Appalachian Unsolved: The predator and the high school student
Larry Lee Smith has served time in three states for attacks on young women. Authorities think he also killed a Knoxville girl in 1987, but he's never been charged.
Author: John North, Leslie Ackerson
Published: 6:09 PM EDT May 6, 2021
Updated: 3:44 PM EDT May 12, 2021
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Larry Lee Smith likes abusing young women. The Knoxville man likes threatening them, lying to them and entrapping them, as his lengthy criminal record shows.
Authorities think he's also killed a young woman, although they've never been able to prove it. The slaying of 15-year-old Michelle Denise Anderson, a Fulton High School student, remains one of Knoxville's oldest unsolved killings, dating to January 1987.