I Was a Suspect in My Dad’s Murder. Spoiler: Joseph DeAngelo Did It
Decades later, I’m still dealing with the shame.
10 min readAug 14, 2020
The most shameful thing about the murder of my dad and stepmom, Lyman and Charlene Smith, was being a suspect. I can’t believe it happened. I still can’t believe the police thought I could do something so awful. My mom was my alibi that night, and she failed to remember I was home. When I walked in that night, she was in the bean bag chair watching Soap. She didn’t know I had gone into my room and jumped on the phone with my friend…