GA GA – Rhonda Ilean Smith, 21, Atlanta, Fulton Co., 27 Feb 1984

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A podcast by Nancy Grace is generating interest in the case of Newnan resident Rhonda Ilean Smith, who has been missing since 1984.

Grace interviewed Smith’s parents, Jack Smith and Ilean Cornell; her cousin, Nancy Cunningham; Sheryl McCollum, director of the Cold Case Research Institute; Steven Lampley, former detective; and Winston Skinner, news editor at The Newnan Times-Herald.

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JerseyGirl said:
A podcast by Nancy Grace is generating interest in the case of Newnan resident Rhonda Ilean Smith, who has been missing since 1984.

Grace interviewed Smith’s parents, Jack Smith and Ilean Cornell; her cousin, Nancy Cunningham; Sheryl McCollum, director of the Cold Case Research Institute; Steven Lampley, former detective; and Winston Skinner, news editor at The Newnan Times-Herald.

Nancy Grace podcast generating interest in missing woman’s case
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@JerseyGirl Thanks for posting this. I hope to find all my questions and analyses up the thread in this podcast.
 
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Yes I listened to all of it. Thanks MS Grace...I'm not giving up too. Highlights from the podcast tomorrow..I'm to tiered now...
 
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What Cowetta County town was Rhonda living in? Lennox Square Mall (if same Lennox Mall she went to in 1984?) is NE of downtown ATL. Cowetta County is SW. Without traffic congestion, the drive from the most SW corner of the county to Lennox would be about 64 miles. Today that distance in 6:30 a.m. ATL traffic would take 2+ hours. Today that mall opens at 10 a.m. What time did it open in 1984? Why go then, why that day?

I’m wondering if the whole mall/ truck/ beer bottle/ wine glass collection is a red herring. Just SW of Cowetta County is the massive West Point Lake area. Lots of possibilities for body disposal. It would be an easy decoy to get people looking in the totally wrong opposite direction.

What was wrong with Rhonda’s car? Was it really at a shop to be fixed? What shop? Was the mechanic interviewed? Who arranged for RS to borrow her BFs dad’s truck? Was BF’s dad interviewed by LE? Is he still alive today to be interviewed (again?)?

I’m not saying I think BF is responsible, but all angles of his story should have been verified. Especially since he was the last to see her alive. Did LE verify every piece of that story? Or any pieces?
Are there ANY pieces we know for sure to be true?
 
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Family of Rhonda Smith still seeking answers

Lots of details in Nancy Grace podcast posted upstream & this article- weather, locations, fishy details. I really hope Rhonda’s family gets some answers & justice for their only child.
 
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JudgeJoe said:
Family of Rhonda Smith still seeking answers

Lots of details in Nancy Grace podcast posted upstream & this article- weather, locations, fishy details. I really hope Rhonda’s family gets some answers & justice for their only child.
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Still didn't have time to do a summery of the highlights. The podcast clears a couple of things up. It's really a brain scratch ...lot's of things don't add up or are worrying.
 
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Let's remember she was a dancer. Nickname "legs". Could she have had an appointment with somebody from the place where she was a dancer. Ready to quit...ready for a new challenge? And somebody took it the wrong way? Was she meeting up romantically with somebody she new from the place of work? I'm not sure in what kind of clothes she was dressed normally, but according to the pictures, basic. That day she was dressed in a camel colored rabbit fur coat and a silver colored blouse. Her fiancée wasn't straight...she was upset about things...he was lying about his job and was trying to keep her away from her mom. "Don't call your momma when we have an argument" and according to him she couldn't come to the phone when she was ill when her mother called....seems a little to much controlling to me.
 
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this was about the time Franklyn Floyd was there with Suzanne Sevikas and he went to strip clubs/bars with her ...makes you wonder.
 
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Bit of hope said:
Let's remember she was a dancer. Nickname "legs". Could she have had an appointment with somebody from the place where she was a dancer. Ready to quit...ready for a new challenge? And somebody took it the wrong way? Was she meeting up romantically with somebody she new from the place of work? I'm not sure in what kind of clothes she was dressed normally, but according to the pictures, basic. That day she was dressed in a camel colored rabbit fur coat and a silver colored blouse. Her fiancée wasn't straight...she was upset about things...he was lying about his job and was trying to keep her away from her mom. "Don't call your momma when we have an argument" and according to him she couldn't come to the phone when she was ill when her mother called....seems a little to much controlling to me.
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According to sources posted upstream, she hadn’t been on the club’s schedule for quite some time. She was opening a dog care business & had cards printed. IF she was really going to Lennox Mall, people dressed up back then just to go to the “posh” mall. But the only person to report seeing her in her silver blouse, gold necklace & fur coat was her then fiance, with whom she was living. Mom reported shower curtain missing when going to house to collect her things. Odd fiance’s dad’s truck was found at Lennox. Supposedly she borrowed it because her car wasn’t running.
 
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I am not a fan of Nancy Grace, not wish offering any offense, but she remind me that TV anchor in the movie "Gone Girl"
 
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marsyao said:
I am not a fan of Nancy Grace, not wish offering any offense, but she remind me that TV anchor in the movie "Gone Girl"
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I hear you. She can get dramatic to an irritating degree. However, if Rhonda were my only daughter, I’d kiss the ground she walked on just for bringing this cold case back into the spotlight front & center. LE at the time did a slipshod job. No prints, testing or preservation of truck, wine glass, beer can. No record of interviews with key players- like the dad who “loaned” her his truck. Or the “mechanic” of her non-working vehicle. Shame on them!
 
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JudgeJoe said:
I hear you. She can get dramatic to an irritating degree. However, if Rhonda were my only daughter, I’d kiss the ground she walked on just for bringing this cold case back into the spotlight front & center. LE at the time did a slipshod job. No prints, testing or preservation of truck, wine glass, beer can. No record of interviews with key players- like the dad who “loaned” her his truck. Or the “mechanic” of her non-working vehicle. Shame on them!
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You are of course right
 
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Does anyone know if her family is still around and pursing the case at all?
 
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I hope they searched for Rhonda in these waters. Very near to the address she lived with her fiancé.

Google Maps
 
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Kirk Spears said:
Thanks. I'm new here. Haven't learned the lay of the land. Forgive me for asking dumb questions sometimes.
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Forgiven. :) There are no dumb questions. There are questions that already been asked and answered, but in refreshing there is no harm. Welcome btw.
 
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