Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: This Feels Criminal: A True Crime Podcast (Formerly Killer Queens)
Episode: Byron David Smith: Self Defense or Murder?
Description: Leading up to Thanksgiving 2012, Byron David Smith claimed that his home had been broken into at least half a dozen times over the course of a few months, only one of which he reported to the police. On Thanksgiving Day, 2012, Byron was home, reading a book in his favorite reading chair when he heard glass break and decided to take matters into his own hands. The next moments were captured on an audio recorder, as Byron shot Haile Kifer and Nicholas Brady, two teens from his neighborhood. It would be up to a jury to decide, was it self defense or...