Guess what didn't happen to Smith as a child? The experience of drowning, cold, alone, and trapped, not understanding why mom isn't helping as you scream for help. The world is oversaturated with disgustingly selfish, dangerous, morally crippled people already. There's absolutely no reason to release another one into society. She needs to stay in prison until she comes out in a b/o/x.
I just became acquainted with Emma Kenny's channel yesterday when I watched her presentation on Channon Christian and Chris Newsom. Emma is absolutely brilliant. I am so impressed with her presentation. The very best that i have seen. She is my "go to" from this point on... Wanting to see her get a million subscribers .... love you Emma from the heartland, US.
God. This one has hit me hard. The baby handprint on the window, knowing they were probably crying out for their mom, knowing they were just babies. My heart aches
I read that Susan saw Michael, the three year old wake up and try to get himself and Alex out of the sinking car, and she just coldheartedly watched. 😡🤬
My mom died when I was16 and my sister was 14. This was in 1972. There was no grief counseling then. My dad ordered me to stop crying at the funeral home when we went to pay our respects to mom. He said, "Stop crying! The are not for her, they are for yourself! Stop crying!" I stopped crying, stared at him thinking to myself, you're right you bastard but I need to cry. I proceeded to resume crying. My dad proceeded to order my cousin to take me outside. This didn't help me or my sister. My sister became anorexic within months of mom's passing. Nope kids aren't resilient. My sister did get better. I finally got counseling. But both of us find it painful to talk about mom. We loved her so much..
@@cindyfrasheski3910 Yes. He was devastated. They had been married for 23 years but had been together for 35 years total. They'd met when he was 19 and mom was 17. To lose the love of your life and best friend had to be painful. And to get stuck with 2 teenage girls as a man was pretty intense. Mom handled all those girl matters. Now he had to do it and was out of depth. He did the best he could though. I don't know how I would be able to get up everyday and go to work and raise children on my own. But he did it. We took a week off after the funeral and went down to Lincoln, OR to get used to just being a family of three.
Im sorry your dad did not allow you or your sister to grieve for your mom. The grief process is so important to being able to heal from the loss and because kids brains are still growing it's harder for them to process the loss. I lost my sister in a car accident when I was 10 and she was 15. I remember my dad would not allow my mom to cry in front of him so when she wanted to cry she had to go into a room alone to grieve for her daughter. My dad blamed me for my sister's death because she had snuck out of the house and I knew she was going but didn't say anything. It took me a lot of years to reprogram myself. Before my dad passed he made amends to all he had done and said wrong over the years. He and I had an amazing relationship the last 15 years before he passed and I am thankful for that.
@@jamieharris2633 One of my roommates had it worse. Her mom died of cancer when she was 5. She didn't know that until she asked her grandmother why the Russians took her mom. This was during the Cold War. She thought Russian spies had captured her mom and taken her to Russia. Her grandmother was stunned. She had to tell her that her mom was dead and took her to the cemetery to show her where she was buried. Dawn's dad caught holy hell from Dawn's grandmother for not telling her or her younger brother what had happened. Unfortunately, he still refused to discuss anything about their mother unless he initiated the discussion.
I’ve lost 11 pregnancies 2 ectopic pregnancies and 1 blighted Ovum. We managed to afford to IVF by having to get a loan. That sadly ended in me losing twins. All I wanted was to be a family with my husband. So, when this happens it makes me so angry
Yeah I can never stand the thought of Diane Downs! And to go ahead and get pregnant like that during her trial just shows her kids were nothing to her and she could replace them.
@@jade-wr9pnI think she was just that off in the head and pregnancy-obsessed and knew itd be her last time and possibly thought it may even help her case. But you're right, I dont think she had any concern about after they're born. She knew the baby would be adopted out. Most women would feel a sense of shame to be pregnant and knowing you cant keep the baby and will never know them. Then again if we were in her shoes we would too be off our rockers I suppose!
Yes, me, too! I was about to reply this, their stories are so similar, too, if I'm remembering correctly. Didn't Diane Downs also say she was carjacked by a black man?
In my mums home town of west kilbride in scotland a woman who went by many names, Linda Spence was tortured, killed and presumably dismembered in a small attic flat. Ive watched a couple of documentaries but there never seems to be much information about what ACTUALLY happened! I would love to see you do deep dive into this case Emma if there is information available out there! This literally happened in the next street over from my mum so its something ive always wondered about, you do such a great job getting right into the nitty gritty of these cases and i love so much on a wednesday and sunday getting my emma fix! Love everything you do xxx
I remember this case so well and I don't know if it's because I'm from East Kilbride so the location stuck in my mind, but her beautiful smile remains in my memory. Would also be very interested in seeing Emma's deep dive into this case.
In 2001 Beth,a 10 year-old child in my class died over a holiday weekend. I wanted to tell my class. My headmaster insisted he do it. He came in, sat down and said ," I have something sad to tell you. It's very sad." I can't remember exactly what he then said, but he ended it with,"Right, get on with your work"!!!! My class was assumed. As soon as he left, we put our books away and spent the afternoon talking, crying. And in the following days and weeks we did not pretend nothing had happened. I started talking to the class a few days later and I began to cry. I got it under control. I didn't trailside the children by a relied upon adult losing their shit, but I did say that I was still very sad about Beth dying . Really, what else could I have done?
I think you handled that exactly the way you should've, showing genuine emotion around kids when it comes to grief and trauma shows them that their feelings are okay and normal and brings them a sense of safety. It took me a second to understand that you were the teacher and not one of the kids, thank you for taking on one of the most difficult jobs there is and doing it in such a human way ❤️❤️ also, I'm so sorry for your loss ❤️❤️
Sounds like you are from a British school tradition. The Keep Calm And Carry On gone too far. You did the right thing. Thank you for not perpetuating the coldness.
I think you handled it perfectly. Also by crying a few days later and saying you were still sad about Beth you showed them that it was ok to cry. That you don't just stop being sad like the flip of a switch. I'd be glad to have my child in your class. Rest in Paradise little Beth💓💓💓💔
@@glauvieI'm British and when I was 15 a lad in our year lost his battle with leukemia, he was a very well liked, popular kid, he passed away on the evening of 15th Jan 2003 school closed the next day out of respect and because they knew that not only his year group but the entire school would be devastated. Not all Brits are that cold hearted!
I am so tired of people using their childhood traumas as an excuse for murder. My childhood was filled with physical, verbal, and sexual abuse. As well as 1 encounter that almost killed me. I have had little therapy and have dealt with it all on my own. I haven't abused anyone else, I'm not a bully. I have never killed anyone, and stuck them in a freezer, or a lock and leave, I've not locked anyone in a car, and let them roll down into the water to die. My basement is not filled with bones, or dead body parts. I've never been to the desert. I have no idea how to jump start my car, so I'm not electrocuting anyone. I do have 1 exhusband, and several ex boyfriends....all alive and well. My children are my world and they come before anyone else in my life. I'm a law abiding contributing member of my community. I'm also a breast cancer survivor. I am a senior citizen. I'm quite sure I am not the only person in the world like me. Take responsibility for what you do, get help if/when needed, forgive past circumstances, move forward and remember that God is the one who will punish in the future. But above all...all of your choices have consequences...and they will affect you and others!!!
My sister and I had similar backgrounds to Susan. My sister died young. I can truthfully say that I lived like an animal in survival mode until the day my first son was born. My children saved my life. I am a hospice nurse and feel a lot of empathy for all kinds of people but I cannot feel that same level of empathy for those who claim horrific abuse yet show no sign of it changing them where their own children are concerned. I appreciate that we should always try to examine what created these monsters but I disagree with those details being admissible in court for the defense. I don’t support the death penalty but being allowed life with the general population also doesn’t seem fair.
I've watched documentaries about this case, and what makes me want to crawl out of my skin with horror is learning just how long it would have taken for the car to be fully submerged. Those poor babies must have been terrified beyond words. 😢😢😢 May those little boys be in the arms of angels now and for eternity. 🙏🙏🙏 Their "Mother" will have to meet her maker someday and face judgment.
I remember a Poster saying something like,"Susan will be burning in Hell and look up and see Michael and Alex playing with God and they will be laughing happily!" 💡
Exactly. This is Charles Stuart in Boston where what happened after he claimed a black man killed his pregnant wife to carjack his car was weeks of brutality against the black community. Susan Smith did exactly the same and the 9 days of racism and disruption in the nearby black communities is often ignored.
Every time i watch one of your videos i question how your not in the multimillion subscribers. One of my favourite deep dive true crime channels. I leave you on listen and do housework , love this channel ❤
I remember this case so well. I was a mom of 2 little boys about the same age as hers and when I saw her appear on the news I immediately looked at my husband and said I may be wrong here but she is lying. Nobody goes on the news making sure they look their best asking for their kids to be safely returned. She had makeup and perfect clothing and it felt off to me.
