Friend of Woodstock Girl Killed by Mark Smith Wants No Parole

From April Pohlman, a friend of murdered Jean Ann Lingenfelter, who commented under this June 28, 2008, article:

Nichole Owens’ Opposition to McHenry County Serial Killer Mark Smith’s Parole

I knew Jean Ann, she was a class mate and friend.

She was bright, bubbly, funny and full of promise.

Mark was a creepy evil person who hurt people in many ways and enjoyed it.

Whether it was cruel comments or embarrassing someone, his eyes would sparkle and the joy on his face at causing pain, any kind of pain was terrifying.

I remember him at a party talking about taking a stray dog and torturing it to death slowly. Again eyes sparkling and a huge smile, laughing.

He murdered one of his victims at work, hid the body and went right back to work.

He murdered Jean Ann and went out with others to search for her and “found” her just hours after he savagely murdered her.

Appearing “normal” because his horrific brutality was so normal to him it left him unaffected.

This creature may look human, but that is where it ends.

He is a sick, sadistic monster who CAN NOT be allowed to walk among us.

He is a worse predator than any wild animal. He kills for the joy it brings him to watch the suffering.

I remember how devastated Jean Ann’s family was, The way their health deteriorated and the early deaths, I have no doubt were all part of this.

Mark killed them as surely as he killed Jean Ann.

The fact that he stabbed the toddler next store when he was six, beat up his girlfriend from school and murdered 12 women that we know of seems to indicate that this is his innate nature.

I think it states strongly that he can not be rehabilitated.

He was a born mutation of a human with none of the attributes that makes us human.

Many people thought he was a nice guy.

He was a chameleon adapting to fit in and be what he wanted you to think he was.

This makes him even more dangerous.

I suggest that anyone who votes for his parole be subjected to having Mark live with them the first year he is out.

You should suffer what you inflict on the people he will come into contact with.

That is only fair.

If you don’t want him down the hall from your children then you must keep ours safe from him as well.

He will appear before you, charming, reformed, humble, remorseful…. He will be convincing.

Just look at him and try to imagine the real Mark.

The one each of those women saw as he choked the life out of them.

That is who you would release.

Please keep this savage predator in a cage where he belongs to keep us safe.


Comments

Friend of Woodstock Girl Killed by Mark Smith Wants No Parole — 4 Comments

  1. gruesome part of McHenry County history.

    Book about it is still available. ‘Legally Sane’. Co-authored by his legendary lawyer Hal McKinney.

    This vile monster should never be able to walk free!

  2. Jean Ann was a friend of mine as well as a number of others that skated together often at the McHenry Roller Rink.

    Her murder hit all of us very hard.

    Mark Smith should NEVER be allowed to get out of prison and had I known about showing up for parole hearings, I would have been there.

  3. Hi!
    I was just notified that the parole hearings for Mark Smith will be in August of this year (2019).

    We, the family, will be reaching out for people to send letters to the parole board to ask them to deny his parole ONCE AGAIN!

    We hate that we have to do this, but I vowed to my grandpa (Jean Anne’s DAD), that I would continue to fight to keep Mark in there until he dies.

    I will post again once I get the “official” dates and who to send letters to, once I know.

    Thanks in advance to All that help us with this!!

  4. He was a good friend of my wife and her cousins.

    He truly was a chameleon and put up a good front!

    One cousin, Hallie, rode in his car that police thought he had that girls body in the trunk at that time.

    My brother in law was a McHenry police officer and just a before they arrested him, teased Mark telling him if he didn’t know better he thought Mark was the killer!

    A couple of weeks later they arrested him for the murders.

    He was also linked to several murders in Germany where he was stationed in the Army!

    We had the book but lost it!

    My wife and her family shudder of fear when they thought of him!

    He is long gone from their minds now and praise God!

    He should suffer death the way he dealt it to those women!

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *