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That night, at a Pima County jail, Smithey tried to kill herself. Her accounts were confused. She said the baby had been crying. At her trial, the prosecutor read an interview transcript in which Smithey said she'd fallen asleep next to Sandy and found her dead when she woke up. I don't remember doing it, but I must have," she said. Her attorney tried to argue that she was mentally ill, with a defense psychiatrist describing Smithey as having only "limited and borderline" awareness of right and wrong.
A state psychiatrist countered that though she was emotionally unstable, she was legally sane. On July 10, , after jurors found Smithey guilty of first-degree murder, she shouted, "I'm not going to prison!
I'll kill myself! You watch! Nineteen days later, Superior Court Judge Henry Stevens sentenced her to life without parole, and she was transferred to the women's prison at Florence. Nearly five decades later, Smithey remains imprisoned at Perryville. She is, by all accounts, a different woman and not just by virtue of the fact that she'll turn 70 this fall. In a article she wrote for a prison newspaper, reprinted by ThePhoenix Gazette, she praised then-Warden Marjorie Ward for improving conditions for inmates.
Before Ward, she said:. If you gave a matron a dirty look, you could go to 'the hole. I was there once for five days on nothing but bread and water twice a day -- for five days.
No solid food. I can honestly say I've been in 'the hole' more times than any other inmate here. In , she escaped from a state prison in Missouri where she and other women prisoners had been transferred, making her way to Indianapolis before being recaptured.
In June , back at the Florence prison, she escaped while on a work assignment in Coolidge, again making her way to Indiana before being captured 19 days later. She escaped again later that year in October by forcing the lock on the main door of her dormitory, cutting through a fence and scaling a 6-foot-high masonry wall topped by 4 feet of fencing and razor wire. She was recaptured four days later in a cotton field about 6 miles from the prison.
After the women's prison was moved to 32nd and Van Buren streets in Phoenix, Smithey escaped again in November She was caught after being spotted on Interstate 17 a few hours later.
Then, a few days before Christmas, in , a letter arrived that changed everything for her. I have thought of you often in these years.
Not with hate, as you may think, but with sadness, for I forgave you many years ago. I'm sending you this Bible in the hope that it will bring you peace and hope. May the Lord bless you and give you peace and the strength to know that Jesus loves you very much and is always there when you need Him. Even now, 29 years later, when Smithey describes receiving that letter, it's clear that it hit her like a thunderbolt. I was shocked. She sent me a Bible; she even sent me a beautiful necklace, back when we could have things like that.
But after Gerberick's letter, "that's when I started to forgive myself. She has thought endlessly about the murder but can't explain why she did it because she doesn't really understand it herself. In their unanimous recommendation that her life sentence be commuted, the five members of the Arizona Board of Executive Clemency quoted from a psychiatric evaluation that attributes the murder to Smithey projecting her own childhood suffering onto Sandy Gerberick, so that, without being consciously aware of it, "she felt she was stopping the baby's pain by stopping it from crying.
It sounds so bland and flat -- everybody says they're sorry. I can't bring back the life that I took. Smithey stopped trying to escape from prison -- and from what she had done. Her disciplinary record began improving. She enrolled in self-improvement classes. She read the Bible. She earned her GED and went on to complete 52 hours of college credit before the Department of Corrections canceled the program.
She published several poems as part of a prison-writing workshop, also now discontinued. Smithey also gradually weaned herself from the anti-psychotic medications she had been taking since entering the prison system.
By , she had shown such signs of progress that the clemency board recommended to Gov. Fife Symington that he commute her sentence to make her eligible for parole. Symington denied her commutation without comment in early Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? Comments 0. Top Stories. Japan's former princess leaves for US with commoner husband 1 hour ago. Woman killed in Atlanta park was stabbed, cut over 50 times, autopsy shows Nov 13, PM.
ABC News Live. She had major mental problems at the time stemming from her tumultuous upbringing in orphanages, foster homes — suffering physical, sexual, and emotional abuse. Had this evidence been produced at her trial, she would likely have received a 2nd degree murder conviction and been released years ago. In , at age 20, she hated herself, tried to kill herself numerous times and escaped four times in the first 15 years of incarceration.
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