I remember a Poster saying that their own little Sister was kidnapped as a child and their Mother went on a news Channel begging for her safe return and the Mom looked like complete shit and didn't care about how she looked as she just wanted her young Daughter back. 💡
I can’t even begin to comprehend what those little boys experienced in their final moments 😢😢😢 Emma if you ever get the chance could you cover the Victoria Climbè case if she was alive today she would have been in her early thirties but, her life was stolen by two monsters 😢😢😢
Emma, two requests for future videos, if you feel up for it ofc: for the do-overs, I would love a long deep-dive into the Philpotts where we get your perspective on everything in the case, especially regarding Mairead. I know you've done one before, but it's not a very long episode, and since you have redone some of the first ones, I just wanted to make the suggestion. The second one is Jon-Bennet Ramsey - my opinion of the crime is that it would've been committed by a person who probably lived in the area and who had seen Jon-Bennet around in the past (possibly fixating on and targeting her), who broke into/entered the house (the family didn't lock their door during the day, if I remember correctly) while the family was away, wrote the note during the time they waited (using the pen and paper in the house). I believe the perpetrator was a teenager, which is why they'd be able to get out through the basement window, and why the ransom note was written using movie quotes (the note is very immature and sounds like a kid has written it), the movies could also be connected to whatever fantasies the perpetrator had (think a young Ted Bundy). I would love to see whatever conclusion you would come to, since you are far more qualified and knowledgeable, and especially since a lot of people still blame/suspect the family. Thank you for everything you do! 😊🍀✨
Did you see the video by Evil Among Us yesterday about the philpott case? It's genuinely the best doc I've seen on the case and he does do a deep dive into mairaids character and role. He's a fellow brit and is I believe in psychology of some kind because his profiling skills are amazing and insightful always. Plus, it doesn't hurt that he is extremely diligent with providing victims with legacy and doesn't hold back in slating the guilty - like emma - none of this "unbiased' commentary... no, he isn't going to namby pamby the offender even if they've previously been a victim. It's the cherry on the top that he also has a wonderfully calming voice and manner. Even if you don't want to check that video I highly recommend giving the other cases a watch you won't be disappointed.
My teacher in 6th grade thought it was appropriate (possibly because of this mindset) to make me stand up and tell the class my dad had died and how the day after it happened. The only reason I was there was because my mom's work forced her to come in because they were divorced and therefore she shouldn't be upset about it. 3:30
That’s horrible. Some teachers definitely shouldn’t be in the classroom. My 5th grade teacher told me it was my fault my “mom” abandoned me and my siblings.
@emmakenny I just discovered your channel a few days ago and I've been watching a lot of your videos, and my newborn son absolutely loves your voice 🤣🤣 sometimes he's crying to eat and I'll turn on a video to watch while I feed him and he just gets so surprised and stops crying when he hears your voice. I think it's cause he never heard someone British talk before 🤣🤣❤️❤️
My step father abused me when caught my mother was angry with me. He was sent to counseling I had NOTHING. Life just continued never to be discussed again.
Gee whizz Emma, this was the most powerful description of this woman I've ever seen, thank you for explaining this case in such detail Wow evil really does go among us I was SA'D for many years as a child, my empathy has driven me forwards.. not in this direction but to try to be good, this woman should never see light of day 😢😢😢
First, your documentaries are just so complete and easy to understand as a foreign viewer (French). You help me improve my English with each of your videos. Thank you so much 🙏 On another level, you just gift me an amazing Christmas present. Let me explain. I wanted to order your 'No comment' hoodie as a Christmas present to myself and as part of supporting your hard work but, on your webside, it was impossible to have it deliver in France. I send a email saying I was feeling sad and receive an answer that one was going to be send for free. You got me so emotional with that 🥹 Today, the post office delivers me the package and I am feeling so blessed. That hoodie is so beautiful, good quality and warm ❤ I'll send a picture tomorrow as a thank you so much. Today I am making myself a promess: Once my health is finally back on track, I'm walking better and cancer free, I will treat myself with a trip in UK and, most important, come to one of your live performance ! You are an amazing woman and you and your team are so generous ❤ Once again thank you so so very much 🙏❤️
Thank you once again, Emma, because I had already heard this story many many times, and yet I feel like I didn’t know it at all because you gave so much background information on her own childhood that I had never heard before
Also, her ridiculous statement to her babies telling them they have to be strong and take care of each other. WTF!! They were 3 and 1!! Reminds me of the sick woman, Darlie Routier, who killed her young boys and blamed it on a break-in. She said the same thing on tv.
Absolutely right. She didn’t want her kids anymore because of a man, she should have left them with their father and walked away. My “mom” abandoned me and my 3 siblings. Parents do it everyday
god i remember this one so vividly, i think i recall a reconstruction of sorts where they sunk a car in that lake and filmed the inside to see the view they would have had in their last moments and it’s always stayed with me
I don’t believe for one second that she will ever be released. I’ve watched many parole hearings and they are not easily manipulated. She needs to take responsibility for what she did first and foremost… she suffered abuse from the people she was supposed to trust the most and instead of doing better she turned around and took the lives of those beautiful babies that she was trusted with. 💔
What a great job covering this so thoroughly! I would expect no less for the Tina Turner of True Crime. Your skillset never fails to impress me. Applause. XXXX
I remember a man saying when he was a little kid, his Dad said that Susan was lying and SHE killed Michael and Alex. He as a child was shocked his Dad would tell such a horrible lie about a grieving Mother and when Susan confessed, he was stunned. He said in his defense, he had been a child at the time with no way of knowing how the real world worked yet. 💡
This was a great video on a disgusting case. You’re certainly one of the best on UA-cam. This was probably the best coverage of this case of this case I’ve seen. When this case first broke I remember a lot of people thinking she had something to do with it. I hope the family finds some semblance of peace.
Hi Emma! I just became a member though I've been consistently watching your videos every Wednesday & Sundays without fail! Susan Smith is a monster & just pure evil....her poor babies...how can any mother do what she did?! 😢💔
Evil woman 🤮 those poor little babies 😭😭 I wouldn’t have any empathy if she’d been in the car thinking the children would be better with her, no!!! If a man did that, that wouldn’t be acceptable, it’s not acceptable for anyone to murder their children. She doesn’t sound like she’s suffered in prison, but hopefully her inner self suffers everyday !!!
I actually believe that life in prison without the chance of parole is worse than a death sentence. But as with other cases where children are murdered for a man I don’t understand why they don’t give the children to their father or other family members.
It was speculated that the reason why Susan didn't just give Michael and Alex to David and then go chase Tom was because she didn't want to look like a bad Mother. In a small town like Union, South Carolina, a woman giving the Father the kids to go chase another man who didn't want kids would look REALLY bad. But a Mother who had her kids kidnapped by a Carjacker would get a lot of sympathy. And besides, she did go to Tom and admitted to him that her Father committed suicide when she was only six, she was molested by Beverly Russell, her Stepfather as a Teen, and had had sex with him earlier that year. She was expecting Tom to feel SORRY for her and immediately take her back, but instead he was DISGUSTED and claimed they would forever be just friends from now on. So, she killed Michael and Alex, assuming he would be glad the children were GONE and he would take her back, plus give her sympathy that her children were kidnapped. During the days searching for Michael and Alex, Tom was alarmed that Susan seemed to care more about getting back with him then getting Michael and Alex back. Other People also raised their eyebrows at Susan asking for Tom to come visit her while the search for Michael and Alex was going on. Tom also had a copy of the damning letter that he wrote her claiming he was dumping her because he didn't want kids. Susan had the other copy and Law Enforcement were raising their eyebrows even MORE. They straight up asked her if she killed Michael and Alex to get back with Tom and she responded something like,"I LOVED Michael and Alex. No man would ever make me kill my Children, NOT, I LOVE them, they are still alive," which made her look even more suspicious. On the ninth day, she finally confessed that Michael and Alex were at the bottom of John D Lake. Divers searched John D Lake and found the car with Michael and Alex dead inside and Susan was arrested, incarcerated, tried, convicted, and sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 30 years. She got 9 days of sympathy and then DECADES of hate and scorn when the truth was revealed. She really should have just given Michael and Alex to David and then go chase Tom. At least they would still be alive and she wouldn't be in prison to this day.
I was just binge watching your old videos. I find your channel fairly new but I absolutely love the passion you have about children's cases. I hope we won't have to talk about such tragic cases anymore..
Heartbreaking I would give absolutely anything to have a child but unfortunately ovarian cancer at 21 and 22 means I don't have the equipment anymore. Seriously considering a career change though. Been an accountant for years and I'm 39 in January and considering going into some sort of child care or similar
Thank you for resurrecting this awful story. I had forgotten that woman and those beautiful babies. You supplied info I wasn’t aware of. Great, but difficult case.
I am actually in tears with this it’s terrible. I don’t understand her at all most of us would fight like hell for them not to be taken in a hijacking. Then she watched her children drown those poor babies. Such a selfish narcissistic thing to do. She needs to go down to see Nick in his very hot place for eternity. It’s a shame that she isn’t there already she should have had the death penalty. Death without parole in seclusion with nothing no TV or anything. She got food heat and a home basic needs supplied only.
