UPDATE CONCERNING WASEEM DAKER!!
Since my recent recantation, I understand all of your anger towards me. There are no words to express how sorry I am not only to Mr. Daker and his family but also the entire public.
There is a lot of misinformation, misunderstandings and lack of the truth getting out to the public. I want to clarify some:
I first want to apologize for lying. It is inexcusable and despicable. There are many things from my past I am not proud of and very ashamed of. I am extremely sorry.
Back in 1995 Mr. Daker and I were friends and on the same paintball team. He was welcome into my home. He babysat my daughter and we formed a friendship.
Yes, I was a drug addict.
Yes, I engaged in consensual sexual relations with Mr. Daker.
Yes, he did call my home relentlessly and would come to my home at all hours without permission.
Yes, he was suicidal and threated to kill himself.
Yes, he placed a gun to his head and threated to kill himself.
Yes, I did contact the police in Fulton County, GA in an effort to get the phone calls, the unannounced visits to my home to stop and also in an effort to get Mr. Daker help for his suicidal threats.
In the middle of August 1995 when the Detective working on the harassing communication case came to my apartment in Roswell, GA, in the course of that conversation, he said he couldn’t do much about the harassing communication or Mr. Dakers suicidal threats but if I were to say he threatened me and my daughter, that would give him more to work with.
That is what I did on 9/1/1995 when he came to my place of employment. (Which also happens to be the day I moved to Cobb County, GA.)
Karmen and I were NOT roommates. She lived in a basement apartment, in-law suite below me. She had her own private entrance.
I moved to Cobb County just 7 weeks before her murder.
ALL PRIOR police reports were harassing communications. In those reports, NOTHING is ever mentioned concerning threats to my daughter or myself. My ONLY concerns at that time was for Mr. Daker’s personal safety due to his threats to harm himself and also wanting the calls and his coming by my Roswell, GA apartment to stop.
On several occasions Mr. Daker did in fact take my medication and flushed it down the toilet. Which angered me. We did get into altercations at my home over my drug abuse. I was the aggressor and attacked Mr. Daker for taking/flushing/ my pills and threatening to contact my family and employer that I had an addiction to pills and also that I was stealing medication from the Doctors office I worked and was also using their DEA number to call in prescription drugs for myself. I was a selfish, self-centered, self-serving drug addict who only thought of her and the pills.
Yes, I wanted the calls to stop. Yes, I wanted Mr. Daker to stop coming by my Roswell, GA home. Yes, I wanted Mr. Daker to get help for his suicidal threats.
On 9/1/1995 Mr. Daker was arrested at my place of employment for violating a restraining order. He was at my place of employment calling from a payphone threating to tell my employers I was stealing Xanax, Ambien, and Prozac from the office. (my place of employment)
He was held in Fulton County Custody for 3 weeks and then ordered by the court to inpatient psychiatric help for his depression. He was released around 10/13/95. (10 days before Karmen Smith was murdered)
On 10/23/1995 Karmen Smith was brutally strangled to death, her 5 year son Nick stabbed 18 times. My 10 year old daughter was just feet away when Nick was grabbed into the room and attacked. It was a horrific day for everyone involved.
It was traumatizing for someone I knew, who lived below us, to be murdered and her 5 year old son attacked and my daughter being downstairs at that time of Nick’s attack.
NOTHING CAN PREPARE ANYONE FOR SUCH A HORIFIC CRIME. I was terrified.
Karmen’s sister was yelling in my driveway about my stalker.
The police led me to believe it was Waseem.
I falsely believed Waseem Daker committed the crimes. The O. J Simpson verdict just came back just weeks before her murder and I wanted to make sure he didn’t get away with murder as I thought O.J Simpson had.
Yes, I lied. I justified my lies back in 1995 because I wanted him to pay. I was led to believe he was at the house to kill my daughter. I did and was willing to lie to keep him in jail to protect my daughter.
For the last 18 years I was terrified of Waseem Daker. I had nightmares and wanted him to pay for what I THOUGHT he had done to Karmen and Nick and what I was led to believe he wanted to do to my daughter. My fear was genuine but it was genuinely wrong.
Since 1995 I was told by the Detectives and the DA’s office they could NOT share any of the evidence concerning this case until after Mr. Daker was convicted. I was told to trust them, they had overwhelming evidence Waseem Daker was there guy and it couldn’t be anyone else but Daker.
