Cold Case Spotlight: Tera Smith | Dateline NBC

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  • Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
  • Keith Morrison sat down with Marilyn and Terry Smith to discuss the August 1998 disappearance of their 16-year-old daughter, Tera Smith in Redding, California. Tera has never been found and her case remains open.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 54

  • @jeannielum3929
    @jeannielum3929 2 роки тому +39

    You don't have to look any further...that coach is who is responsible!!!

    • @sandyberger6962
      @sandyberger6962 2 місяці тому +1

      Yep probably told him she's pregnant

  • @indaboyd7791
    @indaboyd7791 2 роки тому +26

    So saddening. Loss of a little girl to some predator like this gym teacher who said he dropped her off in a remote location. Thats the one to look at.

  • @cwbrooks5329
    @cwbrooks5329 2 роки тому +16

    Seriously? Did this "coach" have friends in the PD by any chance? Couldn't have done it because he was praying in the woods for five hours? Maybe it would be a good idea to do some digging in those woods. Nice to know it's so easy to get away with murder. Poor Tera.

    • @Plethora.of.Pinatas
      @Plethora.of.Pinatas 3 місяці тому +1

      No he didn't. Most people hated Troy. He was garbage at his job and well known hack in karate instruction. He uses another name now and last I heard had some coin shop or some shit.

  • @rosalindamendez-ruiz4590
    @rosalindamendez-ruiz4590 Рік тому +10

    He went missing for 5 hours they should’ve searched 5 hours radius he could’ve dumped the body,

  • @brandeemorris8036
    @brandeemorris8036 2 роки тому +12

    Omg so so sad that man was not praying he killed her 5 hours 🙏 BS😢😢😢😢😢😢😢RIP

  • @MrRon1507
    @MrRon1507 2 роки тому +22

    The coach did it!

  • @JesgateOnDown
    @JesgateOnDown 2 роки тому +10

    The family should hire a pvt investigator! A fundraiser or Go Fund Me acct can be set up if paying the P.I. is a difficulty. Definitely *thoroughly investigate that coach & find other girls he has groomed & had underage relationships with. I bet they're out there & they can be questioned. I *feel their daughter's body can still be found.

  • @echochamberz
    @echochamberz Рік тому +16

    its so sad that we have still not found tera, i remember when i was a kid, handing out posters to help find her around town with my parents. her family is so amazing and has always kept such a positive spirit after this, just makes it so much more sad tera still hasn't gotten justice. JUSTICE FOR TERA! TROY is the guy that got away but because they never found the body, they didn't even try to charge him. he literally got away with murder and it makes me so mad.

  • @VoluptuousDonnaRae
    @VoluptuousDonnaRae 2 роки тому +28

    Why on earth did they give up on "the coach" so easy? He is responsible!

    • @davidquee8728
      @davidquee8728 2 роки тому +1

      As someone that lives here and knows about this case quite a bit they literally have no evidence against troy even all of us know the son of a b**** is the one that did this

    • @mooknick242
      @mooknick242 Рік тому

      oh you KNOW he is responsible? lol what a joke people like you make crimes like this tough to solve.

  • @morganm1797
    @morganm1797 Рік тому +4

    Went and prayed for 5 hours. Ummm yeah, don't think so...

  • @BriaBricks
    @BriaBricks Рік тому +8

    So she was pregnant more than likely and the instructor killed her.

    • @patron2022
      @patron2022 3 місяці тому +1

      Bingo!! I honestly felt that and saw she told the coach but he didn’t want it cause he might lose his family & wife and status! So he told her I’ll give u money to get rid of it she obviously declined that’s when he did away with her at the mountain. They need to question him hard and bring search party to the mountain

    • @patron2022
      @patron2022 3 місяці тому

      Not saw I meant sensed

    • @sandyberger6962
      @sandyberger6962 2 місяці тому

      Yep

  • @innergoddess447
    @innergoddess447 10 місяців тому +4

    But it hasn't been forgotten in redding everybody talks about this case still

  • @terilindsay5822
    @terilindsay5822 2 роки тому +9

    One day the truth will come out!

