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Longest serving female prison inmate, convicted of strangling a baby, released

Tuesday, August 14th, 2012

  America’s longest serving female prison inmate, Betty Smithey, was released today after being incarcerated for the past 49 years. Smithy, now 69-years-old, was convicted in 1963 for the New Year’s Day murder of a 15-month-old baby girl. Smithy was 20-years-old when she was working as a live-in babysitter for the Gerberick family in Arizona.  ... read more »