A backup singer, musician, companion, and legal secretary, Smith became infamously known as the woman who administered the fatal intravenous injection of heroin that killed actor and comedian
John Belushi on March 5, 1982. After fleeing to her native Canada, she was later extradited back to California where she served a three year prison sentence before being deported back to Canada. She died in 2020, aged 73, in Maple Ridge, British Columbia.