Byron David Smith Full Length Home Audio Recording of Double Homicide

True Crime Podcast 2025 - REAL Police Interrogations, 911 Calls, True Police Stories and True Crime

Byron David Smith Full Length Home Audio Recording of Double Homicide

Contains audio of Smith murdering two teens

The Byron David Smith killings occurred on Thanksgiving Day of 2012, when Haile Kifer, 18, and her cousin, Nicholas Brady, 17, broke into the home of Byron David Smith, 64, in Little Falls, Minnesota, in the United States. Smith, armed with a Ruger Mini-14, shot the teens separately and minutes apart as they entered the basement where he was, later stating to police he was worried about them being armed.

On November 22, 2012, Smith drove his vehicle down the road, parking it in front of a neighbor's home. Later that day, Kifer and Brady broke into Smith's home. Video surveillance captured the teens casing the property prior to the break-in.

By his own account to police, Smith had been visiting neighbors when he saw Kifer, who he suspected was responsible for the burglaries, driving towards his home. Smith then commented that he needed to get ready for her and went back to his home. Upon entering his home, Smith turned on a recording device he owned. He removed the lightbulbs from the ceiling lights and positioned himself in a chair that was obscured from view. He heard the window upstairs break and Brady climb in (captured on audio). Smith then waited in silence for 12 minutes, until Brady began to descend into the basement.

Smith shot Brady twice on the stairs, and once in the head after he fell to the bottom of the stairs. Smith then made taunting remarks to Brady's body, wrapped it in a tarp and dragged him into another room. He went upstairs, and 10–15 minutes later, he ran back down into the basement, reloaded his weapon and took up his previous position in the obscured chair. Minutes later, Kifer entered the home and could be heard calling her cousin's name.

As she made her way down the stairs, Smith shot her. Wounded, she fell down the stairs, and can be heard on the recording screaming "I'm sorry" and "Oh God"; Smith shot her again, multiple times in the torso and once next to her left eye with a High Standard Double Nine Convertible .22-caliber single-action revolver. He repeatedly called her derogatory names and then dragged her into the other room, tossing her body on top of her cousin's, and shot her one final time under the chin, killing her.

The chilling full-length audio recording from Byron David Smith’s home captures a deadly Thanksgiving Day encounter that shocked the nation. Smith, a retired security engineer, recorded the moment he shot and killed two teenage intruders in his Minnesota home. The audio reveals his calculated actions, unsettling monologue, and lack of remorse—raising questions about self-defense, vigilantism, and premeditation. This case ignited a nationwide debate on stand-your-ground laws and the limits of self-defense

.Keywords:

Byron David Smith, home invasion, self-defense, stand-your-ground, castle doctrine, true crime, chilling audio, full recording, Minnesota shooting, deadly encounter, home security, criminal trial, forensic evidence, murder or self-defense, vigilante justice, controversial case.