On the evening of March 16, 2015, in Spotsylvania, Virginia, 44-year-old Sean Smith was shot and killed in his home on Harrison Road. His wife, Laurence Marie-Flora Smith (also identified as Laurence Maria Smith), placed a 911 call around 5:45 p.m., initially saying she had accidentally shot him while cleaning a gun. Deputies found Sean Smith deceased from a single gunshot wound; detectives later reported forensic evidence and inconsistencies in Laurence Smith’s statements that pointed toward foul play. The couple’s children were in the home but were not physically harmed.

Laurence Smith was arrested and held without bond on charges including second-degree murder and using a firearm in the commission of a felony. A grand jury later indicted her for first-degree murder on June 15, 2015. At trial it was stipulated that the death was not a suicide and that the fatal shot was fired from at least four feet away, entering his mouth; prosecutors presented evidence the couple had been arguing before she retrieved a gun. The jury convicted Laurence Maria Smith of voluntary manslaughter and recommended a ten-year sentence, which the court imposed.

Did anyone in the Spotsylvania area know the Smith family or witness events that night and hasn’t come forward?