Susan Smith, convicted of drowning her two young sons in 1994, is seeking parole after serving three decades behind bars. She plans to argue at her first hearing that she was suffering from an undiagnosed mental illness and a traumatic upbringing.
Susan Smith , who has spent the last three decades behind bars for the drowning deaths of her two sons, reportedly plans to tout her mostly good conduct record at her first parole hearing. 'She believes she might be a free woman in less than two months,' a relative told the New York Post. 'She's hoping that will go her way. She's put all her hopes in that basket, and she's manifesting her freedom.
Smith also plans to argue that she was suffering from a then-undiagnosed mental illness in 1994, when she let her car roll into John D. Long Lake in South Carolina with her two sons – 3-year-old Michael and 14-month-old Alexander – trapped in their car seats. The killer mom wrote in a 2015 letter to reporters at The State that she is 'not the monster society thinks is.' 'Something went very wrong that night. I was not myself,' Smith wrote.
Smith's conduct record in prison is not unmarred – along with citations for drug possession and self-mutilation, Smith was disciplined for having sex with two prison guards in 2000. Due to differing power dynamics, Smith has maintained that those relations were not consensual and that she was a victim. According to the New York Post, she told a friend in 2023 that she 'had sex with them because felt like didn't have a choice.
She's grown into a mature woman,' the relative told the Post. 'And she thinks she can thrive outside of prison.' David Smith, the father of Smith's slain children, intends to oppose his ex-wife's release at her parole hearing, either in a written letter or in a speech to the parole board. 'I’m going to remind them what she did and who the victims were in this case,' he told Court TV. 'Certainly not her.
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