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woman while he just idly stood by. Near the end of his testimony, he even said that Smith supposedly joked about hitting her with a frying pan, calling it "the old kaBANK! trick". Smith would eventually be convicted of the murder and sentenced to life imprisonment without parole, but continued to proclaim his innocence, in addition to verbally degrading his former accomplice.
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At trial, Smith pleaded not guilty to the charges relating to Ulrich's murder, with his trial being set for
October 15 at the request of his court-appointed attorney. At his request, the trial was expedited even further and started on October 11, done in conjunction with Jackson's attorney, who was
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occupied by 74-year-old Hazel Wilson. After prying the door open, the pair went inside and beat up the elderly woman until she was unable to get up. Jackson and Smith then ransacked the house, stole some valuables and promptly left. Wilson was found two days later by a concerned neighbor and driven
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when they spotted 14-year-old
Charmel Ulrich and 13-year-old Laurie Leach walking along a rural path. Jackson then convinced him to pull over, then he and Butler got out to talk to the girls. Suddenly, they shoved Ulrich inside the car but failed to capture Leach, who managed to escape. Smith then
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in early August. On August 5, they broke into the house of 59-year-old Julia
Annabell Armstrong and proceeded to beat her to death before ransacking her home. Two days later, they were picked up by 18-year-old Michael Anthony Butler, who agreed to aid them in their crime spree. Later in the day,
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his right to a jury trial in the Toran case and agreed to plead guilty. After receiving a life term in that case, Jackson and his attorneys offered to plead guilty in the Ulrich case as well, but this motion was denied by Judge
Richard Burke. In response, Jackson's attorney petitioned the
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and brought to the nearest police station, where he readily admitted guilt to the abduction and murder, even offering to show detectives where he believed the body might be buried. After initially leading them to some campgrounds in
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