A Conspiracy Of Family

They hated one another until murder brought them together

Edward Anderson
CrimeBeat
Published in
6 min readMar 10

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Denice Smith, Alejandro Rivera, Deborah Graham mug shots Image from Tennessee Police

Aaron Smith was surprised when officials at the Cleveland, Tennessee post office asked him to open a package in front of them in 1997. The return address was in Atlanta (later found to be fictitious) but postmarked in Miami. They knew it contained drugs but wanted to see if he knew something about it.

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Edward Anderson
CrimeBeat

Edward has written hundreds of acclaimed true crime articles and has won numerous awards for his short stories.