Fugitive linked to illegal silicone murder caught after 17 years via DMV identity slip
Tamaira Angell Smith, wanted for the 2009 death of Eyanna Moore after an illegal silicone injection, was arrested in August 2026 after a driver’s-license renewal exposed her stolen identity.
In May 2009, Tamaira Angell Smith allegedly performed an illegal silicone injection on Eyanna Moore in a hotel room near Stone Mountain, Georgia, causing Moore’s death the following day. Smith and an accomplice posed as medical professionals, and after the murder she fled and later assumed a stolen identity to obtain a South Carolina driver’s license in 2018. When she attempted to renew the license in July 2026, an alert prompted a South Carolina Law Enforcement Division investigation; facial-recognition analysis identified her, revealing a pending felony murder warrant.
Agents Shawn Ludwig and Bridgette Lott traced another alias to McKinney, Texas, where local police located her car and arrested her in August. Smith has been extradited to Georgia and remains incarcerated in Gwinnett County Jail, with a bond hearing set for October 22. The case underscores the risks of unlicensed cosmetic procedures and the role of modern identity-verification tools in law-enforcement.
Why it matters
The capture shows how identity-theft investigations and facial-recognition can finally bring a long-sought murder suspect to justice and warns against illegal cosmetic services.
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