Comments on: Experiencing Terror Behind the Walls in Philadelphia

by: Linda Farrington

Fri, 02 May 2008 15:29:12 +0000

Does anyone know where Elmo Smith was from and what he did for a living? How did he get caught?

by: Justin Gardner

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:23:24 +0000

I live down the street from where Elmo Smith put Mary Ann’s body. He dropped her into a well out in Montgomery county. My mom was a teenager when it happened. He was put to death by electric chair on April 2nd 1962.

by: Kevin Fennell

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:10:49 +0000

My great aunt was targeted by Elmo Smith and it was my great uncles car where they found the body of the girl. So don’t say he was innocent the man killed that girl, and deserved to die.

by: Joan E. Burke

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 14:28:18 +0000

It was about 196l when the horrible murder of Mary Ann Mitchell took place. The graffic details of the torture & murder were in the Phila. newspapers, and the evidence against Elmo Smith was convincing at the time. Their names have always stayed with me. Elmo Smith was the last person to be executed in the electric chair in Pennsylvania.

by: Delores Smith

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:42:04 +0000

I have never forgotten his name we were high school students from little flower so many of us were very scared at that time. It was so close to home

I would like to know more about Elmo Smith and what ever happened to him.

by: Linda Farrington

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 01:32:21 +0000

Where was Elmo Smith from, and how old was he when he commited the crime. I am too young to remember the crime. However, I have heard many people talk about it. Why do you feel he was falsely accused?

I did not find his picture ” creepy”, but he did look very young.

I would like to hear any information you have regarding his arrest and trial.

by: Sally

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 17:38:31 +0000

Elmo Smith murdered Mary Ann Mitchell a sophmore from Cecilian Academy. Mary Ann had been to the movies with friends and was standing by herself waiting for a bus at Henry Ave. & Walnut Lane. She came from a poor family. Her mother worked in a factory to send her to Cecilian. There is no question that Smith murdered her.

by: hazzel

Sun, 25 Nov 2007 21:46:21 +0000

Want a picture? Go to Eastern State Penitenuary site undre photos, 4th picture. Standing with minister in front of a white sheet

by: hazzel

Sun, 25 Nov 2007 14:11:53 +0000

I knew Elmo Smith personally, and although he had some issues as we all do, he was not a creep by any means Falsely accused of this horrendous crime and imprisonment in such facilities as you mention here, left him appear to be “creepy”