her daughter christina. this is an upper scale neighborhood. me and christina were always outside. life was good. i was happy. their downstairs neighbors were carmen smith and her son nick. nick had a million smoil. kristin haran is carmen s sister. she was a gorgeous strawberry blond, feisty. very outgoing young woman who loved her son more than anything in the whole world. they were just like two peas in a pod. it was a monday afternoon, the week before halloween. nick and christina got off the school bus and walked home together. cobb county prosecutor jesse evans. first thing they did is go downstairs to see if they could find nick s mom. her car was there. she should be there. while christina stayed by the door, nick went inside. someone was there but not his mom. nick turned the corner and he saw something move across the bedroom down the long
clue. once again, here s andrea canning with the killing in cobb county. after ten years in prison, waseem daker was a freeman but still a suspect in the murder of carmen smith and the stabbing of her son nick. he was still terrorizing you in some ways. just the fact that he was out was kind of terrorizing. he is that character in those horror movies. he s like your worst nightmare. after his relieve he got a job and moved to suburban atlanta. he was a freeman and enjoying life. here he is sky diving and loving it. daker s freedom galled homicide detective john doss. the carmen smith murder was now officially a cold case. to doss, daker was
thanksgiving, 2012, kimberly brady was worried sick that her son nick and her niece, haile, never showed up for thanksgiving dinner. they had been missing for more-than-24 hours. by friday afternoon, the family was frantic. so you decide to call the police? we went into the sheriff s department. right away. and filled out missing-person s reports for both of them. as authorities processed those reports, three other sheriff s deputies were over on elm street. investigating something, so troubling, they later called in a crime-scene van. that got the attention of john and kathy lange, who saw the van go straight towards the house of their good friend, byron smith. a 64-year-old, retired man, living on his own. i was decorating the
your life or the life of another is in immediate jeopardy. as investigators continued to secure the scene at byron s house, the sheriff s office was calling another family. kimberly brady had been frantically trying to find her son nick and her niece haile. now, investigators knew what had happened to them. they drove out to speak with kimberly, and they brought a chaplain. as soon as i saw them turn the corner, the something i knew he was gone. i didn t know how or why. and then, all of a sudden, i remember the door opened and the chaplain came out. all i said was, no. i don t really remember if i said anything else. he s like, your son is dead. nick and haile were both dead. kimberly fell to her knees. and then, the chaplain told her, it was no accident. he s like, your son was shot. and i was like and then, i mean, shot? that just wasn t