William Trickett Smith


William Trickett Smith, Sr. is the former chairman of the Dauphin County Republican Committee, who was disbarred and imprisoned in 1985 for bid rigging and convicted of theft by unlawful taking and deception in 2010.
He is the father of William Trickett Smith II, convicted in 2011 of murdering his wife and dismembering her while in Peru.
In 2012, Trickett Sr. was convicted of arson and insurance fraud while facing disbarment and investigation for taking funds from his clients estates.
In 2014 he was again sentenced for conspiring to help his son escape by filing a false criminal complaint to have him temporarily extradited from Peru back to Pennsylvania.
Smith's testimony in the Pennsylvania CTA scandal federal trial was largely used to obtain the conviction of Pennsylvania Treasurer R. Budd Dwyer in the case. Smith later admitted in an interview shown in that he had lied under oath in his own trial when he denied offering Dwyer a bribe. In the documentary, he maintained, as he did at Dwyer's trial, that he offered Dwyer a bribe and that Dwyer accepted this offer.