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Lemuel Smith
Status
Identification Status	Identified
Criminal Status	Incarcerated
Personal Information
Full Name	Lemuel Warren Smith
Born	July 23, 1941 Amsterdam, New York, United States
Gender	Male
Race/Ethnicity	Black
Criminal Information
Offender Type	Serial Killer
Method of Killing	Beating Shooting Strangulation
Criminal penalty	Death, commuted to Life imprisonment
Victims	6
Span of crimes	January 21, 1958 - May 15, 1981
Country	United States
State	New York
Date apprehended	August 19, 1977
Imprisonment	Green Haven Correctional Facility Great Meadow Correctional Facility Attica Correctional Facility Elmira Correctional Facility Five Points Correctional Facility Wende Correctional Facility

Victims

Name	Age	Disappeared	Body Found	Cause of Death
Dorothy Waterstreet		January 21, 1958	January 21, 1958	Beating
Robert Hedderman	48		November 24, 1976
Margaret Byron	59		November 24, 1976
Joan Richburg	24	December 23, 1976
Maralie Wilson	30		July 22, 1977	Strangulation
Donna Payant	31	May 15, 1981

Bibliography

Literature

• Foley, Denis (2003). Lemuel Smith and the Compulsion to Kill: The Forensic Story of a Multiple Personality Serial Killer, New Lietrim House Publishing. ISBN 978-0972238304

Links

• Lemuel Smith at Wikipedia
• Lemuel Smith. Radford University.