Woman convicted of killing her kids charged after communicating with filmmaker in prison | WSOC-TV
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- There is new legal trouble for Susan Smith, the woman convicted nearly 30 years ago of killing her two children by driving into a South Carolina lake in October 1994. READ MORE: bit.ly/4dSGsXg
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The fact that she's even eligible for parole should be a crime
She was sentenced to life in prison...let it stand...
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THIS
Capital punishment
She was actually NOT sentenced to life in prison, she was sentenced to 30 years to life meaning she can get out after 30 years which is now and that is totally outrageous. To even consider parole for her is a miscarriage of justice but that is what she was sentenced to and no way to change that now. All we can hope is that they deny her parole.
Parole???
She blamed an imaginary black man for two child murders. She is evil.
Yeah and failed miserably at describing their features.
It wasn't an imaginary black man. It was every real black man in South Carolina until her story fell apart.
Are you seriously more upset that she accused a fictional black man instead of the fact that she murdered her own two children?
Yeah, though the bigger scandal is her killing her kids
@@snickerbuckleAre you seriously asking that question?
This is one woman that never should be anything but behind bars. Psychopathic Narcissist, IMO. No empathy, soul less, and 😢
And a bad lyre
100%
pure evil she showed no remorse and deserves life
She doesn't F*CKING GET IT. PRISON HAS NOT HAD A IMPACT....Could have saved taxpayers $$ if they had just put her in her own TRUNK.
@@kevin6293lyre? She's such a harp😂
How this women did not get the death penalty is ridiculous. The fact that she thinks she should be paroled is also ridiculous
Heinous
She’s white…in a racist country, that means something
I personally don’t understand this …
@@sarahally2821exactly
It is not ridiculous, the family didn't want that for her.
She could've just given the babies to their Dad. But no, she had to kill them. She belongs in prison.
Abortion is the same
You are right, but in her (psychopathic) mind, in order to secure the object of her desire, she had to cease to be a mother. A woman with children who live with their Dad is still a mother, and might well have to pay child support. She could deny the kids existed to her lover, but she might be found out, especially as the kids got older.
The entirely logical solution then, is to dispose of them permanently. The extreme lack of empathy that is a major part of psychopathy, such that a human being has no more significance than a hamburger wrapper, enabled her to turn this plan into reality. The children no longer served her purposes, and thus were discarded.
You would think so, but back when this happened she would have been treated like a criminal for simply trying to give the dad full custody. Plus, you can’t MAKE a man be a parent. I was a family law paralegal a while back. Men would fight for all kinds of visiting time because it would reduce their child support obligations, but then they wouldn’t show up and use their visiting time. So then the mom would have to scramble for childcare so she could get to work.
These poor babies. The “father” probably didn’t want them either.
This is why we can’t force women who don’t want babies to be mothers.
@@Meow4B Oh BS! Stop making excuses for women's vile behavior! I'm fed up with this kind of moral imbecility!
@@redbudable abortion is the same
She should have been sentenced consecutively for life without parole. She got off easy. She should never be allowed out of prison. She murdered her own children!! For a man!
She could’ve just signed her kids over to their father. She could’ve just left the relationship and the kids that way. They had a father that loved them very much. She was out to hurt him too. It’s unfathomable what she did. I can’t even imagine doing that to my children, not in 1 million years.
Yeah, for a man! Could you let your misandry go for one moment you vile witch?
@@skylilly1 Agreed. 👍🏽 As much as I disliked my ex husband, father of our children, that heinous thought NEVER crossed my mind.
She's yt.
AMEN AMEN AND HER OWN FATHER SAID HE WISHES SHE FEELS EVERY AGONIZING PAINS OF THE ELECTRIC CHAIR LIKE HIS GRANDSON'S FELT TRAPPED IN THEIR STRAPPED DOWN CAR SEATS !!!!!!!!!!!
SHE WANTS TO MAKE MONEY 💰 OFF OF HER BOY'S UNTHINKABLE DEATHS SHE IS FULLY RESPONSIBLE FOR!!!!!! UNBELIEVABLE UNBELIEVABLE UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!!
