Family outraged husband convicted in first wife's killing let off in second wife's disappearance

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John Smith is serving life for killing first wife Janice Hartman. Murder charges in second wife Fran Smith's disappearance were dropped in exchange for him revealing where her body is.

John Smith, convicted of murdering his first wife and suspected in the disappearance of his second, had charges against him dropped in exchange for details about her death a former FBI agent investigating the case says are likely untrue. Smith, 73, was sentenced in 2001 to life in prison in Ohio for killing his first wife, Janice Elaine Hartman, days after they divorced in 1974.

In negotiating the non-prosecution agreement, Smith would not admit to the murder but would agree to tell us what he did with her body,' a spokesperson for the Mercer County Prosecutor's Office said in an email. Investigators long suspected Smith was responsible for the disappearance of his wives but had no evidence to convict him. Their luck began to change after approaching Diane Beasly in 1998.

 

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