John Smith, convicted of murdering his first wife ... playbook but corrected the only mistake he made in the murder of Janice Hartman — keeping her body in a place where it would be accidentally ...

Evil John Smith hid his first wife's remains in plain sight at the family home before his second wife went missing, and his third was narrowly saved from danger by police ...

The disappearances of John Smith's wives Janice Hartman and Betty Fran Gladden-Smith led to a murder mystery that unravelled for over two decades. While Hartman (23) disappeared in November 1974 ...

Following the hearing, Petrucci asked if the prosecution could mention basic facts, like that John Smith was married to a woman named Janice Hartman in Ohio. Warshaw initially said no. “Right ...

John Smith was described by some who knew him as a “really ... As one investigator explained, things started to “snowball” when they learned that Smith’s first wife, Janice Hartman, had also ...

John Smith, the main suspect in both cases, married Hartman in 1970 and Fran Gladden in 1990. Janice Hartman went missing in November 1974, and Fran Gladden supposedly disappeared after she went ...

The age-old mystery of the disappearing wives of John Smith came to a climactic end in 2000 when the FBI got involved in the investigation. Two days after divorcing his first wife, Janice Hartman ...

John Smith - who is serving life in prison in ... system to continue serving the sentence for killing his wife Janice Hartman. Fran Gladden-Smith disappeared from her West Windsor condominium ...

The FBI identified that the remains belonged to Janice Hartman two decades later after John Smith's second wife, Fran, went missing under similar circumstances. Smith had reported his first wife ...

Another discovery related to Betty's husband, John Smith, shed light on the mystery as the mummified remains of his first wife, Janice Hartman, were identified in April 2000, per NBC News.

John Smith is a convicted killer serving a prison sentence in Ohio that could keep him behind bars for life for the 1970s death of first wife, Janice Hartman. Authorities did not charge him for ...

When Diane Beasley headed out on a first date with her future husband John Smith ... Single mum Diana, who met Smith in 1998, was told that his first wife Janice Hartman had left him broken ...