Putting a relationship with a man over your poor, innocent children and failing to protect them. In fact, going the extra mile to exterminate them. She is an empty vessel. Anyone with a soul would not be able to live with themselves. Sick.
She’s Chris watts 30 years earlier
I vividly remember this heartbreaking 💔 event as if it were yesterday...2 beautiful little boys. 😢 And she lied on black men. She should stay where she is.
@@DearieDhanipersad Me too....
She has no remorse and she is still breaking laws. Her kids never stood a chance with a mother like her. How deranged does a person have to be to drown two innocent children for sex? Leave her in prison.
I can’t imagine the parole board letting her out. People HATE her.
100% agree!
Insane that she was even eligible for parole. Female privilege at its finest.
If I was her I think I’d feel safer in prison. She’s from red neck country.
That’s the law. We don’t have to agree with it. I don’t think murderers should be paroled but the law says otherwise
@@nancyfarkas3592 It's up to the parole board to release her. They don't have to. Parole is not automatic.
She needs to stay in jail!!!
It's prison......jail is a whole different thing!
She should NEVER be free again
She should never be released
Facts.
Why is she still even breathing?
@@VW613 utube removed my comment on her getting the DEATH PENALTY
I guess mine will be deleted soon@@anitahoffman5927
Same reason you are
I agree with both comments! So, I guess UA-cam will delete my comment also!🤷🏽♀️
@@anitahoffman5927YT is adamantly opposed to free speech. Just got out of YT jail myself yesterday.
She try to profit off her crime.
There used to be laws that prevented it, but they have largely been stuck down over free speech concerns. What happens now is any money they are paid for their stories gets contested in court by the crime victims.
@@Cucumberflavoredmustard What an absurd thing to say.
Use your computer for something meaningful. STOP using it to help other ignorant people to fill their head with your made up facts.
In fact, go play spin the bottle with a cobra.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_Sam_law
She has shown, repeatedly, that she doesn't think rules apply to her.
Literally her whole sentence she's wiped her behind with rules .
A true narcissist
If you see any news footage from that time, every black man in town got a free ride to the jail to talk about kidnapping. Let her rot.
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Agree
No, they figured her out very quickly. She’s evil enough without the help of police who were NOT her minions
@@M_SC She cracked after the 3rd or 4th lineup, with the fourth lineup being all cops. They were onto her but it took two or more weeks ...
@M_SC okay, those young men in the van i saw on TV were not cops. But we all see different things, I guess.
This is so heartbreaking. Those two boys were probably screaming for their mother as the car filled up with water, not realizing or understanding that she was the one person who betrayed them.
I know, I can't imagine how scared they must have been. I was 11 at the time and to this day, I feel sick to my stomach when I think of what happened to Michael and Alex. They looked like such sweet little boys and they did not deserve this.
No. For any of us that lived through this, we know she never needs to get out! She killed her own kids and then tried to get any random black man arrested, possibly killed.
Oh my god, did you just claim that YOU lived through "this"? You may have existed with six billion other humans when it happened but claiming that you lived through it is like saying that you survived Bill Cosby and 9/11.
@@JamesTrewollayou missed her point. It was traumatizing to know exactly what she did to those babies. My baby was the same age as her two little boys. I could not get the dreams to stop. I just pictured my babies in the car strapped begging for help as the car filled and then seeing their final breath. Yes WE as a society lived through what she did. We may not have been as impacted as her husband or direct friends and relatives but it did affect us and we wanted justice. Same with 9/11. You were quick to judge this person you seem to not have empathy maybe you feel nothing and assume everyone else is like you, maybe get a psych eval if you can not relate.
@@whatever8243 My first child was still in her mamas belly. So blaah blaaah whaaa. My grandparents lived through the depression. That was a shared experience. They were also alive when Hitler was playing easy bake oven in Poland. It did not make them victims. Some people just want to be victims so bad that they actually convince themselves that they are. Now read your OWN comment and get back to me on that whole "judgement" allegation.
@@JamesTrewolla She said "for ANY of us that lived through this". 🙄
@@MarieClaire2014 Correct. Living through something implies a more direct connection to a specific event. Simply watching something on TV does not count. That's like saying I lived through the Red Wedding. It is a mental condition of narcissists that apply tragic events to their own lives. Its a sickness. Did you "live through" the OJ trial or watch it on TV?
