Randall Lee Smith was an American convicted murderer from Pearisburg, Virginia. He pleaded guilty shortly before trial commenced to two counts of second-degree murder in the deaths of hikers Robert Mountford Jr. and Laura Susan Ramsay, both 27-year-old social workers from Maine who were murdered by Smith while hiking the Appalachian Trail in May 1981. He was sentenced to two concurrent 15 year terms, in a plea bargain, and released in 1996 on mandatory parole after serving 15 years.