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The Murder of Janet Smith

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Janet Smith, was a Scottish twenty-two-year-old nursemaid working for a wealthy family in Vancouver, B.C. She worked alongside Chinese servant Wong Foon Sing. On July 26, 1924, Janet Smith's body was discovered in the basement. She had suffered a gunshot wound, minor burns, and injuries.

Janet Smith's case was not a cut and dry case. The police originally declared her death a suicide, and had her body embalmed without even doing a post mortem.

But after Smith's friends started to protest her ...