Jacquelyn Smith had been cautious with cash all her life, recalled her older brother, Marcel Trisvan.
But upon marrying Keith Smith, engineer who at all times selected automobiles that "she knew she may get 20 years out of" grew to become indulgent, Trisvan mentioned.
She traded as much as a Mercedes-Benz.
The couple bought an Audi for Keith.
They usually snapped up a 50-foot yacht.
"I've seen it. It was unbelievable," Trisvan recalled.
Keith Tyrone Smith, 52, now stands accused -- alongside Valeria Smith, 28, his grown daughter from a earlier relationship -- of murdering Jacquelyn on Dec. 1 and concocting a narrative a few panhandler and a knife-wielding man in Baltimore. Police say the 2 made a run for the Mexican border, they usually have been apprehended Sunday in Texas.
Paperwork and people educated concerning the couple point out that Keith benefited financially from Jacquelyn throughout her life -- and had sought to be the executor of her property, which he mentioned was nugatory.
Trisvan known as his sister, who labored at Aberdeen Proving Floor, "100 p.c the breadwinner" within the relationship. He believed Keith, a truck driver, had pushed the lavish life-style. The 2 had married in 2014 in Havre de Grace.
He mentioned her household nonetheless has the home in Aberdeen, which was in his sister's title. Trisvan mentioned police held the Audi and Keith Smith returned the Mercedes after her loss of life.
Trisvan mentioned he had lengthy questioned Keith and Valeria Smith's story concerning the circumstances of Jacquelyn Smith's loss of life.
Two weeks after Keith allegedly murdered Jacquelyn, the widower requested for the routine authorized authority to handle her property.
In line with a petition filed with the Harford County register of wills, he claimed her property was nugatory. Her condominium in Aberdeen was underwater by about $26,000. She could have had her personal checking account, however he wasn't positive.
Smith wrote within the doc that the mortgage payoff on the home is $230,600.78. "No worth in dwelling," he wrote.
A Zillow estimate on the home is $225,095.
Deeds recorded with the state point out that Jacquelyn Smith took possession of the home from her first husband on Dec. 27, 2006. On the identical date she took out a $275,400 mortgage to refinance and payoff the excellent $244,207 mortgage, state data present.
Within the petition, Smith acknowledged that he paid for the $10,000 funeral bills. He states within the doc that he looked for a will however couldn't discover one.
Within the petition, Smith wrote that he was certified to manage the property as a result of he was the "partner" and he "paid funeral expense."
By signing the petition he additionally confirmed that he was "mentally competent" and "not a disqualified individual due to feloniously and deliberately killing, conspiring to kill, or procuring the killing of the decedent."
He then checked the field stating he had "not been convicted" of any "critical crime that displays adversely on my honesty, trustworthiness, or health to carry out the duties of a private consultant."
However he was convicted of a critical crime. Smith was sentenced to 12 years in jail in Maryland after pleading responsible to theft with a lethal weapon twenty years in the past. He served about six years for robbing a financial institution in Timonium and was paroled in 2007, mentioned a spokesman for the state jail system.
The petition even permits candidates who've convictions on their data to state trigger for why their crimes wouldn't disqualify them from administering an property. He left that part clean.
Now her two sons from her earlier marriage have employed a regulation agency to research his claims.
The sons' lawyer declined to say whether or not they consider Jacquelyn's property was in actual fact nugatory.
"We're gathering our data," mentioned Edward Value, the lawyer.
He declined to debate their investigation.
As well as, it stays unknown if she had a life insurance coverage coverage. Any such coverage wouldn't be listed within the property papers. That cash would switch on to a beneficiary.
Keith and Valeria Smith stay jailed in Texas awaiting extradition to face trial for homicide in Baltimore.
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