Watching from Somali Land East Africa Horn of Africa this brought my memories about this horrible tragedy. As back in 1994 when this tragedy took place I was in Boston and remember the media heavily covering this crime by Susan Smith.she committed unimaginable crime against her children.
Thank you for always sticking to your catch phrase. I very much appreciate you and your consistency. Wish you, your family and your amazing community a blessed week
I havent heard of anyone telling this case the way you did. I definitely learned some things i didnt know when i first heard of this case when it first went public. Thank you.
I was days away from giving birth to my first child when this happened. When she fake cried on national TV I remember feeling sick and saying she is lying. I would have been dragged behind that car. I sobbed when I heard the truth. This case has always been one that I will never forget. Thanks for covering it.
Emma you are my all time favourites to tell true crime stories because you get to tell us the bits that they all want to keep quite. Broke me when the child’s hand was on the window my heart sank for the baby 💔💔💔
After becoming a mother, child death cases affect me so much differently. It’s not that I wasn’t affected by them before my daughter but now, having a 2 year old, these cases affect me so deeply because I know what it’s like to have a little human being rely on you and to love you with every fiber of their being. And I’ve experienced a deeper level of love that I have never experienced before that has changed my whole life. Being a mother is such a rewarding and life changing experience. I would do anything and everything for my daughter. That is why I just cannot imagine how a mother can do this. Emma, when you described how scared those babies must have been crying out for mommy as they went under, my chest sank and I couldn’t stop the sobs. To those children, their mom is everything to them, even if she wasn’t the best to them. That’s the sad thing about abusive parents is that young children can’t help but love their mommy no matter what. I’m just horrified and haunted to think about their last moments, I am truly shaken and horrified by this. I can’t help but imagine my own daughter sinking down and it destroys me and all I can envision is myself running into that water and doing everything I can to save my baby girl. How could you not? No matter how quickly that car was engulfed, how could you not? I have those dramatic moments myself where I imagine what I would do if I were to drive off into a pond with my daughter (in an accident of course, not intentionally) and I could never EVER leave my daughter behind. I am going down with her, if anything. Those poor poor poor little babies. Life taken away from them by the one who ultimately brought them life. I hope this woman rots and never experiences any true happiness for the rest of her existence.
I am in the mental health field and while i can find empathy for almost every situation, even if its a tiny bit somewhere along the way...i just cant with her. I think it may have something to do with she and i being the same age. I watched this play out as i raised my son as a very young parent. I watched the press conference, saw the car being pulled from the lake as i held my son. i just could never fathom her standing in front of microphones talking about how she just wants her babies back, blaming a nameless faceless nonexistent black man when it was her. I am crying right now remembering it. My son is 34 now and those babies have been gone for so long. Im sorry. I know she went through trauma. And that is awful. But she is a monster and i wish her nothing but misery. I dont say that lightly.
This is the first video of Emma’s I haven’t been able to finish. Had to turn it off just after 30 minutes, couldn’t bare it anymore. Since becoming a mum just one year ago I find it so much more difficult to hear about children coming to harm. This was just too much, how anyone ever could do that to a child, let alone your own is beyond me. Rest in eternal peace sweet angels 😢❤
Emma, you are one of the few that I trust to provide accurate, in-depth information on true crime cases. The way you delve into the perpetrator's history and take it into account for discussion is so helpful. The few cases you haven't done that with, I definitely miss hearing that content. Also how you talk about the victims and describe what they must have experienced truly brings an element of humanity that a lot of people forget. For anyone interested, I'm also going to give a shout out to the podcast The Prosecutors. Their presentation is quite different from Emma's, but they are fantastic.
On the channel called “Phone calls from prison” they have recent phone calls of her. She’s in a relationship with a guy who stated he’s created a sims family (the game) with them being a family with children .. which he named AFTER THE KIDS SHE KILLED! It’s so disgusting!
This hit home with me, it sounded like you were talking about my mum.. she was abused from 2 until 10 by her father and the our great uncle from 10-12 she had me at 16.. her whole life was filled with her searching for the love and validation that she was worth more to someone than a sexual object, she was an alcoholic, drug user that never truly understood what love was. She lived for my 2 brothers and when the middle brother took his life she could bear to live without him and took her own life exactly 14 days after him..after my dad, my uncle, my maternal grand mother and her child she couldn’t face life without any of them.. but not once would she have ever murdered us because of her mental health .. she was failed by the system .. so sad that I hear this all too often !! Thanks Emma x
Well, living right here in South Carolina and first hearing her story on my car radio, it always sounded like a lie. Many of us called BS. My heart has always gone out to those beautiful boy's dad. 😢
Ok! I was sexually abused from the age of 4 to the age of 14. I had two children at a young age and had two nervous breakdowns and I never tried to kill my children.
Those poor children must have been absolutely terrified. The thought of them drowning and sinking in 80 feet of water belies belief. Also the frog men, divers and police officers must have had such trauma witnessing this. May she rot in there Thank you Emma.
Don't forget stepdad gran and the pathetic social team that left Susan to be mkultrad into a killing tool. Did she admit she'd lied for a lenient sentence...can't get my head round this...at all.
I live in union...i worked at the hospital & remember the day she got her positive pregnancy test. I had just clocked in on tail end of it,however i remember the anguish on her face. I remember feeling VERY uncomfortable. Then i remember the morning after the"hijacking"& hearing it on the radio. When my niaeve self running telling my mom about it & her reply what if there never was a mysyetious man. Then i found out that red light it alledgely happened at with noone else was at,only changed when another car would be opposite of u.
Another early video 👏🏼 your on fire Emma Kenny ♥️🔥 I was just reading up on the Genie Wiley case. How horrific that poor girls life was. Have you ever covered this case? I’d love to hear your opinion on how she was treated by medical staff and scientists ♥️ As always thanks for all you do x
Hi Emma, I appreciate and respect the hard work you put into sharing these tragic cases. As a future LMFT, I feel so connected to you and most of your feelings about these criminals (particularly as a mother). Thank you very much! please keep it up♥️
I woke up this morning...no Emma thought the world had ended lol had me questioning what day it was.....but here you are like clockwork.....so appreciated x
Thank you Emma for touching on the fact that she implicated a fictional Black man. I do think it is important to this case. What a devastating case and my heartbreaks for the loss of those beautiful boys.
I knew the second I heard the story that she did it! My husband was mortified when I said but I said to him “there isn’t a mother alive who would give up their car with their children in it!” To my horror, a woman shorty after was dragged to her death holding on to her car after it was stolen with her children in it. It’s what we as mothers do! I read the husbands book and it’s a heartbreaking story.
Yes because most of us know that If they want a car, children would just be an unwanted burden... so that leaves you with WHY theyd want the kids and NOPE. There was a woman who ran into the gas station and her baby was asleep in the carseat. Her car was stolen. The thief left the carseat and baby on the side of the road which is both horrifying but best case scenario! Although he was headed to prison he wasnt going to resort to hurting the baby. I think it was said he didnt know a baby was back there initially, which is believable.
Thanks for another brilliant episode Emma, i have followed this story for years.... I was wondering do you know much about the PAULA SIMS case? The lady who murders her 2 newborn daughters? She was released in 2021 after 30 years inside. I would love to see you do that story.... Thanks 💜
This story hit me hard. I had 2 children under 2 in the same state of South Carolina and less than 200 miles away. My mom and I just looked at each other while Susan was still talking. We knew. My sister was convinced that the car was in a barn, and she had given the boys to a relative for a bit because she didn't want David to have them. Ummm, no. Try again. Then, the now disgraced Sheriff Howard Wells prepared a room, complete with a Bible. He brought Susan in for a "Come to Jesus" meeting, aka "We know you did it so confess." She is due for parole in November 2024 and has said that she thinks that she would be a good stepmom. Personally, if she moved next door, I would warn the entire county to keep children away.
A person would have to take my life in order to take my car with my children in it because if they didnt i would fight them with everything. I also dont understand children perishing in a house fire and the parents making it out alive. If my kids didnt make it out alive i would not make it out alive either.
I was maybe 7 or 8 when this was all over the news and I remember hearing my mom and aunts talking about it in hushed voices. And then when I was in college years later we studied this case. Devastating. Those poor babies. Just horrifying.
I was 14 when this happened and I remember the footage of her car being pulled from the lake being featured all over the news ad nauseum. I also felt that the residual anger and suspicion toward Smith helped shape the negative coverage of Andrea Yates' case. I was surprised to realize that Yates's case was a full 7 years later. In my head they were closer together as it felt like they always got mentioned in the same breath despite being completely different circumstances. Downs and Smith on the other hand, were two peas in a dysfunctional pod.
