The most famous and perplexing Met heist happened the week of Valentine’s Day in 1979. Thanks to its state-of-the-art security systems and hundreds of guards on duty, in its more than 150-year history, the museum has been the victim of mercifully few heists. Though there are so many items spread out over so much space, the Met guards its treasures very tightly. The Metropolitan Museum of Art stretches over 2.2 million square feet and houses more than 1 million objects. It wasn’t until my second trip in the garage that I found him, and he kind of was under a bench, which if you just drop, you don’t drop under a bench.” “After I put my car in the barn, there was one tiny light on in the shop, or the garage, and I went in, and I didn’t see him and I gave a holler, no answer, so I came in the house and I thought “eh something isn’t right” because the door was locked to the garage and he never locked the door. His wife, Barbara Smith, discovered him after arriving home in the early evening to the unusually unlit and empty house. NewsSource8′s Brian Bouchard reviews the facts of this unsolved homicide.ĭarrel Smith was 56 years old, just 4 days away from his 57th birthday when he was shot and killed in his garage along Thomas Road in Woodland on the snowy day of February 6th, 2008. Was Darrel Smith's murder a robbery gone wrong?ĭarrel Smith was shot to death at his Woodland home 15 years ago, and as time marches on his killer is still at large.
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