Samuel Lee Smithers
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Samuel Lee Smithers, dubbed the Deacon of Death, was an American convicted murderer and suspected serial killer who was sentenced to death in Florida for the 1996 murders of two women. Smithers murder
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Dusty Spencer
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Dusty Ray Spencer was an American prisoner convicted of murdering his wife in Orange County, Florida. On January 18, 1992, Spencer, who had previously been arrested in December 1991 for domestic viole
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…of the 1950 assassination of state lawmaker Charles Schuh Jr. and executed at age 72 on February 21, 1951. This record was surpassed when 74-year-old Dusty Ray Spencer was executed on June 25, 2026, for the 1992 murder of his wife Karen Spencer. In 2016, true crime writer Fred Rosen penned a book titled Deacon of…
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