Murder
On August 2, 1993, Eric Smith was riding his bike to a summer day camp in a local park and 4-year-old Derrick Robie was walking alone on a sidewalk to that same camp, the first time Robie had ever walked on a sidewalk alone. Smith saw Robie and strangled him, dropped a pair of large rocks on the boy’s head, undressed his body, and sodomized him with a tree limb. The cause of death was determined to be blunt trauma to the head with contributing asphyxia.
Around 10:00 am, Robie's mother, Doreen, went to the park to pick up her son, only to find that Robie had not arrived. After four hours of investigation, Robie's body was found. The murder case made national headlines, largely due to the young ages of the killer (13 years) and of the victim (4 years).
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