Arkansas state Senator found dead of a gunshot under suspicious circumstances

[Swordsmyth]

Arkansas State Police confirmed Thursday that remains discovered at a homicide scene in Pocahontas are those of former State Senator Linda Collins-Smith. Special agents with the ASP Criminal Investigation Division and the Randolph County Sheriff’s Office are continuing to investigate.


Her body was discovered outside the home, located at 4023 Arkansas Highway 90 West, late Tuesday afternoon, according to Bill Sadler, public information officer for ASP.
The Randolph County Sheriff’s Office responded to the scene, then contacted ASP’s Criminal Investigation Division to assist.


Randolph County Sheriff Kevin Bell held a press conference Wednesday and confirmed details on the body found.


“The dead body of a female was discovered at the residence of former Arkansas State Senator Linda Collins-Smith," Bell said. "The condition of the body prevented any immediate positive identification.”


The sheriff’s office asked that ASP be the “lead investigative agency in what is currently being handled as a homicide investigation.”


Prosecuting Attorney Henry H. Boyce stated in a release Wednesday that no information about the case while it is under investigation.


“Third Judicial District Court Judge Harold Erwin issued an order sealing the documents and statements obtained by police during the pendency of this investigation.”
Prosecuting Attorney Henry H. Boyce



Talk Business & Politics stated there were “conflicting reports of where her body was found and how long she may have been deceased.”


It added that the state crime lab was “investigating the death as a possible murder.”

More at: https://www.kait8.com/2019/06/05/former-state-senator-linda-collins-smith-found-dead-gunshot-wound/

Just a few months back she called into the Q-anon channel Patriot’s soapbox. (http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/former-arkansas-state-senator-calls-into-qanon-youtube-channel/) A judge very quickly sealed all the records relating to the case. (https://katv.com/news/local/arkansas-judge-seals-police-records-in-killing-of-former-senator-linda-collins-smith)

[donnay]

My first thought was... what does she know about the Clinton's?

[Swordsmyth]

My first thought was... what does she know about the Clinton's?
She was from Arkansas............................

[donnay]

Flashback:


Tolbert: Rep. Collins-Smith Joins Republican Ranks
TOLBERT REPORT
by Jason Tolbert (jasontcpa@yahoo.com) August 8, 2011 7:00 pm

The last couple of weeks Republican insiders have been abuzz about a possible party switch of a state legislator from the Democratic to the Republican Party. The Arkansas News Bureau reports that the Republican Party has a news conference scheduled for Wednesday morning at the state capitol and this is likely the subject of the conference. Indeed, the Arkansas GOP put out a press release that it will hold a press conference on Wednesday at 10:45. In addition to House and party leadership, a “special guest” will be in attendance.

Speculation is that State Rep. Linda Collins-Smith of Pocahontas will likely be announcing that she is switching from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party. As a freshman representative, Collins-Smith distinguished herself as one of the most conservative Democrats under the capitol dome voting many times with the Republican minority. She was also a regular at the weekly conservative caucus lunch during the session.

In addition, Collins-Smith was a vocal opponent of the latest Arkansas House map approved by Gov. Mike Beebe and Attorney General Dustin McDaniel. The map puts her in the same district with Rep. Lori Benedict (R-Sturkie) in a oddly-shaped district. The new Senate map also moves Collins-Smith into the same district with Sen. Robert Thompson (D-Paragould) and only a few miles from the district with Sen. David Wyatt (D-Batesville.)

We will know for certain tomorrow, but it is a safe bet that Linda Collins-Smith will be in the capitol rotunda tomorrow at the announcement.

UPDATE – It’s official! Collins-Smith confirmed what I speculated yesterday that she is switching parties from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party. She made the announcement flanked by a couple dozen Republican elected officials including Lt. Gov. Mark Darr, Congressman Tim Griffin, and another recent party switcher, Saline County Sheriff Bruce Pennington.

“I am here today to announce that I have joined the Republican Party of Arkansas,” began Collins-Smith to the applause of those around her. “My decision was made after much thought, prayer, and discussion with my family.”

