The Maryland man who fatally stabbed his wife in Baltimore has been sentenced to life in prison. He concocted an elaborate story that a pair of panhandlers had done the deed. They were in East Baltimore and he said that these two mystery men had took her life. He was sentenced to life in prison. Jacquelyn Smith’s fatal injury happened back in late 2018. The city was flabbergasted. The 54-year-old electrical engineer was fatally stabbed in her chest while driving through the city in the middle of the night. Lets talk about the Keith Tyrone Smith’s cover-up: The tractor-trailer driver claimed that he was taking Jacquelyn and his daughter, Valeria, home after celebrating Valeria’s birthday. There was a claim that someone had approached them and asked them for some money. He said that Jacquelyn passed them $10 out the window. He told the authorities that panhandlers snatched Jacquelyn’s necklace, stole her wallet and ended up stabbing her. He actually went on the news and told this tale to homicide detectives and TV cameras. This story almost allowed him to escape to the Mexican Border. He couldn’t make it because the story was not adding up. According to cell phone records, he was not at the place that he claimed. The records placed Smith somewhere totally different. It was no where near an East Baltimore street corner. It showed him on the west side and in the middle of Druid Hill Park. That was one of the inconsistencies in his story. A Jury Found Him guilty of first-degree fatal injury. The evidence showed that he acted with premeditation in fatally injuring his wife. His daughter was also involved, She plead guilty in exchange for a lighter sentence. She admitted to acting as an accessory after the fact of her stepmother’s fatal injury. She also testified against her father. She was sentenced to 5 years in prison. She has

already served almost three of the five years in prison. The Circuit Court Judge Melissa Phinn handed this sentence down in December. She has three years of supervised probation upon her release. Valeria Smith, who is 31, was the prosecution’s key witness at the trial. It was her testimony that helped the prosecutors expose her father’s elaborate cover-up. She was the key witness to the whole ordeal. After he fatally wounded his wife, He made an emergency call. He was real distraught. Afterwards, he took his wife to the hospital. It was not in time for the doctors to save her. While hustling to get rid of the evidence, Keith and Valeria, managed discard Jacquelyn’s wallet to help support their story. He acted like he was so sad during an interview with homicide detectives. He shed tears with his daughter while talking to reporters. He even went as far as saying that Baltimore should outlaw panhandling. Detectives’ grew suspicious as the story took flight. Authorities never found evidence of panhandlers on the street corner. They didn’t find a weapon or cardboard. He had said that they saw the panhandlers with a sign at 1 am in the morning. Smith first told detectives that he didn’t see the weapon. He changed his story and then said it was a kitchen knife. He said the woman’s coat was brown and then he said that it was blue. Blood was splattered on the inside of the car window. He said that the window was down. Investigators doubted that anyone would be panhandling on a very low trafficked street. When detectives brought up that they saw that he was at Druid Hill Park, he then mentioned a detour. After the interview, Smith moved to Florida and got a new cell phone number. He also sent a cell phone to his daughter through the mail. His next move was to New Mexico.