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June 27, 1949 - Mark Alan Smith

His confirmed killings span two countries and stretch across nearly a decade, beginning in his teens and continuing through his military service abroad — a pattern authorities believe may extend further than the cases formally tied to him. The gap between his four prosecuted American murders and the eight he later admitted to committing in West Germany, for which he faced no legal consequences, gives his case an unusual and unresolved quality. The full scope of his actions remains uncertain.

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Mark Alan Smith (born June 27, 1949) is an American serial killer who killed at least four women in Illinois and Arkansas during the 1960s, and was sentenced to 500 years' imprisonment for three of the deaths. Smith later confessed to killing eight women while stationed as a soldier in West Germany, for which he was never prosecuted, and authorities believe he could be involved in other murders, both in the US and overseas.

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