  • @davidquee8728
    @davidquee8728 2 роки тому +8

    I live here in Redding lived here my whole life I still think about this case hence why I looked it up on UA-cam I pray for the day that they find remains in these woods and identify her and hopefully with a little luck and some prayers they'll be some DNA left to bring them to her killer

  • @wojciechslaw
    @wojciechslaw Рік тому +7

    The only mystery here is where the body was hidden. She died on the very same evening. I'm sorry for the gruesome opinion. Poor girl.
    Well, it's not rocket science to say who did it.
    It's not the place where she was supposedly dropped off and the distance to Oasis for work at 7pm that makes me believe what happened there.
    Just remember one rule: If someone in cases like this one gives too many details about what happened and by this suggests the further occurences that might have taken place then it's very, very likely that they're lying and they're responsible for what had happened to the girl. 2000 dollars to borrow!? Hehehe, good one bruv but I don't buy it.
    So leave your doughnuts guys and do a proper job for that poor girl and her family.
    Regards

  • @sabrinajohnson9078
    @sabrinajohnson9078 Рік тому +6

    I think when she ask him for the two thousand dollars & he said he might lend it to her if he knows what it's for and she became upset and went jogging after I don't think he had that kind of money to give I believe he told her no and I fell she attempted to blackmail him by exposing their inappropriate relationship to people perhaps even the cops if he didn't give her the money he snap strangled her & buried her in the area he claimed to be praying for 5 hrs I wonder if the police even search that area it doesn't really sound like they much of anything to be honest

    • @Plethora.of.Pinatas
      @Plethora.of.Pinatas 3 місяці тому

      Locally we thought maybe she became pregnant. I doubt she really asked him for money and that guy is human trash btw.

  • @bt4582
    @bt4582 8 місяців тому +3

    I am going to say it. I hope that Troy Zink confesses and gives Tera's family some closure after all these years. I don't believe that a 16 yr old would ask someone for $2,000, especially in 1998. That is so much money to a young teenager. I am so sorry for Tera and her family. I hope that Troy tells the truth soon.

  • @taurusgirl6847
    @taurusgirl6847 2 роки тому +8

    Wth happened to this girl omg how terrible

    • @kelleymasters9747
      @kelleymasters9747 2 роки тому +1

      If she did actually ask him for the money my guess it was for an abortion. Zinc killed her and buried her on the hill in my opinion.

  • @brianbuswell6112
    @brianbuswell6112 3 місяці тому +2

    He did it they always do .

  • @barbadosantigua1
    @barbadosantigua1 2 роки тому +7

    Thats so sad will keep you in my prayers

  • @Paul-xc5cd
    @Paul-xc5cd 3 місяці тому +1

    Uh yea. The police know what happened. The coach killed her and buried her close by. Do some digging around the area with cadaver dogs.

  • @sandyberger6962
    @sandyberger6962 2 місяці тому +1

    She met with him to tell him she's pregnant..he got rid of her ..he better pray

  • @innergoddess447
    @innergoddess447 10 місяців тому +1

    Oh my gosh I'm trying to solve something that might be a family secret and I came across this oh my gosh it was definitely Troy I think I haven't even watched this video but everyone knows it was Troy zinc everyone in Redding whenever I'm talking about how creepy reading is I always mention this case because like how how did this happen

  • @rubbingisracing6951
    @rubbingisracing6951 Рік тому +1

    Just imagine losing a child this way and still beleive in a God that could have saved her just with a blink of a eye

  • @avajacobborgas1674
    @avajacobborgas1674 3 місяці тому

    Why was Troy let off so easily? His story definitely doesn't add up to me!!

  • @trejamal5968
    @trejamal5968 9 місяців тому +1

    Its Troy Zink.

  • @maria_haarajoki
    @maria_haarajoki Рік тому

    I remember reading an article where her parents said they believe Tera was trying to end her relationship with Zink and we can all imagine what happened next.-- I was born the same year as Tera, it's bittersweet watching these images of her as a teenager. So many years have gone by and still no answers.

  • @kayw5562
    @kayw5562 Рік тому

    He did something to her so sad

  • @michaelfryar6900
    @michaelfryar6900 2 роки тому

    🙏🏻🙏🏻

  • @leythonlopez-ty5dm
    @leythonlopez-ty5dm Рік тому

    And her friend copied her abduction