“The problem was the 5-foot, 9-inch minimum height requirement – Lou was only five feet 8 ¾ inches,” writes John Wesley Anderson, a fellow Colorado Springs detective who asked Smit to be ...

The faint markings on the suitcase - possibly a footprint - bolsters retired homicide detective Lou Smit's theory that an intruder killed the 6-year-old beauty queen. "The suitcase is in a peculiar ...