15 CHILDREN WHO HAVE LOST THEIR INNOCENCE AND BECAME MURDERERS!

11. Eric Smith

During the summer of 1993, a 13-year-old Eric Smith was biking to a day camp when he saw Derrick Robie, a 4-year-old boy, walking alone in the park. He approached the boy and took him to a wood nearby. There, Smith strangled the boy to death, smashed his head with a rock, undressed the body, and introduced a tree limb into the boy’s body. The body was found on the same day. Smith was arrested and the case shocked the whole country, because of the violence and the age of the killer. In 1994, Smith was convicted for a minimum of nine years (the maximum for killers his age). During the trial, the defense claimed that Smith suffered bullying at school for years and it could have motivated his anger. Years later, Smith wrote an apology letter to the family and read it on television. He was denied parole eight times since 2002. Smith can try again in 2018.