Cold Case Solved After Suspect Confesses To 1971 Shooting Of Maryland Deputy



A 1971 cold case was solved after the suspect confessed to shooting a special deputy sheriff. Larry David Smith said he accidentally shot Capt. James Tappen Hall. WRC’s Paul Wagner reports.

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17 comments

  1. cops let the suspect walked free all those years ago! what a sloppy Maryland detective work…

  2. Best thing to do with cop killers is putting them down they're told right from day one to not hurt them to respect them when they got older they decided to have that zombie mentality pop them like they're hot f*** them before they're cold and yet they just want to blame video games and not music movies or books or even parenting because strong parenting would have told this individual from day one and kept reminding them not to shoot a cop not too hurt a cop funny some zombies are not humans sad you might be

  3. What i like about these cold cases is i hope that murderers out there who have not been caught will always be looking over their shoulder!

  4. Basically, the cops knew in 1971 and did nothing about it. Now the want a pat on the back?

  5. now if they would prosecute 1 of emit tills murderers shes living her best life while his family still mourns his horrific and brutal murder. this goes to show justice heals old wounds not time.

  6. Good job, Peepz. Take them down! I love y'all 💯💯❤️

  7. Larry smith, what a generic name

  8. “If it was such an accident he should of just said the truth since the beginning….. honestly his family needed closure!!! & I’m glad that they finally had it and never gave up!!!!!

  9. "i shot the deputee, but i didnt shot the sherif" or something like that..

  10. What a good daughter. She never gave up

  11. I can almost see the cops patting themselves on the back, meanwhile Larry is just happy he has a retirement plan.

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    SIMFEROPOL, September 8 – RIA Novosti. The chairman of the movement “We are together with Russia”, a member of the main council of the administration of the Zaporozhye region, Volodymyr Rogov, called for the demilitarization of the right bank of the Dnieper, from where Ukrainian troops are shelling the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant.

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    Earlier, the head of the Ukrainian Energoatom, Petr Kotin, after the IAEA report, which spoke about the creation of a security zone in the area of ​​the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, expressed the idea of ​​bringing a peacekeeping contingent into the ZNPP territory and into Energodar to demilitarize the plant.

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