Eric Smith was a child of 13 when he committed his first and last child murder. Baby-faced and red-haired, as a toddler, Smith often had temper tantrums and banged his head on the floor. Smith was diagnosed as having intermittent explosive disorder, a mental disorder causing individuals to act out violently and unpredictably. Like Jesse Pomeroy, another American child killer, Smith was a loner, often tormented by bullies for his protruding low-set ears, thick glasses, red hair and freckles. His mother stated, “I just told him he had to learn to stick up for himself.” A court psychiatrist claimed intermittent explosive disorder disagreed and stated intermittent disorder“is a rare disorder hardly seen at [Eric’s] age.”