The “Panhandler Murder” That Wasn’t: The Husband Did It!

Anne Marble
6 min readDec 10, 2021

It’s bad enough to kill your wife and drag your daughter into it. Blaming the murder on panhandlers makes it more galling. That’s what happened in Baltimore in 2018.

The “panhandler murder” made the national news, but you may not have heard the truth: the victim was murdered by her husband. Many news outlets didn’t give the truth the same frenzied coverage.

A head and shoulders photo of Jacquelyn Smith, an African-American woman with a wide, generous smile.
Jacquelyn Smith. (Source: WBAL TV Website.)

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Anne Marble

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