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Byron David Smith was a 65 year old retired security engineering officer with the US State Department.
He was residing in Little Falls, Minnesota in 2012 when his home had been broken into half a dozen times.
Eventually, Byron had enough of these routine break-ins and set up security systems, including four different security cameras set up around his property.
Some of the things stolen from Byron include but are not limited to:
Thousands of dollars in cash.
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3,000$ camera
His metals and ribbons from the war of vietnam.
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His father's P.O.W wristwatch.
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On the day of thanksgiving, 2012, Byron Smith parked his truck away from his home, giving the appearance of an empty house.
He then withdrew to his basement with a rifle and a .22 caliber handgun and laid in wait for the theives.
Approximately 1 hour later, 17 year old Nicholas Brady, and his 18 year old cousin Halie Kifer begin to case the home.
Nicholas eventually enters the home by shattering a window which can be heard in the full length recording.
After some meandering upstairs, Nicholas descends the basement stairs, and is shot three times by Byron Smith, after shooting the teenager, Byron can be heard uttering a rather callous remark to the deceased victim: "You're dead."
Byron can then be heard dragging Nicholas's deceased body into a workshop room at the bottom of the staircase.
10 minutes later, the voice of Halie Kifer is heard calling out the name of her cousin: "Nick?"
She then begins to descend the basement stairs. Byron fires 1 shot at Halie, causing her to go tumbling down the stairs.
His rifle then jams, and once again Byron can be heard taunting the half dead duo: "Oh, sorry, did i do that?"
Halie can be heard screaming and saying: "Im sorry!" before Byron takes out his .22 revolver and shoots the teenager 4 times in the chest. As he is shooting the teen, he is again taunting them, saying: "You're dying."
He then can be heard dragging Halies body in to the same workshop where her cousin is. Byron realises that Halie is still breathing, to which he responds by placing the revolver directly under her chin and pulling the trigger.
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No sympathy for those thieves. It's sad to see someone who fought with their life for a country's citizens to then turn around and rob an old man's house repeatedly. Especially things that were irreplaceable. I wish the best for the old dude, he has suffered enough.
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I too was satisfied by the outcome of those rodents.
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He’s going to die in prison - which is good and proper, as he didn’t have to execute those two teenagers. He’s definitely a stupid man, too.
He should’ve simply had these kids arrested, and waited for an armed intruder, in which case he would’ve sated his psychotic lust for revenge AND enjoyed living the rest of his life outside of a small cage.
Defend yourself with a gun all you want, but if you want to start executing incapacitated people, maybe don’t start with two teenagers who absolutely did not deserve to die.
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Didn’t deserve to die? Maybe they didn’t deserve to die, but they roll that dice when they enter MY HOME. This guy shouldn’t have been all creepy and executing them like that, but if you enter my home without permission in an attempt to take things from me I’ve worked hard for, then that’s your choice, and my choice is to defend my home and possessions. Don’t like it, don’t break into a mf’s house. Simple. There’d be a lot less B&Es if more people were killed. It’s a deterrent.
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Why so much hate? Get a psychiatrist to help you out with your anger issues and the other ones who liked your comment.
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He is rotting in a cell where he belongs. Most of the info op provided was Byron’s account of these “routine break-ins”. Not exactly a reliable narrator as is evident with his psychotic ramblings.
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and they both are rotting in the ground where they belong.
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i see both sides. yes you should know you might die and thats a risk doing shit like B&E, but after shooting them till they cant move and are basically dead already, why execute them and taunt them, you already won and just wanted to spill more blood
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The guy has a point.
The case stinks to high heaven and i can see why he was found guilty.
I suspect much of the true events hasn't come out.
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Hopefully you join them soon.
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Yeah honestly if he wanted to kill robbers in his house there were better ways of going about it legally, provided the robbers were literally breaking into your house already, ends don't justify the means here I suppose. But at that point I think he hardly cared what would've happened to him after he got caught, he just wanted that sweet sweet revenge.
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You break into my house repeatedly there won't be a .22 wait for you I promise.
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Nobody wants your anime figurines goober.
