- Born
- Died
- Birth nameSharon Faye Smith
- Nickname
- Shari
- Shari Faye Smith was born on June 25, 1967 in Columbia, South Carolina, USA. She died on June 1, 1985 in South Carolina, USA.
- Younger sister of Dawn Smith Jordan.
- Seventeen-year-old Shari Faye Smith was abducted from the driveway of her Lexington County, South Carolina home on Friday, May 31, 1985, at approximately 3:15 p.m., two days before her high school graduation. State officials and local F.B.I. agents initiated the largest manhunt in South Carolina history, which lasted until her body was found on June 5, 1985. Larry Gene Bell was convicted of her murder and that of Debra May Helmick, a little girl he kidnapped and murdered exactly two weeks after he kidnapped Shari. He was given two death sentences and was executed in the electric chair in South Carolina on October 4, 1996.
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