08
July
REPORTS: MISSOURI MAN EYED IN ABDUCTION CASE DIES
aolnews.com/Lauren Frayer
Paul S. Smith, a 38 year old registered sex offender, who was a person of interest in theabduction of 4 year old Alisa Maier, shot himself Wednesday when the police approached him forquestioning. Alisa was found a day later wandering around a car wash parking lot in a St.Louis suburb more than 80 miles from her home. Smith was listed on the Missouri sex offenderregistry as having sodomized a 10 year old boy in 1995. He also served prison time oncharges of tampering with a motor vehicle and