She does not deserve ever to be released!
She's a monster she deserves no sympathy
The two brothers were found holding each other's hands in their last moments. R I p little brothers, little angels in heaven now 😢
I never forgot they were holding hands. I had 3 around the same age. So often I'd see them holding hands my heart sank. I cried often for them. I will never forget her evil. Thank you for putting this out there. So many parents have been killed by their parents since. I do not want this fact forgotten. Hugs!
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@Ecclectic_Vibes that's sorry excuse for a mother, or woman, or even human being has no soul 😒
That's right, they were; that made it even more heartbreaking. I remember they were also buried in the same coffin.
30 years is hardly close to a life sentence. Parole? WHY? Life is LIFE....keep her locked up for LIFE
Thirty years in prison IS a life sentence because the law hasn’t changed since that was the life span. Want it changed? Complain to everyone who matters
@Autisticbanmeforbeingdifferent life is when you DIE in prison. She is not dead so it's not a life sentence yet
30 to life because of mitigating factors in which her stepfather was molesting her, that doesn’t mean she’ll get out since she’s a killer and has continued to be this habitual offender in prison, it does not look good for her.
How is an inmate allowed to profit off a murder?
Per Son of Sam law, they aren’t allowed to profit off their crime.
@@anotherpenny1942But they can talk about it.That's not a crime. And they can also profit off of other things. Just not their crime. That's why you see all these sickos making art and selling it😂
They are not. ESPECIALLY one as high profile as her. Please turn off your computer and open a book.
@@JamesTrewolla Why such a rude answer for a legitimate question? The video states that she was paid for telling her story. Is it really not 'allowed' if it still happened?
Please think about how you answer people; your angry response to an honest question makes people fearful to speak up and learn. You're actively crushing learning.
@@thegirlwiththetortoise3038 No kid, your inability to receive criticism is preventing YOU from being anything more than just another ignorant millennial nitwit. Copy and paste your empty headed comment into ANY search engine and get the answer for yourself. Asking the comment section of youtube is less than the bare minimum. Do not rely on youtube to feed your mind.
PAROLED??? She killed her own kids! She should never be paroled!
She killed her children and blamed someone wrongly for the crime but she might get out and live a life. That's so wrong!
I remember this like it was yesterday
Me too.
@@leadbsc she should be in 4 life
Why is she still sucking oxygen?
Well if she gets out I wouldn’t be surprised if she doesn’t live much longer…why would her family even want her?
She should never get parole….she took two lives…she should pay with losing hers and remain behind bars for the rest of hers.
She also wasted valuable resources and panicked a community with her lies.
Unfortunately that isn’t how the law works
Where is your compassion? She should get parole . . . at her 300th parole hearing.
Wow she murdered her own children because some guy she was dating didn’t want kids????
That is fucked up.
Just like Diane Downes many years ago.
No parole!
No parole for murderers.
I was one of the people closely following the story in 1994, crying in front of my TV over those little boys. My sister and I sent flowers to the memorial. That story made national news. Kathie Lee Gifford walked off the set of Regis and Kathy Lee when a police officer they were talking to described pulling the car out of the lake. I was an 18 year old just out of high school. I'll never forget it. My two nephews were the exact same age. One of them is now a married father of three. Both have good careers. Michael and Alex didn't even get to go to school. If they let that monster out on parole the justice system in this country will be officially proven to be completely broken. She doesn't deserve to ever be released. Horrible, evil woman.
And I bet you were also one of the many eager to spill the blood of any black man because of her racist lies. People like you are disgraceful.
Imagine how EVER BLACK MAN IN SOUTH CAROLINA FELT
Oh my god w c
@barbrajones349 I'll never be able to get out of my head what they said when the car was pulled out of the lake. Alex & Michael were each in their car seats.....& were found *holding hands.* 😭💔 (It was the interview on Oprah. I was 24.)
@morganjanelle4282 that part made me cry. It still makes me cry😢
She can stay in prison she didn’t allow her kids to live out there life . Justice for the kids .
She shouldn’t be communicating with anyone outside the prison!
Keep her behind bars FOREVER! Her kids are dead forever bc of her, why should she be free? Shouldnt even be considered.
