BALTIMORE — The Maryland man who stabbed his wife to death in Baltimore and created an elaborate ruse that a pair of panhandlers in East Baltimore killed her was sentenced to life in prison Monday.
Jacquelyn Smith’s murder in December 2018 shocked the city: a 54-year-old electrical engineer at Aberdeen Proving Ground stabbed in her chest while driving through Baltimore in the middle of the night.
Then there was Keith Tyrone Smith’s cover-up: The tractor-trailer driver claimed he was taking Jacquelyn and his daughter, Valeria, home after celebrating Valeria’s birthday when Jacquelyn passed $10 out the window to a couple panhandling at the intersection of East Chase and Valley streets. He told police that panhandlers snatched Jacquelyn’s necklace, stole her wallet and stabbed her.
