A serial killer on Detroit’s east side – and this isn’t the first time.
The cases are eerily similar. What’s different now is the response from Detroit police. Read the full article here
“Which is why Smothers says he confessed to private investigator and former FOX 2 investigative reporter Scott Lewis. The private investigator was hired by Searcy’s family to look into his case.
Lewis interviewed Smothers by phone during the course of that investigation – a confession played in court – in an effort to free Thelonious Searcy, who prosecutors still maintain is the real killer.
On the recording:
Lewis: “Vincent, who committed the murder of Jamal Segars?”
“I did,” Smothers says on tape.”
View the whole Fox 2 article and video segment – Here
Was it murder or suicide? I was hired by the family to look into this disturbing and intriguing case in Grosse Pointe and I came to a conclusion. My opinion of the case is mentioned in the last sentence of this Detroit Free Press Article.
I’m no longer covering the news, but often as a private investigator I’m hired by news organizations to help them break news as I did with story on the Lansing sex scandal reported by Mlive.
Michigan police botched an investigation into a mother’s death and wrongly concluded that she had committed suicide, her devastated daughter has claimed. Her daughter says she has evidence to prove that her mother, JoAnn Matouk Romain, 55, was actually murdered before her dead body was found floating in a river in Ontario in 2010.
On the day of Kwame Kilpatrick’s sentencing Scott Lewis, on the Paul W. Smith show talks with guest host Chris Edmonds, sharing inside information about how he was once targeted by Kilpatrick’s security team. Lewis also talks about his move from TV investigator to private investigator.
