The Truth, Revealed by Bugs: The Case of Brookey Lee West
Monday, May 11, 2009 - 19:49
in Psychology & Sociology
When Brookey Lee West’s mother, Christine Smith, disappeared from her Las Vegas apartment in 1998, Ms. West had a convincing explanation: She had sent Ms. Smith to stay with her son, Ms. West’s brother, in California. The story seemed to hold up at first, but by February 2001, when the police found Ms. Smith’s body stuffed into a garbage can in a Las Vegas storage unit, the situation smelled undeniably foul.