“Cold Justice” Helps Arrest Predator After 31 Years of Cindy Smith Murder
Larry Timmons spent the time terrorizing other women and children.
Three decades is a long time. Incidentally, this case is about as old as I am and only saw a breakthrough as recently as two years ago. The case was considered a cold case until the makers of the TV Show Cold Justice decided they were going to do something about it.
Cynthia Smith (Cindy) was a 31-year-old woman and a mother of two sons — Shawn and Jason, who were 8 and 4 years old at the time of her death in 1988.
Shawn was her son from a previous marriage, and she was now living with her second husband Louis Smith.
Her second marriage with Louis was also not going too well and they were in the process of getting a divorce.
However, before they could go through with a divorce, Cindy’s life would be unfortunately cut short when she’d be killed in a murder that would evade the police for over three decades.
The Murder and the Known Facts of the Case
It was July 28, 1988, when Cindy had gone down to a bar called the Checker’s Bar in the small town of Lawrence County, in Missouri. She had gone there with a couple of her friends and…