This one of the most loathsome women ever, oh god this is one of the worst cases of filicide ever! The horror those boys must have felt as well as the trauma the police and divers must have had afterwards when finding them, it's too awful to even think about! 😣 Sorry that I keep asking for this but I'm really passionate about his case, I'd love for you to cover the case of James Prout, no one ever talks about that case, I've only ever found one documentary and it was just all about the killers... James Prout deserved better and I think you could do that, I'll warn you though it's heartbreaking and it stayed with me for a very long time. 💕 ) (Also if you're ever lost for cases that aren't really covered all that much, which i doubt it but the cases of Emani Moss, Adrian Jones, Jessica Lunsford, Tom Somerset-How and Fan Man-yee, also know as the Hello Kitty murder case are a few, as well as the serial killers Gary M. Heidnik, Megan Huntsman, Sheila Labarre, Thierry Paulin, Randy Kraft, Robert Berdella and the horrific teenage murderer, Joe Clark they're definitely ones you need to cover as well, no one talks about them really either, they are cases of true and utter evilness. It would also be really interesting on your take on one's like the Hi-Fi Shop Murders, Hillside Stranglers, Washington Snipers, John Staffen and the recently identified Joseph Augustus Zarelli, who was formerly known as "boy in the box" and "America's unknown child. Have you also ever thought of doing more historical ones? Like Peter Kurten, H.H Holmes, etc, i think that would be really interesting and different to get your take on those historic cases x)
Oh my …. Feeling so much anger!! I know the case but u give detailed information about this monster. This gorgeous babies!!!!! Thank you again for your hard work
They are similar but also different. Diane. Claimed she took her three kids sightseeing at NIGHT. 🤨😵💫 She said a bushy haired Stranger asked her for help, and she stopped to give him help, but instead he took out a gun and shot her and her three children. One child died, one is permanently paralyzed, one had a stroke, Diane got a gunshot wound on her arm. Diane was seen LAUGHING in a reenactment and smiling in at least one interview. She was having an affair with a man who didn't want Children. Her own surviving Daughter testified against her in Court saying her Mother was the shooter. Diane was convicted and is still in prison to this day. Susan Smith claimed a black man carjacked her and kidnapped Michael and Alex. She let the Authorities and random people go on a wild goose chase looking for Michael, Alex, the car, and the carjacker. She and David pleaded for the safe return of Michael and Alex, David having no idea where Michael and Alex were , and honestly thinking they were still alive, and Susan knowing they were dead at the bottom of John D Lake. Susan FINALLY confessed 9 days later that not only were Michael and Alex DEAD, and at the bottom of John D Lake, but she was their murderer who let the car roll into the lake in the first place. She did the murders to get her ex boyfriend back who didn't want children. She was arrested, jailed, tried, convicted, and sentenced to life behind bars with a possibility of parole after 30 years. She is still incarcerated.
Women like this and Diane Downs had kids when it benefited them to have them, but when they don't anymore will just kill to get rid of them. That's the most dangerous and scary to me in the world
This case is almost identical to a case from my younger sister's home town. In 2003 Amanda Hamm and her new boyfriend, in Clinton, IL drove her car down a boat ramp with her 3 young kids, ages 6,3 and 1, in the backseat. She listened to them yelling "mommy" as the car sunk and they drowned. When the car was pulled out, there were 15-20 tiny hand prints on the back windshield where the last air pocket was. Her boyfriend got life but somehow she got out and went on to have 3 more kids. Someone in the hospital recognized her while she was there having her 3rd baby and called CPS. They ended up giving the kids to a family member and I'm not sure what happened from there. I watched an interview with her and her new husband right after her other 3 kids were taken and she spoke so coldly about the children she drowned.
A teenage girl babysat me. She was a psycho. She and her boyfriend murdered a small girl 2 streets away whilst babysitting. I'd begged my mother not to leave me alone with her...years later I saw her pushing a pram down the street. In the same area the poor mother of the dead girl lived. I thought it just didn't add up. The social workers got her off saying it was an accident. I remember crying when she toyed with me and my sister she was sadistic and enjoyed inflicting fear...well she also had sadistic patents. Dog owners it is said should have licences due to a handful of events. People need a breeding licence...period.
As a mother and hell as a normal human being I can't begin to comprehend how anyone can do anything to a poor vulnerable child let alone when it is your own child. It makes me feel sick to my stomach thinking about those poor childrens last moments. My heart breaks.
I have rarely felt such burning rage in my intire 44 years on this planet as I do towards this evil ( I can't bring myself to call this person a mother because it just goes against what a mother in body's) monster. As far as I'm concerned the reasons she commited this unforgivable , dark and heartbreaking act all comes down to her being a selfish, evil soulless person I believe she honestly thought her problems we're all because of her darling and totally innocent baby's , that if she could just make them go away her ex would want her back but in reality she was the problem, the broken , unwanted one and I hope she is denied her perole this time and in years to come because those baby's don't get a second chance so why the hell should she ??? No child should have to live though any abuse and that includes this murderer when she was growing up, of course it was unforgivable what happened to her as a child at the hands of those who should be protecting her but speaking from personal experience living though abuse as a child just makes you want to love and protect your own children even more therefore in my eyes she's just a very evil , very selfish dark human being and I hope she NEVER gets out .god bless those tinny souls who's life she stole I hope there in paradise now xx 😢😢😢
Yeah, she unfortunately fit into the other category of those who were abused, she became the perpetrator. And you're exactly right, it wasn't the kids that were an issue. And even if they were then that should have made her get over him pretty quickly! Sadly theres many women and men who are like that if a child isnt theirs. She was delusional
@@N1kk1009 I totally agree it's just as like so many ( 1 is FAR too many) I had ..... not the kind of childhood ANY child should EVER experience and unfortunately there isn't a form of abuse I didn't have inflicted on me . The reason I'm sharing that about myself is so I can say from personal experience I can honestly say I've NEVER used my past or acted negatively, abusively in ANY manner nore for a second felt I wanted to , quite the opposite has been the outcome of what I injured as a child. The idea of inflicting pain , harm or neglect or even being able to stand by without making immediate action personally while ANY not even just my own children or children I know but every and all children just thinking about that kind of situation makes me want to instantly throw up. I don't care what someone experienced as a child there is NEVER a reason or form of abuse that can be understood, explained and for sure a hell not allowed or makes it the tiniest bit forgivable. The things I would do to a child abuser of any type well let's just say I know for sure I can't explain on here but basically medical science and or testing without any pain relief or sedation would be a good place to start .
I never realized exactly what date this happened on. Which, happens to be my birthday when she murdered those precious baby boys. As a mom of 4 sons myself, i couldn't imagine how loud they were screaming, pounding on the windows.. I'm sure i was only a young teen at the most when this happened, but it makes me think that when i was celebrating, 2 tiny baby boys were terrified, screaming and losing their lives.. It just hits home how for everyone else it was a normal day, but not for them. 😢😢🤬
I was pregnant when this happened and I could not wrap my head around it. My friend while we were watching her on the news, said she did it! Look at her supposed crying! Not a tear coming out of her eyes! My friend was a mother of 5 and was correct as we found out. God, I cried for those boys and the father 😢
Guess what didn't happen to Smith as a child? The experience of drowning, cold, alone, and trapped, not understanding why mom isn't helping as you scream for help. The world is oversaturated with disgustingly selfish, dangerous, morally crippled people already. There's absolutely no reason to release another one into society. She needs to stay in prison until she comes out in a b/o/x.
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Totally agree.
Great comment!
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I just became acquainted with Emma Kenny's channel yesterday when I watched her presentation on Channon Christian and Chris Newsom. Emma is absolutely brilliant. I am so impressed with her presentation. The very best that i have seen. She is my "go to" from this point on... Wanting to see her get a million subscribers .... love you Emma from the heartland, US.
God. This one has hit me hard. The baby handprint on the window, knowing they were probably crying out for their mom, knowing they were just babies. My heart aches
Same it’s horrific 🥲
I read that Susan saw Michael, the three year old wake up and try to get himself and Alex out of the sinking car, and she just coldheartedly watched. 😡🤬
It's absolutely heartbreaking what terror those poor little boys must of gone through. Knowing that mummy isn't coming to save them.
My mom died when I was16 and my sister was 14. This was in 1972. There was no grief counseling then. My dad ordered me to stop crying at the funeral home when we went to pay our respects to mom. He said, "Stop crying! The are not for her, they are for yourself! Stop crying!" I stopped crying, stared at him thinking to myself, you're right you bastard but I need to cry. I proceeded to resume crying. My dad proceeded to order my cousin to take me outside. This didn't help me or my sister. My sister became anorexic within months of mom's passing. Nope kids aren't resilient. My sister did get better. I finally got counseling. But both of us find it painful to talk about mom. We loved her so much..
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Your father was feeling sorry for himself
@@cindyfrasheski3910 Yes. He was devastated. They had been married for 23 years but had been together for 35 years total. They'd met when he was 19 and mom was 17. To lose the love of your life and best friend had to be painful. And to get stuck with 2 teenage girls as a man was pretty intense. Mom handled all those girl matters. Now he had to do it and was out of depth. He did the best he could though. I don't know how I would be able to get up everyday and go to work and raise children on my own. But he did it. We took a week off after the funeral and went down to Lincoln, OR to get used to just being a family of three.
