Missing/Murdered Karen Jo Smith

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Karen Jo Smith was last seen the night of December 27th, 2000.

Although her Ex Husband was convicted December of 2004, we still have not found Karen Jo's remains. He received 95 years and will be 72 years old when he is able to go before the Indiana Parole Board. As he sits in Wabash Valley Correctional Facility in Isolated Segregation, We still continue our Search for Karen.

When I say We, I mean the Family of Karen. I have came to believe, because of the inaction on the new Police Detective, that we are the only ones searching. It appears that because there has been a conviction that the Missing Person's Department has no interest in working this case.

How sad it is that when a Family can provide information vital to a case to a Detective who worked so hard to bring information and circumstantial evidence to a Prosecutor who was willing to take on this case and receive a Murder 1 Guilty from 12 Jurors, that we are left in a situation of no win!

Please visit Karen Jo Smith's website. Read all the links and you can see the case.

I believe Karen's case needs to make National Attention. Other Prosecutor's and Detectives need to see that it can and is being done throughout the Country. Murder without a Body that is! We can barely get local attention to this case. Only 2 cases had been tried in Marion County Indiana and recieved Murder without a body. I know there are more!

www.missingkarenjosmith.com

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I sincerely hope that your family gets the help it needs to find her; for closure. I cannot imagine seven years without it.

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This tip came from an email user who states to be a cache/treasure hunter and was inquiring about the Reward of $150,000. Which by the way is a full Recording Contract from Karen Jo's Cousin in Nashville, TN, called Castle Records.

Specific directions to the location of Karen Jo's remains were given, too specific in my opinion. After 2 Cadaver dogs hit, after resting twice, both hit on the area we were at. Sadly the LE did not dig, as they did not have a warrant, but 3 of us were digging and got about 3 feet deep. I had pulled old tattered blue jeans out, then stopped, called the Missing Persons (so called Detective), went to his voice mail. Called 911, got put on hold, then I called back.

Found out that Karen Jo's Homicide Detective is still on the case, as his case is not solved until the Victim is located. Even with our Conviction for Murder 1 against her ex, it appears that we are in a battle of departments. Please do not get me wrong, I have a good relationship with the Brass, the Homicide Dept., and most of the State's LE, but our so called MP Detective is a real, you get my drift. What is in it for him? So, to let that part go, here we are in a real situation, no Karen JO. I am reaching out to anyone who knows how to trace this email's IP. There are so many murders in this big city of Indy, that the Detective of Homicide, and the Holidays are holding this up. I am afraid that beings this made the media that there may be those who will go and remove Karen from the spot. We could have been off quite a bit in feet.

I will come back with the links to the media.

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http://www.wthr.com/Global/story.asp?S=7333309&nav=menu188_2

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Investigators search for Karen Jo Smith's remains

Posted: Nov 8, 2007 06:08 PM EST

Updated: Nov 9, 2007 06:24 PM EST



Indianapolis - A possible break in the case of an Indianapolis woman missing for seven years yielded nothing, police said Thursday.

Investigators acting on a tip from the missing persons unit searched a wooded area near the White River near Mozel Sanders Park, west of downtown across the river from old Bush Stadium.

They were looking for the remains of Karen Jo Smith, who disappeared December 27, 2000. A jury convicted her husband for murder in 2004 and he was sentenced to 95 years in prison.

A family member says a search dog spotted something in a wooded area - a pair of jeans the same size that Karen Jo Smith would have worn. Investigators searched a 200-square-foot area with cadaver dogs but in the end did not find anything.

Patti Bishop, Smith's mother, said her daughter "never met a stranger" and would go out of her way to help people.

Investigators searched the area for several hours but did not find any remains.