She was convicted of murdering her two sons by strapping them in her car and letting it roll into a lake.
Smith is serving a life sentence after a jury convicted her of murder but decided not to sentence her to death. COLUMBIA, S.C. - Susan Smith , the South Carolina mother convicted of killing her two sons by rolling her car into a lake in 1994 with the boys strapped in their seats inside, will ask a parole board for her freedom on Wednesday.
This May 24, 2021 mage provided by the South Carolina Department of Corrections shows Susan Smith. Smith killed 3-year-old Michael and 14-month-old Alex because a man she was having an affair with suggested the boys were the reason they didn’t have a future together, prosecutors said. For nine days, Smith made numerous and sometimes tearful pleas asking that Michael and Alex be returned safely. The whole time,Investigators said Smith’s story didn’t add up. Carjackers usually just want a vehicle, so investigators asked why would they let Smith out but not her kids. The traffic light where Smith said she had stopped when her car was taken would only be red if another car was waiting to cross, and Smith said no other cars were around.
FILE - In a July 9, 1995 file photo, visitors walk down the ramp where Alex and Michael Smith were drowned in a car in 1994 in Union, S.C., by their mother, Susan Smith. Smith’s lawyers said she was remorseful, was suffering a mental breakdown and intended to die alongside her children but left the car at the last moment.
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