‘Identify this killer’: Cold case heats up after young girl is brutally beaten, raped & killed while on her way to school
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A decades-old cold case in connection with a young girl brutally raped and killed will be getting another look. As CrimeOnline previously reported, 14-year-old Nacole Smith took a wooded shortcut on Childress Drive in northwest Atlanta on June 7, 1995, which ultimately proved to be fatal. A killer lying in wait snatched the girl, then …