18 years later during closing arguments during Waseem Dakers 2012 trial was the first time I learned Karmens lifeless body was wrapped in 5 layers of bedding.
Just prior to her murder, I gave Karmen 2 blankets. She had complained about being cold. (I regulated the heat and the A/C for the entire house from within my dwelling) I gave Karmen 2 blankets. Blankets that clearly Waseem Dakers DNA could be on.
Also of note. The DA’s DNA expert testified that animal hairs were mixed in with the other hairs. Karmen did NOT have a pet. I did. Clearly not only WAS Dakers DNA hair on the blankets BUT ALSO my pets.
THE DA’S OFFICE, DETECTIVES IN THIS CASE NEVER TESTED FOR MY DNA ON THE BLANKETS OR ANY OTHER SUSPECTS DNA. ONLY DAKER!
DNA expert Dr. Greg Hampikian of the Idaho Innocent project testified during hearing that even when washing blankets, hairs would still remain.
After the trial in 2012, I did contact the Cobb County DA and informed him of the blankets. He wanted to me to let it go. I COULDN’T. I contacted him a few times and once it was clear he was unwilling to do what was right and bring to light the new evidence of the blankets and my lies, I was left with no other alternative but to seek Mr. Dakers past attorneys and stand by council. I was informed by all of them, Mr. Daker would have to bring this up on appeal. I was told by ALL of them, there was nothing they could do. I would have to contact Mr. Daker.
Did I lie about being intimate with Waseem Daker? Yes. Have any of you ever lied about someone you were intimate with? We broke no law. We entered a consensual sexual relationship. Was it wrong for me to lie? Yes.
If you were led to believe someone was at your home to kill your child or loved on, what would you do to protect him or her? Would you lie? I did. I was wrong. At what length would you go to protect a loved one if you were led to believe he killed a beautiful woman, attached a 5 year old boy and was there to kill your loved one?
I am not making excusing for what my lies have caused. I am merely trying to explain why. What I did was despicable. NOTHING any of you can think or say about me can come close to what I already think of myself.
Yes, I do have an insurance policy. My 28-year-old daughter, my 8-year-old son and Waseem Daker will share equally said policy. Some may think It’s crazy for me to include Mr. Daker in my life insurance policy. What people find hard to believe is I am remorseful. I am extremely sorry. I know my lies played a roll in Mr. Dakers conviction. I will do whatever I can to help Mr. Daker. I am hoping by leaving a portion of my policy will help him hire a defense team or to get back on his feet once he is released. There is not enough money I could leave, give or do for Mr. Daker to make up for the part I played in his conviction.
Saying the words “I am sorry” is not enough. Doing what I can is just a start but it can never be enough to make restitution or restore the damage that has been done and what I have caused. God knows I am trying my best now.
As the entire world continue to demonize me, everyone fails to remember the REAL STORY. A beautiful woman was murdered. Her 5-year-old son was attacked and left for dead and an innocent man by the name of Waseem Daker was convicted for crimes he did NOT do. There is a killer out there who has BLUE eyes that has gotten away with murder.
There is a lot of information the public and the JURORS were NOT allowed to hear. Mr. Daker did NOT receive a fair trial because the trial Judge Ms. Mary Staley gutted his entire defense. She would NOT allow Mr. Daker to defend himself by allowing him to bring up the MANY people in Karmens life who did in fact threated to kill her, abuse her and harass her up to the very day she was murdered etc.
She had problems with several men in her life. She was a gorgeous fiery red head that didn’t but up with any BS from anyone. She angered past and current men in her life. She was threatened and scared of many and several of them threatened to kill her. Up to the very day she was murdered she was fighting with her ex-husband, he has blue eyes and also called in sick to work that day. He also worked for Cobb County as a probation officer. She told many of us she was frightened of him and was going to take out a restraining order on him. He broke into her apartment many times and did so one week before her murder, hit her and fought with her the evening before the murder and the morning of the murder. Seem suspicious?
Also, at the time she was murdered she was dating someone from Iowa who lived in Georgia. She was planning to break up with him the very week she shows up murdered. She was concerned about breaking things off with him. He fled the State of GA the day after the murder and returned one week later. Seem odd to you? It does to me.
Karmen was also involved with a Police Officer who’s wife called her and threatened to bring harm to her.