Im sorry your dad did not allow you or your sister to grieve for your mom. The grief process is so important to being able to heal from the loss and because kids brains are still growing it's harder for them to process the loss. I lost my sister in a car accident when I was 10 and she was 15. I remember my dad would not allow my mom to cry in front of him so when she wanted to cry she had to go into a room alone to grieve for her daughter. My dad blamed me for my sister's death because she had snuck out of the house and I knew she was going but didn't say anything. It took me a lot of years to reprogram myself. Before my dad passed he made amends to all he had done and said wrong over the years. He and I had an amazing relationship the last 15 years before he passed and I am thankful for that.
@@jamieharris2633 One of my roommates had it worse. Her mom died of cancer when she was 5. She didn't know that until she asked her grandmother why the Russians took her mom. This was during the Cold War. She thought Russian spies had captured her mom and taken her to Russia. Her grandmother was stunned. She had to tell her that her mom was dead and took her to the cemetery to show her where she was buried. Dawn's dad caught holy hell from Dawn's grandmother for not telling her or her younger brother what had happened. Unfortunately, he still refused to discuss anything about their mother unless he initiated the discussion.
“Baby hand on the window” just broke me 😢
I’ve lost 11 pregnancies 2 ectopic pregnancies and 1 blighted Ovum.
We managed to afford to IVF by having to get a loan. That sadly ended in me losing twins. All I wanted was to be a family with my husband. So, when this happens it makes me so angry
I'm so, so sorry for your loss 😢
Sorry for your loss.
God bless you. I cannot imagine your pain
Am so heartbroken for you I wish I could hug you so tight xxxx
So sorry for your losses ❤
This case makes me think of the Diane Downs case. Where children were sacrificed for their mothers desire to be with a man, who didn't want children.
Yeah I can never stand the thought of Diane Downs! And to go ahead and get pregnant like that during her trial just shows her kids were nothing to her and she could replace them.
@@jade-wr9pnI think she was just that off in the head and pregnancy-obsessed and knew itd be her last time and possibly thought it may even help her case. But you're right, I dont think she had any concern about after they're born. She knew the baby would be adopted out. Most women would feel a sense of shame to be pregnant and knowing you cant keep the baby and will never know them. Then again if we were in her shoes we would too be off our rockers I suppose!
Yes, me, too! I was about to reply this, their stories are so similar, too, if I'm remembering correctly. Didn't Diane Downs also say she was carjacked by a black man?
me too Maureen!
@sadiec2701 yes she did.
Beautiful picture of the little boys at the end. Let them not be forgotten
In my mums home town of west kilbride in scotland a woman who went by many names, Linda Spence was tortured, killed and presumably dismembered in a small attic flat. Ive watched a couple of documentaries but there never seems to be much information about what ACTUALLY happened! I would love to see you do deep dive into this case Emma if there is information available out there! This literally happened in the next street over from my mum so its something ive always wondered about, you do such a great job getting right into the nitty gritty of these cases and i love so much on a wednesday and sunday getting my emma fix! Love everything you do xxx
I remember this case so well and I don't know if it's because I'm from East Kilbride so the location stuck in my mind, but her beautiful smile remains in my memory. Would also be very interested in seeing Emma's deep dive into this case.
Definitely a great suggestion for Emma. Still so much mystery around this case I think.
I remember this case I'm from Kilmarnock
You might find this interesting while we ask Emma to cover Linda’s case!
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I second this! Strangely enough I only heard about this yesterday!
In 2001 Beth,a 10 year-old child in my class died over a holiday weekend. I wanted to tell my class. My headmaster insisted he do it. He came in, sat down and said ," I have something sad to tell you. It's very sad." I can't remember exactly what he then said, but he ended it with,"Right, get on with your work"!!!! My class was assumed. As soon as he left, we put our books away and spent the afternoon talking, crying. And in the following days and weeks we did not pretend nothing had happened. I started talking to the class a few days later and I began to cry. I got it under control. I didn't trailside the children by a relied upon adult losing their shit, but I did say that I was still very sad about Beth dying . Really, what else could I have done?
I think you handled that exactly the way you should've, showing genuine emotion around kids when it comes to grief and trauma shows them that their feelings are okay and normal and brings them a sense of safety. It took me a second to understand that you were the teacher and not one of the kids, thank you for taking on one of the most difficult jobs there is and doing it in such a human way ❤️❤️ also, I'm so sorry for your loss ❤️❤️
Sounds like you are from a British school tradition. The Keep Calm And Carry On gone too far. You did the right thing. Thank you for not perpetuating the coldness.
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I think you handled it perfectly. Also by crying a few days later and saying you were still sad about Beth you showed them that it was ok to cry. That you don't just stop being sad like the flip of a switch. I'd be glad to have my child in your class. Rest in Paradise little Beth💓💓💓💔
@@glauvieI'm British and when I was 15 a lad in our year lost his battle with leukemia, he was a very well liked, popular kid, he passed away on the evening of 15th Jan 2003 school closed the next day out of respect and because they knew that not only his year group but the entire school would be devastated.
Not all Brits are that cold hearted!
I am so tired of people using their childhood traumas as an excuse for murder. My childhood was filled with physical, verbal, and sexual abuse. As well as 1 encounter that almost killed me. I have had little therapy and have dealt with it all on my own. I haven't abused anyone else, I'm not a bully. I have never killed anyone, and stuck them in a freezer, or a lock and leave, I've not locked anyone in a car, and let them roll down into the water to die. My basement is not filled with bones, or dead body parts. I've never been to the desert. I have no idea how to jump start my car, so I'm not electrocuting anyone. I do have 1 exhusband, and several ex boyfriends....all alive and well. My children are my world and they come before anyone else in my life. I'm a law abiding contributing member of my community. I'm also a breast cancer survivor. I am a senior citizen. I'm quite sure I am not the only person in the world like me. Take responsibility for what you do, get help if/when needed, forgive past circumstances, move forward and remember that God is the one who will punish in the future. But above all...all of your choices have consequences...and they will affect you and others!!!
My sister and I had similar backgrounds to Susan. My sister died young. I can truthfully say that I lived like an animal in survival mode until the day my first son was born. My children saved my life. I am a hospice nurse and feel a lot of empathy for all kinds of people but I cannot feel that same level of empathy for those who claim horrific abuse yet show no sign of it changing them where their own children are concerned. I appreciate that we should always try to examine what created these monsters but I disagree with those details being admissible in court for the defense. I don’t support the death penalty but being allowed life with the general population also doesn’t seem fair.
I've watched documentaries about this case, and what makes me want to crawl out of my skin with horror is learning just how long it would have taken for the car to be fully submerged. Those poor babies must have been terrified beyond words. 😢😢😢 May those little boys be in the arms of angels now and for eternity. 🙏🙏🙏 Their "Mother" will have to meet her maker someday and face judgment.
I just can not think about that
I remember a Poster saying something like,"Susan will be burning in Hell and look up and see Michael and Alex playing with God and they will be laughing happily!" 💡
The whole thing is unforgivable and it's disgusting how she knows she can blame a black man and not give it a 2nd thought
Exactly. This is Charles Stuart in Boston where what happened after he claimed a black man killed his pregnant wife to carjack his car was weeks of brutality against the black community. Susan Smith did exactly the same and the 9 days of racism and disruption in the nearby black communities is often ignored.
Every time i watch one of your videos i question how your not in the multimillion subscribers. One of my favourite deep dive true crime channels. I leave you on listen and do housework , love this channel ❤
Rest in peace Micheal Daniel and Alexander Tyler, such beautiful boys🕯🌟🌟
I remember this case so well. I was a mom of 2 little boys about the same age as hers and when I saw her appear on the news I immediately looked at my husband and said I may be wrong here but she is lying. Nobody goes on the news making sure they look their best asking for their kids to be safely returned. She had makeup and perfect clothing and it felt off to me.
I remember a Poster saying that their own little Sister was kidnapped as a child and their Mother went on a news Channel begging for her safe return and the Mom looked like complete shit and didn't care about how she looked as she just wanted her young Daughter back. 💡
Not to mention when you here to speak she sounds almost like she's borderline about to laugh
I can’t even begin to comprehend what those little boys experienced in their final moments 😢😢😢
Emma if you ever get the chance could you cover the Victoria Climbè case if she was alive today she would have been in her early thirties but, her life was stolen by two monsters 😢😢😢
Emma, two requests for future videos, if you feel up for it ofc: for the do-overs, I would love a long deep-dive into the Philpotts where we get your perspective on everything in the case, especially regarding Mairead. I know you've done one before, but it's not a very long episode, and since you have redone some of the first ones, I just wanted to make the suggestion. The second one is Jon-Bennet Ramsey - my opinion of the crime is that it would've been committed by a person who probably lived in the area and who had seen Jon-Bennet around in the past (possibly fixating on and targeting her), who broke into/entered the house (the family didn't lock their door during the day, if I remember correctly) while the family was away, wrote the note during the time they waited (using the pen and paper in the house). I believe the perpetrator was a teenager, which is why they'd be able to get out through the basement window, and why the ransom note was written using movie quotes (the note is very immature and sounds like a kid has written it), the movies could also be connected to whatever fantasies the perpetrator had (think a young Ted Bundy). I would love to see whatever conclusion you would come to, since you are far more qualified and knowledgeable, and especially since a lot of people still blame/suspect the family. Thank you for everything you do! 😊🍀✨
Love both these suggestions!!!
