When police arrested Kermit Smith, a 23-year-old white man charged with the murder of a Black North Carolina cheerleader, "His hands were so bloody, he looked like he'd been killing hogs," Halifax County Sheriff W.C. Bailey alleged.
Smith was arrested at an abandoned gravel pit where he had dumped the sexually abused nude body of 15-year-old Freshman-Whelette Collins, one of the three black cheerleaders abducted from the campus the day before.
Whelette Collins, 15, (3rd photo), Marie Woods, 19, (first photo) and Dawn Killen, 19, (center) were about to leave campus in Collins' car when Smith drew a gun and forced Killen and Woods into the trunk, while he forced Collins to ride inside with him, police reported.
Smith parked the car and forced Collins into the woods. After brutally raping her, Smith smashed her head between 2 cinder blocks-killing her.
Smith returned alone and opened the trunk, the young women hit him over the head with a wrench and began to kick him and punch him in the stomach.
After escaping, the women led police back to the site.
Smith was convicted and executed by lethal injection-five years later.
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