Another man she dated for a few years threatened to kill her. One of her friends from Iowa called Cobb County Police in 1995 after the murder and said they should look at this ex boyfriend because he has made many threats to kill her.
The murder weapon does NOT have Waseem Dakers DNA on it. It does however have another DNA profile. They NEVER tested any of her current or ex boyfriends or other suspects in the case with the DNA profiles they have from the scene. They ONLY tested Dakers DNA but results came back as NOT DAKERS DNA.
Baseball cap found at the scene at the very same location Nick was attacked was tested not once but twice. It has a DIFFERENT DNA profile. NOT DAKERS!
In 1995 NONE of the hairs found at the crime scene had any roots. MANY years later they find one? Seem strange to anyone else? Hairs do not GROW ROOTS!
In 2009 when they opened this COLD CASE, the detective working on the case threw away SOME of the hairs they plucked from Waseem back in 1995 (hairs samples to compare against the ones found at the scene) around the same time they miraculously found a hair with root. Seems suspicious? How do we know he didn’t pull a switcheroo? He also only took Dakers hair to the private lab in TX. When opening a cold case wouldn’t you want to test everyone?
When Nick was interviewed immediately after the attack in 1995 he said the attacker was wearing a black mask and had blue eyes. Daker has brown eyes.
Karmen put up a fight. Anyone who knew her would know she would have never gone down without a fight. She fought hard. She had bruising on her knuckles, bleeding around her nail beds. Waseem Daker was checked just hours after the murder and he didn’t even have a red mark.
Also of note, the DNA expert said even if the blankets I gave Karmen were washed (which we can assume were washed) would still have DNA hairs on them. In others words, you cant just wash hair away.
No, I do not recall what specific colors of the 2 blankets. I can describe them in general terms. AGAIN I didn’t know Karmen was wrapped in 5 layers of bedding till 18 years AFTER the crime during closing arguments. I can’t recall what I ate last Tuesday.
Why not arrest Daker in 1995? 1996? 1997? 1998? 1999? 2000? 2001? 2002? 2003? 2004? 2005? 2006? 2007? 2008? The trial was last year in 2012. They NEVER arrested him for ALL these years because they HAD NO EVIDENCE.
Waseem Daker harassed me. He called and showed up at my home uninvited. That does not make him a killer. It doesn’t make sense for him to hurt anyone. Why Karmen and her son? We were neighbors not roommates. I just moved to the neighborhood into the Cobb County home just 7 weeks before the murder.
It doesn’t make any sense for a stranger (Daker) to hurt Karmen or Nick. It makes more sense it was someone she knew. ALL THE OTHER SUSPECTS were NOT brought out at court. THE JUDGE WOULD NOT ALLOW THE JURY TO HEAR ABOUT ANY OF THE OTHER SUSPECTS. Does that seem like a fair trial to you? Is that Justice?
WHY WERNT THE OTHER SUSPECTS DNA TESTED?!?
Waseem has been trying to get a court appointed attorney but the same trial judge Mary Staley has DENIED him indigent status. ALL his attempts are DENIED without even giving him a hearing.
You can go to Cobb County Superior Court Inquiry.
http://www.cobbsuperiorcourtclerk.org/courts/
Do a criminal search Under name, type in Daker Waseem (NO COMMAS) Go to VIEW murder Go to pleadings Scroll down to: DENY CT APPOINT ATTY ALSO READ MOTIONS FOR NEW TRIAL
I have searched out every harassing/stalking case in the USA/UK and yet to find one case where someone who was harassing someone over a break-up killed a neighbor.
Karmen was strangled. Nick was stabbed 18 times. This was a targeted attack against Karmen.
If being remorseful, sorry and feeling terrible for what my lies have caused an innocent man is crazy, call me crazy.
Waseem was railroaded. If I CLEARLY SEE how he was railroaded, cant you? He needs all of our help. We need to get the truth out!
I came forward because it is the right thing to do. I will likely be charged for perjury. It is humiliating to come forward publicly and admit your faults. But this is not about me, this is about an innocent man who has been falsely convicted of crimes he did not do. Can any of you see that?
You may not know Waseem Daker or you may not even like him. This is not about who you know or if you like someone. This is about TRUE justice for an innocent man and he needs your help.
Are you willing to help?
If you want to contact me, I opened a FACEBOOK page under: justice seeker
HELP AND SUGGESTIONS ARE NEEDED!
