Behind every face and every action, there’s a name. The search for those names is where the journey begins.
Fox 4’s Senior Reporter Kaitlin Knapp is on a mission to get to know the names we know, and perhaps find the ones we don’t, along with the detectives working in the same communities you call home.
In Fox 4’s series called “Sunshine Crimes,” we are going across southwest Florida to tell the stories of people waiting for justice.
This case was solved, and now, it ends in the same place: behind bars.
Watch below to see how the case was solved 20 years later:
SUNSHINE CRIMES: Man confesses to Fort Myers cold case while behind bars
Back on June 12, 2004, Fort Myers Police say 20-year-old Corey Smith was shot and killed in front of his mother’s house on Royal Palm Avenue.
Over the years, Fort Myers Cold Case Detective Michael Iarossi says they started building leads.
“Initially Rodney was on our radar on another matter,” Iarossi said.
Rodney Davis — a friend of Smith’s…or so he thought.