Riptide got a
package in the mail a few days ago. At first, we thought it might be a Christmas
present, or a juicy story tip, but then we recognized the handwriting. It was
from an inmate we've gotten to know pretty well over the last couple months.
A few weeks
ago, New Times ran a story about
Jeanette Smith, a Cooper City
stripper who was sodomized, murdered and thrown in the everglades. The gist: A
former marine sniper named Ariel Hernandez, who admitted to dumping the body --
but says he wa