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Love this!
Did you see the video by Evil Among Us yesterday about the philpott case? It's genuinely the best doc I've seen on the case and he does do a deep dive into mairaids character and role.
He's a fellow brit and is I believe in psychology of some kind because his profiling skills are amazing and insightful always. Plus, it doesn't hurt that he is extremely diligent with providing victims with legacy and doesn't hold back in slating the guilty - like emma - none of this "unbiased' commentary... no, he isn't going to namby pamby the offender even if they've previously been a victim.
It's the cherry on the top that he also has a wonderfully calming voice and manner.
Even if you don't want to check that video I highly recommend giving the other cases a watch you won't be disappointed.
@@WakeyWakeyEggsandBakey I will absolutely check it out, thank you for the recommendation! 🍀✨😊
My teacher in 6th grade thought it was appropriate (possibly because of this mindset) to make me stand up and tell the class my dad had died and how the day after it happened. The only reason I was there was because my mom's work forced her to come in because they were divorced and therefore she shouldn't be upset about it. 3:30
That is terrible. Sorry you went thru all of that
Thats so terrible. Im sorry!
That’s horrible. Some teachers definitely shouldn’t be in the classroom. My 5th grade teacher told me it was my fault my “mom” abandoned me and my siblings.
Would you consider covering the Lucy letby case
@emmakenny I just discovered your channel a few days ago and I've been watching a lot of your videos, and my newborn son absolutely loves your voice 🤣🤣 sometimes he's crying to eat and I'll turn on a video to watch while I feed him and he just gets so surprised and stops crying when he hears your voice. I think it's cause he never heard someone British talk before 🤣🤣❤️❤️
My step father abused me when caught my mother was angry with me. He was sent to counseling I had NOTHING. Life just continued never to be discussed again.
I’m so sorry! Definitely not the way it should have been handled
Gee whizz Emma, this was the most powerful description of this woman I've ever seen, thank you for explaining this case in such detail
Wow evil really does go among us I was SA'D for many years as a child, my empathy has driven me forwards.. not in this direction but to try to be good, this woman should never see light of day 😢😢😢
First, your documentaries are just so complete and easy to understand as a foreign viewer (French). You help me improve my English with each of your videos. Thank you so much 🙏
On another level, you just gift me an amazing Christmas present. Let me explain. I wanted to order your 'No comment' hoodie as a Christmas present to myself and as part of supporting your hard work but, on your webside, it was impossible to have it deliver in France. I send a email saying I was feeling sad and receive an answer that one was going to be send for free. You got me so emotional with that 🥹 Today, the post office delivers me the package and I am feeling so blessed. That hoodie is so beautiful, good quality and warm ❤ I'll send a picture tomorrow as a thank you so much.
Today I am making myself a promess: Once my health is finally back on track, I'm walking better and cancer free, I will treat myself with a trip in UK and, most important, come to one of your live performance !
You are an amazing woman and you and your team are so generous ❤ Once again thank you so so very much 🙏❤️
Such a lovely family and community!! Emma is a rare gem 🩷🙏🙌
Get better soon sending hugs and prayers for your healing x
I’m a breast cancer survivor. I wish you all the best.
My two babies were the same ages as the Smith boys when this happened. It as such a horrific crime. My heart grieved for those terrified little souls.
Thank you once again, Emma, because I had already heard this story many many times, and yet I feel like I didn’t know it at all because you gave so much background information on her own childhood that I had never heard before
Also, her ridiculous statement to her babies telling them they have to be strong and take care of each other. WTF!! They were 3 and 1!! Reminds me of the sick woman, Darlie Routier, who killed her young boys and blamed it on a break-in. She said the same thing on tv.
I live in the next county to the west. My son was 3 when this happened.
No amount of abuse, depression or molestation justifies what she did.
Absolutely right. She didn’t want her kids anymore because of a man, she should have left them with their father and walked away. My “mom” abandoned me and my 3 siblings. Parents do it everyday
I just can’t understand how a mum could do this. It’s beyond my comprehension.
Just booked to see you in Nottingham in February. Can’t wait.
god i remember this one so vividly, i think i recall a reconstruction of sorts where they sunk a car in that lake and filmed the inside to see the view they would have had in their last moments and it’s always stayed with me
For YEARS, I had assumed that the car standing in the water was how they found Susan's actual car. I found out it was a reenactment 9 years ago. 💡
I don’t believe for one second that she will ever be released. I’ve watched many parole hearings and they are not easily manipulated. She needs to take responsibility for what she did first and foremost… she suffered abuse from the people she was supposed to trust the most and instead of doing better she turned around and took the lives of those beautiful babies that she was trusted with. 💔
What a great job covering this so thoroughly! I would expect no less for the Tina Turner of True Crime. Your skillset never fails to impress me. Applause. XXXX
I lived in that area at the time. I was only in middle school, but I clearly remember my mom doubting Susan from the get-go.
I remember a man saying when he was a little kid, his Dad said that Susan was lying and SHE killed Michael and Alex. He as a child was shocked his Dad would tell such a horrible lie about a grieving Mother and when Susan confessed, he was stunned. He said in his defense, he had been a child at the time with no way of knowing how the real world worked yet. 💡
No parole everout of love and respect for her beautiful boys 😢
This was a great video on a disgusting case. You’re certainly one of the best on UA-cam. This was probably the best coverage of this case of this case I’ve seen. When this case first broke I remember a lot of people thinking she had something to do with it.
I hope the family finds some semblance of peace.
Hi Emma! I just became a member though I've been consistently watching your videos every Wednesday & Sundays without fail!
Susan Smith is a monster & just pure evil....her poor babies...how can any mother do what she did?! 😢💔
Evil woman 🤮 those poor little babies 😭😭 I wouldn’t have any empathy if she’d been in the car thinking the children would be better with her, no!!! If a man did that, that wouldn’t be acceptable, it’s not acceptable for anyone to murder their children.
She doesn’t sound like she’s suffered in prison, but hopefully her inner self suffers everyday !!!
I doubt very much that she regrets the murders. What she regrets is that she got caught.
I actually believe that life in prison without the chance of parole is worse than a death sentence. But as with other cases where children are murdered for a man I don’t understand why they don’t give the children to their father or other family members.
It was speculated that the reason why Susan didn't just give Michael and Alex to David and then go chase Tom was because she didn't want to look like a bad Mother. In a small town like Union, South Carolina, a woman giving the Father the kids to go chase another man who didn't want kids would look REALLY bad. But a Mother who had her kids kidnapped by a Carjacker would get a lot of sympathy.
And besides, she did go to Tom and admitted to him that her Father committed suicide when she was only six, she was molested by Beverly Russell, her Stepfather as a Teen, and had had sex with him earlier that year.
She was expecting Tom to feel SORRY for her and immediately take her back, but instead he was DISGUSTED and claimed they would forever be just friends from now on.
So, she killed Michael and Alex, assuming he would be glad the children were GONE and he would take her back, plus give her sympathy that her children were kidnapped.
During the days searching for Michael and Alex, Tom was alarmed that Susan seemed to care more about getting back with him then getting Michael and Alex back. Other People also raised their eyebrows at Susan asking for Tom to come visit her while the search for Michael and Alex was going on.
Tom also had a copy of the damning letter that he wrote her claiming he was dumping her because he didn't want kids. Susan had the other copy and Law Enforcement were raising their eyebrows even MORE.
They straight up asked her if she killed Michael and Alex to get back with Tom and she responded something like,"I LOVED Michael and Alex. No man would ever make me kill my Children, NOT, I LOVE them, they are still alive," which made her look even more suspicious. On the ninth day, she finally confessed that Michael and Alex were at the bottom of John D Lake.
Divers searched John D Lake and found the car with Michael and Alex dead inside and Susan was arrested, incarcerated, tried, convicted, and sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 30 years.
She got 9 days of sympathy and then DECADES of hate and scorn when the truth was revealed. She really should have just given Michael and Alex to David and then go chase Tom. At least they would still be alive and she wouldn't be in prison to this day.
Susan was denied parole today after 30 years in prison. RIP Michael and Alex x
I was just binge watching your old videos. I find your channel fairly new but I absolutely love the passion you have about children's cases. I hope we won't have to talk about such tragic cases anymore..
This happened a town over from me. So sad! Thank you for covering it!
Heartbreaking I would give absolutely anything to have a child but unfortunately ovarian cancer at 21 and 22 means I don't have the equipment anymore. Seriously considering a career change though. Been an accountant for years and I'm 39 in January and considering going into some sort of child care or similar
Thank you for doing this! I requested this a while ago, so glad you could do a deep dive ❤
Thank you for resurrecting this awful story. I had forgotten that woman and those beautiful babies. You supplied info I wasn’t aware of. Great, but difficult case.
