William Trickett Smith II (or Jr.) (born January 18, 1981) is a U.S. citizen from Paxtang, Pennsylvania who pleaded guilty to killing his Peruvian wife, Jana Claudia Gómez Menéndez de Smith of Trujillo, Peru. Gómez Menéndez was reported missing and was found in a suitcase that washed up on a beach near the capital city of Lima the day after the 2007 Peru earthquake. Her body was identified by a tattoo of a butterfly on her neck. The homicide investigation became known in Peru as "The Mystery of the Butterfly". On May 23, 2011, Smith was sentenced to 35 years in prison for the murder of his wife. Background Smith is the son of William Trickett Smith Sr., former chairman of the Dauphin County Republican Committee, who was disbarred and imprisoned in 1985 for bid rigging (see R. Budd Dwyer), and convicted of theft by unlawful taking and deception in 2010. In 2000, the younger Smith was sentenced to two to four years imprisonment for drug trafficking stemming from an arrest with two other men in a vehicle that contained cocaine and marijuana that had been packaged for sale, along with cash and handguns. While still under parole for the previous offense, Smith was convicted in 2004 of escape and eluding arrest after fleeing a vehicle that had been stopped by police. He was sentenced to four years of intermediate punishment, of which he served nine months in prison. The younger Smith also has a son, born around 1999. Death of Jana Claudia Gómez Menéndez Smith met Jana Claudia Gómez Menéndez through an internet chat room in 2006. They met via Match.com. Her father José Gómez is a prison guard in Peru. The two were married on March 1, 2007, at her hometown of Trujillo, Peru, and lived there for some time with her parents. On July 4, 2007, Gómez Menéndez told her mother that she planned to meet Smith in the capital city of Lima. She traveled to Lima on the next day to meet him at the San Remo Hotel. Smith called the parents of Gómez Menéndez from the United States on July 11. When her family said that they thought she was with him, he allegedly denied that he had been in Peru at that time. Gómez Menéndez was reported missing by her family on July 26. Smith returned to Peru from the United States on July