Cherish Perrywinkle and her “Good Samaritan” murderer

On the evening of June 21, 2013, while shopping at a dollar store in Jacksonville, Florida, Rayne Perrywinkle and her daughters were approached by a man who offered to buy them clothes at the nearby Walmart store. Hesitant at first, Rayne decided to accept the kind gesture and went with the man who unbeknownst to her, turned out to be Donald Smith, a registered sex offender released from prison a mere 20 days earlier.

The family were shopping for about an hour and at around 10:30 pm, Smith offered to treat them to dinner at a fast food chain nearby. He walked out of the store together with Rayne’s eldest 8 year-old daughter, Cherish who was wearing an orange dress at the time. The surveillance camera image of the pair walking out of Walmart was the last photo of the little girl alive as she was later found tortured and murdered, in the marsh of nearby Broward Creek.