hearing and was bound over to the grand jury; he was later indicted on a charge of second-degree murder in connection with Smith’s death.

Does anyone have information about Frances’s life in the Woodlawn View Circle neighborhood or details that could shed light on what happened that night?