Kelli Froemke
Facts of the Crime:
Convicted in 1996 of murder in a 1994 arson at Grace Apartments. Smith poured kerosene into the rear stairwell and first-floor stairway of the building, starting a fire that killed David “Philip” Cotton and maimed two women. Smith claimed he did it to cover up an earlier mail theft there. He also was sentenced to death in 1998 for the rape and murder of 19-year-old Kelli Froemke, who was stabbed at least 64 times after she let Smith into her apartment under his guise of needing to use the phone. Smith is black, while his victims were white.
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