She explained that she ran as a Democrat in 2010 and she was raised a Democrat.

“I came to Little Rock believing that it was not too late for the Arkansas Democratic Party to reject the far drift of the national Party. I truly hoped it could once again be the party of the people. I wanted to help move the Party back to the values of those everyday voters,” said Collins-Smith.

“Unfortunately, I found that the politics of Washington and the politics of the liberal left in that Democratic Party of Arkansas that there is no room for conservatives. Those who question the folly of excessive taxation are unwelcome. Those who stand for the right of babies in the womb, they are outcasts. And those who seek to create jobs by making Arkansas a business-friendly state are punished.”

“I do this because I have found it is the Republican Party that has become the party of hard-working common-sense people. It is the Republican Party that strives to live by the ideal expressed in our state motto, ‘The People Rule.’ It is the Republican party that most closely holds to the principles that I and most other Arkansans believe in: Government that manages limited finances wisely and lives within its means: government that encourages the development of business, both large and small, to create jobs for hardworking Arkansas families, government that values and protects the life of every citizen from the womb to the grave, government that doesn’t try to regulate the everyday life and personal choices of law-abiding people, and government that is better, not bigger.”

“If you remember only one thing, I hope it is this: ‘I have not changed.’ I am the same today as I was when the people of Randolph and Sharp Counties elected me. I have not left the Democratic Party, but the party left me. And I believe it has left behind the majority of the good, decent, freedom-loving people of Arkansas,” concluded Collins-Smith.
https://talkbusiness.net/2011/08/rep-collins-smith-joins-republican-ranks-updated/

From Wiki:


Personal life
Collins-Smith owned and operated a Days Inn hotel in Pocahontas. Until their divorce in 2018, she was married to Philip Smith, a circuit court judge.[11] They have two children.[2]

Collins-Smith was found dead from a gunshot wound at her home in Pocahontas on June 4, 2019. According to local law enforcement, the exact circumstances of her death are unknown due to the condition of the body at the time of discovery. The death is under investigation.[12][13] Collins-Smith's remains were found outside her home.[14]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Collins-Smith

[TheTexan]

What kind of monster would do such a thing to an elected state Representative?

[Swordsmyth]

What kind of monster would do such a thing to an elected state Representative?

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[tod evans]

What kind of monster would do such a thing to an elected state Representative?


Until their divorce in 2018, she was married to Philip Smith, a circuit court judge.

Any more questions?

[Swordsmyth]

My first thought was... what does she know about the Clinton's?
You win :directhit::100::flashinglight::trophy::money::cla p::clap::clap::clap::clap:



Pro-Trump Arkansas State Senator who was found shot to death in her home and had all Police records relating to the investigation preemptively sealed by a judge immediately may have been looking into some way the Clinton Foundation had embezzled $27 million from DHS and Child Protective Services. (https://projectspeak.net/speak-flash-2)

[Swordsmyth]

A second former GOP state senator was found dead from a gunshot within a span of two days.


Former Oklahoma state Sen. Jonathan Nichols, 53, was found dead inside his home in Norman on Wednesday night from an apparent gunshot wound, police said. Cops are working with the Oklahoma Medical Examiner’s Office to determine the exact cause and manner of death.


His death comes just one day after former Arkansas state Sen. Linda Collins-Smith, 56, was found fatally shot outside her home in Pocahontas on Tuesday. Police are investigating her death as a homicide.




Arkansas and Oklahoma lie side-by-side, with a distance of under 500 miles between Pocahontas, Ark., and Norman, Okla., where the deaths occurred.

More at: https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-second-state-senator-found-dead-from-gunshot-oklahoma-20190607-y3m6zo2gnvh25cu46fprk5cfni-story.html

[DamianTV]

Is she one of the people that pushed hard to put Abortion Doctors in jail for 99 years?

[Anti Globalist]

Hmm...shes a former senator from Arkansas and the Bill Clinton was the governor of that state. Nothing to see here folks.

