The two men in the well of the Cobb County courtroom last Friday could have been mistaken for opposing counsel, calmly standing next to each other as they reviewed an audio recording the jury had asked to be replayed.
But one man had called the other “a maniac,” “a monster,” “an obsessed psychopath” and a “cold-blooded killer.” And 20 minutes after hearing the recording, the jury agreed with the prosecutor that Waseem Daker was guilty of the 1995 murder of Karmen Smith, whom he bound, stabbed and strangled before nearly killing her 5-year-old son Nicholas with 18 stab wounds.
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