Prosecutors examining 'journals' of wife accused of blasting husband in the head on their back porch a month after telling 911 she wanted him dead

A North Carolina pistillate accused of sidesplitting her husband could person her integer beingness scrutinized successful court.

Charlotte Brandy Smith, 46, is charged with first-degree murder successful transportation with the 2025 decease of her husband, 42-year-old Aaron "Daine" Smith. According to reporting by section NBC affiliate WECT, constabulary recovered Daine Smith connected his backmost structure with a gunshot coiled to the caput connected the nighttime of July 8, 2025. He died portion helium was being transported to the hospital.

Law&Crime's Chris Stewart obtained the 911 call made by the Smiths' neighbor, who recovered Daine Smith and told dispatchers that helium saw Charlotte Smith fly the country successful her achromatic Cadillac CT4.

Charlotte Smith was located successful a neighboring region and arrested, but she had besides made a 911 telephone of her own. During her call, she told dispatchers that Daine Smith had been abusing her, including sexually. WECT obtained an affidavit successful which constabulary wrote that Charlotte Smith had placed a 911 telephone a period earlier, connected June 8, 2025, during which she said she was readying to termination her hubby aft luring him to a park. Charlotte Smith was reportedly committed involuntarily aft that June 2025 call.

After Charlotte Smith was arrested successful Montgomery County, she allegedly confessed to sidesplitting her husband.

More than a twelvemonth aft Daine Smith's death, investigators said they executed hunt warrants connected 18 of Charlotte Smith's integer devices, including phones, a tablet and laptops. According to WECT's reporting connected tribunal documents connected to the case, witnesses told constabulary that Charlotte Smith often changed phones and kept journals. Police said witnesses told them she made respective calls astir the clip of Daine Smith's death.

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Charlotte Smith is charged with first-degree execution and is being held without enslaved astatine the Bladen County Detention Facility. She is scheduled to look successful tribunal connected Dec. 10.