I can’t believe she has a chance at parole. It’s just wrong.
How long does it take to stamp the form “ DENIED”?
How about charging the film maker as well.
Did they commit a crime???
Heck, why stop there???? Charge US for knowing about it.
It's up to the DA to determine if the filmmaker committed a crime and should be prosecuted. Regardless, I think the filmmaker behaved unethically. The contact information sought could have been acquired some other way. It may have been more difficult, but that's what has to be done. Using her as a shortcut was wrong, IMO.
@davidwalter2002 Henceforth the boy's biological father can come at the filmmaker with a bigg-ass lawsuit about attempting to make a profit off his deceased son's 😳 because he was their dad legally and biologically and gave no consent to this and Susan Smith has no rights to pursue such a thing because she's a violent psychopath criminal in prison still committing criminal acts so there's NO way she should be granted parole on November 5th ,because her actions and who she is ONLY qualifies her to die in prison all the days of her worthless LIFE!!!!!!!!
I can't believe they would even consider her for parole....she murdered two babies...it should have been two consecutive life sentences !!!!!!
Trying to prophet off of the death of her children - which occurred by her own hands. This woman is so depraved and has no remorse. Keep her behind bars where she belongs. Giving her parole would be criminal!
Susan Smith does not deserve
to see the light of day!, she
should remain behind bars
for the rest of her life.😡
I remember watching her in front of the cameras talking about her babies and that their "mama loves them so much." She stood next to the father of 3 yr old Michael and Alex 14 months, her eyes closed not looking at anyone and no tears. I KNEW, right then and there, it was her. She did something to those 2 precious boys. I was a mother of a 4 yr old little boy at that time. There's no way I could've stood in front of cameras if someone had taken my son. I would've been beyond hysterical and would've had to have been sedated. Yet, Susan stood there with no trace of any tears, from before or during her performance. Now that's cold. Mrs. B
Well said! I thought the same thing; fake crying, no tears! 🤨
My boyfriend at the time said the same thing about her not having any tears. And that she killed her children.
My husband knew immediately that she did it. She's despicable!
Don’t release her
She is profiting off her crime. She has no remorse or shame for what she did.
She doesn’t deserve parole! She’s still making her whole life about her and not about her children and what she did!
She wants to be in the news and probably wants to stay in prison. She probably wouldn't survive in the world with her freedom. Evil person
Life in prison shouldn't have the option for parole that just defeats the sentencing.
Disappointed in fellow inmates failing to deal with this matter accordingly
She should never be released.
Had she gotten away with it, some poor man would have gotten death penalty.
She belongs in jail.
No parole!! Also, blaming a “black” fictitious man!! This woman is evil!!
Those little boys have been angels in heaven with Jesus a long time!! Their poor daddy!
She should never get out of prison
Why are all these killers trying to get out at the same time.
Soft on crime policies…
Barden and chylmdia
To vote dem
They want to make the news so Trump can pardon them. Maybe 🤔
Everything is upside down now and the criminals are being let loose in this country.
I've never heard her say she was sorry or admit to a terrible crime, until she does, she hasn't begun to change.
Life should mean life. This needs to be a worldwide agreement.
Tablet privileges? There are school children who do not have that.
How sick are the producer. They should be in prison too
For what?
This woman should never be out of jail. It’s a shame that she’s even coming up for parole…
Wish we could sue her for the PTSD she caused us in this country and around the world. I still remember and feel the heartbreak and rage I felt then.
No parole!
I cannot believe the option of parole is even on the table for this woman. In the interviews I’ve ever seen with her, she has never once express sincere remorse for killing her boys. She needs to stay behind bars.
What a phony!
She should NEVER get out!
She should never ever get out period.She is pure evil .😡
Wow 🤦🏻♀️ she killed her boys wtf is wrong with the system 🤬🤬🤬
When Law Enforcement found her 2 dead sons she drowned in her car at the bottom of the lake she drove them into, they were in each others arms.
She committed premeditated murder of her 2 kids. She isn't getitng parole, nor should she
We need to know who that filmmaker is.
Absolutely…and boycott their work…
I think it will make a difference. She's not suitable for parole even after all this time. I don't think she will ever be suitable.
