John Smith has long been suspected in the death of Fran Gladden-Smith in Mercer County.
against a former New Jersey man they believe killed his second wife in Mercer County in 1991, but they learned he disposed of her body shortly after her vanishing.
Smith, in a deal to have the case dropped, admitted to the prosecutor’s office he discarded his wife’s body in Middlesex County, according to Sherrie Gladden-Davis, the victim’s sister. The prosecutor’s office declined to discuss details of the Smith case, other than confirming the office dismissed the case last month after determining they could not overcome their burden of reasonable doubt.
She said it was telling that Smith talked about disposing the body, since the statute of limitations on that had run out. Fran Gladden-Smith disappeared from her West Windsor condominium in September 1991. She went by Betty Fran and was 49. He said his wife had packed a suitcase and he theorized to police she’d gone on a trip. But police found the suitcase, and investigators and Gladden-Smith’s family grew increasingly suspicious of John Smith, since his wife was recovering from hip surgery at the time.Although not officially a homicide, West Windsor police never stopped giving it the weight of a murder investigation, and in 1999, it paid off.
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