[Working Poor]

Sounds like Arkancide to me

[timosman]

Why Is Nobody Talking About THIS?!? 49,192 views JustInformed Talk


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[Swordsmyth]

A second former GOP state senator was found dead from a gunshot within a span of two days.


Former Oklahoma state Sen. Jonathan Nichols, 53, was found dead inside his home in Norman on Wednesday night from an apparent gunshot wound, police said. Cops are working with the Oklahoma Medical Examiner’s Office to determine the exact cause and manner of death.


His death comes just one day after former Arkansas state Sen. Linda Collins-Smith, 56, was found fatally shot outside her home in Pocahontas on Tuesday. Police are investigating her death as a homicide.




Arkansas and Oklahoma lie side-by-side, with a distance of under 500 miles between Pocahontas, Ark., and Norman, Okla., where the deaths occurred.

More at: https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-second-state-senator-found-dead-from-gunshot-oklahoma-20190607-y3m6zo2gnvh25cu46fprk5cfni-story.html
On Thursday, Norman police announced Nichols died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound and there is no foul play related to his death.
The department says its investigation is complete, pending the final report from the Oklahoma Medical Examiner’s Office in reference to the manner of death.

More at: https://kfor.com/2019/06/27/investigation-into-former-senators-death-finished-norman-police-say/


"Suicide"

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CACKLES IN DEMON SPEAK

[Swordsmyth]

The FBI has intervened in the murder investigation of former Arkansas state Sen. Linda Collins-Smith, according to federal agents who detailed what the Republican politician was investigating prior to her grisly murder.

Documents in the case have reportedly been sealed and police have released few details about the circumstances surrounding the death of Collins-Smith, who was elected to the state senate as a Republican in 2014 but lost a re-election bid last year.

With a murder suspect already in custody, however, federal law enforcement sources revealed Collins-Smith, at the time of her death, was probing child pornography cases linking to a child trafficking syndicate in Arkansas.
“She had developed this information through contacts and people very close to her,” a law enforcement source said. “The plan was to go public with all of it or hand it to law enforcement outside of Arkansas.”
The FBI sources would not say whether the former senator was working with the FBI prior to her death. But federal insiders said the FBI began interviewing witnesses in the case in recent weeks. Also the Secret Service has taken an interest in the case as well, though FBI sources would not elaborate on the Secret Service’s role.

The revelations of federal intervention into the case were revealed on Thomas Paine’s insider Intel show (https://www.patreon.com/truepundit). Paine has recently broken several exclusive FBI scoops on the Patreon show (https://www.patreon.com/truepundit).
Collins-Smith was a very vocal critic of the Arkansas Department of Human Services and its Child Protective Services unit. In recent months, Collins-Smith was probing the corrupt agency for a pay-to-play adoption scheme with foster parents, federal sources said. According to reports and interviews the Arkansas child protection agency is also missing an estimated $40-$50 million that has reportedly vanished.
Collins-Smith was working to trace these funds, insiders said. One federal source said the Secret Service could be focusing on the missing funds.

Per media reports, (https://heavy.com/news/2019/06/philip-smith-linda-collins-husband/)the home where Collins-Smith’s body was found is also owned by her ex-husband, described by the newspaper as “Philip Smith, a retired judge whose district covered Randolph County.”
However, according to The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2019/jun/05/former-arkansas-senator-collins-smith-dies-57-gop-/), the couple separated in 2016. The home where Collins-Smith’s body was found is also owned by her ex-husband, described by the newspaper as “Philip Smith, a retired judge whose district covered Randolph County.”
The couple separated in 2016 before filing for divorce the following year, according to court records.
The newspaper alleges that the divorce was considered “bitter” and involved disagreements over property and money. The divorce was finalized (https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2019/06/04/forer-sen-linda-collins-smith-reported-fatally-shot-in-pocahontas) in 2018.
The divorce led to employment-related problems for Philip Smith. The retired judge was reprimanded by the Judicial Discipline and Disability Commission, the Arkansas Times reported (https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2019/02/22/retired-judge-reprimanded-for-personal-use-of-office) in February 2019.
The already retired judge, who left the bench in 2017, “agreed not to serve in the judiciary in the future, including by temporary assignment,” the newspaper reported, adding that the complaint “arose from testimony” he provided during his divorce from Collins-Smith. He was accused of using office “computer equipment after hours for ‘extrajudicial activities’” that was not specified, according to The Arkansas Times.

