Susan Smith, the South Carolina mother who drowned her two young sons in 1994, is scheduled for parole on Nov. 20, and the South Carolina government tasked with overseeing her freedom campaign The agency has received 360 communications regarding her upcoming hearing.
In 1994, when Smith was 22, she strapped her sons, 3-year-old Michael and 14-month-old Alexander, into the back seat of her car and watched the car drive away. John D. Lake of Union County. It took six minutes for the boys to drown.
Anita Dantzler, communications director for the South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole and Pardons (PPP), told Fox News Digital that as of Nov. 8, the agency had received “360 communications regarding Susan Smith's parole consideration. I received it,” he said.
“Six people were in favor of parole,” Dantzler said.
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Susan Smith, pictured on the left in a recent photo and pictured on the right when she was 22 years old in 1994, has been imprisoned in South Carolina for nearly 30 years for the murders of her two sons. (South Carolina Department of Corrections)
Smith, now 52, was found guilty on Oct. 3 of communicating with victims and witnesses of a crime, according to Christy Shein, communications director for the South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC).
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One of Smith's relatives told the New York Post that the letter to the South Carolina PPP was “horrible.”
“They say things like, 'She's at that lake with her sons,'” the relative said. he told the Post. “People don't want her to come out of prison, and they're telling the parole board that.”
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Susan Smith was sentenced to life in prison for the murders of her two sons, 3-year-old Michael Daniel Smith and 14-month-old Alexander Tyler Smith. (William Campbell/Sigma)
Smith was charged with crime After she agreed to send her contact information, including that of her ex-husband, to a documentary filmmaker, the filmmaker deposited cash into Smith's account in September.
SCDC inmates are not allowed to be interviewed by phone or in person, per prison rules, but they can write letters.
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Susan Smith initially claimed she had been carjacked, but evidence later revealed that she had killed two of her young sons, Michael and Alexander. (Brooks Craft LLC/Sigma)
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The conviction was her first disciplinary action in 10 years, but prison officials said Smith had previously had sexual relations with guards. interviews with people In 2020.
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After Ms. Smith killed her sons in October 1994, she told law enforcement and the Union County community that an unknown black man carjacked her and killed her children in her car for several days. Made me believe that I had been kidnapped.
However, evidence in the case subsequently showed that Smith was the prime suspect in their murders.
