[Chris9472]

I take it this is the incident you're referring to.

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Smith said he dragged Schaeffel's body into his basement workshop, then sat down on his chair. After a few minutes, Kifer began coming down the stairs and he shot her as soon as her hips appeared, he said.

After shooting her with both the Mini 14 and the .22-caliber revolver, he dragged her next to Schaeffel. With her still gasping for air, he fired a shot under her chin "up into the cranium," the complaint says.

"Smith described it as `a good clean finishing shot,'" according to the complaint.
There's a real similarity to the Ersland case in that Smith decided to administer a coupe de grace.

It's one thing to use lethal force to stop imminent harm. It's something else altogether to assume the role of judge and executioner.

OK... so I didn't get the whole story. What I don't get is that nobody may have known about some of these details had he hadn't bragged about it, not that I condone his behavior in the slightest. He looks like he was enjoying himself way too much.

What a fool!