I am actually in tears with this it’s terrible. I don’t understand her at all most of us would fight like hell for them not to be taken in a hijacking. Then she watched her children drown those poor babies. Such a selfish narcissistic thing to do. She needs to go down to see Nick in his very hot place for eternity. It’s a shame that she isn’t there already she should have had the death penalty. Death without parole in seclusion with nothing no TV or anything. She got food heat and a home basic needs supplied only.
Watching from Somali Land East Africa Horn of Africa this brought my memories about this horrible tragedy.
As back in 1994 when this tragedy took place I was in Boston and remember the media heavily covering this crime by Susan Smith.she committed unimaginable crime against her children.
I need to add that I love the sarcastic comments u make on ur videos. Those are added in a right moments. And I agree with those 100%
Thank you for always sticking to your catch phrase. I very much appreciate you and your consistency. Wish you, your family and your amazing community a blessed week
I havent heard of anyone telling this case the way you did. I definitely learned some things i didnt know when i first heard of this case when it first went public. Thank you.
I was days away from giving birth to my first child when this happened. When she fake cried on national TV I remember feeling sick and saying she is lying. I would have been dragged behind that car. I sobbed when I heard the truth. This case has always been one that I will never forget. Thanks for covering it.
Emma you are my all time favourites to tell true crime stories because you get to tell us the bits that they all want to keep quite.
Broke me when the child’s hand was on the window my heart sank for the baby 💔💔💔
After becoming a mother, child death cases affect me so much differently. It’s not that I wasn’t affected by them before my daughter but now, having a 2 year old, these cases affect me so deeply because I know what it’s like to have a little human being rely on you and to love you with every fiber of their being. And I’ve experienced a deeper level of love that I have never experienced before that has changed my whole life. Being a mother is such a rewarding and life changing experience. I would do anything and everything for my daughter. That is why I just cannot imagine how a mother can do this. Emma, when you described how scared those babies must have been crying out for mommy as they went under, my chest sank and I couldn’t stop the sobs. To those children, their mom is everything to them, even if she wasn’t the best to them. That’s the sad thing about abusive parents is that young children can’t help but love their mommy no matter what. I’m just horrified and haunted to think about their last moments, I am truly shaken and horrified by this. I can’t help but imagine my own daughter sinking down and it destroys me and all I can envision is myself running into that water and doing everything I can to save my baby girl. How could you not? No matter how quickly that car was engulfed, how could you not? I have those dramatic moments myself where I imagine what I would do if I were to drive off into a pond with my daughter (in an accident of course, not intentionally) and I could never EVER leave my daughter behind. I am going down with her, if anything.
Those poor poor poor little babies. Life taken away from them by the one who ultimately brought them life. I hope this woman rots and never experiences any true happiness for the rest of her existence.
Thank you so much, you wonderful human (and Dusted behind the scenes!) x
I am in the mental health field and while i can find empathy for almost every situation, even if its a tiny bit somewhere along the way...i just cant with her. I think it may have something to do with she and i being the same age. I watched this play out as i raised my son as a very young parent. I watched the press conference, saw the car being pulled from the lake as i held my son. i just could never fathom her standing in front of microphones talking about how she just wants her babies back, blaming a nameless faceless nonexistent black man when it was her. I am crying right now remembering it. My son is 34 now and those babies have been gone for so long. Im sorry. I know she went through trauma. And that is awful. But she is a monster and i wish her nothing but misery. I dont say that lightly.
This is the first video of Emma’s I haven’t been able to finish. Had to turn it off just after 30 minutes, couldn’t bare it anymore. Since becoming a mum just one year ago I find it so much more difficult to hear about children coming to harm. This was just too much, how anyone ever could do that to a child, let alone your own is beyond me. Rest in eternal peace sweet angels 😢❤
Emma, you are one of the few that I trust to provide accurate, in-depth information on true crime cases. The way you delve into the perpetrator's history and take it into account for discussion is so helpful. The few cases you haven't done that with, I definitely miss hearing that content. Also how you talk about the victims and describe what they must have experienced truly brings an element of humanity that a lot of people forget. For anyone interested, I'm also going to give a shout out to the podcast The Prosecutors. Their presentation is quite different from Emma's, but they are fantastic.
On the channel called “Phone calls from prison” they have recent phone calls of her. She’s in a relationship with a guy who stated he’s created a sims family (the game) with them being a family with children .. which he named AFTER THE KIDS SHE KILLED! It’s so disgusting!
A man played the Lottery using Susan, Michael and Alex's birthdays, so FUCKING SICK! 🤢🤮 Thank God he LOST! 💡
This hit home with me, it sounded like you were talking about my mum.. she was abused from 2 until 10 by her father and the our great uncle from 10-12 she had me at 16.. her whole life was filled with her searching for the love and validation that she was worth more to someone than a sexual object, she was an alcoholic, drug user that never truly understood what love was.
She lived for my 2 brothers and when the middle brother took his life she could bear to live without him and took her own life exactly 14 days after him..after my dad, my uncle, my maternal grand mother and her child she couldn’t face life without any of them.. but not once would she have ever murdered us because of her mental health .. she was failed by the system .. so sad that I hear this all too often !!
Thanks Emma x
After what I went through my children were my life. All I wanted to do was protect them probably to much so, can’t imagine ever doing what she did.
Thank you for the early content Em x
This one never left me ,when this was taking place the coverage was everywhere, may they rest easy ...poor babes
Well, living right here in South Carolina and first hearing her story on my car radio, it always sounded like a lie. Many of us called BS. My heart has always gone out to those beautiful boy's dad. 😢
Ok! I was sexually abused from the age of 4 to the age of 14. I had two children at a young age and had two nervous breakdowns and I never tried to kill my children.
Those poor children must have been absolutely terrified. The thought of them drowning and sinking in 80 feet of water belies belief. Also the frog men,
divers and police officers must have had such trauma witnessing this. May she rot in there Thank you Emma.
Don't forget stepdad gran and the pathetic social team that left Susan to be mkultrad into a killing tool. Did she admit she'd lied for a lenient sentence...can't get my head round this...at all.
I live in union...i worked at the hospital & remember the day she got her positive pregnancy test. I had just clocked in on tail end of it,however i remember the anguish on her face. I remember feeling VERY uncomfortable. Then i remember the morning after the"hijacking"& hearing it on the radio. When my niaeve self running telling my mom about it & her reply what if there never was a mysyetious man. Then i found out that red light it alledgely happened at with noone else was at,only changed when another car would be opposite of u.
Another early video 👏🏼 your on fire Emma Kenny ♥️🔥
I was just reading up on the Genie Wiley case. How horrific that poor girls life was. Have you ever covered this case? I’d love to hear your opinion on how she was treated by medical staff and scientists ♥️
As always thanks for all you do x
I came here after watching shrouded hand on the jeanies Wiley case.
Horrific case
Where did you watch this?? X
Hi Emma, I appreciate and respect the hard work you put into sharing these tragic cases. As a future LMFT, I feel so connected to you and most of your feelings about these criminals (particularly as a mother). Thank you very much! please keep it up♥️
Thank you Emma.
I woke up this morning...no Emma thought the world had ended lol had me questioning what day it was.....but here you are like clockwork.....so appreciated x
Thank you Emma for touching on the fact that she implicated a fictional Black man. I do think it is important to this case. What a devastating case and my heartbreaks for the loss of those beautiful boys.
I knew the second I heard the story that she did it! My husband was mortified when I said but I said to him “there isn’t a mother alive who would give up their car with their children in it!” To my horror, a woman shorty after was dragged to her death holding on to her car after it was stolen with her children in it. It’s what we as mothers do! I read the husbands book and it’s a heartbreaking story.
Also, at the time both of her children were my children’s age and one of my daughters was named Alex!
I agree 100% Any HUMAN mother would DIE to protect her children.
What's the name of the book? Please and thank you
Yes because most of us know that If they want a car, children would just be an unwanted burden... so that leaves you with WHY theyd want the kids and NOPE. There was a woman who ran into the gas station and her baby was asleep in the carseat. Her car was stolen. The thief left the carseat and baby on the side of the road which is both horrifying but best case scenario! Although he was headed to prison he wasnt going to resort to hurting the baby. I think it was said he didnt know a baby was back there initially, which is believable.
@@questioneverythingtv it’s called “Beyond all Reasons; My life with Susan Smith” by David Smith
Thanks for another brilliant episode Emma, i have followed this story for years.... I was wondering do you know much about the PAULA SIMS case? The lady who murders her 2 newborn daughters? She was released in 2021 after 30 years inside. I would love to see you do that story.... Thanks 💜
I don't know how i missed one Em. I remember the case but you have given so much more information thank you x
Wow thanks for covering this one I've Followed it SO tragic
This story hit me hard. I had 2 children under 2 in the same state of South Carolina and less than 200 miles away. My mom and I just looked at each other while Susan was still talking. We knew. My sister was convinced that the car was in a barn, and she had given the boys to a relative for a bit because she didn't want David to have them. Ummm, no. Try again. Then, the now disgraced Sheriff Howard Wells prepared a room, complete with a Bible. He brought Susan in for a "Come to Jesus" meeting, aka "We know you did it so confess." She is due for parole in November 2024 and has said that she thinks that she would be a good stepmom. Personally, if she moved next door, I would warn the entire county to keep children away.
