Wayne Henry Scott Smith, 17, known as Wezzy Bo, died in Houma, Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, in early August 2005, a loss announced in an obituary published later that month. The notice stated no official date and time of death had been established, an unusual detail that raised questions about the circumstances surrounding his passing.

Contemporary news and archival searches from that period do not link Wayne Smith publicly to any homicide investigation, and there are no reports of arrests or named suspects tied to his death. The community was already anxious because of a string of unsolved deaths of young men in the area that prompted law enforcement to consult the FBI, but Wayne Smith was not publicly identified as one of those potential victims.

Did anyone in Houma at that time have information about Wayne Smith’s final days or about why no official date and time of death was established?