Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal · Ghost Town

366: The Thanksgiving Day Murders

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Hear the haunting audio of Byron Smith shooting two teenagers in his dark basement, taunting them as they die.

The episode details the 2012 Thanksgiving Day murders in Little Falls, Minnesota, where retired security officer Byron David Smith shot and killed two teenage burglars, Haley Kiefer and Nicholas Brady, in his basement, recording the entire event. It explores Smith's paranoia, the chilling audio evidence, the legal trial, and the controversies around stand-your-ground laws, culminating in his life sentence.

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