It's still happening and sadly never stops. All kids deserve parents but not all parents deserve kids.
Thanks em, all the best people.
If your interested in this case. Her parole hearing is live on UA-cam now. She’s speaking live via stream pleading for her freedom
Fake tears only for herself, never had remorse and never will.
A person would have to take my life in order to take my car with my children in it because if they didnt i would fight them with everything. I also dont understand children perishing in a house fire and the parents making it out alive. If my kids didnt make it out alive i would not make it out alive either.
One of your best. I was right there with your opinions and emotions! Thank you
I was maybe 7 or 8 when this was all over the news and I remember hearing my mom and aunts talking about it in hushed voices. And then when I was in college years later we studied this case. Devastating. Those poor babies. Just horrifying.
Thank you Emma ❤
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Thank you Emma!
You’re background is certainly growing ❤
What another tragic story.
I was 14 when this happened and I remember the footage of her car being pulled from the lake being featured all over the news ad nauseum. I also felt that the residual anger and suspicion toward Smith helped shape the negative coverage of Andrea Yates' case. I was surprised to realize that Yates's case was a full 7 years later. In my head they were closer together as it felt like they always got mentioned in the same breath despite being completely different circumstances. Downs and Smith on the other hand, were two peas in a dysfunctional pod.
Isn’t it funny how Susan Smith blames a black man and Sherri Papini blamed two Hispanic women?
This one of the most loathsome women ever, oh god this is one of the worst cases of filicide ever! The horror those boys must have felt as well as the trauma the police and divers must have had afterwards when finding them, it's too awful to even think about! 😣
Sorry that I keep asking for this but I'm really passionate about his case, I'd love for you to cover the case of James Prout, no one ever talks about that case, I've only ever found one documentary and it was just all about the killers... James Prout deserved better and I think you could do that, I'll warn you though it's heartbreaking and it stayed with me for a very long time. 💕 )
(Also if you're ever lost for cases that aren't really covered all that much, which i doubt it but the cases of Emani Moss, Adrian Jones, Jessica Lunsford, Tom Somerset-How and Fan Man-yee, also know as the Hello Kitty murder case are a few, as well as the serial killers Gary M. Heidnik, Megan Huntsman, Sheila Labarre, Thierry Paulin, Randy Kraft, Robert Berdella and the horrific teenage murderer, Joe Clark they're definitely ones you need to cover as well, no one talks about them really either, they are cases of true and utter evilness.
It would also be really interesting on your take on one's like the Hi-Fi Shop Murders, Hillside Stranglers, Washington Snipers, John Staffen and the recently identified Joseph Augustus Zarelli, who was formerly known as "boy in the box" and "America's unknown child.
Have you also ever thought of doing more historical ones? Like Peter Kurten, H.H Holmes, etc, i think that would be really interesting and different to get your take on those historic cases x)
Oh my …. Feeling so much anger!! I know the case but u give detailed information about this monster.
This gorgeous babies!!!!!
Thank you again for your hard work
Yes.. I get Susan Smith and Diane Downes cases confused. Thanks for clarifying Emma! 😊 Scott V/Seattle WA
They are similar but also different.
Diane. Claimed she took her three kids sightseeing at NIGHT. 🤨😵💫 She said a bushy haired Stranger asked her for help, and she stopped to give him help, but instead he took out a gun and shot her and her three children. One child died, one is permanently paralyzed, one had a stroke, Diane got a gunshot wound on her arm. Diane was seen LAUGHING in a reenactment and smiling in at least one interview. She was having an affair with a man who didn't want Children. Her own surviving Daughter testified against her in Court saying her Mother was the shooter. Diane was convicted and is still in prison to this day.
Susan Smith claimed a black man carjacked her and kidnapped Michael and Alex. She let the Authorities and random people go on a wild goose chase looking for Michael, Alex, the car, and the carjacker. She and David pleaded for the safe return of Michael and Alex, David having no idea where Michael and Alex were , and honestly thinking they were still alive, and Susan knowing they were dead at the bottom of John D Lake. Susan FINALLY confessed 9 days later that not only were Michael and Alex DEAD, and at the bottom of John D Lake, but she was their murderer who let the car roll into the lake in the first place. She did the murders to get her ex boyfriend back who didn't want children. She was arrested, jailed, tried, convicted, and sentenced to life behind bars with a possibility of parole after 30 years. She is still incarcerated.
I forgot it was Wednesday, so happy to see Emma ♡
Great channel, never miss a Wednesday or Sunday.
Would like your take on robert napper, stuart campbell & arthur shorecross 😊
Women like this and Diane Downs had kids when it benefited them to have them, but when they don't anymore will just kill to get rid of them. That's the most dangerous and scary to me in the world
Loving the early vids xx
Brilliant as ever Emma thankyou for your consistency I look forward to weds and Sundays ❤️
This case is almost identical to a case from my younger sister's home town. In 2003 Amanda Hamm and her new boyfriend, in Clinton, IL drove her car down a boat ramp with her 3 young kids, ages 6,3 and 1, in the backseat. She listened to them yelling "mommy" as the car sunk and they drowned. When the car was pulled out, there were 15-20 tiny hand prints on the back windshield where the last air pocket was. Her boyfriend got life but somehow she got out and went on to have 3 more kids. Someone in the hospital recognized her while she was there having her 3rd baby and called CPS. They ended up giving the kids to a family member and I'm not sure what happened from there. I watched an interview with her and her new husband right after her other 3 kids were taken and she spoke so coldly about the children she drowned.
A teenage girl babysat me. She was a psycho. She and her boyfriend murdered a small girl 2 streets away whilst babysitting. I'd begged my mother not to leave me alone with her...years later I saw her pushing a pram down the street. In the same area the poor mother of the dead girl lived. I thought it just didn't add up. The social workers got her off saying it was an accident. I remember crying when she toyed with me and my sister she was sadistic and enjoyed inflicting fear...well she also had sadistic patents. Dog owners it is said should have licences due to a handful of events. People need a breeding licence...period.
Just adore your style!
As a mother and hell as a normal human being I can't begin to comprehend how anyone can do anything to a poor vulnerable child let alone when it is your own child. It makes me feel sick to my stomach thinking about those poor childrens last moments. My heart breaks.
I have rarely felt such burning rage in my intire 44 years on this planet as I do towards this evil ( I can't bring myself to call this person a mother because it just goes against what a mother in body's) monster. As far as I'm concerned the reasons she commited this unforgivable , dark and heartbreaking act all comes down to her being a selfish, evil soulless person I believe she honestly thought her problems we're all because of her darling and totally innocent baby's , that if she could just make them go away her ex would want her back but in reality she was the problem, the broken , unwanted one and I hope she is denied her perole this time and in years to come because those baby's don't get a second chance so why the hell should she ??? No child should have to live though any abuse and that includes this murderer when she was growing up, of course it was unforgivable what happened to her as a child at the hands of those who should be protecting her but speaking from personal experience living though abuse as a child just makes you want to love and protect your own children even more therefore in my eyes she's just a very evil , very selfish dark human being and I hope she NEVER gets out .god bless those tinny souls who's life she stole I hope there in paradise now xx 😢😢😢
Yeah, she unfortunately fit into the other category of those who were abused, she became the perpetrator. And you're exactly right, it wasn't the kids that were an issue. And even if they were then that should have made her get over him pretty quickly! Sadly theres many women and men who are like that if a child isnt theirs. She was delusional
@@N1kk1009 I totally agree it's just as like so many ( 1 is FAR too many) I had ..... not the kind of childhood ANY child should EVER experience and unfortunately there isn't a form of abuse I didn't have inflicted on me . The reason I'm sharing that about myself is so I can say from personal experience I can honestly say I've NEVER used my past or acted negatively, abusively in ANY manner nore for a second felt I wanted to , quite the opposite has been the outcome of what I injured as a child. The idea of inflicting pain , harm or neglect or even being able to stand by without making immediate action personally while ANY not even just my own children or children I know but every and all children just thinking about that kind of situation makes me want to instantly throw up. I don't care what someone experienced as a child there is NEVER a reason or form of abuse that can be understood, explained and for sure a hell not allowed or makes it the tiniest bit forgivable. The things I would do to a child abuser of any type well let's just say I know for sure I can't explain on here but basically medical science and or testing without any pain relief or sedation would be a good place to start .
I never realized exactly what date this happened on. Which, happens to be my birthday when she murdered those precious baby boys. As a mom of 4 sons myself, i couldn't imagine how loud they were screaming, pounding on the windows.. I'm sure i was only a young teen at the most when this happened, but it makes me think that when i was celebrating, 2 tiny baby boys were terrified, screaming and losing their lives.. It just hits home how for everyone else it was a normal day, but not for them. 😢😢🤬
I was pregnant when this happened and I could not wrap my head around it. My friend while we were watching her on the news, said she did it! Look at her supposed crying! Not a tear coming out of her eyes! My friend was a mother of 5 and was correct as we found out. God, I cried for those boys and the father 😢