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If you break into someone’s house you might get shot. That’s the dice you roll. Two sides of a coin here. They probably deserved to be shot, but at the same time this guy set a trap for sure. The recording was a bit sadistic and not needed. Probably swayed the jury to their decision. That’s a rough case.
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He recorded himself taunting them and executing them, he's a dumb ass. I have no sympathy for thieves who get shot after breaking into someone's house, but executing them goes way too far.
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11 years old confirmed.
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its funny when kids watching gore and death try to justify whats right and wrong😂 fucking idiots all of you
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Can i lick your feet? 🥺
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They valued another persons property more than their own lives.
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So a man is pushed to his boiling point and kills some thieves because the law enforcers couldn’t do there job again
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Yes, by the liberal understanding of the world we live in "poor misdirected youth" can do whatever they want without even a slap on the wrist and as a victim you just have to take it. I see this every day in the streets of my city. Thugs do whatever they want. And if you call the police they'll laugh at you.
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That was some crazy ambushing
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Had every right right to take action once they were on his property illegally. Did not, however, have the right to execute the girl like he did. That wasn’t self defense or protecting his property. That was cold blooded murder. Anyone who thinks different should re-evaluate what they think a human life is worth.
Moral of the story: don’t break into people’s homes. As well as don’t execute teenagers who you’ve already incapacitated. And if you are planning to do the latter, sure as hell don’t leave audio evidence of you doing it.
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You aren’t fully obliged to come in and rob a old veteran, thinking it’s a easy target. You have no clue as to what he has gone through, and it’s sad thieves robbing him remind him of how shitty of a world he his and has to take matter into his own hands. Really hope he’s getting the help needed today and doing well, he didn’t deserve that.
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Mmmhmmm they fucked around and found out😂
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Dumb kids.... Sucks they had to learn the hard way, but it's their own damn fault...
𝕽𝖆𝖎𝖓 𝕺𝖓 𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕾𝖈𝖆𝖗𝖊𝖈𝖗𝖔𝖜
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This was really interesting! I love the depth you can feel to things when you're forced to really listen to them. Are there any other good audio clips running around like this? I know of one where a guy steals a plane and talks to air traffic control until he crashes but this is completely different.
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Theres a audio tape where a killer says what they’re going to do with a kindnapped person, can be found on youtube.
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Stupid kids fucked around and found out. Raise your children well and this won’t happen. Glad both pieces of shit got killed. It’s a shame the man went to prison for this. Seems kind of unfair considering they broke into his home. At that point castle doctrine should have covered his ass since he no longer had a legal duty to retreat. Not sure how this resulted on a conviction although I suspect maybe it had something to do with failing to report the shooting and moving the bodies around.
They died because they were dumb and thought they could just break into an American home and pillage like it’s Europe or something. This is America, you commie fäggots. If you wanted society to respect and value your life you should have respected the lives of others. Can’t do that? Good, because now “you’re dead” lol
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You don't seem to understand Castle Doctrine. It is not a license to kill and be judge, jury, and executioner on your property.
It is a right to defend your property. He was probably in the clear until he executed her with that last shot.
That last shot is murder, a much worse crime than B&E.
Most of society agrees. That's why he's a convicted murderer now.
You do realize Europe has less crime right?
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You are the one that doesn’t seem to understand what Castle Doctrine is. For starters, in most states you are not allowed to use deadly force to defend property, whether it’s in your house or not.
Castle Doctrine basically means you don’t have a duty to retreat when in your own residence and can use deadly force to protect your life (not necessarily your property although some states allow that).
Stop making shit up dude. Castle Doctrine is not about defending property.
His mistakes were:
Not calling 911 immediately after the shooting
Recording himself, which was later used against him to establish intent (the bulk of his conviction was based on this)
He had every right to use deadly force and kill them, and they were serial criminals/drug addicts and the world is better off without them anyway. He shouldn’t have recorded himself and he should have called 911 right away. He was convicted because he effectively lured criminals to his property with the intention to kill them. In my book if you fall for a trap like that I’m ok with you getting shot.
