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Husband sentenced for using ‘splitting maul’ ax to kill wife


Inset: Craig Smith (Upshur County Criminal District Attorney

Inset: Craig Smith (Upshur County Criminal District Attorney’s Office). Background: The area around 728 Walnut Street, Gilmer, Texas, where Craig Smith lived with his wife Vennessa Smith (Google Maps).

A husband and father in Texas is heading to prison for murdering his wife with a “splitting maul” ax as their daughter listened to them fighting “next door,” according to prosecutors.

Craig Smith, 41, was sentenced Wednesday to 50 years in prison for the February 2024 killing of Vennessa Smith, 42. She was found “lying in blood in her bed with multiple large lacerations” to the upper parts of her body” on Feb. 26, according to the Upshur County Criminal District Attorney’s Office.





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