Did her kids come back to life? No? Then serve your sentence!
No parole absolutely not
The fact that she was given the possibility of parole is sickening
This woman still shows no remorse over her action and is trying to profit from killing her children which is illegal. The film maker should be arrested and prosecuted as well.
She hasn’t learned anything yet.
Can u imagine those poor boys going under
How dare her...no parole
This story was like the headline for months back then. One of the biggest stories of the year. If it happened today, it would be news for a day or two, but within a few days, there’d be another one.
I remember in the 90’s, a father left his daughter in the car when he forgot she was in the backseat. Northern Virginia, I believe. That was also a huge story for weeks. Now it would barely be on the news, as it happens so frequently.
Her actions should make her ineligible for parole leaving her children strapped in their carsests to drown is absolutely disgusting 🤢
POS should NOT even be considered
i remember this case and how the country rallied around her, then the news broke that she confessed. id never been so angry at someone id never met. i hope she rots in prison forever
Charge the filmmakers too for it
Anyone who remembers this horrific story and the trial, knows she should be in prison for life. She did the unthinkable to those beautiful, innocent babies!!! They can’t come back to live the lives they were supposed to! She cannot be released!!!!!
NO parole!!!!
When Law Enforcement found her 2 dead sons in her car at the bottom of the lake she drove them into, they were in each others arms.
A life sentence is only 30 years in SC?
South Carolina has no such a sentence of "life without parole" for 1st degree murder its either life with the possibility of parole after 30 years or death. This woman is only eligible for parole, there is no realistic chance parole will be granted.
It's less than 20 in some places.
Age of the defendant at time of sentencing = life sentence
That is one of many reasons our country is on this present state !!!!!😢😢😢
She should never get out! I can still picture the faces of those gorgeous little boys. She destroyed so many lives. Shes a selfish sociopathic liar. That poor dad, and Grandparents. Those boys looked sweet like their dad. I’ll never forget this tragic story.
So she was basically selling her story and once again disrespecting her own children . Something's never change do they Susan, you haven't learned anything in those 30 years, you definitely haven't learned remorse or any kind of empathy have you ⁉️⁉️⁉️ if we could vote for you to stay in prison or let you out, I'd vote to keep you in there for the rest of your life.
She doesn't deserve parole
The so-called "filmmaker" should also be charged--just a voyueristic vulture looking to cash-in on the murders of 2 very young children.
Clearly she isnt remorseful. Clearly she has learned nothing. Keep her locked up
If she was insane at the time of the crime, why did she continue to lie for 9 days?? Was she out of her mind for those days too.
She should stay in prison forever and not be allowed to profit on her story
Because of the Son of Sam laws, she should not be receiving money from a filmmaker
She needs to stay in prison for life. Why would anyone want to let her out? She is still breaking the law, obviously.
Keep this thing in prison
Can you imagine how her children felt as the water swirled around them and mommy left the car as you know they screamed for her.
Here's a better question! Why the hell are these utterly vile people still alive. She murdered her own children for a man who didnt like children!!! Now We The People are forced to pay for her prison shelter, medical, food, clothing, janitorial service, etc etc
"Oh yeah, those two guys!"
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she needs to stay locked up.
Oh this seals the deal right here. She’s not getting paroled.
Jonathan..your suit is too small
She didn't love her beautiful boys. I remember that day. I cried. The devil was living in her
She should stay in jail for blaming it on a black man.
I wonder if she was even charged for that.
Um, she should stay in jail for killing those kids. The black men are fine. They went home after she confessed.
I was 8 when this happened, but this was one of the first major news stories I remember. I remember how disgusted my parents and aunt were when she tried to say it was a black man that killed her sons. I remember my aunt saying “Where are the tears?” as she was pretending to cry. I felt so bad for the father, him losing both children, but I saw a documentary about Susan Smith a few years ago and it showed her husband remarried with children and shows him taking his children to see both their brother’s graves 😢.
How horrible, they took her tablet & cell phone! What a crock. These inmates got it made.
Why does she even have those things?
@@gs1100ed Exactly! General public have to pay for these things and internet etc. it’s ridiculous that they have access to all these luxuries.