Killer Mom Susan Smith Thinks Parole Unlikely After Prison Discipline

Susan Smith, the South Carolina woman who drowned her two young children in October 1994, reportedly believes her chance of being paroled 30 years later is unlikely because of her recent failure with prison rules.

The South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services has scheduled Smith’s parole hearing for November 20.

“She is inconsolable,” a relative of Smith told the New York Post of the killer’s thoughts ahead of his next hearing. “She was so close to leaving, and she seems to be falling apart before your eyes. She got in the way herself. She’s not happy at all.”

The relative’s comments came after Smith, now 52, ​​was convicted on Oct. 3 of communicating with a victim/and/or witness of a crime, according to Chrysti Shain, director of communications for the Department of Corrections. South Carolina.

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Susan Smith, pictured in a recent photo on the left and at age 22 in 1994 on the right, has been incarcerated in South Carolina for nearly 30 years for the murder of her two sons. (South Carolina Department of Corrections)

Smith was charged with the crime in September after agreeing to send contact information — including that of her ex-husband and other children — to a documentary filmmaker, who then deposited money into Smith’s account.

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SCDC inmates are not permitted to conduct telephone or in-person interviews, but may write letters, according to prison rules.

Although the conviction was his first disciplinary action in a decade, Smith had previously had a sexual relationship with a prison guard, a prison source said in a statement. interview with People in 2020.

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David Smith, Michael and Alexander’s father, leaves the church after the two boys’ funerals. (Greg Smith/Corbis)

“She knows she’s very unlikely to get out now,” a relative of Smith’s told the Post. “This is new disciplinary action, a month before his parole hearing. The parole board pays 100 percent attention to these things. This is too bad.”

In 1994, when Smith was 22, she strapped her sons, Michael and Alexander Smith, to the backseat of her car and watched as she let the vehicle enter. John D. Lake in Union County. It took six minutes for the two boys, one aged 3 and the other just 14 months old, to drown.

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Susan Smith was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of her two sons, 3-year-old Michael Daniel Smith and 14-month-old Alexander Tyler Smith. (William Campbell/Sigma)

Former Union County Prosecutor Tommy Pope, now a South Carolina state representative, previously told Fox News Digital that Smith should not be released.

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Pope said Smith was having an extramarital affair at the time with Tom Findlay, the son of a wealthy local businessman, who wrote a letter to Smith a week before the murders, telling the 22-year-old woman that although he was interested in her romantically, he was not suitable for raising children, as the Birmingham News Reported in a 2005 interview with Findlay.

Susan Smith initially claimed she was kidnapped, but evidence later revealed that she killed her own two sons, Michael and Alexander. (Brooks Kraft LLC/Sygma)

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This letter would become key evidence in the prosecution’s case.

Pope called for the death penalty Smith during his 1995 trialand he doesn’t think she should be eligible for parole today.

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“Some of the jurors, after the fact, even said they gave her life under the theory that she would feel remorse and spend time thinking about Michael and Alex. Well, she proved by her conduct in prison that she had sexual relations with guards. , she has Facebook friends and sugar daddies waiting for her to come out,” Pope said. “She’s focused on what’s best for Susan, not what happened with Michael and Alex.”