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On august 1st of 1983, i received a phone call from my brother, sam. he told me sid was gone, that he was killed, and murdered, and that he walked in and found him. the first thing the police look for in any type of a homicide scene is sign of a forced entry through the door or window, or a sign of a struggle, and they didn t see any sign that there had been an obvious burglary, robbery or assault in this apartment. that leads investigators to think that they should be looking from within, they should be looking at roommates or friends or relatives or people who had access to this apartment, people who had access to sid wells. in this case, the police started ....
What added to that suspicion was thayne smika s sister lived in the house, telling us that they had just cleaned that room and that previous to august 1st, 1983, that gun wasn t in that bedroom. i remember feeling at the time that we probably had our man. in early october, 1983, thayne smika was arrested for murder in the first degree. we heard thayne smika had been arrested, we were elated. i thought, ah. got the family settled down, law enforcement did their job, boom, we re going to get the rest of the story now and really find out what happened to sid. i certainly had a feeling of relief that we had solved the ....
Years. the things he s missed out on, while thayne is out there enjoying his life, such as it is, no justice in that at all. sid s murder has been agonizing for us. my brother who found sid, his life has been forever changed. it s almost like he s frozen in that moment in time. there s not a day that goes by that i don t think about it. i would like to see thayne smika arrested and charged duly. it would make me very happy. i d be probably the happiest guy alive. because of a terminal illness, i don t know that i ll live long enough to see a ....
Envelope. the note was a note from thayne smika, and it was to sam and sid wells informing them that he had gone home to his parents house and he would be back in a couple of days. what was interesting to the police was that there were a number of small spots of blood found underneath the note that thayne smika wrote. it appeared that the note from thayne to sid and sam and the envelope had been placed there after mr. wells was shot. somebody placed that envelope after the murder. after the murder. that puts thayne smika as suspect number one. the police drove to search the house of thayne smika s mother. shock. absolute complete mystification. ....
at this point, thayne smika was our primary suspect. friends and acquaintances of mr. smika reported him as behaving erratically. they thought that he was using drugs and just kind of going downhill fast. we also interviewed another witness. jeff cohen was a friend of sid s. we learned from jeff that everybody had been up the night before into the early morning hours of august 1st. he told us that what was supposed to happen that evening or early morning was thayne was supposed to return some money to sid, and in addition to paying the rent was also going to give sid some additional money and some cocaine. jeff told us that his friend sid had been selling small amounts of cocaine in the previous months, and that sid had suspected that thayne smika was stealing cocaine from sid. ....