More at: https://truepundit.com/fbi-reveals-murdered-arkansas-senator-planned-to-expose-child-pornography-child-sex-trafficking-syndicate-feds-probe/

[UWDude]

The FBI has intervened in the murder investigation of former Arkansas state Sen. Linda Collins-Smith, according to federal agents who detailed what the Republican politician was investigating prior to her grisly murder.

Documents in the case have reportedly been sealed and police have released few details about the circumstances surrounding the death of Collins-Smith, who was elected to the state senate as a Republican in 2014 but lost a re-election bid last year.

With a murder suspect already in custody, however, federal law enforcement sources revealed Collins-Smith, at the time of her death, was probing child pornography cases linking to a child trafficking syndicate in Arkansas.
“She had developed this information through contacts and people very close to her,” a law enforcement source said. “The plan was to go public with all of it or hand it to law enforcement outside of Arkansas.”
The FBI sources would not say whether the former senator was working with the FBI prior to her death. But federal insiders said the FBI began interviewing witnesses in the case in recent weeks. Also the Secret Service has taken an interest in the case as well, though FBI sources would not elaborate on the Secret Service’s role.

The revelations of federal intervention into the case were revealed on Thomas Paine’s insider Intel show (https://www.patreon.com/truepundit). Paine has recently broken several exclusive FBI scoops on the Patreon show (https://www.patreon.com/truepundit).
Collins-Smith was a very vocal critic of the Arkansas Department of Human Services and its Child Protective Services unit. In recent months, Collins-Smith was probing the corrupt agency for a pay-to-play adoption scheme with foster parents, federal sources said. According to reports and interviews the Arkansas child protection agency is also missing an estimated $40-$50 million that has reportedly vanished.
Collins-Smith was working to trace these funds, insiders said. One federal source said the Secret Service could be focusing on the missing funds.

Per media reports, (https://heavy.com/news/2019/06/philip-smith-linda-collins-husband/)the home where Collins-Smith’s body was found is also owned by her ex-husband, described by the newspaper as “Philip Smith, a retired judge whose district covered Randolph County.”
However, according to The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2019/jun/05/former-arkansas-senator-collins-smith-dies-57-gop-/), the couple separated in 2016. The home where Collins-Smith’s body was found is also owned by her ex-husband, described by the newspaper as “Philip Smith, a retired judge whose district covered Randolph County.”
The couple separated in 2016 before filing for divorce the following year, according to court records.
The newspaper alleges that the divorce was considered “bitter” and involved disagreements over property and money. The divorce was finalized (https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2019/06/04/forer-sen-linda-collins-smith-reported-fatally-shot-in-pocahontas) in 2018.
The divorce led to employment-related problems for Philip Smith. The retired judge was reprimanded by the Judicial Discipline and Disability Commission, the Arkansas Times reported (https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2019/02/22/retired-judge-reprimanded-for-personal-use-of-office) in February 2019.
The already retired judge, who left the bench in 2017, “agreed not to serve in the judiciary in the future, including by temporary assignment,” the newspaper reported, adding that the complaint “arose from testimony” he provided during his divorce from Collins-Smith. He was accused of using office “computer equipment after hours for ‘extrajudicial activities’” that was not specified, according to The Arkansas Times.

More at: https://truepundit.com/fbi-reveals-murdered-arkansas-senator-planned-to-expose-child-pornography-child-sex-trafficking-syndicate-feds-probe/

Just a friendly reminder pizzagate is real.