A true crime podcast in which Emily Compagno takes you through a new crime each week. Susan Smith, the South Carolina mother who drowned her two young sons in a lake in the 1990s, is up for a parole hearing in a month. Smith, then 22, strapped her sons, Michael and Alexander Smith, into the back seat of her car in October 1994, and watched as she let the car roll into John D.
Lake in Union County. It took six minutes for the two boys, one 3 years old and the other just 14 months, to drown. "She spent nine days claiming that the carjacker had taken the kids and asking for help, so the search was going on," former Union County prosecutor Tommy Pope, now a South Carolina state representative, told Fox News Digital.
"Truthfully, I believed she probably had [the kids] hidden somewhere just because, based on my law enforcement experience, I didn't think that a carjacker would take children." Specifically, Smith lied to investigators and the press after killing her sons, falsely claiming a Black man had carjacked her with Michael and Alexander inside the vehicle. MURDEROUS MOM SUSAN SMITH TOLD SUITOR IN JAILHOUSE CALL SHE IS ‘READY TO GO’ AHEAD OF PAROLE HEARING: REPORT Susan Smith, pictured in a mugshot at left and as a 22-year-old in 1994 at right, has been incarcerated in South Carolina for nearly 30 years for the murder of her two sons.
(South Carolina Department of Corrections) "She was on every major station, ‘Good Morning America,’ you name it, she was doing it, and s.