{"id":17608,"date":"2012-10-22T17:29:20","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T21:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=17608"},"modified":"2012-10-22T17:29:29","modified_gmt":"2012-10-22T21:29:29","slug":"pregnant-woman-found-murdered-day-before-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=17608","title":{"rendered":"Pregnant Woman Found Murdered Day Before Wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BROOKLYN, NY &#8211; <\/strong>A woman who was eight months pregnant was found stabbed to death Saturday in her apartment, the day before her wedding, police said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vindalee Smith<\/strong>, 38, was found on the floor of her apartment in the East Flatbush section of Brooklyn with a gaping wound in her neck. It wasn\u2019t clear how long she\u2019d been dead before the body was discovered by her landlord. Her unborn child did not survive.<\/p>\n<p>There was no sign of forced entry, and no weapon was recovered, police said. Investigators are looking for a possible suspect. They interviewed her friends and family, and spoke to her fiance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t even begin to imagine who would want to do that,\u201d her friend, <strong>Sybil Samuel<\/strong>, told local newspapers. \u201cIt would be the devil, to kill a woman with a child in her stomach. They killed two people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Smith<\/strong> had four children in their teens and 20s, friends said. A baby shower had been planned for Saturday evening, followed by a small wedding Sunday. Friends told reporters that <strong>Smith<\/strong> had met her fiance about a year ago.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BROOKLYN, NY &#8211; A woman who was eight months pregnant was found stabbed to death Saturday in her apartment, the day before her wedding, police said. Vindalee Smith, 38, was found on the floor of her apartment in the East Flatbush section of Brooklyn with a gaping wound in her neck. It wasn\u2019t clear how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}