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You are allowed to use deadly force, yes. Had he just shot them both in the head and killed them outright he might not have wound up in jail. But castle doctrine absolutely does not give you the right to execute someone who is already incapacitated. That's why he's in jail for the rest of his life. He's a murderer.
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Well, I didn’t say Castle Doctrine allowed you to kill a non-threat. To be clear, Castle Doctrine doesn’t even protect you if you kill someone guilty of nothing but trespassing. But I didn’t say what you are suggesting I said, you are being dishonest.
Let me be even clearer:
The people that got shot were drug addicts who were known thieves. They were tied to other burglaries around the area. They were not good people or anyone who deserves our concern or attention even. Anyone killing them would be providing their community with free community service. We don’t even need to factor in the fact that the guy was a war hero and clearly someone who did actually deserve our concern and attention.
The guy that did this tremendous act of community service could have gotten away with it, covered by Castle Doctrine, but he fucked up in the ways I outlined above. The jury didn’t really make a mistake -they did in fact follow the law-, but that doesn’t mean an injustice wasn’t perpetrated by incarcerating an otherwise decent man for technically luring two subhuman pieces of shit and killing them.
He shouldn’t have recorded himself, he should have called 911 immediately but he was 100% right in mag dumping on those pieces of shit and it’s a damn shame he is in prison over them.
Is that clear enough, fäggot??
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That's nice.
People use "property" to refer to their personal residence all the time. That's how I was using it. Nice TED talk though.
The jury, judge, and prosecutors disagree, proving you completely wrong.
This is what I mean by "you don't understand Castle Doctrine"
You literally don't, you can say whatever you like, but if you think you understand the law better than a judge, jury, and prosecutors, you are an idiot.
Think whatever you like, try this and society will throw your psycho ass in prison for the rest of your life.
This guy thought he understood Castle Doctrine too. He didn’t. You don't either.
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Damn 🥰
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truly just curious- did he ever go to the police about the half a dozen break ins prior to this incident?
I just wonder if this maybe could’ve been avoided.
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man is acting like a camper on cod black ops 3
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Dude sounded like he was playing call of duty with all the quips after the shots lol
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just call the cops in that situation, I wonder if he thought recording the sound would help him legally in some way, else why record it?
crazy how he was talking to them like that.
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Yep. if he did all that to kill them, he could very well get them arrested.
They were just kids. They didnt deserve to die so young.
Just make them get arrested and paying all the stolen things.
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this entire comment section is a war
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you're awfully late to the party.
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I believe a veteran should not suffer that. they keep their lives in line provide service to their motherland for not enough reward And taking them away because you want the new Iphone or something is probably is a treacherous crime against their men of war these medal werent meant to be on the hands dickheads who were going places they weren't supposed to be
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yeah but he didn’t have to taunt and execute them, could’ve just called 911 or something
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Yeah watch people die
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by the way :
i can confidently say as a greek person that your would sound like
MSMPTTH MTHRI
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splendid.
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Is there any reason to listen to the 30 minutes? Because even the 3 minutes one was kinda slow with lots of silent parts
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Good, I’m glad.
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Damn this site is full of pussies
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Hell yeah. Wish i could've seen their useless faces. Good riddance
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Byron Smith is in prison for the rest of his pathetic life
Remember kids no matter how much you value property over life you can’t set up an ambush and execute people.
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Why would I try to rob someone’s house?
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Snapshots:
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This seems more like a trap than defending your property. This was premeditated.
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They came to HIS house. It's not like he advertised free beer or anything. They were habitual thieves. Not by accident. Talk about premeditated. Where do you think the two would have gone from there? You don't think they would have become model citizens. He saved the world a lot of trouble.
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Jesus guys. They were young asf. 18 and 17yo... and you guys are there commenting they deserved to die. ffs.
They didnt kill anyone, ofc they deserve a fucking beating for stealing a guy that spend his life working... but not dying.
They are kids, they deserve a second chance not fking dying so young.
And the guy was sadistic asf. saying to a 18yo kid "ur dead" or the 17yo girl "your dying bitch".
He could just make them get arrested, but no, lets go the american way.
Amazed by the amount of people here saying that kids got what they deserved.
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